The first weekend of racing is finished, and now that everyone has had a chance to take a nice warm bath to bring their core temperatures back up to the normal range, we can see who covered themselves in frigid glory this weekend.
At the CRCA Club Race, Zach Koop of Blue Ribbon-Pennell Ventures won the A race. Cecilia Davis Hayes of Stan’s NoTubes p/b EnduranceWerx won the women’s race. Alex Sanborn of Foundation won the B race, and Michael Lombardi of Lucarelli & Castaldi wonthe C race. Results are here. Photos are here.
At Branchbrook, Ross Baldwin of High Gear Watchung won the cat1/2/3 race. Willie Payton of Death Row Velo won’t he 35+ race. Scott Gregoire of Deno’s Wonder Wheel won the 45+ race. Rob Coyle of Team HB Hilltop wonthe cat 4/5 35+ race. Ryan McGovern of Hatchmap Cycling won the cat 4/5 race. Results are here.
The Spring Series happened, but you should know better than to expect any posted results until June. If you won there, please share that information.
At the Ronde de Bethel, Cole Archanbault of Green Line Velo won the pro/1/2/3 race. Amanda Braverman of Stan’s NoTubes p/b EnduranceWerx won the women’s race. Dominic Caiazzo of Green Line Velo won the cat 3/4 race. Gary Steinberg of Brauer/Mick Management won the 45+ race. Sean Roach of Iron Bridge/Tarmac Cycling won the cat 4 race. Jason Atwater won the cat 5 race. Results are here.
You see what you people did, we lost Mehi? I go out for a two hour ride in sub freezing temperatures so I can leave a humble brag comment, and look what happens.
you people are incredulous bores
incredulous ones, huh?
Someone said something about me on the internet!!! Waa!
incredulous!
better get Reputation.com….
Soo….who else is racing Bethel this week?
What I’m incredulous about is that this whole conversation thread was spawned by the repeated uncontrolled spewing of one sole Master baiter…
You left out boring, listening to masters park racers chat each other up, YAWN YAWN YAWN!!!
Who are you people? Get a life.
Any park benches named after anyone this year?
This may be the last time I post as myself. One anonymous asshole is too many. I don’t get why I would sell my soul to the devil? I rode for Ricks (now Eneas is the owner) Tagetraining team for nothing, last years team budget was $500, and I was happy with that, the year before I was paying for my kit, and did so for few years after ReMax. I have also raced with 4 of the same guys for about 25 years, and that takes priority over anything else.
Fact; Rick thought Brian Wolf cut him off in a race, Brian beat him, Rick protested, but the result stood. They both insulted each other after the race. The video that did not go viral, but did get a few views shows nothing out of the ordinary. Both Rick and Brian thought they were right, typical bike racing. I suspect Brian Wolf who has been campaigning against Rick since that incident is behind some of these post. Rick is a very good friend that goes well beyond bike racing. I will always defend him. His results although not stellar are solid for a 52 year old, and although no wins last year that’s due in part to breakaways. Targetraing had a pro team, they raced Tour Of Georgia and won a jersey, some on the roster at the time are still pros.
Rick pissed some people off that I have no issue with, but I won’t get involved in that stuff as it has nothing to do with me. There are two side to each story, I don’t know either. I may have pissed people off too, but don’t know who, or why I’m getting attacked. Shrapnel?
The first post about Rick is clearly a set up, since I have talked to Rick this week, but did not bring this up, I have to assume he has not even read these posts.
From Elliston’s bio:
I have also raced professionally with the Navigators Insurance Team, Sony Music Studios, TARGETRAINING, and RiteAid Pro Cycling.
Eneas’ bio also claims he rode as a pro.
If you want to say either of those things are falsehoods, fine. Take it up with those guys.
I don’t give a rat’s ass about Rick. It’s clear he pissed in your cornflakes though. Good on him. Whoever included his name in a list of cat 1 masters who can still factor into open races is a dummy. Morgan too, for that matter, being he downgraded to Cat 4.
Who is clueless, Elliston never rode for Target and Eneas was Cat 1. He never took out a pro license.
RE Spears – If we’re going to talk about this stuff, my concern is that we speak accurately, so let the truth speak. RE: Spears – nothing to let go of, just by the way he carries himself at the races, it’s obvious he’s just the Peloton idiot.
Y’all can bicker about who’s on what team and share articles from 2006. But what’s really important is where the hell are all the photos from the Spring Series Cat 5s?!?!
Rick would never post about himself, and he is a very good sprinter and one of the best in the 50+. Badger is in different category all together, much stronger rider in every dept. One of the best in the area age aside.
Clearly a couple of of people, maybe only one, are trying to stir the pot. Dan, can you get IP address of the trouble maker, match it with other posts, perhaps he logged in once, or we can narrow it down to the area he lives or works?
Little known fact, John Fere, pete chainring, dave cogset and hammer head? All the same person from Bethel CT.
Look at these results. How many wins can you find? Champion, really?
http://www.usacycling.org/results/?compid=60296&all=1
Schmalz to Uncle Sam
NSA schmalz is in ur interwebs exposing ur h8in. Don’t expose me bro!
