Alessandro Matteucci is sand bagging!! How many races has he won this year?

In the back of the “A” field?

Someone is finally addressing the issue of sandbagging. When we finish, can we discuss how sketchy the riders are in the higher categories?

i was thinking the same thing about matteucci

Is it just me, or do those guys just keep getting stronger at every race? Adler seems to be quickly becomming a force to be reckoned with in the NYC peloton. So pro.

King comes back and Bandit Racing wins again.

Congrats to Armand! Great win.

Anyone who didn’t go race Whiteface-Wilmington, and instead opted to ride yet more laps around Prospect/Central Park missed an awesome race, with tough climbs, screaming descents and scenery to rival the Alps.

I hope this race is back next year, so more people will get the chance to see what the Adirondacks have to offer.

i’m sure most didn’t go to that race because of the $$$/time it takes to get there. jerk.

George Carlin has died…

Rode a smart race

there were several earlier this season

good job putting 3 in the break. sorry about team mate crashing, coulda been anyone on the mud in the apex of the corner. stop hating and start riding harder, faster, smarter if you want to go up the road…

A great race but only worth it if you make the weekend out of it. Too far to go for the day. If you are looking for a getaway its worth the trip. Great hiking, riding, fly fishing, and lots of affordable hotels and nice places to eat. If you race Saturday and then use Sunday to relax its a nice trip. I will go back next year for sure as it is one of the best road races in NY. Neutral water by team Placid Planet was also cool. Great job to them standing in the pouring rain to hand dropped riders a drink. Pretty cool day in saddle…

Great race to Nick Bruno, Andrew B and Steve Pingree in the Pro1-3. The race had a really nice vibe and great course that had everything from rollers, flats, long gradual hills, steep kicking hills and even some crit like turns. Finishing climb was on par with Unionvale just a bit less steep. I hope next year is even bigger.

Are more possible with the right team representation. I think they were easier to come by due to a spring lack of fitness and racing prowess.
Everything that looks promising is chased down right away. Get your sprint on dude…

the final break in the B race in the last lap looked promising, it seemed to have representation of each team. people need to WORK!

lets speculate on how fast a 4 will upgrade to a 2. Cause 4 races are basically the same thing as a P12. You’re all idiots.

wow, empire got the jersey and had 3 guys in to 10. Rite Aid had one guy in top 20 and lost the race.

Junior kid pretty strong…he was holding his own in original break and in larger group…what’s his name?

the break looked like it had plenty of gap to succeed plus only a couple of guys did any work to pull it back

Good to see everyone on Saturday. And yes, I was back at the back of the A race. You guys should try it back there sometime. You don’t have to ride as hard but you can’t see anything that is going on upfront. I didn’t even know ADM had won until I was done bragging to him about my 20th place and giving excuses.

I’m worried that pics like that front page are floating around and will hinder a CRCA presidential run. Nobody will vote for a crazy guy in a cowboy hat.

Don’t vote for Jeff King – he uses a pussy magnet

Neither do 3’s and I’m sure you’re a 3. I only need 10 top ten finishes to talk shit like you.
Damn, talk is cheap now..only 20 points.
Remember, you’re still not proven until you at least make 2.

he is riding for team naive, you dipshit!

Armand is using something. His legs don’t look normal. You can see each muscle fiber. I can’t believe steroids, or whatever, are taking hold in the CRCA

Ever seen Roger Aspholm’s legs? Discipline, diet, and a lot of training can do amazing things for you. You should try it, before making completely unfounded doping comments.

he’s on viagra, that’s why they censored the photos from saturday

http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2004/worlds04/u23rr/7715-Poland.jpg

Thanks Inson

Ten top 10s in CRCA race Bs do not count dude. Cant upgrade to 3s by beating 9 Cat5s.

BTW – you need to chill out.

typical Cat 1 comment. He doesnt even know enough to realize that Bs are all 4s, but is happy to downplay the result from a B race just the same. Go back to your fast races and leave the B comments to those who know the basics.

can’t we all agree that we just like to see pictures of ourselves racing at mediocre speeds? alas, there is yet to be a photo-fix for my jonesin’

no way that doping comment was serious. for real, though, i drank a big cup of coffee before the race- does that count?

uh, not that I see. Must have been deleted.

let’s just post this again:
We need to spend less time tearing each other apart and more time being responsible and united, because there is a lot of anti-cycling energy in NYC dedicated to restrictiing use and even eliminating races. Organize your clubs, support Ken and CRCA’s efforts, and start thinking like a community instead of a bunch of free agent idiots.

it’s on this page sherlock

http://nymag.com/guides/summer/2008/47976/

the comments are getting good!

