Saturday
Saturday is the CRCA Power Points race, which I can only assume involves racing around Central Park while also composing a computer slideshow to display your wattage at threshold compared to your wattage while chewing licorice — with extra points for using snazzy transitions.
<b>Read the CRCA’s new policy regarding releases here!</b>
Saturday is also the CRCA’s Women’s Racing Clinic. Â
If you want to drive few hours and ride straight up a mountain, maybe the Race up Sunrise Mountain benefiting The Trooper Curtis Rohel Memorial Scholarship Fund in Branchville, NJ is for you.
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The 2nd Annual CT Coast Criterium to benefit the CT Challenge-Cycling for Cancer Survivors is happening in Bethel, CT, and if it weren’t for such a good cause, I’d be tempted to mention the name of the race is 13 words long.
If you love in the Hudson Valley and are willing to race with absolutely anyone, your Empire State Games Qualifier is on Sunday.
And finally, you can race the track on Sunday
That intro about the power points race is funny
but nobody loves me.
You forgot the funny-helmet festival in NJ.
has some of the best cycling roads in NY, no?
crca is at 5:45 am….phew…im riding straight over from the hustler club…..
I don’t have a wattage meter. Can I still race the Power Points Race. is there some way to “guesstimate” watts that would allow me to participate?
a wattage meter is mandatory to race in the power points race. please bring have your wattage meter validation form filled out and calibrate BEFORE you arrive to the race.
Power Points Races
– Points awarded at top of Harlem Hill on every lap except the first:
1st place 6 points, 2nd place 4 points, 3rd place 2 points
– Points awarded at the finish line on every lap:
1st place 6 points, 2nd place 4 points, 3rd place 2 points
– Points awarded at the finish on the final lap:
1st place 9 points, 2nd place 6 points, 3rd place 4 points, 4th place 2 points, 5th place 1 point
http://www.crca.net/racing/club/race-protocol/
What’s the point? Why not just have a scratch race?
Powerpoints races sound stupid.
I like the power points idea, like crit points, but chances are the rain will make it a scratch….no?
What an incredible waste of a great opportunity to race.
Points races are MORE FUN than scratch races. Though after you lose you can’t complain about the sprinters who sat in.
which category will be harder? THe normalized category or the real wattage category? Or the stationary bike category that will use their watts as a source of renewable energy?
no good content
hate half the time
doping accusations out the nose
and a bunch of cry babies
but boy do i love reading it
Wtf? Points races are a great change of pace. Good training. If you don’t like them, sprinting’s probably not your strength, so welcome the opporuntity to work on a weakness. How many races end in solo breaks? If you can’t sprint on some level, you can’t win. So grow a pair of fallopian tubes and mix it up tomorrow.
I like points races generally, but power points are stupid. Sprinting 2x within a couple of miles of each other is retarded.
how about you try it first, then if you don’t like go whine elsewhere. see previous post. good work crca in putting on a new format … looking fwd to it
Hopefully someone else can obliterate major bone structure going for points in the B race…..
you can get all the points. So just get a good gap.
WTF, if you race crca, real bike racing obviously isnt your strength….
CRCA races are just as “real” as the little local races around here, Bear Mtn, Prospect, etc
The format for the CRCA power points race planned for Saturday has been changed to a super power points format. There will now be 12 sprints per lap. Points will be awarded in the same 5-3-1 fashion, except for the finish which will have double points at the 250M to go mark and triple points at the finish line.
is not power points, it is scratch
I’m bored can we just start flaming this weekend’s winners today???
is safer than walking around the city or chilling in your penthouse.
i will win all these races, i am peaking my balls off
Anyone know a good place to get a colonic? I hear it’s a good way to drop lbs before a race. I want to be as light as I can be for HH.
don’t forget to bring your signed releases for crca. I don’t want to get up at the ass crack of dawn only to have the race shortened because you jack-monkeys spent all your time hatin on the format of the race instead of printing your freakin realease forms
Does (P)ricco think that Selle shouldn’t ride for a GC spot?
serial… print, sign and bring it tomorrow!
http://www.usacycling.org/forms/rider_release.pdf
i tried a colonic once. weight loss was negligible
try a colonoscopy prep
http://www.biggerstrongerfastermovie.com/
I conducted an interview with the director last week. He has some footage with Floyd & Jacobs his lawyer, mostly talking about the poor testing. He said Floyd was pretty forthcoming & Jacobs was boring. Armstrongs camp was not interested “at all”. Seems kinda interesting overall.
