Hangover 6/27/2011

by schmalz

Hee haw

The internet has done a good portion of my "job" (to me the term "job "implies payment) for me this morning, allowing me some "me" time, which I shall squander by Googling pictures of laughing livestock.

At the CRCA Club Race, Gabriel Acaba of L-Raphael.com –  Leopard Cycles.com won the A race. Kristin Lotito of Houlihan-Lokey/Sanchez won the women’s race. Josh Sakofsky of Siggi’s/NYVelocity won the B race. Mark Halpin of NYAC won the C race. Results are here.

The rest of the weekend’s races are delightfully un-posted, which means I don’t have to type anything about them, and I can get back to my search for goat grins. A portion of the Giro del Cielo are here, but I only comment on finished stage races (that’s not true, but it sounds like a great justification for laziness).

In the meantime, enjoy this fantastic Lucarelli and Castaldi Cup recap from Luca Housing:

Two laps into the race, a large split developed. It consisted of some 25 or so racers. The field, however soon latched back on. On the 3rd lap, Nik Masulak of Team Metra / Cycles 54 was testing and pushing real hard. After repeated attacks by him, a breakaway consisting of 8 guys developed. This group soon pulled away from the main field as each guy took his turn and driving and hammering forward. The breakaway consisted of JP Partland Kisenna, Nik Masulak Metra / Cycles 54, Jason Walters Guardian, Willie Schneider VO2MAXOUT, Stephan Dioslaki Metra / Cycles 54,?? 50 guy from Die-Hard, and another ?? guy from a Blue & Black Uniformed ?? Team (I think Eastern Mountain Sports). They quickly hammered out a big gap on the field. Nik was definitely dictating the pace as he took the longest and hardest pulls each time it was his turn. During the breakaway, Dioslaki managed to scoop up one of the KOM laps plus both of the Sprinters Jersey laps which handily put him in the overall lead for the Green Jersey. With around 3 laps remaining in the race, a chase group caught on to the leaders. By then, both of the ???? guys described above were visibly cracking while JP, Dioslaki, Nik & Jason & Wil were holding strong!! The guys that bridged up and latched on (or should I say leached on) were Paul Burrows of United, Stalin Quitero of JV and Raffie Urzadowski of Northeast. Surprisingly, this didn’t do much to help the breakaway as there was a great deal of disorganization that resulted from the new guys. Rather than everyone taking their pull, as they were systematically doing before, the new guys kind of sat on, kind of pulled, kind of attacked and most of all, kind of messed things up a bit. Regardless, the gap was so big by then, it didn’t really matter that much. Going in to the final lap, things slowed and things began to just coast along as the finish-line approached. It was Urzadowski who jumped first with a super hard effort with around ½ mile to go. He appeared to be on to something as a gap was opening. But it wasn’t long until Dioslaki responded hard and caught him. It was the two of them but not for long. From there, blasting up from the rear came a well rested Paul Burrows and Stalin Quitero from their non-pull hibernation status. It was again Dioslaki who reacted jumping hard onto the train. Inching ever so close towards the finish line it was:

1. Paul Burrows United taking the win,
2. Stalin Quitero JV in a tight 2nd and
3. Stephan Dioslaki Metra / Cycles 54 almost overtaking but having to settle by less than a bike length for 3rd place.
4. In 4th was JP Partland Kissena or Wil Schnieder or (?? not sure…someone please help me out with this place??)
5. Nik Masulak Metra / Cycles 54 in 5th.
6. In 6th was Jason Walters GUARDIAN
7. Raffie Northeast (pretty sure)
Surprise of the day was no representation by Mengoni in the breakaway

129 Comments

xyz

Why do you allow these toxic posts on your site. I have been racing for more than 10 years and in NYC since 2006.

I get that allowing anon posts filled with nonsensical spew increases your webhits and I guess its good for selling ad space (BTW – the fact that you are still pimping the NYC Bike Expo tells me add space is not selling that well but I digress), but this site, fosters so much negativity and bad attention to the local scene that it seems you guys are adding to the black eye that is bike racing in NYC. Rather than having post after post of shit talking comments about a 43 year old successful father, business man and bike racer, why dont you interview the guy and get his side. I dont know Olson, I have been dropped by him though, and have seen him start out in the 4s, beat me in the 3s and move up to the 1s.