Glad the writer of that story didn’t hit the ESG qualifier in Prospect a couple weeks back. Yikes.

yeah, those dog owners can be seriously angry mofos! Amazing that they think their dog has more right to roam free than we have a right to ride perfectly straight and visible down the middle of the street.

“Really, what serious racer is riding in CP after race hours on the weekend. Why would you put up with that craziness when you can ride north to NJ or Westchester for better roads and no crowds. The cyclists they speak of are mostly non-racers who have no clue.”

I only use the park if it’s getting dark and I haven’t ridden all day.

no one reads NY Mag anyway. That thing is a waste of trees. The staff is a bunch of teenagers just out of college living their daddy’s trust funds and whining about shit, trying to sell mags with sexy covers, but nothing worth reading on the inside.

Why no mention in the article that joggers don’t actually run in the joggers lane?

Re: Pedestrians what’s wrong with the other 800 acres of Park to stroll in?

when the park is closed to traffic, do traffic lights still apply to cyclists? seriously, all other laws regarding the roadway seems suspended then. the boathouse trolley and other park vehicles don’t stop at red lights at night? pedestrians jaywalk more. joggers run down the middle of the roadway? do you guys get tickets when the park is closed or just when it’s open?

wait … come to think of it, mebbe he yelled at me because i wasn’t wearing a helmet. he was though. mebbe he was teaching me a safety lesson.

nyvelocity is bad enough but spilling our dirty laundry in new york magazine makes no sense. Whoever set up the interviews for that article should seriously rethink what they did.
Let Empire and Foundation compete in races not in scandal sheets.

i’m for alwaysgiving peds the right of way i just don’t want to get a ticket at 9pm for running lights that only cyclists are expected to obey.

that cowboy on the front page is scaring me

I saw ADM doing a wheelie up HS Alley without a helmet on – what will the children think?

Freds are goofy guys riding around with mirrors on their helmets

The “problem” in the park are racer wannabes, type-A hammerheads and a few real racers

More stories — three weeks ago I’m riding through Central Park on a crowded afternoon, crawling on my way home.

Some dude out for his weekly “workout” buzzes me, then heads between two lades on hybrids or 3-speeds or something who are riding about 3 feet apart. They’re naturually spooked, wobble and all three of them fall down. One of the ladies was hurt.

The guy, who was not a racer I recognize, then has the gall to say “they didnt’ keep straight”

WTF dude, get a clue!!!! He tried to shoot a 3′ wide space between two recreational riders.

I urge everyone who sees this sort of riding to not tolerate it and denounce it.

A simple solution…no I don’t have one (sorry, but not my style anyway).

The only way I see this not coming to a terrible head, is that we have to role models about how we use the park. Yes we race, but we race only when we have the permit, we marshal and we are respectful to other park users.

I don’t ride much in CP, but in PP and I do chase down riders who are riding in an unsafe manner when there are others users out there, and I explain why something they’ve done is unsafe. I don’t mind getting yelled at by other cyclists (maybe it is because I am cat 4, I’ve gotten used to it). I thank pedestrians who wait for me to pass before they cross. I certanly don’t do hard workouts in the park at any time when there are going to be more than the regular users (you see the same people over and over again at 6am in PP).

People treat each other not they way they want to be treated but the way they feel they’ve been treated. If you are proactive and treat people nicely it will eventually come back to you.

let the flaming for my naive cat 4 attitude begin…

were they wearing helmets?

Ironically – its the pedestrian on the newly purchased bike that really is the problem not the club member.

One time I was riding thru cpk and came upon the summerstage crowd where cops were stoppin bikes.
i stopped my bike, got off of it and walked across. I kid you not, when I started walking the cop flinched to grab me then realized i wasnt riding and jerked his hand back. friggen funnnny as shit.
I hopped on my bike after crossing and rode on. Others realized this and did the same.
I secretly felt like eddy haskell.

