been to the blue oyster bar?

does it rain and snow EVERY weekend. if i have to watch the LOTR trilogy one more time…

aaaaaahahahahahha LOTR

in Coxsackie

Saw Buddy Guy and Junior Wells in a church in Syracuse NY. They couldn’t get the heat to work. While they putzed around I went and got a blanket and a case of beer. Great Show!

Was always too wasted and incoherent when I saw him.

http://beta.velonews.com/article/73514/ball-birrell-debate-georgia-snub

What is the prospect course like? hilly?

haaaahahahahha

she’s boring

Yes, Checkerboard very dicey, but you had to go there to see Buddy Guy back then.

Isn’t there a rule in the UCI forbidding elves from competing? There should be.

was wasted, you or Jr Wells?

I saw Jr Wells and Buddy Guy in the Felt Forum, maybe ’76. I was defiantly wasted

The let Levi ride campaign is pretty funny when you consider he wouldn’t even be the team’s leader for the tour.

Is there anyone out there who has been a racing fan for more than 10 years and likes Levi? I can’t stand the guy.

this was a bike site where we discuss bike related things.
This wasn’t a site where the blues or anything blue (except a BLUE bike) or any other tired lame ass music is discussed.

the black and blue on liz’s butt :/

off to win Branchbrook, awaiting teammates arrival. I luv 3:45 wakeup times on my 2 days off.

some guy from mengoni (i think) won the pro 1/2 in a sprint.

the 3/4 was won by some dude way off the front. nobody thought he’d get away. an adler guy crashed pretty bad in the sprint when someone whacked him from behind. hope hes OK.

Wilson Vasquez in the p2/3, Blue ribbon was the guy off the front in the 3/4, Aspolm solos off of a 3 man break for the last lap or two to win the masters.

but Cancellara is the man. “He might jump early and stay out solo”. I am much better at predictions than at racing a bike.

Cancella rockz, but watch out for my man K-Fed Pozzato fo da rest of da Spring, yo.

but how many broken bones is that for adler so far this season?

sorry to hear about the collarbone. You looked strong at Grant’s Tomb.

Anyone see that Floxmax commercial with the 60 something dudes in helmets all riding hybrids at about 8 mph, looking very excited because they aren’t pissing their pants? Makes me crack up every time.

I just want to put a big FUCK YOU out to the douche who ruined Milan-San Remo for me.

lol what an idiot

You fuckin’ wit K-Fed Pozzato??
I’ll get Aston Kuschner to puck your fat ass, Beoutch. You seen my ink?
Word.

Yeah, I love how they make us old guys look like a bunch of douche’s.You think you’re a tough young bike racer? I had prostate surgery 3 years ago and had to wear a leg bag and a cath for four months followed by three weeks of four times a day self-cathin’.And yeah, it is as bad as it sounds!

Too Much Information.

Sorry.

Who got 2nd and 3rd at BB Pk?

Saturday’s A race was silly fast and so hard. Guys getting popped off the back out of the neutral zone. Like a belgian style race where the speed was on from the gun and never really let up until the end. Seems like half the A group (and some strong guys) were all dropped. Amazing training! I think 55 miles at Johnny cake is the toughest spring training you will find in NY.

Great win by Lindine. Look out for him at Battenkill when he has a full team. He had 2 teammates Saturday and Kenda Raleigh had 8-10 and could not bring him back. Also – WWV team and Keltic rode very well. Bruno is a guy to watch in the Battenkill Cat2 and Eric Merrill in the Cat 3 races.

i thought his leg was brokes

BB yesterday, I heard someone hit his back tire, but if that is not the case I do believe his tire blew before the accident. it definitely sounded that way: boom, scrape. Either way I hope he heals up well, he was riding a smart race up until that point, and I think he might’ve slip in for a top ten.

i raced a dumb race at PP today

o’donnell needs another hobby. he seems obsessive about training and racing. maybe he needs to buy a convertible. i can’t match his commitment.

got seventh on two weeks of training

my butt hurts

is everybody spending time with their family? I need a distraction from mine, and you are all failing me right now. Damn you NYVC posters, Damn you straight to hell…

actively chasing their own man in the break

Mengoni should have been chasing because Wilson was in the hunt for the overall points and Rashad was in the break. If Euri worked at all in the break that was a bad call as Wilson would probably have the leader’s jersey right now if it had come down to a field sprint.

Why doesnt JFT start his own blog – he has all these observations, he might as well get some $$$ and make it worth his while. Get some sponsors like Giro, Bell, LAS, Catlike….

to have the helmet argument with an audience of 1, that’s why.

Just cause a team mate is at the front doesn’t mean he’s chasing. Can we have the blocking argument again now?

you guys are talking about a march race in PP. tactics? a lot of people are just training.

spring series is a good indicator of who trained this offseason and who didn’t. if you’re playing catchup it will likely be JULY before you are on top of your game.

right now its pretty clear who did their homework
– westwood – o’donnel roger duo is a breakaway force to be reckoned with
– wilson – who knows if he worked for it or just has it??
– RASHAD (rocking holmes good for you)
– sakkonet – belize paying off although where have you been hiding? no shows at BB or SS
– sommerville sports – solid results in almost every race spread across the team
– igor
– chad butts looked REALLY strong from champ sys at BB yesterday

adler – just kidding!!! can i have your cadence sponsor money?

is the most important race we have right now. Is it possible to “train” during the race and still try to win. Wouldn’t that be the best training of all? Both physioligically speaking, and mentally. Or should we do like you suggest and downplay the importance since we don’t have any results to be happy about? OR are you saying that racing a SS race for the win will be counterproductive to our “build” for the “important” races? 24 miles hard might ruin all the fitness I’ve been accumulating on the trainer this winter.

