Hopeful Friday 8/13

it was a last lap break of 4 that stayed away- gavi, ingraham, james, borgia - with field closing right at the end

http://www.fastalracing.com/Altamont10Results.pdf

this morning and already forgot about it.

Did Rickie win the overall in the NYC Championships? Anyone knows?

any pics from prospect this morning?

no one wants to look at pictures of old people doin' stuff. not even old people. i mean, it's gross.

No, we Masters have been napping all afternoon.

Further proof that the people who comment on this site are under 40. Yet, it would not be a huge surprise that they are under 20. Can you add age verification to this website?

If you guys bothered to click on "OFF TOPIC" you would see an empty forum BUT you just might get the urge to hit the "PREVIOUS" button, you know, just to see what happens. Behold! A previous forum! Now, emboldened by your actions and feeling pretty good about your discovery, you decide to read the previous forum to see what secrets it holds and then you find THIS!-

http://nycbicycleracing.shutterfly.com/

same question from racer.....Where is that "off topic" forum that has pics from the Saturday Prospect Park race?

here is the definition of "Retart" in the urban dictionary,

2. Retart

A morons way of saying RETARD...

not retarts! I think you're thinking about yourself because you're spelling is RETARTed!

mmmm, I love retarts. Especially peach retarts, with creme fraiche, the way Axel's mom makes them after I'm done giving her the daily stuffing.

Where is the "off topic" forum that has pics from the CRCA races?

yes roger won

fastalracing.com

so.......what happened at the Albany race??? Did Roger Aspholm win it????

troll racing, midget racing, B racing...lets go back to handicaps and running events...no aero gear in running that I am aware?
run, swim, events. see you at the next SOS event...

If you are going to call someone a retard, learn how to spell the word, retard. I was in the break, and you're right, the time was off. We did a 12:59 according to my computer.

any pics from today's CRCA race in CP ???

but its entertaining every time.

That these same arguments go on and on year after year between the Cs Bs and As. Its like ground hog day around this site.

It's the oldest adage in bike racing--the only race that matters is the race you are in.

A good result in any cat/field should be celebrated. 99.999999...% of us will all cat up to pack-fill sooner or later.

On that note, I'm gonna change my fb profile pic. to the one of me winning the C's on my hoods, in my Pearl Izumi Ultrasensors.

you win, you are in the best field in a club race in the CRCA. and in regards to bike racing, you're still a midget racing other midgets who don't get paid because you aren't good enough.

They were tired perhaps?

There is always someone better. In this case, with regards to the club championships, it's the A racers.

if you B-lieve the Bs did a 13 flat and not something in the 14s you are retarted...
think aBout it, the next laB after the suBBosed 13:00 was 15:00, really??? extremely unlikely that they decide to go 4 mph avg speed slower in the middle of that race...
just saying...

Congratz to the winners and hard working fair playing racers, prayers with the casualties of excitable bike handlers...people calm th ef down...or go to a coaching session that is FREE for CRCA club members...

there's always someone better, isn't there? i suppose if you were an A-Field rider you could say a B-Cup is a contest for the tallest midget, and if you were racing for a Pro Continental team, you could say the same for the A-Cup.

btw- it's ironic that the quickest lap time from today's CRCA races came from the B-Field. just sayin'...

ended for the B field last year when someone thought it would be fun to throw a bike at another racer. he missed.

who caused the crash was a problem all race. from the gun to the crash, he was riding aggressively while just sitting in the pack. wtf was that about? if he is hurting from the crash, he has only himself to blame, unfortunately, he took out some innocent riders.

he needs to calm down, learn how to ride in a group politely, or take up another sport- like ultimate fighting. personally, i wish he leave the CRCA and step into the ring.

That CRCA rider is consistantly dangerous to be near. He's damn near taken me out at FBF on numerous occasions. Rumor is, he broke a collarbone this morning. I don't want to wish that on anyone, but I hope he's learned a lesson.

At least it'll be possible to finish out the season without having to avoid him.

CRCA rider was crashing it up today.

What was the story? How did 5 end up in hospital? A lot of mud slinging on the women for their crash a couple of weeks ago, so I suspect they will have a few choice words for the B riders this week.

Was it a Velocity rider causing the problem again?

Look in the off topic. Alan budays wife took a ton of good photos

any photos....no...not of your blistered butt, but rather, of the race????