On the Lisbon issue, its bad news for cycling, but having all these fools comment (most of them Cat5s and 4s who are new to racing and pretty clueless) just brings even more negativity to the sport and especially the sport locally. Why dont you try and get an interview with Lisbon or at least a comment.

While your site is a nice place to see pictures and race results locally week after week, the irony is that you guys are bringing as much bad attention to bike racing as the guys you hate on week after week. Until you remove the comments from this site, it will remain a toxic environment for cyclists locally.

Alessio Threadlock

I’m glad you, and your kids, do great things for the sport. I didn’t see the incident, but I got a first hand account from someone I trust who was there. To them you came across as an arrogant bike racer/pushy father. Not someone who does as much as they can to help others get started.

If you come late, just slot in the back and smile at the other parents. You will make a better impression on everyone.

Romain Bushing

Because he was obviously the strongest in the race and is someone to watch. I didn’t know he was from RI until you said so.

Etrodehome

Way to represent in the CT champ race and taking the wins!
Cat 3 – Danny!!!!
Cat 4 – Tom Mikolinski!!!!! Results bro!!!!

And so many others doing well there!!!

The New Yorker

So true about guys with too much money. I am astounded with the number of cat 4 riding $5000 and can barley finish with the pack. Tubular’s? Really!

...

yes, everyone in CRCA…hell everyone in NYC is a millionaire. It must suck hard to not be from here.

Ari Schtottle

Second Friend of Donny:: Did I ever tell you about the time Donny Green sold me into slavery?

First Friend of Donny: Well, if you’re talking about Donny Green, I believe it!

Second Friend of Donny: Oh, yeah! He puts me on a ship to Thailand, right? And I’m chained to a pipe. Meanwhile, ol’ Donny Green, he’s back in the States siring three beautiful children with my wife!

First Friend of Donny: I hate Donny Green.. but I respect him!

face

adler put on an impressive display of team coordination to chase down their team mate in the break. all your mouthguards are belong to us.

D. Bagge

Donny’s CX beard is so awesome that it got my beard drunk, banged it, and then made it some breakfast. True story.

Bartoli Barolo

I let Donny Green date my sister. He’s apparently very knowledgable in wines from the Piedmont region.

Charlie I.

Kings County Circuit Race
June 25, 2011
Brooklyn, NY

Pro/Cat 1-2-3 Points Race
46 miles

1. Godfrey Pollydore (Flying Aces) 15 pts
2. Jermaine Burrowes (WS United) 12 pts
3. Greg Olsen (CRCA/Adler) 11 pts
4. Paul Chooweenam (Team Alanis) 10 pts
5. Michael Margarite (CRCA/AXA) 9 pts
6. Robert Meccea (BVF) 8 pts
7. Evan Thomas (TargetTraining) 6 pts
8. Adam Alexander (CRCA/Foundation)
9. Evan Murphy (CRCA) 3 pts
10. Anthony Taylor (CRCA/Dave Jordaon) 2 pts

Masters 40+
25 miles

1. Bernard McGarry (CRCA/Brauer)
2. George Suter (CRCA/Die Hard)
3. Dennis Schwandtner (Deno’s)
4. Pascal Sauvayre (CRCA/BH/Garneau)
5. Paul Carbonara (CRCA/Axis)
6. Christopher Pile (TargetTraining)
7. Kevin McNeil (Major Taylor)
8. Rick Spear (TargetTraining)
9. Tim Spence (CRCA/Axis)
10. Roger Friedman (CRCA/Die Hard)

Category 4
28 miles

1. Kendrick Ceasar (Major Taylor)
2. Jimmy Andrello (CRCA/Foundation)
3. Carl Nelson (Kissena)
4. Ian Leiberman (CRCA/Dave Jordan)
5. Christopher Shea (CRCA/NYVelocity)
6. Thomas Mikolinski (CRCA/Teany)
7. McKay Duncan (Kissena)
8. Moishe Silverstein (Speedwell)
9. Unknown Rider
10. Lorenzo Brown (Major Taylor)