All you idots are belong to me.
How can a cat 3 be one of the best master’s racers in the NE?
target had one of the best masters teams in the country from 2005 to 2009
If you go to the Spring Series #1 pictures you will see Rick Spear and Mehi in Target training kits with their arms around each other.
Mehi is pre-reg for Grants Tomb for Target Training.
In answer to Froomestrong’s post: last year at the CT Criterium Championship in New Britain, Rick Spear went around to all the racers in his race after the race and to the chief official trying to slander a certain rider and get him DQ’d or relegated. Unfortunately for RS, someone in the race had a helmet cam which went viral on you-tube. It made RS out to be a liar. It exposed him to being the horrible pathetic lying person that he is.
He is truly bad for this sport.
Target Training. That’s Rick Spear and Mehi’s pathetic team!
I’m new, can you explain to the masses why this guy and Target Training deserve such ridicule? I’ve raced against some people I don’t like too much, but don’t call them out without explaining why.
Neither one of those guys are on Target Training any longer, which was predominantly an elite team and then one of the best masters teams in the NE. Now it’s mainly Eneass team (who owns TT now) who can can probably ride 99.9% of the guys who read this forum off his wheel.
no particular order:
Roger
ramone
skip
thurlow
spears
Emerson
stebbins
Chong
Gordon
spears
but now it’s getting funny
Whats funny is Target is cyclings modern day TITANIC ,and why do you think that is ?
what the hell does that even mean?
Holy Icebergs Batman, it must be a riddle.
Regardless if Schmalz knows who is posting on his site, going back to the Masters debate earlier today to hear names like Durso, Loehner, Eugene, Steinberg, Olsen, Tony Taylor and see a post with Badger and Rick Spear As notable sprinters in the same breath,( Badger being in a different universe than Spear) and then Mehi would have us all believe that Spear is one of the best 50+ sprinters, and then Rubber Hood post Spears USA Cycling results.
It has become very obvious that Spears is the turd floating in that very talented pool of Masters Cyclist.
Lets not forget Chris Tong Chen winning a few cat 3 races last year.
Chris Chong Tenn
only the first race of the season and band camp is rocking!
Rick and Mihael are racing for a city team this year. Based on posts on facebook their clothes aren;’t in yet. Eneas owns Target now, and as was said they were a damn fine masters squad (and formerly a pro team). Rick was the owner of Target. While not on the aforementioned elite team, as the owner and a racer he rode for the team. If you don’t like him great. But turning this into some spewing of a personal grudge is fucking dumb.
help Gypsy Donut get a truck that can roll up to your race or ride with coffee and donuts
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1645856853/gypsy-donut-food-truck-mobile-awesome
Is it near my taint (which I’ve finally located using a #2 pencil and a mirror) Not to be boastful but I didn’t even need to take off my shoes- huzzah!
What’s fucking dumb is you trying to have everyone believe Target had a former pro team. Name one pro that was on that team. Secondly, as far as Mehi goes – he would team up with the devil if the price was right. (Spears)
This started with the post RE: Rick Spears and Badger – 2 notable master sprinters.
With what we know about Spears and his cycling results, it could only have been Spears posting that response.
This board has allowed the cycling community in this area to police itself and use flamethrowers on guys like Rick Spears for over a decade.
I don’t see Raphael Roadie as being qualified to be the board policeman for this website.
Maybe, but you lack both perspective and knowledge. Bill Elliston, a former pro rode for target as did Eneas Freyre. I can’t rattle off the roster right here, but for sure someone can.
http://spokepost.com/news/?articleID=1326&catViewAll=5
What started with Spears is something you’ve yet to let go of. Who gives a shit about Rick? But to indicate Target never had a good team just means you’re clueless.
rick spears a total jerk and a hole !!!!!
Spears cheats and still cannot win!!!!!
I read Savory said he won on Facebook.
Scott won the field sprint in Branchbook not the race on Saturday.
“Cleiman was the policeman of the break, yelling at me to pull off if I didn’t plan on rolling through”
ah, the opinio juris of amateur bike racing…
It’s been a long winter.
If you raced the 1/2/3 you would remember what its like to get spanked by the youngins… do us a favor, quit racing and get your kids to the junior races. Your time has passed.
Remember Rayan O-A==hole you will get OLD one day DUMMY.. I think you are a BASTARD CHILD and your MOMMY and DADDY do not LOVE you. Grow up PUNK!
Rayan 0-Ring wins dickhead of the year award, hands down, and the season just started. Congrats.
I will get old one day and I’ll step down and take care of my wife and kids… stop being selfish and take care of your wife and kids. Look at how few junior racers there are compared to masters
We all will get OLD one day DUMMY. So go in your room and hung your OLD parents because they LOVE you,they just can not HELP that you are STUPID. Grow up!
last years Harlem Crit, 40+ 31 laps, 29.1 mph average. P12, 35 laps, 29.1 mph average. Yeah, a race for decrepit old guys….
