Off-Topic for 06/15/2011 – 06:00

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Sisyphus

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

A 1/3 mile classic four corner crit with very rough pavement on the opening straight. You’ll also need to navigate a few manhole covers rising several inches above the pavement on this section of the course. Entering turn one you’ll need to move far left to avoid crashing into the 10-ton crane anchored on the course. Its painted red so you should not have any trouble seeing it. If you survive all of that, then you can do it some 50 times over.

If I were traveling to this race I would be pissed beyond belief that I schlepped to NYC for this clearly unsafe and perhaps even unusable course.

JDE, what do you say?

siphilis

the course is getting repaved and will be super fast dick head! please tell me you didnt get an invite anyways???

Sisyphus

..and that you didn’t intentionally choose to refer to yourself as a communicable (and sexually transmitted at that) disease.

I hope the course will be great…this is a great event.

Just expressing concern that its Weds and the race in on Sun – assuming 24hrs to cure…that’s not a lot of time to get it race ready.

Alexis Crank

2011 Harlem Cycling Classic Construction Embargo – June 17 – June 19, 2011
A special event construction embargo is in effect for the Harlem Cycling Classic. From Friday, June 17 to Sunday, June 19, 2011 at the locations noted below only emergency work may be performed provided an emergency number is received from the New York City Department of Transportation. Any non-emergency permits issued prior to the date of this notice are hereby suspended for those dates at the locations noted below. There will be strict enforcement of this embargo and violators are subject to be summonsed. The locations are as follows (see map):
– Madison Avenue between 124th Street and 120th Street
– Mount Morris Park West between 124th Street and 120th Street
– 124th Street between Madison Avenue and Mount Morris Park West
– 122nd Street between Mount Morris Park West and Lenox Avenue
– 121st Street between Mount Morris Park West and Lenox Avenue
– 120th Street between Madison Avenue and Mount Morris Park West

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/motorist/trafalrt.shtml

Sisyphus

Ok, so there is a NYC Gov order that no construction can occur on the course. That’s good. Hopefully the crane will be moved then –

still, the road is milled and unpaved. What’s the plan for that?

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