Category 5
12 miles

1. Danny Chee (Team Alanis)
2. Kris Broekart (Salsa)
3. Lance Gordon (CRCA)
4. Jaipaul Mubabie (Unatt)
5. Preston Stanley (Unatt)
6. Patrick Merosier (Major Taylor)
7. Seth Looper (9th St. Cycles)
8. Alexander Ngueyn (Unatt)
9. Jonathan Sternman (Unatt)
10. Jef Kaminsky (Kissena)

Charlie Issendorf
Race Director
Kissena Cycling Club

Flo RIDA

They’ve been chasing their own teammates for 3 years now. Is this really a surprise anymore? I mean, are they a team, or a bunch of dudes wearing the same uniform.

yes i ride on adler

we didn’t chase down our teammate, we chased down a break that we didn’t want to stay away. our boyd points leader ended up getting third in the field sprint. that’s what we wanted.

i don’t understand this “it’s never right to chase down a break with your teammate” mentality. that’s not how bike racing works.

Arno Neck

Say what you will about his new team
but that Ariel Mendez kid is fast and dangerously good looking

All your Boyd points are belong to us!

Seriously though is there any team that this here peanut gallery DOES like?

Bernardo Bottle

Olsen is currently 4th on the Boyd standings and did not collect any points on Sunday. Had he won from the break he would currently have 37 points vs. the 32 Mendez has. Unless you can come up with some reason you feel Olsen can’t win from a break (seeing as he has done it numerous times already this year) your logic is flawed.

face

well, they are ITU short-course triathlon draft-legal, so that’s basically the same thing as a CRCA race except without the swim before and run after and without riding in a bathing suit and glorified spd sandals. but, the bars are almost legal enough to use in a real road race.

face

the peanut gallery doesn’t like anything. they complain less about axa, diehard, blue ribbon, comedy central. but, yeah, subteams are kind of silly at the bottom of it, so of course people rip on the ones that take themselves a little too seriously. the funny thing about adler hate, is that the team started with a tongue-in-cheek nod to this. but it has morphed into a self parody of what it was originally mocking. now, the team lacks the original sense of humor that made them cool. bring back ugli and his amazing break-dance-cowboy sprinting!

Dylan Tank

Did Olsen know your guys didn’t want the break to stay away? He was doing a decent amount of work while in it!

yes, I as well, ride for myself on adler

You guys are idiots. Olsen installed those vaguely-legal $1,000 tri bars on his almost tt bike to FOOL you into thinking he wanted to get in a break. All to set up his (new) teammate to pick up a couple points for his individual cup award.

IDOTS, you’ve been served.

Brent Dry Lube

if any of you had balls you would have countered when adler caught the break and took advantage of their efforts. but you didn’t.

Andrea Rivnut

julien nipple went from defending adler to implying his acceptance of adler’s having a pussy.

Arno Neck

Bernardo Bottle you need to brush up on basic addition

A win is worth 10 points so olsen could have had 27 has he won

Clockofshit

Most of you guys who bad mouth Olsen have no idea what he is like as a person, or how much time he spends researching for ways to win races and do well. And he does all that the right way – hard work and commitment. He may come across as being cocky, but that’s because he earned it – it’s called “confidence”.
If you are a winner, you need to have that; in life and also in competition. He is still a very friendly guy.
I am sorry that you can’t follow his wheel or pass him, keep trying. Are you in your 20s? 30s? Chances are he will kick your ass any day on a bike. Are you doped? Chances are he will still kick your ass racing clean.

Damiano C.

your tagname says it all.

as for olsen, he’s a spoiled rich boy playing at the bicycle races. how “confident” is he when he gets his ass handed down to him at real races?

take mouthguard off, rinse, repeat. shut up.

liquiguts

If Olsen is “a spoiled rich boy playing at the bicycle races”

then when you cloned Olsen 15x, made him twice as rich and half as fast, which team would you have (minus ringers)?

Adler may have lost the plot, but they’re rich guys who race rather than rich clueless cat 4s hiring doped up ringers and cheats in whose “glory” to live vicariously.