…at the NJ-Pointy-Helmet-Fest? Rashad Guerra or Anthony Accardi?? Or is there another NY Bad@$$ who is likely to smoke the both of them?
Start list here: http://www.mambokingsracing.com/events/2008-itt-start-times.pdf
I am not a member of your bicycle club. However, every Saturday and Sunday mornings, I have to drive through River Road from Edgewater to Englewood Cliffs via Hudson Terrace in Fort Lee, NJ at least two times each day day.
Every wknd, I drive by in fear that I might hit one of cyclists b/c some ride in two’s and three’s.
Please be advised that this River Road by GWB and Hudson Terrace is not a leisure trail. I would appreciate if you guys can keep a single lane rather than having two to three lanes. Not only are you jeopardizing your lives but the driver’s of the automobile as well. At times, I notice that the cyclists are not even aware of an automobile coming b/c they are so engrossed in their conversation. When I drive by, I have an 8 yr old boy w/me. Even he makes a comment about those of you who ride in multiple lanes.
I and many other driver’s would appreciate your cooperation.
Thank you.
Jersey Driver- If people like you and your son didn’t drive around so much gas prices wouldn’t be where they are and this country wouldn’t be so obese. Seriously, why not bike up to to Englewood Cliffs so time with your son. Years from now, I’m sure he’d have many fond memories of weekend bike rides with dad.
Lisbon won the CRCA race .
your pictures are nice and all but you guys have been a menace in the B field–either crashing or causing crashes. please be careful and think before you decide to wildly sprint for 20th. it’s not fucking worth it.
the guy who barreled into me today and caused me to crash apologized, and i appreciate that. but seriously, i don’t need to crash in a club race.
On the road you’re talking about, there are 2 lanes in each direction, and no shoulder. Cyclists are entitled to a full lane, just like motorists.
You, as a motorists, are required by law to change lanes completely when passing cyclists.
If the cyclists are spanning 2 lanes wide, then that’s a problem. But if they’re using one lane, then please put on your blinker and go around them– quietly and safely. It would be a good opportunity to teach your 8-year-old a lesson in cooperation and tolerance by telling him, “It’s their road too. Look at how much space _we’re_ using– it’s only fair.”
I for got to sign it– that was from me.
you can’t fault the guy for finding the proper forum to air his grievances. but hey buddy, share the fucking road. teach your kid that patience is a virtue and cyclists are not beneath you.
Is to not act like a bunch of knuckleheads when someone from the outside world politely brings up a topic of discussion. Play nice.
how many jersey drivers are engrossed in their conversations on their cell phones while driving their SUV’s to the paramus mall or a guido eyebrow waxing appointment? just sayin…
Gotta say, I agree with driver. The guy is just illuminating the truth. Take the advice.
Regardless of who’s right or wrong, jersey driver’s attitude is ‘You’re scaring me, help me to not hurt you’. We may be right to occupy the road, but being right won’t count for much when a less thoughtful driver plows you over. Try to not presents ourselves as defensive douchebags to the outside world
I think we cyclists tend to believe that we have more rights than drivers at times. We should be as respectful as we expect drivers to be of us. How many of us really follow the rules of the road? Stop at stoplights or yield to pedestrians? On River Road, you should ride single file considering that it is a very narrow two lane road. On 9w, we can ride 2 or 3 abreast in areas where the shoulder is wide enough. It is really not about taking sides (car vs bike) but about being mutually respectful.
as a cyclist, you can be dead right, but still dead.
And on River Road the rule is bikes ride single file, so here riders will be both dead and wrong.
where are the pics????? i need to wack off to new photos of myself
first of all, I guess I appreciate that this concerns you so much that you are airing your grievence on this forum.
but.
I feel like you and many of your fellow drivers need to practice sharing the road and driving in a responsible manner.
I mean all week drivers are flying around, running errands, cummuting to work, or working from the car.