Pinarello, the new Colnago

I knew this hedge funder, got hit by a cab one year, then moved out to Rowayton, home of all things preppy and vineyard vines…he couldn’t ride harder than 8 mph after his accident, but had the ksyriums, and nice cannondale, used to ride in his gear to the Seacoug as he called it….Rowayton Seafood, and have a quick cocktail in his bike shorts on a saturday, and would pretty consistenlty take home some cougar who was looking for a man to notice her after her 10 hour trainer session at the equinox…ahhh….CT! The burbs aren’t all that bad my friends

Yeah right. There are like 10 HF guys in CRCA or whatever, out of like 600 members. The avg CRCA rider is way more the freelancer or artist or backoffice guy on Wall St, not some megabucks fat cat. OK, so there are a few of them. Not setting the tone. Most CRCA guys are way too geeky and social misfit to do much else than ride a bike too fast. HF guys are seen in CP riding in the drops on way too expensive bikes while “training” to break their personal best at the next Tri event. And when you yell at them, they go NUTS, because nobody talks to them like that. Nobody! Yup, look to Tri Guy for the HF connection, my friend.

As a recent CT transplant, I want to call BS on the “yeah dude” post.

The roads are poor, mostly cracked and broken, especially at the shoulder. The drivers are so angry about the traffic situation that, once they get some clear road ahead, they are NOT slowing for any cyclists. Also, the roads are so narrow that there really isn’t room for “sharing” the road. In the winter, they don’t salt the roads, they SAND THEM. So, from the first light snowfall of the year, say mid-December, until well past April, the roads are covered in a heavy layer of (often wet) sand. CT is the state of drivetrain despair.
It snows more in CT (except for the Gold Coast) so often when you get Thursday or Friday rain in NYC, there’s snow on the ground in CT. So while your heading out for a chilly but dry weekend ride up 9W, we’re suiting up to get on the trainer in CT. (Can’t risk the road because they don’t salt, remember, so there’s guaranteed ice on the road).

Let’s say you live somewhere near Bethel, as I do. To make this weekend’s CRCA race (5:45 start), you would have to get up at 3:30am at the latest. That’s 30 mins to suit up, gather stuff, mix bottles, load bike, eat something, etc. It takes me longer to get out of the house before a race, but maybe you can do everything in 30 minutes and be out the door. Out the door by 4:00am, to get to CP at 5:15, find parking, shoes, helmet, bike, etc, roll up to registration, and hit the start line with zero warm-up. Prospect takes that much longer from the Nutmeg state.

Tuesday nights? CT has Bethel, NYC has Floyd. Anyone who’s done both knows that FBF is way more fun than Bethel.

And the Fairfield county cougars, while aggressive, aren’t that buff.

So while CT has it good points, from a cycling perspective, I think Ian Hunter said it best.

“…I think its the best, locked in the middle of New York City on Central Park ‘n West”

Statements like this make marriage and commitment hard.
I get more attention now that I’m married (9yrs) than ever before. Where were all these chicks when I was single?
And it was easier to get a guilt-free ride in….
yeah babe, I’ll be right there…

So get a divorce, move into a shitbox efficiency, pay alimony, and do your best fighting for the few cougars without raging herpes.

To everyone outside of our world, we are a bunch of dorks in lycra. Whether you are doing hill repeats on HH or riding 2-abreast through Piermont, someone out there is going to bust your balls for being out there doing what you love. I once had a full beer thrown at me while out riding solo along a country road in Bucks Co, PA. I nearly shit my bibs… riding along, minding my business then POW! Right in the helmet (see jft… it probably saved my life). The jackasses in the CRX yelled, “Lance Armstrong FAAAAAAAG!” as they sped by.

Many of us have enough stories about idiots yelling at us to “get a job” while riding at 2PM on a weekday, getting driven into the shoulder by some asshole on his cell phone in a Canyonero, or getting asked a dozen stupid questions about the Tour because you’re the “biker guy” at the office … enough to fill this forum with a lot of dumb posts like this one.

Face it… we’re a strange, dysfunctional bunch but at least we have each other. So the next time you start bashing each other for petty differences or questionable riding remember, the wandering tourists, joggers, stroller-mafia, dog people, hipsters, weirdo rollerskate dancers, and the rest of the CP regulars still outnumber us. So stop complaining and ride your bike.

PS> For something really interesting, go to http://www.redtube.com.