Alessio Threadlock

Are you speaking of the same Olsen who trampled over mothers and their children at the Harlem race in order to get his child to the front when they got to the start late? The same Olsen who instead of holding his child at the line launches him off the line?

Paolo Swage

Unfortunately for some of us, in the U.S. competitive cycling is primarily the domain of complete and total dorks. You guys are proving this assertion with this pathetic argument.

Tristan Internal Routing

I wish you would. 90+% of the posts on this site are by losers moaning and groaning about guys and teams that do well. Go out and ride your bike. Have fun. Just because someone is faster than you, don’t let it get you down. And for what its worth, I’m pack fill, but I am fine with it.

Alessio Kevlar

adler should have your respect for having ten cat 2s and three cat 1s and being quite present locally and all other the northeast, and obviously racing clean while doing it. instead you guys gotta hate. why not support one of the top local teams? results, bro.

Gianni Flange

Graveyard Ominum at FBF – This race has been canceled until further notice. The decision was made to cancel this race due to the lack of interest.

Maxence Bearing

I respect Adler for the decorative home accessories and bright, bold colors and patterns.

floydguy

I was planning on going, don’t a lot of people show up without pre-reging, weird to pull the plug.

Shortsighted?

Olsen worked his way up to achieve whatever he has. If he is rich that’s because he worked VERY hard at it while you spend your time “clicking” refresh button on NYVC site. Yes, he looks dorky on that photo, but I am sure he really doesn’t care.

face

because the picture is goofy. not that hard. the point was that its cool regardless. but whatever. i feel like most of the people who get their panties all bunched up over the ribbing in this site take themselves way more seriously than the people making jokes. i’m sorry, but if you show up to race with anything over-the-top, you need to be able to self-reflectively laugh once and a while. that goes for olsen, that goes for foundation, that goes for anybody. unless you really think that bike racing is a gravely serious pursuit, i guess. honestly, nobody that i know outside of cycling has the faintest idea what this is about and they laugh at us all. sometimes its fun to laugh at ourselves as well.

Tristan Swage

word. most people view our little thing on par with bowling. just as dorky with the nascar outfits etc, only you break your collarbone a lot

Alessio Threadlock

It’s great that Olsen donated bikes to star track. It’s great that he can ride a bike fast. It’s great that he supports the sport. It’s just too bad he had to set a bad example at the Harlem race in front a very impressionable kids. Some of the non-racers at the race will never know, or care, about all the good things he does for cycling. They will just remember the dick who thought it was ok for him and his child to push their way to the front.

P. Gilbert

but let’s not forget that, because “he worked VERY hard,” as Shortsighted? wrote, G.O. has earned the right to push others – kids and mothers included – in order to claim his hard(ly) earned place of privilege at the Harlem start line. classy dude: the poor and poorly connected be dammed, ‘i got the green and my kid goes up front, suckas.’

Its called "Winning"

I repeat, 90+% of the posts on this site are by losers moaning and groaning about guys (and their kids) that do well. Greg and his son worked their way up to achieve whatever they have (including their position at the front of the start line). If guys like Greg are rich and pushy it’s because they work VERY hard and deserve to get to the front of the race (and most importantly, to teach their children that this is the way that “winners” go through life). This was an excellent life lesson for children: you either sit meekly at the back of the proverbial start line (like you and your kid did) or you grab life by the balls and push your way to the front, loser. It’s called “confidence”. If you are a winner, you need to have that; in life and also in competition. Now go home and cry to your mom.

meh

6:29, Olsen aside, comments like yours make me wonder why I even read this site. Or pin on a number, for that matter. Your sense of entitlement is just loathsome. Don’t you have some babies that you should be stealing candy from?

youguys make me

that was really disgusting, 629, do you think you are in the movie Wall Street? Go hang out with the masheen.

