Hangover 4/18/2011

Ka-blew-ey

 The weekend saw weather conditions that bike racers describe as "Belgian" or (God help me) "epic"—but most normal people know as "irritating". Let’s see how racers did in these

At the CRCA club race on Saturday, Euris Vidal of Foundation won the A race. Fabienne Gerard of Fuoriclasse/Discover Chiropractic won the women’s race. Ryan McGarity of Siggi’s/NY Velocity won his second B race in a row. Stephen Hoffman won the C race. Results are here.

Also on saturday was the windy Kings County Kermesse at FBF (the Mt. Washington of the New York Metro Area), here’s the results and recap from Charlie I. Pictures are here.

Kings County Kermesse

April 16, 2010

Brooklyn NY 



Pro/Cat 1-2-3 Handicap Race

50 miles



1. Andreas Fliessgarten (Team Schwalbe Trier)

2. Alessandro Matteucci (Finkraft Cycling Team)

3. Gavriel Epstein (Chipotle Development Team)

4. Brian Breach (GS Mengoni)

5. Sean Barry (BVF)

6. Andrew Clerico (CRCA/BH Garneau)

7. Jeff Cline (CRCA/Axis)

8. Eutimo Quintero (CRCA/Foundation)

9. David Anthony (CRCA/BH Garneau)

10. Andrew Welh (Unatt)



Brief Report: Without a doubt, the Kings County Kermesse was the windiest race at Floyd Bennnett Field ever.  There were times when riders were going 40+ mph  with a tailwind and 12 mph with a  headwind.  It was brutal.  The Cat 3 riders started first followed by the Cat 1-2 riders three minutes later.  Cat 3 rider Andrew Clerico strung out the Cat 3 field on the first of 22 laps in the hopes of increasing their lead over the Cat 1-2’s.  Meanwhile back in the 1-2’s, Ken Harris opened up the action with his patented attack-from-gun move.  Despite his "no surprise" tactic that works to great success. the 1-2 riders seemed to either not care or perhaps thought it would not work in such windy conditions.  Two riders were alert enough to go with Ken – German rider Andreas Fliessgarten and the on-form Gavi Epstein.  With 6 riders in the 1-2 race, GS Mengoni missed the move and sent last week’s Cherry Blossom Festival winner Augusto Sanchez to try to bridge solo.  Sanchez tried desperately to make contact but failed to catch the three riders.  Back in the field, the Mengoni riders formed a desperate chase when they realized Sanchez was not making contact.  It was too late – Fliessgarten, Harris and Epstein were gone and never to be seen again.  At the front of the race the Cat 3’s were staying organized realizing they needed to work together to hold off the 1-2 riders especially in such windy conditions.  Fliessgarten, Harris and Epstein slowly reeled in the Cat 3 field and caught the group with 10 laps (about 23 miles) to go.  They wasted no time and quickly went to the front causing the Cat 3 field to shatter.  Only Cat 3 rider Alessandro Matteucci (Finkraft Cycling Team) stayed with the leading trio.  An untimely flat for Harris (his second of the day, he took a free lap earlier in the race) forced him out of the lead group.  He receievd a new wheel at the Start/Finish line but never caught the lead riders and eventually retired from the race.  Meanwhile back in the 1-2 field, a small group rolled off the front containing two Mengoni riders – Brian Breach and Jared Bunde.  They quickly started gaining ground on the exhausted and shattered Cat 3 riders and eventually made contact.  At the head of the race, Gavi Epstein cracked with 2 laps to go leaving Fliessgarten and Matteuchi as the leading duo. Epstein was now riding alone in third and behind him was a group of three Cat 3 riders – Sean Barry, Jeff Cline and Andrew Clerrico.  With two laps to go Brian Breach caught those three riders and then dropped them. At the finish, Fliessgarten outsprinted Matteuchi for the win.  Epstein soloed in for 3rd. Breach soloed in 4th and Barry outsprtined Clercio and Cline to take 5th.



Category 4

28 miles
40 riders



1. Bryan Fried (CRCA/Teany)

2. Aviv Maizlin (Hudson Furniture Racing Team)

3. Samuel Schaeffer (Unatt)
4. Etsu Taniguchi (CRCA/Teany)

5. Errol Maclean (Major Taylor) â€¨â€¨

Category 5
12 miles
22 riders


1. Andrew Dasilva (Kissena)

2. John Malcolman (Kissena)

3. Edwin Duarte (Teamhalcones.com)

4. Daniel Diaz (Unatt)
5. Will Mackenzie (Unatt)  â€¨â€¨

Thanks to all the marshalls, pacers, registration volunteers and officials!