New York Magazine is the biggest piece of shat rag in the city. Regularly focuses on the 10,000 morons living in NYC giving the other 8 million or so a bad rep.

Regularly focuses on the 10,000 morons living in NYC giving the other 8 million or so a bad rep.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present: The New York City Bike Racer!!

http://www.wwtdd.com/ul/8341-ak.jpg

Could someone please refresh my memory of what the different age groups are of horney older women chasing me? Cougars are the old ones right. Are leopards the 30-40 year olds..?

Just curious if they post those on this site

This thread is actually getting pretty damn funny. Its more fun to slam rednecks, cougars and lame reporters than just each other. Not that we cant slam each other. If we didnt, wed be Tri guys, right?

Lady rolls up to me as I am riding on the side of the road, slowing into a red light with 6 cars stopped in front of me, she honks…I break, she stops and puts herself into 7th position at teh light, she is fat, pale, smoking a butt, and she goes…i go, what, why are you beeping….”You are in teh road, use teh sidewalk”….”No sh&^ I am in teh road lady, that is where you fing bike, what are the two words that make up sidewalk, side and walk, you fing walk on a sidewalk you stupid bitch.”

Well for starters, how about cops ticket pedicabs going the wrong way in the middle of the road in the busiest sections of the park? Then stand at crosswalks, and ticket people jaywalking against the light in front of oncoming cyclists. Then ticket all the douches that think its appropriate to ride backwards in the park and give you rude looks like you’re in the wrong. Then, ticket the cyclists that buzz a ped in the cross walk. I promise you, we’d get the fewest tickets.

in 26 days!!!!!!!! weeeeeeee

That’s smart!

lol- on “inncorrect response”

Sarah is getting some hate on Gawker:
http://gawker.com/tag/sarah-chubb/?i=5019131&t=sarah-chubb-has-had-enough-of-you-joggers

is she nationally ranked in last place?

on USA cycling. Means shite!

it’s not the dog walkers fault, it’s ugli. can’t control the bike.

Okay you little weasel, tell us about how you finally did master cornering in off-camber downhill turns with mud piles in the apex of the turn. I’m dying to hear…

Cyclists are completely respected there. Drivers always yield and are friendly.

is not listed on uscf results website, no license, nothing.

i was just curious about Sarah, but thanks for straightening me out. i am a relatively recent transplant to this community and just like learning about people who make what it is. Good riders (especially women, who get so little respect) deserve all the credit that they’ve earned by working hard.

about chastising the reckless, is that it demonstrates that not all cyclists are like that, and that some of us care about sharing the park

I totally went off on the guy I saw crash down two other women (mentioned far below) about how we can’t ride fast when the park is crowded and shouldn’t buzz people. He may have gotten the message. I hope some of the crowd around us did.

She is way cuter than that – you guys are brutal!!!

Was that whole new york mag article just an attempt by nyvelocity to get some pr no matter how negative for cycling? You’ve dragged down this community by encouraging snarky behavior on this site and now you’re trying to smear us to the whole city.

Where are the pics at?

UGLY is way faster than you, and likely did not have his cross tires mounted last saturday. I’ve won a few cross races.

I’d punch you guys in the gut everytime I see you. Arguing about a crash and other trivial matters. What a bunch of dweebs.

Lets bag the subteams and get the night ride working again full bore!

Bicycling mag had a good article….It sounds like most of us would like it in Holland. Anyhow, the article is about good biking cities, and facts like 40K commuters in cars takes up 12 lanes while 40K on a bike equivalent distance and time takes up 1 lane, then it hits the obesity issue, hits the issue that if 10% of people commuted by bike we would need no more foreign oil, i mean the stats are disturbing.

For me it seems like every single one of us should be helping, embracing, encouraging the average joes to hop on basic bikes….so that this country gets more bike friendly and we have a better world to throw on our spandex and throw down on our carbon rides.

Anyhow – good article.

Posts that shouldn’t be posted.

Considering that it was obvious the NY Mag writer was seeking to stoke fires on an issue for which the same article could have been written in 1988, our sophisticated colleagues bit pretty hard and followed the writer’s script with impressive naivety.

i just love how Insen denies paying riders for winning, when their riders have told me he does.

i race to my dealer’s apt when i need a fix, cutting through the park to terrorize pedestrians and joggers on the way, of course.

