There were so many athletic achievements over the weekend, that it’s almost impossible to list them all. But I will anyway, because I am a professional in the sense that I do things, not in the sense that I get any sort of compensation other than love, I get plenty of love. I think I just wrote a Tina Turner song.
At the CRCA Power Points Race in Central Park, Zach Koop of Blue Ribbon/Translations.com won the A race. Keith Goldman of Bicycle Planet Racing won the B race. Aimee Layton of Asphalt Green Cycling Team won the women’s race. Results are here.
At the Lucarelli and Castaldi Cup Race in Prospect Park, Scott Savory of WS United won the pro/1/2/3 race. Carl Nelson of the Flying Ace Cycle Club won the cat 4 race. Evam Armbrister won the cat 5 race. Results are here.
In the overall standings, Everhard Paredes of Champion Systems p/b Stan’s NoTubes won the pro/1/2/3 title. Stalin Quiterio Cuello of Echelon Cycles won the KOM jersey. Stephan Diolanski of Metra/Cycles 54 won the Sprint jersey. Juan Aracena won the master 45+ overall. Carl Nelson of the Flying Ace Cycle Club won the cat 4 overall. Chris Yack of Kissena won the cat 4 KOM. Andrew DaSilvo won the cat 4 Sprint jersey. Carl Nelson won the masters KOM. Results are here. Photos are here, here and here.
And that finally bring us to the Tour of the Catskills. Starting with the Friday ITT, Jordan Cheyne of Russ Hays Pb Accent Inns won the pro/1/2 ITT. Anthony Fatuzzo of Velorigin Performance won the cat 3 ITT. Helen Hatch of BH/Comedy Central won the women’s 3/4 ITT. Thomas Warren of CIS: First Design won the cat 4 ITT. Lukasz Strycharz of siggi’s/nyvelocity won the cat 5 u35 ITT.
At Saturday’s Road race, Erik Levinsohn of BikeReg.com/Cannondale Elite Cycling Team won the pro/1/2 race. Tracey Cameron of Stan’s NoTubes p/b enduranceWERX won the women cat 3/4 race. Carl Reglar of Verge Sport/Test Pilot won the 50+ race.
On Sunday, Jordan Cheyne of Russ Hays Pb Accent Inns won the pro/1/2 race. Helen Hatch of BH/Comedy Central won the women’s 3//4 race. Roger Aspholm of Finkraft Cycling team won the 40+ race.
In the KOM overall title, Erik Levinsohn of BikeReg.com/Cannondale Elite Cycling won the pro/1/2 KOM. Carl Reglar of Verge Sport/Test Pilot won the 50+ KOM.
In the final GC, Erik Levinsohn of BikeReg.com/Cannondale Elite Cycling Team won the pro/1/2 title. Amy Bevilacqua won the women’s overall.Helen Hatch of BH/Comedy Central won the women’s 3/4 overall. Results are here.
I heard that at the ToC the course markings were a mess and even the Marshall car leading the womens Cat 123 race got lost and went 4 miles off course.
not First Design.
Grassy-ass.
Random testing done for the P12 field at Catskills
Riders led off course by the motos in multiple fields at Tour of the Catskills and no adjustments made to standings. Obviously it’s hard to take away a win from someone when they crossed the line first and *maybe* they would have closed the 5 minute gap to the lead group who were led astray, so maybe rather than penalizing the rider who won we should start penalizing promotors. If a moto leads the lead riders off course let’s start seeing double payouts (ie. the winner gets first place money as does the winner from the lead group led off course). That way we’re not screwing with standings, but we’re forcing promotors to be accountable for their motos and course markings. (I’m not just talking about ToC here, this has happened in other races this year as well.)
Gotta gotta gotta getta Garmin.
If you’re consulting a GPS mid-race to make sure the moto is doing his/her job, something is wrong.
Same crap happened at the Putnam Cycling Classic debacle, sloppily slapped together by John Useless. If you’re having to consult your Garmin for turn by turn instructions out on course, you’re no longer racing, you’re touring. Total B.S.