Lets just say, its the weekend in a highly popular cycling area, can we reserve some time in a few miles stretch of the road, to allow the cyclist a little space? to feel safe?
just for a couple of mornings on the weekend for a couple of miles, let us cyclists feel safe.
not that you shouldnt drive like this all the time, but maybe just give it a thought.
most of the time and in most places cars are the majority (wrong as this is) but in this area bikes are popular. give em some space. it’s not about right or wrong, it’s about consideration.
commuting, leisure, work, just riding or driving for the hell of it – diff people and modes of transportation share the right to the road. And, if the riders/drivers are following the rules of the road, whoever is in front has the right to be there
if some cyclist swerves out in front of car, that’s a legitimate complaint.
If there are a lot of cyclists on the road, following the rules, and a driver has to brush close to them to get by, that’s an illegitimate complaint. The easy way not to hurt the cyclists is to not pass close. And if that’s not possible, wait till it is.
You have a legit gripe if cyclists are holding up traffic when they could easily move over. Give them a moment, something many motorists don’t bother to do.
Now, is there any similar website for North Jersey drivers where I could pose these pressing questions (or maybe you can bring it up at the motorist version of the Runcible Spoon):
1) Why will so many drivers speed up to get around me so they can make a high-speed right hand turn several feet in front of me? It is scary as shit for me, and should be for the driver too.
2) What is the point in leaning on the horn to try to get me to move over so they can get to the clearly red light about 100 yards up the road? Doesn’t it make them feel a little stupid?
Most of us drive too and would never come as close to a cyclist as some of these cars do. We really appreciate the safe drivers, and you sound like one. Hopefully more riders can show some patience.
…and Barcelona got 2nd.
you mooks really took the bait on that one. even eugene and schmalz. classic.
sorry, forgot the sign that one
Whoa, good one. Will you be impersonating a thoughtful meter maid next? Perhaps a disillusioned crossing guard?
we all should have been tipped off when he said he has “an 8 year old boy” with him
i believe in you too.
CRCA Juniors are doing well on the track, good job Eugene
dammit! i love you cats, but do you believe everything you read? i’m not the faux jersey driver. i’m just pointing out that the faux jersey driver was a faux jersey driver.
and thanks for believing in me, eugene. wish i could return the favor, but i’m an agnostic at heart and unfortuntely continue to think you’re a figment of jft’s intriguingly over-active imagination.
i like the idea of eugene, though.
Tooth fairy is funny. Perhaps he should take on Buttermilk Jones sometime. Sort of like Cranky vs. JFT on steroids.
Eugene’s not real? What? Dammit! What next? Is someone going to tell me that Coach L is a faker?
I’m the “jersey driver”, I swiped it from NYCC message board just to see what floats everyone’s boat…
http://www.kissena.info/track/results/2008/SuperSprintSundayResults.pdf
55 riders!! Another smashingly successful day at the velodrome.
Thanks,
Alan
laying it down. well done.
That intro about the power points race is funny
but nobody loves me.
You forgot the funny-helmet festival in NJ.
has some of the best cycling roads in NY, no?
crca is at 5:45 am….phew…im riding straight over from the hustler club…..
I don’t have a wattage meter. Can I still race the Power Points Race. is there some way to “guesstimate” watts that would allow me to participate?
a wattage meter is mandatory to race in the power points race. please bring have your wattage meter validation form filled out and calibrate BEFORE you arrive to the race.
Power Points Races
– Points awarded at top of Harlem Hill on every lap except the first:
1st place 6 points, 2nd place 4 points, 3rd place 2 points
– Points awarded at the finish line on every lap:
1st place 6 points, 2nd place 4 points, 3rd place 2 points
– Points awarded at the finish on the final lap:
1st place 9 points, 2nd place 6 points, 3rd place 4 points, 4th place 2 points, 5th place 1 point
http://www.crca.net/racing/club/race-protocol/
What’s the point? Why not just have a scratch race?
Powerpoints races sound stupid.
I like the power points idea, like crit points, but chances are the rain will make it a scratch….no?
What an incredible waste of a great opportunity to race.
Points races are MORE FUN than scratch races. Though after you lose you can’t complain about the sprinters who sat in.
which category will be harder? THe normalized category or the real wattage category? Or the stationary bike category that will use their watts as a source of renewable energy?
no good content
hate half the time
doping accusations out the nose
and a bunch of cry babies
but boy do i love reading it
Wtf? Points races are a great change of pace. Good training. If you don’t like them, sprinting’s probably not your strength, so welcome the opporuntity to work on a weakness. How many races end in solo breaks? If you can’t sprint on some level, you can’t win. So grow a pair of fallopian tubes and mix it up tomorrow.