Alessandro Matteucci is sand bagging!! How many races has he won this year?

In the back of the “A” field?

Someone is finally addressing the issue of sandbagging. When we finish, can we discuss how sketchy the riders are in the higher categories?

i was thinking the same thing about matteucci

Is it just me, or do those guys just keep getting stronger at every race? Adler seems to be quickly becomming a force to be reckoned with in the NYC peloton. So pro.

King comes back and Bandit Racing wins again.

Congrats to Armand! Great win.

Anyone who didn’t go race Whiteface-Wilmington, and instead opted to ride yet more laps around Prospect/Central Park missed an awesome race, with tough climbs, screaming descents and scenery to rival the Alps.

I hope this race is back next year, so more people will get the chance to see what the Adirondacks have to offer.

i’m sure most didn’t go to that race because of the $$$/time it takes to get there. jerk.

George Carlin has died…

Rode a smart race

there were several earlier this season

good job putting 3 in the break. sorry about team mate crashing, coulda been anyone on the mud in the apex of the corner. stop hating and start riding harder, faster, smarter if you want to go up the road…

A great race but only worth it if you make the weekend out of it. Too far to go for the day. If you are looking for a getaway its worth the trip. Great hiking, riding, fly fishing, and lots of affordable hotels and nice places to eat. If you race Saturday and then use Sunday to relax its a nice trip. I will go back next year for sure as it is one of the best road races in NY. Neutral water by team Placid Planet was also cool. Great job to them standing in the pouring rain to hand dropped riders a drink. Pretty cool day in saddle…

Great race to Nick Bruno, Andrew B and Steve Pingree in the Pro1-3. The race had a really nice vibe and great course that had everything from rollers, flats, long gradual hills, steep kicking hills and even some crit like turns. Finishing climb was on par with Unionvale just a bit less steep. I hope next year is even bigger.

Are more possible with the right team representation. I think they were easier to come by due to a spring lack of fitness and racing prowess.
Everything that looks promising is chased down right away. Get your sprint on dude…

the final break in the B race in the last lap looked promising, it seemed to have representation of each team. people need to WORK!

lets speculate on how fast a 4 will upgrade to a 2. Cause 4 races are basically the same thing as a P12. You’re all idiots.

wow, empire got the jersey and had 3 guys in to 10. Rite Aid had one guy in top 20 and lost the race.

Junior kid pretty strong…he was holding his own in original break and in larger group…what’s his name?

the break looked like it had plenty of gap to succeed plus only a couple of guys did any work to pull it back

Good to see everyone on Saturday. And yes, I was back at the back of the A race. You guys should try it back there sometime. You don’t have to ride as hard but you can’t see anything that is going on upfront. I didn’t even know ADM had won until I was done bragging to him about my 20th place and giving excuses.

I’m worried that pics like that front page are floating around and will hinder a CRCA presidential run. Nobody will vote for a crazy guy in a cowboy hat.

Don’t vote for Jeff King – he uses a pussy magnet

Neither do 3’s and I’m sure you’re a 3. I only need 10 top ten finishes to talk shit like you.
Damn, talk is cheap now..only 20 points.
Remember, you’re still not proven until you at least make 2.

he is riding for team naive, you dipshit!

Armand is using something. His legs don’t look normal. You can see each muscle fiber. I can’t believe steroids, or whatever, are taking hold in the CRCA

Ever seen Roger Aspholm’s legs? Discipline, diet, and a lot of training can do amazing things for you. You should try it, before making completely unfounded doping comments.

he’s on viagra, that’s why they censored the photos from saturday

http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2004/worlds04/u23rr/7715-Poland.jpg

Thanks Inson

Ten top 10s in CRCA race Bs do not count dude. Cant upgrade to 3s by beating 9 Cat5s.

BTW – you need to chill out.

typical Cat 1 comment. He doesnt even know enough to realize that Bs are all 4s, but is happy to downplay the result from a B race just the same. Go back to your fast races and leave the B comments to those who know the basics.

can’t we all agree that we just like to see pictures of ourselves racing at mediocre speeds? alas, there is yet to be a photo-fix for my jonesin’

no way that doping comment was serious. for real, though, i drank a big cup of coffee before the race- does that count?

uh, not that I see. Must have been deleted.

let’s just post this again:
We need to spend less time tearing each other apart and more time being responsible and united, because there is a lot of anti-cycling energy in NYC dedicated to restrictiing use and even eliminating races. Organize your clubs, support Ken and CRCA’s efforts, and start thinking like a community instead of a bunch of free agent idiots.

it’s on this page sherlock

http://nymag.com/guides/summer/2008/47976/

the comments are getting good!