Check out the back to back to back wins for Zach Koop.
https://www.usacycling.org/results/?compid=246254
Must be the sushi.
after the moto went off course @ ToC it wasn’t helpful that what was posted in the communique after stage 2 wasn’t even what was followed through with for the next day. surprises all weekend.
While the Moto going off course was inexcusable, anyone who missed the course signs must have been blind. Give me a fucking break, stop looking at your legs and your SRM and pay attention.
It puts racers in a tough spot when the moto goes the wrong way. Hard not to follow the moto and hard to argue if you were dq’ed for doing so. BS if you followed it and then got dinged though.
Funny you should mention course signs because they were completely removed for the second lap of the P1/2 race on stage 2. Fortunately most of those guys know where they are going.
You people fucking kill me. Get out of cycling before you ruin it for good.
Sander, get back to polishing your own knob. It’s perfectly okay to be upset with/criticize a race that makes a mistake like sending riders several minutes off-course. Anyone in that situation would’ve likely just followed the lead moto out of instinct given the lactic acid bleeding out of their ears instead of bothering to make sense of course markings.
Blow me. Let’s continue to race in the park on a course that requires maybe 10 marshals and no police before most people are awake because the city knows it’s a fucking nuisance. Catskills had like 60 turns each day and I saw more than 20 police cars parked on corners. Complain to the godammed promoter if you have a set or shut the fuck up. Better: follow the course signs (which looked pretty expensive), asshole.
sander suffers from acute recent cat 3 upgrade rage.
trouble is, the dude will be there for the next decade. he just doesn’t know it yet.
after years of maniacal training, a series of go-nowhere jobs that afford generous training time but no professional growth, no social life to speak of, several failed relationships, and even a year or two of questioning his sexual identity (which began when he experimented with using venus women’s razors to shave his legs, hearing that they offered a closer & more aero shave), sander will at that point just give up crca racing.
thankfully, specialized will be right there to sell him a disc-equipped gran fondue bike, with a more upright position, vertically compliant geometry, and compact gearing.
You were riding slow enough to appraise the value of the course signs?
Sounds like you got time cut.
…used to be fun and offered some clever insights and comments. We’d often encounter the occasional douche and flamer, but the characters and witty retorts made up for it. I feel bad for Andy and Dan, all their efforts over the years to create an on-line community that could enhance the sport many of us love has devolved into a wasteland for insecure and jealous misanthropes. Easy to spot, they will flame this comment for many reasons, including the word “misanthrope”, and move on to personal attacks.
April is the cruellest month, but in road racing I guess that is August, when lost seasons drift away.
I think we are in rats’ alley where the dead men lost their bones.
damned dude, that shit’s depressing. same for the local scene. used to be fun, different, crazy.
even gimbel’s was fun too, before carbon fiber and deep section wheels.
i blame lance. and rapha.
riding in the park was more fun too. a jump on HH was being jumped and your bike taken
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3JkEoQ0Cz8
and the weekly night group high speed rides! ahhhh, the days of yore….
now it’s tri dorks and powermeters and tubeless rims, oh my.
You want to make this site more interesting? Let’s go back to last week’s Hangover discussion — Latinos and doping.
It was claimed here that more Latino cyclists dope because it’s OK in Latino culture to dope and cheat. I don’t know if that’s true or not as it applies to cycling but let’s look at baseball. Of the 14 players suspended in the Biogenesis case, 12 grew up in Latin America. The two Americans are Ryan Braun and Alex Rodriguez. You want to include ARod as Latino??? OK. 13 of 14 dopers are Latino.
You just took the correlation motorcycle and jumped over the causation shark there.
Doping is to Latinos what Rapha is to Whitey.
And how about sticking to just one name? You hear me “rosso” and “corentin”?
Davido Antonio to Team Whitey p/b Merck
a sharknado of causation in here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yO0bhQATfs#at=26
90% of doping positive cases are white, one of them lost 7 tours, another lost one tour. So white people lost 8 tour in a road and the entire team was in to doping. Here in New York is not different. look at yourself first before judging. Do you still want the local list?
two latinos in the past 8 years, adn we still preying for the Joe Papps ‘s list. In case you have questions, here are the stats
http://www.usada.org/sanctions/
A lot of THC positives! Legalize it.
