In our never ending quest for ways to make you do our work for us, we present our latest weekly feature – Hopeful Fridays, the good twin of the Monday Hangover. Because hope springs eternal on Friday, before we’ve had our hats handed to us over the weekend.
Post your predictions for the weekend, talk some ill-advised smack, tell us where you’re racing, and most importantly, anonymously tell us who’s getting dropped.
So you get slapped a couple of times, doesn’t mean you stop attacking.
What? Friday already? Caught with our pants down? We’re seriously slacking off.
ESG Qualifier
Rain, big puddle…
CRCA Club Race
Team cup for A’s: Loehner, Motor, Auth and Orville Riffelmacher one-two… Ted Neu riding breaks well at Floyd… Ricky Lowe returns… Alessio getting support from Gabe Lloyd? Pick against Axis at your own peril?
Team cup for Women: Laughing ladies…
B: Adler the biggest of the medium sized dogs now? What’s up with Edgemont these days?
NJ TT
Westwood guys: Aspholm, Kimball, Goldman. Who will take out of state bragging rights, Boronow, Bremer, or Settel?
Bawm Chicka Bow Wow shirt for best prediction.
Could they make it harder to find info on this? Every year it seems to get worse!
finish behind the met should be interesting,
Met finish = extra painfull sprint
B race: if it comes down to a field sprint, look for Ugly as the top contender. Otherwise, look for Ben Harris, Aaron Wolfe, Andy Collins and other such characters to try and get away.
Why do you keep typing "Aaron Wolfe" in this column? It’s kinda embarrassing for everybody.
ESQ: Burrowes
CRCA: Molloy
NJ TT: Aspholm (NJ), Sonke Thiel (Out of State)
Yo Tony S, how’s your sprint these days?
Check out mine:
http://starsapoils.skyblog.com/pics/77550228_small.jpg
Field Sprint in the A
too many ass clowns on these boards
I’ll take Molloy in the long spring in the A’s, and Tony Danza in the B’s.
Now we all know what Tony Danza does on the internets when L is away.
Look for a few overflow A’s to mix it up – anyone in a Blue Ribbon or Axis jersey should be watched.
A’s – Molloy or Loehner to do the old 1 /2 punch.
the probability of a field sprint is very very low. have fun chasing all of the breaks, and when you get there dont expect to sit on like you do in the field. cause no one is gonna tow you around!!!!
This feature is getting pretty old and tired! Same nominations every week, same idiocy as well. The rest of the site has grown so much, and there’s so much good content, that this feels weak. Set up a forum for those who like to trash talk, but this is definitely not front page material.
A Race: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss (Ricky)
B Race: Despite ML’s best efforts, it comes to a sprint and J. Brown wins.
W Race: Sauvayre (So there!)
ESG: Someone with over 100k miles in their legs, like Zoltan, Molloy or Settel.
TT: I dunno, Aspholm I guess, safety answer.
smack talk
the fastest man in NYC will be making his return to the crca, but will ricky even place? do all all those watts and no results still make him the fastest man as you all voted a year ago? we will see
AA, will he show his class and do a late bridge to a break or will he let his team cover all of the attacks and tow the field around? or will the speedy Cook take a late flyer
Axis, will they screw it up? they have it all be have blown it in the past. look for one of the dark horses from the super squdra, rather than the usual.
Evil Mat Howard, will he still be just another nice guy, who is too nice to win despite his nick name
Harris Sherry and the ML crew. Without a doubt we know what they will do. they are almost gauranteed a podium if they do it.
Auth ?? wood ?? there are too many wild cards to mention
Sakonnet…. word has it that they are flying in the botero and griteriez just to beat Axis.
So your answer to this being a boring page is to set up another page to do the same stuff?
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Clearly people like this banter, so give them a place to do it. But "take it outside," so to speak. Having this front and center cheapens the site.
Hey Dead Horse, if you don’t like it, start your own site.
Hey Dead Horse, no comments about Dog humping Cat cheapening the site? What are your standards, exactly?
i thought we liked this site cause it was cheap.
my predictions – rain and if i race, lots of worthless bridging/bridge attempts.
who races the ESG? is it going to range from cat 1’s to cat 4’s all mixed up?
The ESQ is open to everyone, cat 1’s to Cat 5’s
which is why this race is crash heaven every single year
This is only dangerous if not a smart rider. Almost all the crashes there are from inexperience and guys being where they shouldn’t be or trying to do things they normally wouldn’t. If your smart you know what to watch out for and you know you don’t need to be fighting for position in the first 5, 10, even 15 laps.
Also there were no crashes last year.
In the past it
TT – Roger in the 123, Troy in the 40+, Sonke in the out of state 1-2-3. Settel in the out of state masters.
ESG – Bremer. He will be in the final break that goes closer to the end of the race. Sonke will be there, too – if he races.
A – Ricky
B – Shawn Marvel
W – Gale
I recently moved to Westchester and will attempt to qualify for the Hudson Valley team. If the Gods are on my side and I happen to qualify, that will surely help the NYC team. mihael
I also predict one or more of the Sleepy Hollow triplets will qualify.
Word of the day (or the afternoon, about 3pm at least): Biblical
We could dance, we just couldnt sing.
JCM smells nice
The big problem always was that the people winning never went.
It is a – Qualifyer – and there is a reason for its length.
It actually was longer.
My Puddle is full of Poo.
If your thinking you want to the ESQ, remember a night of rain causes my drain at the bottom shoot to get back up with sewer poo.
If you were a REAL park, you wouldn’t have that problem. Girl, you’ll always be second-rate, at best. Come see me shine on Sunday morning.
How bad is the flooding in PP today ?
I am changing my NJ TT pick. Instead of Roger, I am going with Gui.
What’s the word on cancelling the qualifiers? Will they still hold it tomorrow if the road is flooded? (heh, hardly an IF with this downpour!)
girls. you talk to mo… stop and do what men do. race not bla.bla bla
talk is good. bla.bla .bla. did you winn.pssssys
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so, you have to log in but you can still invent your own name?
this site has made me feel as if my commentary is welcome, even sought-after, everywhere–when I read cyclingnews or the Times, etc. and something pisses me off, I immediately scroll down to the bottom as if I can just punch in my ridiculous two cents. I couldn’t find anywhere to rattle off an anonymous, ranting tirade (at least, one that would appear immediately on the same page) on the times the other day and got all flustered.