Glad the writer of that story didn’t hit the ESG qualifier in Prospect a couple weeks back. Yikes.

yeah, those dog owners can be seriously angry mofos! Amazing that they think their dog has more right to roam free than we have a right to ride perfectly straight and visible down the middle of the street.

“Really, what serious racer is riding in CP after race hours on the weekend. Why would you put up with that craziness when you can ride north to NJ or Westchester for better roads and no crowds. The cyclists they speak of are mostly non-racers who have no clue.”

I only use the park if it’s getting dark and I haven’t ridden all day.

no one reads NY Mag anyway. That thing is a waste of trees. The staff is a bunch of teenagers just out of college living their daddy’s trust funds and whining about shit, trying to sell mags with sexy covers, but nothing worth reading on the inside.

Why no mention in the article that joggers don’t actually run in the joggers lane?

Re: Pedestrians what’s wrong with the other 800 acres of Park to stroll in?

when the park is closed to traffic, do traffic lights still apply to cyclists? seriously, all other laws regarding the roadway seems suspended then. the boathouse trolley and other park vehicles don’t stop at red lights at night? pedestrians jaywalk more. joggers run down the middle of the roadway? do you guys get tickets when the park is closed or just when it’s open?

wait … come to think of it, mebbe he yelled at me because i wasn’t wearing a helmet. he was though. mebbe he was teaching me a safety lesson.

nyvelocity is bad enough but spilling our dirty laundry in new york magazine makes no sense. Whoever set up the interviews for that article should seriously rethink what they did.
Let Empire and Foundation compete in races not in scandal sheets.

i’m for alwaysgiving peds the right of way i just don’t want to get a ticket at 9pm for running lights that only cyclists are expected to obey.

that cowboy on the front page is scaring me

I saw ADM doing a wheelie up HS Alley without a helmet on – what will the children think?

Freds are goofy guys riding around with mirrors on their helmets

The “problem” in the park are racer wannabes, type-A hammerheads and a few real racers

More stories — three weeks ago I’m riding through Central Park on a crowded afternoon, crawling on my way home.

Some dude out for his weekly “workout” buzzes me, then heads between two lades on hybrids or 3-speeds or something who are riding about 3 feet apart. They’re naturually spooked, wobble and all three of them fall down. One of the ladies was hurt.

The guy, who was not a racer I recognize, then has the gall to say “they didnt’ keep straight”

WTF dude, get a clue!!!! He tried to shoot a 3′ wide space between two recreational riders.

I urge everyone who sees this sort of riding to not tolerate it and denounce it.

A simple solution…no I don’t have one (sorry, but not my style anyway).

The only way I see this not coming to a terrible head, is that we have to role models about how we use the park. Yes we race, but we race only when we have the permit, we marshal and we are respectful to other park users.

I don’t ride much in CP, but in PP and I do chase down riders who are riding in an unsafe manner when there are others users out there, and I explain why something they’ve done is unsafe. I don’t mind getting yelled at by other cyclists (maybe it is because I am cat 4, I’ve gotten used to it). I thank pedestrians who wait for me to pass before they cross. I certanly don’t do hard workouts in the park at any time when there are going to be more than the regular users (you see the same people over and over again at 6am in PP).

People treat each other not they way they want to be treated but the way they feel they’ve been treated. If you are proactive and treat people nicely it will eventually come back to you.

let the flaming for my naive cat 4 attitude begin…

were they wearing helmets?

Ironically – its the pedestrian on the newly purchased bike that really is the problem not the club member.

One time I was riding thru cpk and came upon the summerstage crowd where cops were stoppin bikes.
i stopped my bike, got off of it and walked across. I kid you not, when I started walking the cop flinched to grab me then realized i wasnt riding and jerked his hand back. friggen funnnny as shit.
I hopped on my bike after crossing and rode on. Others realized this and did the same.
I secretly felt like eddy haskell.

