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As far as I can see, in NYC we have a CRCA race in CP – F-IN A! Everyone that’s “very pro” will be up racing Fitchburg. They will probably have fancy white handle bar tape up there also.
Fitchburg <a href=”http://www.longsjo.com/rindex.php?year=2007″ target=”blank”>results</a>.
Got some server problems. Will post photos from Saturday as soon as they’re resolved.
If a group of riders race in Central Park and nobody writes about it, did it really happen? Discuss.
I heard Avenue A rode a smart and aggressive race in the B field.
i heard the same about team NYVC
yeah, but who won?
Maybe someone from the site could post why no coverage from this weekend?
yes it was mentioned.
Albergotti, or whoever won the 4/5 wrote the article.
It’s cool that the race promoter took the time to create a profile.
This one, however, is such a distortion, that it creates more questions than answers…
That thing look steeper and long than Alpe d’Huez.
It is really annoying when people write “discuss” at the end of their posts. Discuss.
While the wall was tough, it really isn’t a wall, not did anyone use a 25.
Fun race.
Pics please
Anyone know what happenend out in Rocky Hill for the P/1/2/3 race?
It is really annoying when people write “discuss” at the end of their posts
I’m sure someone noticed, but velocitynation.com was mentioned in an article in last Saturday’s WSJ. The article was about how people are using the Web to size up the competition in amateur endurance events. There’s also a pretty good pic of Reed Albergotti winning the sprint at the Harlem Crit Cat 4 race (which I believe was taken from the site as well).
Uh, yeah – I meant 39×25…thanks!
PS – Nobody say anything bad about my bald skinny brother Levi. He will ROCK. And he sorta looks like me, which makes me sorta feel faster.
He could be the first winner of le Tour to have a Jewish-sounding name. He’s not Jewish, but it’s a start. Discuss.
dopes
Levi does not dope. That was clearly an anti-semitic comment.
Hill profile to clear up the ?’s
http://www.eventmg.com/index_files/page0008.htm
that hill looks like a mint-chocolate creamsicle. (i figured i’d go with the whole psychedelic theme).
Thanks Chris M. This helps a lot. You probably meant 39×25.
…actually my third eye chokra popped open this morning, and I’ve been surfing the Alpha wave ever since
Yeah, that was a kinda funny but clearly drug-fueled post from someone who obviously knows my backyard quite well- wasnt me though (sadly v sober here at work!). Who was that please?
The hill is a bit less than a mile Id guess, but basically consists of a super steep 50-75 M wall that you hit taking a left off the flat Canal Rd (standing in your 53×25 for a few power kicks) – gotta shift to 53×25 on the flat before the turn or your gonna stop dead – seriously! The road flattens for a few hundred meters after the brief climb, then shifts up to a gradual climb that gets steeper till you are back in the x25 for another short power kick, followed by another gradual uphill section. Basically quite bizarre profile for a hill, and it will hurt a lot when people attack it. Kinda reminds me of a Housatonic type hill effort – not super long, but still a real ouch esp after your 3rd or 4th time up. Poster is right that the road is rough up the hill, but its actually butter the rest of the course and the two wood bridges are nothing to worry about – shoot right over barely noticing them. Lovely course and should be fun…The ending sprint will likely be strung out due to the last hill, but rocket fast downhill at max speed just before the sprint, then slower as the line is on slight upgrade for last 100+M. I think it will feel odd to go from 45 mph to more like 30mph from the start of sprint to the line, actually decelerating as you go due to shift uphill in road (my guess – I dont know exact line position…).
I have always suspected that some pack riders are halucinating during races. Either that or about to get rich writing the next Harry Potter series.
the hill is 1.2 miles…brokedown lane…flashers on
what are you on, and how can i get some?
I have always suspected that some pack riders are halucinating during races. Either that or about to get rich writing the next Harry Potter series.
For the Princeton commenter, can you tell us more about the “Wall”?
Some say is a 1/4 mile, other a full mile, how long and steep is it? 39×23, 39×25, Big ring it?
Rocky Hill’s “wall” is actually a “hill”, a rocky hill oddly enough. It looks like Leprachauns patched it together with buckets and shovels…but then some of the Leprechauns started to perform in a less dilligent fashion. Oh yeah, and there are carpet baggers at the top that’ll stuff you into a suitcase for the trip down Squirrly mountain and over the popsickle stick bridge that runs along the cool and flowing dead calm canal that you proceed on towards the House on the corner of Canal and Hill. Pot holes, wrinkles, trenches, sand, gravel…uh, pebbles. You shoot up out o down on some rolleurs, touch on 206, then roll the river up and down, cross a troll’s bridge, then run the canal. The finish is 1.25 miles after the down hill, and it’s a long glass-smooth, 50 mph big road, rolling riser, that eats its own.
From today’s cyclingnews (http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/jun07/jun29news):
inject Erythropoietin
immediately
since,
at the time,
the drug was only detectable
for a few days.
“You have to pass by. You have to hurry because you need to do it today,”
said the doctor.
Di Luca responded
Keep in mind that the Rocky the Hill race is pre reg only and is closed now.
No race day reg.
I that Russian writing on the bike on the front page?
The very informative Bike Cult web site
http://www.bikecult.com/works/archive/03bicycles/takhionVVVV.html
Dan, you have foresaken your home state? There is a terrific race shaping up in Rocky Hill NJ (starting not 2 mi from my doorstep in Princeton)- including a pro-1-2 field but with a full 100 man 3-4 field. 53 mi race with a nasty steep ‘wall’ done 5x will force some splits and probably make for a cool strung-out finish – very un-NJ like. Still room in masters and pro-1-2 fields.