Hopeful Friday May 8, 2015

Holy crap it’s Friday already and racers are giddy with the anticipation of a 10 year old boy at xmas for this particular weekend, because BEAR. We have not quite reached “B*&$kill” levels of excitement, but it’s not far off either. Other glory is to be had, however, prancing around in your (let’s face it, mostly black) spandex.

On Sat, there is the race in PP for the Lucarelli & Castaldi Cup. In the Bronx, there is the CRCA Orchard Beach Crit p/b DedacciaiStrada (2015), which is part of an omnium competition for the “CRCA Tour of NYC (there or thereabouts)”, which includes the race on…

Sun, with the Rapha Cycle Club/CRCA Bear Mountain Classic | NYS Championship (2015), with a special reminder about the hairpin at the bottom of the descent, because people still manage to crash or run off the road there even after having been led through it neutral once and even after coming through it like 3 times in the race.

Have fun and be safe all.

 

ShamelessRepulsiveKagu

10 Comments

Sweatsock Geranium

Racing on Sunday? What about mom?

(can we bring back the randomly generated user names from the old site, please?)

joshs

sure, feel free to write the appropriate code and send it to us. failing that, try and use the creative portion of your brain a touch.

Crank Yankers

That hairpin is the worst. The steepest part of the descent seems to come just before the turn. You have to downshift as you’re braking because you’re going up a 10% grade as soon as you get out of the turn. And you have to bomb the descent, because the road on the climb is so narrow that if you’re not at the front going into the turn, you’ll be trapped in the middle of the group for the duration of the climb.

Related note: Why can’t we use both sides of Tiorati? Is it really too much to ask the motorcyclists cruising around the park to use a different road for one day each yer?

anonymous

god there is so much dumb about this comment I dont even know where to start.
if you cant shift, steer, and brake you probably shouldn’t be racing. As for the TEN PERCENT GRADE, its more like 4 or 5 and again if you can’t accelerate out of a 180 you shouldn’t be racing.

if you can’t move up on a climb you need to quit bike racing and get a life coach, because you are the biggest pussy ever.

Elementary

That last comment encapsulates so much of what makes bike racing suck: “i am a CAT3 who is friends with cat 1’s”. Love it!

anonymous

Frank O’Reilly is the big winner, dumbass did a wheelie instead of a bike throw for 5th place in the 2/3 race.
nice work moron

#downgrade #cat3withcat1friends

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