I knew this hedge funder, got hit by a cab one year, then moved out to Rowayton, home of all things preppy and vineyard vines…he couldn’t ride harder than 8 mph after his accident, but had the ksyriums, and nice cannondale, used to ride in his gear to the Seacoug as he called it….Rowayton Seafood, and have a quick cocktail in his bike shorts on a saturday, and would pretty consistenlty take home some cougar who was looking for a man to notice her after her 10 hour trainer session at the equinox…ahhh….CT! The burbs aren’t all that bad my friends

Yeah right. There are like 10 HF guys in CRCA or whatever, out of like 600 members. The avg CRCA rider is way more the freelancer or artist or backoffice guy on Wall St, not some megabucks fat cat. OK, so there are a few of them. Not setting the tone. Most CRCA guys are way too geeky and social misfit to do much else than ride a bike too fast. HF guys are seen in CP riding in the drops on way too expensive bikes while “training” to break their personal best at the next Tri event. And when you yell at them, they go NUTS, because nobody talks to them like that. Nobody! Yup, look to Tri Guy for the HF connection, my friend.

As a recent CT transplant, I want to call BS on the “yeah dude” post.

The roads are poor, mostly cracked and broken, especially at the shoulder. The drivers are so angry about the traffic situation that, once they get some clear road ahead, they are NOT slowing for any cyclists. Also, the roads are so narrow that there really isn’t room for “sharing” the road. In the winter, they don’t salt the roads, they SAND THEM. So, from the first light snowfall of the year, say mid-December, until well past April, the roads are covered in a heavy layer of (often wet) sand. CT is the state of drivetrain despair.
It snows more in CT (except for the Gold Coast) so often when you get Thursday or Friday rain in NYC, there’s snow on the ground in CT. So while your heading out for a chilly but dry weekend ride up 9W, we’re suiting up to get on the trainer in CT. (Can’t risk the road because they don’t salt, remember, so there’s guaranteed ice on the road).

Let’s say you live somewhere near Bethel, as I do. To make this weekend’s CRCA race (5:45 start), you would have to get up at 3:30am at the latest. That’s 30 mins to suit up, gather stuff, mix bottles, load bike, eat something, etc. It takes me longer to get out of the house before a race, but maybe you can do everything in 30 minutes and be out the door. Out the door by 4:00am, to get to CP at 5:15, find parking, shoes, helmet, bike, etc, roll up to registration, and hit the start line with zero warm-up. Prospect takes that much longer from the Nutmeg state.

Tuesday nights? CT has Bethel, NYC has Floyd. Anyone who’s done both knows that FBF is way more fun than Bethel.

And the Fairfield county cougars, while aggressive, aren’t that buff.

So while CT has it good points, from a cycling perspective, I think Ian Hunter said it best.

“…I think its the best, locked in the middle of New York City on Central Park ‘n West”

Statements like this make marriage and commitment hard.
I get more attention now that I’m married (9yrs) than ever before. Where were all these chicks when I was single?
And it was easier to get a guilt-free ride in….
yeah babe, I’ll be right there…

So get a divorce, move into a shitbox efficiency, pay alimony, and do your best fighting for the few cougars without raging herpes.

To everyone outside of our world, we are a bunch of dorks in lycra. Whether you are doing hill repeats on HH or riding 2-abreast through Piermont, someone out there is going to bust your balls for being out there doing what you love. I once had a full beer thrown at me while out riding solo along a country road in Bucks Co, PA. I nearly shit my bibs… riding along, minding my business then POW! Right in the helmet (see jft… it probably saved my life). The jackasses in the CRX yelled, “Lance Armstrong FAAAAAAAG!” as they sped by.

Many of us have enough stories about idiots yelling at us to “get a job” while riding at 2PM on a weekday, getting driven into the shoulder by some asshole on his cell phone in a Canyonero, or getting asked a dozen stupid questions about the Tour because you’re the “biker guy” at the office … enough to fill this forum with a lot of dumb posts like this one.

Face it… we’re a strange, dysfunctional bunch but at least we have each other. So the next time you start bashing each other for petty differences or questionable riding remember, the wandering tourists, joggers, stroller-mafia, dog people, hipsters, weirdo rollerskate dancers, and the rest of the CP regulars still outnumber us. So stop complaining and ride your bike.

PS> For something really interesting, go to http://www.redtube.com.