Sunday has the Spring Series Time Trial, which I have not heard a peep nor tweet about, so if you did it and won, let us know.

Here’s a comment based recap of the Rahway River park Crit (congrats to ???):

Sunday’s Pro 1/2/3 Rahway River Crit Results: 8 man breakaway from the gun consisting of Nik Masluk & Stephan Dioslaki of Metra, Gui Nelson and Maurice Gahmino of VanDessel, Durso and Pondhoff of Colavita, ??? guy with a green unknown uniform, Raffie Urzadowski of Northest. With about 6 laps to go, Pondhoff got dropped making the breakaway group 7…in the end it was

1st Place Maurice Gahmino, VanDessel

2nd ??? guy with unknown green uniform

3rd Nik Masluk of Metra

4th Gui Nelson of Vandessel

5th Stephan Dioslaki, Metra

6th Raffie, Northeast

7th Durso, Colavita

53 Comments

Fart Face

1 – Shane Kline – Bissel
2 – Jamie Clinton – Alliance Environmental
3 – Clayton Barrows – Stan’s No Tubes
4 – Mengioni? – Dominican Rebulican
5 – Bobby Lea – Pure Energy
6 – Ryan Shebelsky – Alliance Environmental
7 – Andreas Fliessgarten? – Team Schwalbe Trier

Field Sprint – Gutter Crit

Nanni Dropout

Why do you think so many athletes pro and amatuer go train there for the winter? Come and get it! Right off the shelf! And trust me it’s that easy….if you ever been there you’ll see what i’m talking about. It’s even known kids get juiced up(by there coach/agent) when baseball scouts are going to see them play. Whatever,if you’re getting juiced to win in Central Park then you have issues…enjoy your health while it last BIG PAPI! LOL!

Balding Master Fattie

First I gotta give up my life to train and now you want my what’s left of my hair!

Big Papi

Is so Obvious who’s Nani Dropout!
This is a small circle and everyone knows everything, including Secrets “Rumors”. so sad you’re fat and jelous, when this 22 years old kid kick your “team” ass. The Dominican Racers only bike,sleep and train, while other people have 9-5 jobs, and use cycling as a hobby, for them that;s a profesion.

crumb

what are you saying, big papi? when stuff looks fishy, riding like a sketchball on meth only makes it less likely for the hobbyists to give a benefit of doubt.

crumb

if these guys really treat this sport like a profession, what are they doing at rinky dink club races when there’s legit pro stuff happening just down I-78?

Nanni Dropout

Yeah it’s so obvious,i’m fat and(did you mean jeAlous?) The day your 22 yrs. old DUM-IN-A-CAN kicks MY ass(let alone my team)i’ll hang up my bike!
Lol @ sandbagging dopers,LMAO! As far as cheap and climbing i’ll fly 2 more hrs. and go to Colombia were there are real climbs,REAL cyclist,better food and absolutely HOTTER WOMEN! Did i mention better cycling already?

Gonzo

2 wins, 2 second places and a half dozen top 10 and we are only in April…upgrade bro, or go ride for Mengoni, join those DR folks. I am watchin you! 😉

Bike doper/sandbagger

What is all this fuzz about Mengoni? is Charlie racing again?, does Mengoni exist? or they just trying to save the left over of the “team”.. Are you hanging your bike Fat ass jelous “cyclist”. Colombian are the closet to European in cycling, how can you compare it with DR? you still stupid Fat Jelous. Colombian knows everything, from trainning to medicine that make you fast, but medicine without trainning wont take you far.

Fat cyclist

First off,it’s jealous not jelous. Did you just say Colombia has a closet in Europe? Please explain! And that’s my point you CAN’T compare the 2….as we speak i’m getting fatter by eating a double burger and fries….thanks for the heads up.

Barney Miller

“Two guys by the boathouse” would get a little more than just a ticket, they would get a beat down.

Ermanno Kevlar

No you idot this is where you look for Boston Chicken. Get with the program, read the memo.

Helmut Gescheint

WHAT? My job is to write pithy messages on this site.

What is so great about a job? Do tell.

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