xyz

if I was a betting man I would guess that was Goldman… very similar to the nonsense he use to spew over on PE. Now he is racing a Ferrari on the Rolex circuit or some shit…

olsen

Your comments are unfair Alessio. There was some confusion with the bikes that we donted as I was under the impression that there were children needed them to race on, so my kids and I were late for the start. I am sure I looked like a total idiot running the opposite way down the race route 2 minutes before the race start, but looking ridiculous is part of being a dad and is unavoidable.
I slotted my son in and waited for the race to begin. He did not start ahead of any other kids since the race went off it two heats due to the amount of kids and every child ended up being in the “front row”. I helped him start off as the bike is still a bit big for him. He bobbled, I caught him and started him off again. He went on to finish in a glorious 6th place which was a nice improvment on the previous week’s race in Lake Placid for him.
I think this is far from egregious behavior, but you are entitled to your opinion.
Then my daughter was in the 9 and under race. For winning her race, John Eustice presented her with a beautiful new bike which she promplty gave back to him and requested he give it to “a child who does not have a bike”. That made 4 bikes that our family donated to Star Track that day.
So my children and I had a great experience with the whole event.
If you had an issue with me, I would have preferred that you would have confronted me then and not anonymously embellished some story on the internet. Next time, please know that you can talk to me man to man.

Tight Lockring

Does he have a PR team like Lance monitoring cyberspace for comments about him? He’s “above it all”, but it always here in a flash to clear his good name.

Well, as Oscar said, “The only think worse than being talked about is NOT being talked about”.

http://www.facts4oslsen.com

Andy Shen

So Lockring, he proves you wrong and instead of apologizing you criticize how quickly he responds? (Which wasnt that quick anyways.) Why not just admit it when you’re wrong?

Seattube

Olsen gets so much crap because he’s successful, leave him the fuck alone an ride your bike your worthless piece of shit.

l.q.

it appears that you forgot to put the saddle on. this is why the tube is so deep up your ass, you fuckface olsen brownnoser.

Tristan Internal Routing

haters should listen to the song working class hero and reflect on how it relates to the NYC racing scene.

nice post olsen.

to the rest of you, just enjoy riding and racing your bikes. c’mon.

Maxence Clearcoat

Idots, he worked really hard to get to where he’s at. So he DESERVES and has the right to flaunt it and talk down to you poors and lesser men.

Olsen – let them eat cake, I say good fellow.

Seattube

I.q…..your fucking pathetic, as a matter of fact a vast majority of you guys on here are pathetic, egotistical dickheads pedaling bikes….for what though? Chances are your in your 30s,40s,50s? Maybe even 60. Ask yourself these questions, what’s the last race you won? When was the last time you even got top ten? Probably once this season? Or not even….Olsen is 43? And he’s still killing it. Hate all you want, he’ll still be there at every race kicking your ass.

Clockofshit

Greg, I won 🙂

Can we now talk about what we are going to do about this weekend now that Graveyard race is cancelled?

schmalz

I really don’t get why everyone’s obsessed with Greg, he’s fast, generous and can pull off an orange mouthguard.

Fred Olsen

why doesn’t Lisboa just come on her and give us the straight mother fuckin dizzope?

BTW – who is this Ivan fuck that they keep asking the last name of?
W T F ?

olsen's guardian angel

let he who hath no saddle sore pop the first zit

but seriously, greg olsen is the man
i would let him impregnate my wife
he is haaawwwwwttttt

fap fap fap fap fap fap fap

Danato Asshat

Don’t forget, most of the guys who have endless cash to spend on bikes and kit never win a race. Just like most of us of modest means also never win a race. The main difference is that the slow rich guys can move on to fly fishing or sailing when they realise the aren’t bike racers.

pistaface

honestly, i don’t know what “bringing bad attention to the sport” means. who do you think reads this other than the few people who get their jollies by posting either sh!t talk or syccophantic banter? its all just locker room razzing the way i see it. do you really think that there are outsiders who are getting a wrong impression of cycling because of the comments on this site? get real.

there are few truths in life, but one of them is that most people need a sense of humor and if they are successful at something, shouldn’t mind getting roasted. if anything its a compliment. also, btw, dopers deserve what they get in terms of negative spew. sorry, that’s probably the biggest deterrent: community ostracization.

dick

how long has this site been like this? 6, 7 years? it’s not going to change. stop reading the comments AND COMMENTING ON THEM if you don’t like them.

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