I like points races generally, but power points are stupid. Sprinting 2x within a couple of miles of each other is retarded.
how about you try it first, then if you don’t like go whine elsewhere. see previous post. good work crca in putting on a new format … looking fwd to it
Hopefully someone else can obliterate major bone structure going for points in the B race…..
you can get all the points. So just get a good gap.
WTF, if you race crca, real bike racing obviously isnt your strength….
CRCA races are just as “real” as the little local races around here, Bear Mtn, Prospect, etc
The format for the CRCA power points race planned for Saturday has been changed to a super power points format. There will now be 12 sprints per lap. Points will be awarded in the same 5-3-1 fashion, except for the finish which will have double points at the 250M to go mark and triple points at the finish line.
is not power points, it is scratch
I’m bored can we just start flaming this weekend’s winners today???
is safer than walking around the city or chilling in your penthouse.
i will win all these races, i am peaking my balls off
Anyone know a good place to get a colonic? I hear it’s a good way to drop lbs before a race. I want to be as light as I can be for HH.
don’t forget to bring your signed releases for crca. I don’t want to get up at the ass crack of dawn only to have the race shortened because you jack-monkeys spent all your time hatin on the format of the race instead of printing your freakin realease forms
Does (P)ricco think that Selle shouldn’t ride for a GC spot?
serial… print, sign and bring it tomorrow!
http://www.usacycling.org/forms/rider_release.pdf
i tried a colonic once. weight loss was negligible
try a colonoscopy prep
http://www.biggerstrongerfastermovie.com/
I conducted an interview with the director last week. He has some footage with Floyd & Jacobs his lawyer, mostly talking about the poor testing. He said Floyd was pretty forthcoming & Jacobs was boring. Armstrongs camp was not interested “at all”. Seems kinda interesting overall.
…at the NJ-Pointy-Helmet-Fest? Rashad Guerra or Anthony Accardi?? Or is there another NY Bad@$$ who is likely to smoke the both of them?
Start list here: http://www.mambokingsracing.com/events/2008-itt-start-times.pdf
I am not a member of your bicycle club. However, every Saturday and Sunday mornings, I have to drive through River Road from Edgewater to Englewood Cliffs via Hudson Terrace in Fort Lee, NJ at least two times each day day.
Every wknd, I drive by in fear that I might hit one of cyclists b/c some ride in two’s and three’s.
Please be advised that this River Road by GWB and Hudson Terrace is not a leisure trail. I would appreciate if you guys can keep a single lane rather than having two to three lanes. Not only are you jeopardizing your lives but the driver’s of the automobile as well. At times, I notice that the cyclists are not even aware of an automobile coming b/c they are so engrossed in their conversation. When I drive by, I have an 8 yr old boy w/me. Even he makes a comment about those of you who ride in multiple lanes.
I and many other driver’s would appreciate your cooperation.
Thank you.
Jersey Driver- If people like you and your son didn’t drive around so much gas prices wouldn’t be where they are and this country wouldn’t be so obese. Seriously, why not bike up to to Englewood Cliffs so time with your son. Years from now, I’m sure he’d have many fond memories of weekend bike rides with dad.
Lisbon won the CRCA race .
your pictures are nice and all but you guys have been a menace in the B field–either crashing or causing crashes. please be careful and think before you decide to wildly sprint for 20th. it’s not fucking worth it.
the guy who barreled into me today and caused me to crash apologized, and i appreciate that. but seriously, i don’t need to crash in a club race.
On the road you’re talking about, there are 2 lanes in each direction, and no shoulder. Cyclists are entitled to a full lane, just like motorists.
You, as a motorists, are required by law to change lanes completely when passing cyclists.
If the cyclists are spanning 2 lanes wide, then that’s a problem. But if they’re using one lane, then please put on your blinker and go around them– quietly and safely. It would be a good opportunity to teach your 8-year-old a lesson in cooperation and tolerance by telling him, “It’s their road too. Look at how much space _we’re_ using– it’s only fair.”
I for got to sign it– that was from me.
you can’t fault the guy for finding the proper forum to air his grievances. but hey buddy, share the fucking road. teach your kid that patience is a virtue and cyclists are not beneath you.