You guys are really self important idiots. Do you really care if some guy throws thousands of dollars into PEDs to win $100 purses in park races? Isn’t it funnier living in a world where people will go to such lengths to create a sense of self around something so utterly unimportant? Black, white, latino…who cares. Dumb is dumb.
You mean people use multiple names to try to further their points on this site? This shocks me.
8 peoples lost the tour on the road? Did they fall into a sinkhole or something? Damned minucipal workers. It’s those unfunded pensions that’s killing cycling.
self important idots
Lou Maltese doping specimens are being retested given 2 “irregular” results
WTF – must have had something to do w the whole A-Rod outcome
Do you know know roughly when we’ll find out about the tests. If the podium is clean I want to know so that I can stop wondering.
Where can we see if those riders tested clean? Obviously they’ll appear on USADA’s suspension list if they’re dirty but does USADA publish test results that come back negative? It’d be nice for those riders to show the world they’re clean, if they are.
Dan, you tested positive recently, uh, i mean negative… can we see evidence of that publicly anywhere like on USADA’s website or something?
link?
I did notice one team in particular not registered for Mengoni GP, which knowing their recent history at big to medium sized races is very surprising. You can probably figure it out, but out of respect I wont say their name because they haven’t been directly accused of anything.
Matteo here ya go http://www.usada.org/athlete-test-history
who’s kidding who? its really no surprise. irregular = positive
All the tests are listed at the link below on USADA, oddly, mine hasn’t been added to this list yet. My test came back on July 19 for a test on May 17. I was notified via email.
http://www.usada.org/athlete-test-history
Dan you’re a pretend bike racer remember. They only test the real racers. 🙂
I assure you my cup of urine was very real.
USADA’s athlete-test-history page just lists names of those tested but where does it say if they were clean or dirty?
Wait, they also test cheerleading? Do fake tits produce a false positive?
i’m lactic acid intolerant. will someone breast feed me?
Interesting that DA is shown as being tested in 2013 (search 2013 tests, cycling).
Dura Ace underwent significant testing prior to being released, but what’s that have to do with anything?
I see what you did there
Check http://www.usada.org/sanctions/ for all the positives.
Once you fail a test, expect increased scrutiny, even while ineligible or unlicensed. As examples: Chodroff, Papp, and DA in Q1-13. Also, Lisban did pass one eventually, and Jared 3. Juan Pineda must feel discriminated against, only one test, and he failed. Maybe the Mengoni will give him another chance.
Doping in paralympic archery?
I suppose Hydrochlorothiazide, Chlorothiazide, Triamterene and Labetalol really sets one apart….
My guess as to who is certainly clean from LM is T. Barnett.
If you use Irish Spring you’ll be clean as a whistle. Ask me how I know.
Check out Laura Van Gilder. Jesus Christ they have a library on her.
testing is a joke.
some of the winningest amateur (and ex-pro) and top masters riders in the u.s. not even on there. including national champs.
Very good young Jedi, Stevie Wonder can see testing is a joke.
No offense Dan, your a cool guy and all but if USADA is testing you then yes their system highly is a joke.
Dan was tested for STD’s, not PED’s. Get your facts straight.
all I have to say is…..
birds might be mammals
Help. I am stuck at my in-laws in Hawthorne, Westchester for 3 weeks and need some riding routes. I suck at the Strava maching and can’t figure out any good loops 30/40 miles long that I can use as an escape. Anybody point me to decent riding that passes through Hawthorne?
Strava machine not Strava maching.
I wish I were good enough to be accused of doping. but I am, as schmalz puts it, “bad at bikes”.
at your mom’s house.
Antonio @ 12:55am – there’s lots of good riding in that part of Westchester County. The weekend Gimbels ride / Tuesday & Thursday night White Plains training ride passes through that area, look it up. You can meet up with the weekday ride at around 6:00pm or Gimbels at around 10:15am-ish.
In 2018 we will be able to ride bikes across the Tappan Zee opening up new routes to everyone.
sure
and race in an indoor velodrome
truth?
