Hangover 7/21/08

by schmalz

Keg party hangover.

After spending Saturday night at a keg party, I must rely on the internet to tell me what happened over the weekend. I do know that Alex Bremer from Empire soloed away to win the CRCA A points race, while Sarah Sauvayre of Comedy Central narrowly squeaked out a victory over Alejandra Madrinan of Major Taylor. Matt Richards of NYVelocity won the B race and Leonides Lopez of El Puente won the C race.

 

Gustavo Artacho of Colavita/Sutter Home won at Mt. Holly, with Eneas Freyre of Target Training second. Then the information stops. No word from Prospect on Saturday or Naugatuck. The internet is holding out on me.

 

And on a sad note, the man responsible for starting and keeping the Harlem Skyscraper Classic going, David Walker, passed away on Saturday. We would like to send our condolences to David’s family.

38 Comments

baby cobra

This beta site is f-ing everything up man. Nobody knows where to go. Beta’s are supposed to be optional, seems like you’re forcing it a little too hard.

schmalz

The numbers say that the site has the same number of visits, it just might be that people are afraid that if they comment, we will be able to steal their souls. Which we can! Do you know how much those “wiener drugs from overseas” guys will pay for souls?

Seersucker

baby cobra is right, there would be at least a little bloodletting by now. what good are pictures without the smack-talk?

Anonymous

Does anyone have results from Saturday’s prospect race or have all fields been dq’ed due to reckless riging in the masters field?

not so fast

no doubt there will be fallout, but I don’t think the rest of the season will be summarily canceled because of this incident. Certainly not this weekend…things move more slowly than that.

thingy

Oh yeah? You the worlds foremost expert in “things?” (notice the inside parens question mark). Oooh. Take that!

Young Guy

Don’t masters always say they are safer and faster? How they know how important getting to Monday morning in one piece is? What about now?

If we move the State Championship to Watertown, I’m sure I could be state champ.

Wheelsucker

Yes, because one bad accident certainly negates that. Though the masters field should be cats 1-3 only.

Wheelsucker

the 4’s that do masters do it because they could give a rats ass about upgrade points-they want to race faster and safer and masters races are just that. they usually don’t have a bunch of yahoos sprinting for 30th-of course there are exceptions-btw, eric is a 3

Wheelsucker

theoretically anything is possible in a bike race.
i don’t remember any other crashes this year in masters, or even last year … anyone else?
definitely not the case in the 4s.

Wheelsucker

Masters select groups are stronger, spreading out a field of varying fitness. Cat4 fields all seem about the same fitness packing them tighter. More experienced older guys don’t take the same risks as less experienced younger guys.

baby cobra

It seems like there’s a lot of over 35 guys on here defending why masters are so fabulous. Ya crahsed, into a jogger, deal with it. How many cat 4s have crashed into joggers this year? or any elite rider? go drink your ensure and do some laps.

Spark

the crash was caused by the first few riders swinging from the right to the left trying to chase a wonder wheel rider who was attempting to take off with 600m to go. the riders behind who were already on the left were forced to brake and squeeze toward the barrel. Eric could not avoid the barrel and fell after hitting it. He skidded quite a bit until hitting the runner. It’s nobody’s fault if not that runners and walkers should stop when the peloton is approching them. As matter of the fact cars and motorbike in PP do not use (most likely cannot use) any acustic device to alert people of the incoming peloton. Unfortunately people who have the last word in Park activities are politicians who do not want to disappoint nobody, so they will always team up with the bigger groups, in this case the park users who cannot be bothered by a bunch of riders. Curiosly roads can be closed for a lot of parades (even questionable) but not for bicycle races!
The comparison among the different group skills is useless since there always be beginners, intermediate and experts level and there is nothing that can be done to improve their skills “on demand”. Viceversa the road conditions could be improved to limit potential accidents.
My 2 cents.

faster than your sister

“go drink your ensure and do some laps.” oh my…that is SO funny! did you drag yourself away from facebook to post that? why don’t you just run along and let the grown ups discuss the social/political ramifications of the pedestrian being struck. I hear there are nude pics of Miley Cyrus on TMZ…go get em you piss ant.

cibike

Cadence Tuesday Night Race Series
July 22, 2008
Brooklyn NY

Pro / 1-2-3
35 starters

1. Paul Burrowes (WS United)
2. Juan Almonte(Unatt)
3. Kyle Peppo (CRCA/Adler)
4. Tom Bencivengo (Sommerville Sports)
5. Wilson Vasquez (GS Mengoni)
6. Euris Rafael (CAICO)

Category 3-4
44 starters

1. James Buttler (Unatt)
2. Lesnek Sniadowski (Unatt)
3. Rob Brown (CRCA/Major Taylor)
4. Andy Newsom (Unatt)
5. Dan Schmalz (CRCA/Merril Lynch)
6. Jackson Wandres (Deno’s Wonder Wheel)

Category 5
21 starters

1. Jamaul Nichols (Kissena)
2. Victor Polonia (Unatt)
3. Cliff Goldstein (Unatt)
4. Jason Schmidt Unatt)
5. Daniel Perez (Chelsea Bicycles)
6. Michael Shin (Unatt)

Thanks to all the marshals, pacers, officials and Cadence Cycling for supporting our races.

Charlie Issendorf
Race Director
Kissena Cycling Club

Wheelsucker

“the crash was caused by the first few riders swinging from the right to the left trying to chase a wonder wheel rider who was attempting to take off with 600m to go.”

interesting since major taylor had it strung out and a gap had opened

baby cobra

Either way, it doesn’t matter. You guys ran into a jogger. A jogger running in the “joggers” lane, which technically is the bike lane, but that little detail seems to escape everyone. Way to pass on the blame. Its cool how nobody around here is accountable for their own actions.
Just shut down the final K with barriers. there are already tons in that park, take a gander over at the band shell, there seems to be a few there, I’m sure there’s extra somewhere. Instead of you guys making excuses for why and how exactly he hit someone, how about focusing your energy on how to improve the safety situation. I’m sure the park would be more than willing to allow us to use gates if it means the rec lane is free. And perhaps actually DQ and suspend those that venture into that lane, as it happens over and over every race.

Wheelsucker

actually one guy ran into a jogger, not ‘you guys,’ and he’s been pretty contrite about it.

BABY COBRA

are you now arguing over details? He probably wouldn’t have done it alone,and your story seems like he was forced into a road barrel, hence “you guys”

Reed

i forgot about him for a while, but just read one of his posts and he is still really funny. who is that guy???

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