Is to not act like a bunch of knuckleheads when someone from the outside world politely brings up a topic of discussion. Play nice.
how many jersey drivers are engrossed in their conversations on their cell phones while driving their SUV’s to the paramus mall or a guido eyebrow waxing appointment? just sayin…
Gotta say, I agree with driver. The guy is just illuminating the truth. Take the advice.
Regardless of who’s right or wrong, jersey driver’s attitude is ‘You’re scaring me, help me to not hurt you’. We may be right to occupy the road, but being right won’t count for much when a less thoughtful driver plows you over. Try to not presents ourselves as defensive douchebags to the outside world
I think we cyclists tend to believe that we have more rights than drivers at times. We should be as respectful as we expect drivers to be of us. How many of us really follow the rules of the road? Stop at stoplights or yield to pedestrians? On River Road, you should ride single file considering that it is a very narrow two lane road. On 9w, we can ride 2 or 3 abreast in areas where the shoulder is wide enough. It is really not about taking sides (car vs bike) but about being mutually respectful.
as a cyclist, you can be dead right, but still dead.
And on River Road the rule is bikes ride single file, so here riders will be both dead and wrong.
where are the pics????? i need to wack off to new photos of myself
first of all, I guess I appreciate that this concerns you so much that you are airing your grievence on this forum.
but.
I feel like you and many of your fellow drivers need to practice sharing the road and driving in a responsible manner.
I mean all week drivers are flying around, running errands, cummuting to work, or working from the car.
Lets just say, its the weekend in a highly popular cycling area, can we reserve some time in a few miles stretch of the road, to allow the cyclist a little space? to feel safe?
just for a couple of mornings on the weekend for a couple of miles, let us cyclists feel safe.
not that you shouldnt drive like this all the time, but maybe just give it a thought.
most of the time and in most places cars are the majority (wrong as this is) but in this area bikes are popular. give em some space. it’s not about right or wrong, it’s about consideration.
commuting, leisure, work, just riding or driving for the hell of it – diff people and modes of transportation share the right to the road. And, if the riders/drivers are following the rules of the road, whoever is in front has the right to be there
if some cyclist swerves out in front of car, that’s a legitimate complaint.
If there are a lot of cyclists on the road, following the rules, and a driver has to brush close to them to get by, that’s an illegitimate complaint. The easy way not to hurt the cyclists is to not pass close. And if that’s not possible, wait till it is.
You have a legit gripe if cyclists are holding up traffic when they could easily move over. Give them a moment, something many motorists don’t bother to do.
Now, is there any similar website for North Jersey drivers where I could pose these pressing questions (or maybe you can bring it up at the motorist version of the Runcible Spoon):
1) Why will so many drivers speed up to get around me so they can make a high-speed right hand turn several feet in front of me? It is scary as shit for me, and should be for the driver too.
2) What is the point in leaning on the horn to try to get me to move over so they can get to the clearly red light about 100 yards up the road? Doesn’t it make them feel a little stupid?
Most of us drive too and would never come as close to a cyclist as some of these cars do. We really appreciate the safe drivers, and you sound like one. Hopefully more riders can show some patience.
…and Barcelona got 2nd.
you mooks really took the bait on that one. even eugene and schmalz. classic.
sorry, forgot the sign that one
Whoa, good one. Will you be impersonating a thoughtful meter maid next? Perhaps a disillusioned crossing guard?
we all should have been tipped off when he said he has “an 8 year old boy” with him
i believe in you too.
CRCA Juniors are doing well on the track, good job Eugene
dammit! i love you cats, but do you believe everything you read? i’m not the faux jersey driver. i’m just pointing out that the faux jersey driver was a faux jersey driver.
and thanks for believing in me, eugene. wish i could return the favor, but i’m an agnostic at heart and unfortuntely continue to think you’re a figment of jft’s intriguingly over-active imagination.
i like the idea of eugene, though.
Tooth fairy is funny. Perhaps he should take on Buttermilk Jones sometime. Sort of like Cranky vs. JFT on steroids.
Eugene’s not real? What? Dammit! What next? Is someone going to tell me that Coach L is a faker?
I’m the “jersey driver”, I swiped it from NYCC message board just to see what floats everyone’s boat…
http://www.kissena.info/track/results/2008/SuperSprintSundayResults.pdf
55 riders!! Another smashingly successful day at the velodrome.
Thanks,
Alan
laying it down. well done.