“Teamwork! Today’s race was absolutely amazing, not because I won (cause I didn’t) but because racing bikes are always fun. I trained the last 3-4 “
would not be 29.1 if you did the full 35 laps. Its not all about you, get your juniors off the couch on on a saddle.
When I can no longer dish out pain to much younger riders, I’ll stop racing. Not until then.
and consider this Rayon A$$hole….if there were no masters riders racing, there would be no bike racing in NYC at all. There are about 10 juniors racing. Most guys under 35 are too busy drinking, smoking, and sleeping late to race or train. There would be no promoters willing to put on races for 20 guys total, and the whole thing would disappear. So be grateful, you little sh!t.
Enjoyed it. Found it to be a fun read.
GET OFF MY LAWN
Not ashamed to say that I am yet to beat Mark McCormick and Adam Myerson in a race unless they were leading someone out. And John Durso is still tough to beat. All guys in their 40s. You don’t need to have the fastest legs when you know how to race well.
I beat you in a sprint so what does that mean?
I’m saying that YOU are the problem. There are too many masters racer, so many that you have multiple categories and they are all full. Decked out with Madfibers, and DI2 for what? You’re not going anywhere in the sport… you will continue to get slower with age. Where are your kids? Why not buy them a (reasonable) bike and get them started in the sport, so maybe they can progress and actually have a chance to reach something meaningful like the TDF or Olympics. My only regret is that I didn’t know about cycling until I missed that boat… and to think there were a plethora of races in my back yard, yet the typical teenager has no idea of how many races we have and how rewarding this sport is. Pass it on, and take pride in supporting someone young get somewhere, no one has done it on his own.
“do something in the sport” LOL. All there is to do is to become a master if you aren’t already one.
thats the problem…. focus should be getting kids to the World Tour, and not Masters flexing their toys. That is why we suck in Europe
which race eli?
RWC.
http://rockleighcrit.com/rockleigh2013/A%20results%208-8.htm
nice!! i dont remember that race, but nicely done. Last Rockliegh race I remember was heading straight for that tree.
not bad! really! I hate the “cat III domestique” bs, but not bad.
idot – we have a huge amount of kids in the world tour especially by historic standards. The route there is not through the local parks. At least not for long.
You really are a fool. None of the kids of masters racers I know who have kids old enough to race as a junior have the slightest interest in it. They would rather play basketball, or play video games, or smoke weed. Don’t bite the hand that feeds you. Again….no NYC masters races….No NYC racing. Period. The infrastructure isn’t there to support it.
Again. If you are serious about bike racing, you shouldn’t be in this town, with sh!t weather and races which go endlessly in circles. Move to Colorado or California and see how you really stack up. But don’t begrudge older racers who enjoy racing their bikes and probably still can kick your stupid ass despite being old.
Rick Spears , Please, He never won anything
He posted that about himself, so he can seem relevant.
Rick Spears My God what a horrible person and Master racer !
Diego’s got it right. And you’re a total loser. Any master’s racer would easily hand you your ass – both on the bike and off the bike. You’re a piece of shit who will never know the hardened person you’d become if you were to last long enough to race a master’s race. You got no character and ya got no courage with those lame-assed statements (although you won’t get this and will probably drop in w/yet another mindless stupid comment. Whatever – go for it.)
Master’s have every right to ride Mad Fibers and Di2. They’ve put in their time. Way I see it, when you’re young you will do well without the fanciest gear and you can enjoy. When you’re older you’ve made some money and you are allowed to splurge on luxury parts.
What’s messed up are the younger riders with $8,000 bikes and $3,000 wheels racing in the Cat3s and 4s (throw juniors into this too whose parents by them top of the line stuff only for them to burn out down the road). I got my upgrade on an old bike, old wheels without an 11 tooth gear against guys with fancy zipps and carbon litespeeds. And yes there was one junior who showed up at ToSomervlle with Mad Fibers and a blue Colnago for Liberty cycle. Kid was barely 13 riding these wheels. Teach your kids how to race first,then give them technological advantages through equipment.
Some of you guys are nuts. Durso, Loehner, Eugene, Steinberg, Olsen, Alessandro, Tony Taylor…there are some legitimately fast 45+ guys.
rick spears and badger. 2 notable master sprinters…
who is cleiman and why does eli talk about his so much
Chris Strumolo of CRCA/e2Value won the 1/2/3 at SS.
http://iamelicurtfuld.wordpress.com/2014/03/03/ronde-de-bethel-3214/
Eli, it’s impressive you find so much to say about so little.
why?
because bike racing is awesome
Scott Gregoire gets the double and wins Masters at SS after winning Masters at Branchbrook.
is that a category for invalids?
Rayan O-Dummy –donot forget YOU WILL GET OLD one DAY A==Hole…
Wow, Rayan O-Ring, that is harsh. Reality is that you are either there already and didn’t beat Scott or you will one day be there and still will not beat Scott.
I’ll pile on….Rayan O-Ring is an idiot. Masters races are no joke, usually very tactical and nearly as fast as the P123s. Scott is competitive in a 123 field sprint….very likely you couldn’t come close to beating him.