New York Magazine is the biggest piece of shat rag in the city. Regularly focuses on the 10,000 morons living in NYC giving the other 8 million or so a bad rep.

Regularly focuses on the 10,000 morons living in NYC giving the other 8 million or so a bad rep.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present: The New York City Bike Racer!!

http://www.wwtdd.com/ul/8341-ak.jpg

Could someone please refresh my memory of what the different age groups are of horney older women chasing me? Cougars are the old ones right. Are leopards the 30-40 year olds..?

Just curious if they post those on this site

This thread is actually getting pretty damn funny. Its more fun to slam rednecks, cougars and lame reporters than just each other. Not that we cant slam each other. If we didnt, wed be Tri guys, right?

Lady rolls up to me as I am riding on the side of the road, slowing into a red light with 6 cars stopped in front of me, she honks…I break, she stops and puts herself into 7th position at teh light, she is fat, pale, smoking a butt, and she goes…i go, what, why are you beeping….”You are in teh road, use teh sidewalk”….”No sh&^ I am in teh road lady, that is where you fing bike, what are the two words that make up sidewalk, side and walk, you fing walk on a sidewalk you stupid bitch.”

Well for starters, how about cops ticket pedicabs going the wrong way in the middle of the road in the busiest sections of the park? Then stand at crosswalks, and ticket people jaywalking against the light in front of oncoming cyclists. Then ticket all the douches that think its appropriate to ride backwards in the park and give you rude looks like you’re in the wrong. Then, ticket the cyclists that buzz a ped in the cross walk. I promise you, we’d get the fewest tickets.

in 26 days!!!!!!!! weeeeeeee

That’s smart!

lol- on “inncorrect response”

Sarah is getting some hate on Gawker:
http://gawker.com/tag/sarah-chubb/?i=5019131&t=sarah-chubb-has-had-enough-of-you-joggers

is she nationally ranked in last place?

on USA cycling. Means shite!

it’s not the dog walkers fault, it’s ugli. can’t control the bike.

Okay you little weasel, tell us about how you finally did master cornering in off-camber downhill turns with mud piles in the apex of the turn. I’m dying to hear…

Cyclists are completely respected there. Drivers always yield and are friendly.

is not listed on uscf results website, no license, nothing.

i was just curious about Sarah, but thanks for straightening me out. i am a relatively recent transplant to this community and just like learning about people who make what it is. Good riders (especially women, who get so little respect) deserve all the credit that they’ve earned by working hard.

about chastising the reckless, is that it demonstrates that not all cyclists are like that, and that some of us care about sharing the park

I totally went off on the guy I saw crash down two other women (mentioned far below) about how we can’t ride fast when the park is crowded and shouldn’t buzz people. He may have gotten the message. I hope some of the crowd around us did.

She is way cuter than that – you guys are brutal!!!

Was that whole new york mag article just an attempt by nyvelocity to get some pr no matter how negative for cycling? You’ve dragged down this community by encouraging snarky behavior on this site and now you’re trying to smear us to the whole city.

Where are the pics at?

UGLY is way faster than you, and likely did not have his cross tires mounted last saturday. I’ve won a few cross races.

I’d punch you guys in the gut everytime I see you. Arguing about a crash and other trivial matters. What a bunch of dweebs.

Lets bag the subteams and get the night ride working again full bore!

Bicycling mag had a good article….It sounds like most of us would like it in Holland. Anyhow, the article is about good biking cities, and facts like 40K commuters in cars takes up 12 lanes while 40K on a bike equivalent distance and time takes up 1 lane, then it hits the obesity issue, hits the issue that if 10% of people commuted by bike we would need no more foreign oil, i mean the stats are disturbing.

For me it seems like every single one of us should be helping, embracing, encouraging the average joes to hop on basic bikes….so that this country gets more bike friendly and we have a better world to throw on our spandex and throw down on our carbon rides.

Anyhow – good article.

Posts that shouldn’t be posted.

Considering that it was obvious the NY Mag writer was seeking to stoke fires on an issue for which the same article could have been written in 1988, our sophisticated colleagues bit pretty hard and followed the writer’s script with impressive naivety.

i just love how Insen denies paying riders for winning, when their riders have told me he does.

i race to my dealer’s apt when i need a fix, cutting through the park to terrorize pedestrians and joggers on the way, of course.