If one were trying to sharpen team tactics, pack skills, get strong high end work in their legs, and generally prepare for a race like, say, bear in a month, wouldn’t trying to win a SS race help?

what your important target races are. I’ll let you know how my SS races help me to prepaqre for them, and how I do.

is lame, its cold, and slow, and plays to the guys that train like crazy over the winter. Great, the season is about 7 months long, lets see who’s still around in May. Morras won SS last year, and disappeared very soon after.

If you’re planning on “being around” in May I think now’s a pretty good time to be in decent shape

and why do i have the feeling, that the guys calling others nancy boys are the ones sitting around in the middle of the pack all day long, doggin it, simply getting in the way of the dudes actually racing? You can pretty much delete the entire middle portion of a park race, other than a draft, they are worthless, and all of those that sit there, know it, as they sprint for 45th place in the joggers lane.

def love spring series. why bag on anyone.
but … would be awesome to have more racing in sept/october. its nice and warm!

also, i ask: have they ever had a different finish line in PP? like top of hill at the light? maybe something for fancy title sponsor Cadence to consider. once or twice, could be fun.

take it away JFT!!

Yeah, try putting the finish at the top of the hill, people can’t stay out of the joggers lane when theres a shit ton of space, theres no room up there.

There have been other finishes. all of them in the bottom of the park between the greek temple and current location.

Morras had some re-occuring medical ailment. Even if he didn’t, he did more in the spring than most do all season.

it’s just our level of suck. No one is going to compare to the pros, the Hincapie’s when they were around. so, whether p,1,2,3,4,or5, we get to compete and enjoy our hobby. Some even dream big, but it is still just dreams. The best guys around still suck when compared to the pros, and most pros suck compared to the 20 top guys.

if everyone sucks, which I assume includes the poster, why bother following the sport locally? Wilson sucks? Rashad? Roger? OK, so we all suck. I think with few exceptions guys are just happy doing what they’re doing. It’s a good sport and competing is fun. Where’s the harm in that?

some guys like winter training, and actually enjoy racing the bike, anytime, any place. crazy world ain’t it

i think everyone’s just cranky since it’s the last day of schmaltz’s vacation.

I’ve tried a kum-ba-yah thread, and it was crickets city. But I’ll try again.

Rashad is awesome. It seemed like he was going to be mr. sprinter, but he can TT and get in breaks.

Wilson can still beat most of us on a mountain bike.

We need more Will O’Donnell helmet cam action.

Francisco, get well soon. I’d offer my broken collarbone recuperation tips, but I’m sure everyone’s had 2 or 3 already and don’t need my advice.

Is that enough schmalz? Ironically, schmalz is: “1. Informal. exaggerated sentimentalism, as in music or soap operas.”

Miguel had knee issues going into the season last year and won a number of races including the overall series and he would have probably won FBF too. Also, if he didn’t get an EB1 when literally the entire break at Bear crossed the yellow line, he would have gotten a 4th place finish. So talk what you know. You want the facts, just ask him or me. Otherwise quite making up rumors.

Thanks!

Will NYBRA control race promoters?
Say van Dunk is an arrogant jerk. He doesn’t post results or standings after a month of racing. Fine him or something?

any interactions I have had with Van Dunk have been very positive. He seems like a really nice guy, and puts on a lot of events. That being said, his follow through sucks and I am as frustrated as anyone when the results aren’t up – and yes I am in them. Arrogant – no, but could follow through better.

That’s becasue, when you interacted with AVD he was ignoring you. Nothing you said will stick.

He does the least minimum, so that he can charge and keep the money for the race.

So he announces dates late, barely updates the site, doesn’t answer emails, and will never post results.

Of the races in NYC, his are the least organized.

September is much better race weather and rumor has it that there will be 2 new road races in the Catskills. Dieter is putting on a race Sept 7 and another group on Sept 21. Fall Bear will probably be a different course with a 2 mile climb to the finish.

September would be better than March, except this is what we’re conditioned for, and “champing” to get out there. Van Dunk might be the least organized of all events, but at least he has them. As I said before, I will continue to reward his bad behaviour with my $ cause I am happy to race – and to try my hardest in the “training race” and not make excuses like I am waiting to peak for the July 23rd CRCA B race cause somehow that is more important.

Would have been nice to have a few more echelons going top and bottom of PP. Headwind made the climb a bit tougher, but the strongest riders still went up the road…not me. FBF should be better for that, maybe?

you “training” in? If it was the p/1/2/3, you might have been better off going with Will O’Donnell – great training off the front, and you coulda stayed away with 2 guys working together. Or, at least, went with the bridge – that would have been great training as well. IF you were in the 3/4, there was some great training in the original 4 man break as well as the bridge group, also probably some good training when the break split w/ 2 laps to go whether you were in the front or chasing. What exactly were you training/practicing for? How to be pack fill for the summer races?

I’ve been on my bike twice since the CRCA party.

I’m off the pack fill.

Drinking and gambling are my new hobbies. Only downside is my wife now talks to me.