Lou Maltese doping specimens are being retested given 2 “irregular” results
Tappan Zee Bridge Bike Lane 2018. http://newnybridgegallery.com/#prettyPhoto/4/
Awesome. Artist’s renditions. Which means some guy can conceive of and draw the proposed project.
Of course since the entire thing has been embroiled in budget and environmental debates and is barely off the ground, the idea that there’s some firm end date where you’ll actually be able to ride your bike, or drive your car over it is rather silly. There’s a far greater change the fucking thing will fall into the river first and we’ll be using ferries to get from westchester to nyack.
The project timeline http://www.newnybridge.com/about/index.html has its completion date as April 2018.
Nothing in NY goes over time or budget. My bad. Carry on.
The rantings of a total Cat 3 project manager. Probably been a project manager for 3 months and already thinks he’s got a PE.
I heard you’ll be able to take your bike on the second Ave subway soon.
When they first starting planning the current version of the project two years ago they were talking $13 billion. After they got over the idea of running trains on it, the price fell to $8 billion. When they went to competitive bid late last year, the price fell too the $5 billion range. I don’t know about you guys but I am a bit scared to drive on that bridge.
lol, actually the website currently states:
Tappan Zee Constructors Design-Build Contract – $3.1 billion
Contingencies and Allowances for Design & Other Changes – $0.7 billion
Oversight Engineering and Other Project Management Costs – $0.1 billion
TOTAL PROJECT BUDGET – $3.9 billion
Will the construction workers be tested for doobie?
Just doobage on the current band list? I would think not. Especially in light of the fact that it was recently legalized. Speaking of banned list, whatever happened to the “Irregular” testing results (WTF) that were promised back by no later than this past Monday on the Maltese Tested individuals?!?! What a crock
** is doobage on the…
(damn Siri)
I’ll believe it when I see it.
I’ve reasoned that they likely had 2 positives (we all know what irregularities mean) and are probably in the process of testing B samples. Until the B sample is confirmed they probably can’t release the name of the A sample for legal reasons.
Are we treating these positives as fact?
You’re the expert and investigative journalist. Is there a trustworthy leak?
Are you nuts?
One person, anonymously writing it on this website, is NOT a trustworthy source.
By virtue of the fact that I’m reading this site at 9am the answer should be obvious.
When I said “from all the experts on NYVelocity” I was referring to everyone that commented below, not Dan and Andy. It was meant to be sort of satirical, sorry if it came out wrong.
Likewise.
Mine was a bit rhetorical. There’s clearly nothing other than a random post that said two of the tests showed irregularities. Hardly trustworthy. And we’re all well aware of the few areas Dan is actually an expert in.
Calm yourselves, The samples not coming back yet means nothing.
Also you won’t find out about a positive until after both samples have been tested AAANNNDDD the athlete has to accept the sanction before any more info is released.
In keeping with this week’s theme I just did a quick Google search out of curiosity. If this site is real I can’t believe how easily available this is.
http://www.lozsky.com/epo-online-3000iu10vials-sale-purchase-best-quality-p-61.html
What, no opiates?
stop blowing up my spot!
I bet that site is real. What makes you think that some Chinese company won’t take your money for Chinese made EPO? the delivery is your risk. Joe Papp’s website (EPOcino.com), where he also sold Chinese EPO, was up on the internet for a long time.
Can you get EPO from China without MSG?
Profit is sweet. Even if it comes from deception.
I frequently have irregularity. Should I be tested?
I got a great deal on infant formula for my kids so why not load up on other food and medical products if the price and availability are right?
http://qz.com/113508/why-chinese-parents-are-still-so-paranoid-about-made-in-china-baby-formula/
Anyone know where I can find some Chinese drywall? Can get some good deals on that also.
http://www.propublica.org/series/tainted-drywall
Cheating aside – you are INSANE to inject anything in your body that is not FDA approved, prescribed by a physician, administered by a professional or under professional supervision and you have not thoroughly researched…and even then:
http://www.cdc.gov/hai/outbreaks/patients/faq-meningitis-outbreak-patients.html
Current rules are that a positive A test results in provisional suspension- then rider can ask to have B tested- or accept suspension. Results are not announced publicly unless a sanction is confirmed.