My butt is blistered

there's a masters club champs race tomorrow for the aging. if you are racing B's and not of masters age, then your desire for a "championship" is like wanting a "finsher" medal.

the A race recap on CRCA seems a bit off. Gavi was in a break for a couple of laps with JLo i believe but then got caught with a couple to go. then on the final lap, Gavi attacked at the bottom of HH, and Ingraham, Shaw, Borgia & Stevens followed. Shaw dropped off soon after and the rest stayed away until the finish where the bunch caught all but Gavi and Ingraham. Congrats to Gavi.

There is a B Team Cup as there has been for years. The club has not regularly held a B Championship race and decided not to this year. Holding a B Championship race last year was the anomaly.
Today's race counts for the B Cup.

banned because the teams competing couldn't play nice?

It had nothing to do with competition (or a lack thereof) but rather to do with teams behaving badly.

If there was a post 'A' champ fight (painful to think of those spindly arms slapping at each other) would the same action have been taken?

A 'B' Cup race is a bit like a tallest dwarf contest.

B cup again?

Kinda biased against us poor aging souls who will never reach the joyous heights of the A Field.

Why does CRCA hate competition?

http://www.crca.net/2010/08/sauvayre-and-epstein-club-champs/

off to hospital after someone went down after hitting the divot in the road around the S turn by the pool.

Yes, Gavi won

Gavi, I think

I'll take that as a compliment....the reason I only was able to report on the top 4 places is because I was in the breakaway myself....thus the vivid blow by blow write-up. By the way...Kudos to Leigh Sorrell...the guy rides like an animal and a true pro!!!

10:01 were you watching this on Versus or sitting mid pack with a micro phone on - disturbing level of detail

Prospect Park P-1-2-3 results are in...
It was a five man breakaway...gone for roughly 1/2 the race. Tony of Zephyr got popped from the breakaway with about 2 laps to go...so it was down to 4 guys in the breakaway...the 4 guys were Fraklin Burgos, Leigh Sorrells, Stephan Dioslaki and Rapheal Meran...coming around with around a 1/2 mile to go, Burgos jumped and got a gap....Dioslaki closed it...then Meran jumped but Leigh closed it...heading closer to the line, it was Leigh then Dioslaki then Meran and then Burgos...Dioslaki jumped hard to go for it with less than 1/4 mile to go...Meran was the only one that was able to maintain contact...coming in to the line it was Dioslaki slightly ahead of Meran...then side by side with Meran...and then at the last moment a bike throw and it was Meran that took the win...so it ended up:
Rapheal Meran of Mengoni in first
Stephan Dioslaki of Metra in second
Franklin Burgos in third
Leigh Sorrells of Fioradifrutta in fourth

If anyone's got pictures or a video of the finish line...please post them...

So who won?

Today in the B field. NASCAR worthy.

That is one of the funniest things I have seen on this site! But of course I hope there are NO crashes tomorrow! Good humor though!

Saturday's championship is only for As and Ws, for Bs and Cs it's just a club race

um, i laughed actually...

Leave the humor to Schmalz or someone who is funny...

A race
Loehner, solo

B race
Some dude you should upgrade

c race
some newbe who has Olympic golds in some other sport

Womens race
The only woman who does not stop to help after all the crashes

Dave, The Chominator!!

Dave Chomo, GO KICK BUTT out there!
...and SF(aka Kit thief), I can't wait to hear you getting pulled out before the first time check!

I think they're referring to the saddle sore that I get every year around now from riding way too much.

Hi Folks,
Just a reminder about the 2nd Annual Altamont Criterium this Sunday in scenic Altamont, NY (near Albany).
Register here - https://www.bikereg.com/events/register.asp?eventid=11207
Fast, 0.7 mile course, with a small finish climb on Main Street.
Great local prizes! Races for all.

Thanks.
Dieter Drake
Race Director
2010 Altamont Criterium

I'm hearing that there will be an end of FBF BBQ at the Mango Seed on Flatbush —who's in?

yeah, right. polish blueberries. what a f'cking joke. plenty of former eastern bloc farmers using autologous juicing, and genetic modification. things come out looking like violet beauregarde, for chrissake. even the GIPPER acknowledged the pineys' rightful claim to blueberry world capital*. this scene is getting real tired with all you hammonton haters out there...

* look it up.

How does one become the blueberry capital of the world? Is there a governing body? Verification? How do Hammonton blueberries hold up against Polish blueberries?

so many races, so little time (or fitness)

MEATLOAF!!!

great roads, friendly drivers. jason and the boys down at pro pedals always put on a good race.

on a random note, hammonton happens to be the blueberry capital of the *world*, mind you, not just the garden state. bring the kids to some of the u-pick 'em farms.

stupidest. race. name. evah.

no ones butt should be blistered after a 90 minute park race anyway.

capital region is SATURDAY

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