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Green Mountain weekend. I’d write more, but I’m busy trying get the mental picture of Lee at the track in a mankini out of my head. With a power drill. And I had just wiped out the Jeff King mankini image. Speak for yourself on the mental mankini images!
Remember, you’re still on notice, so keep it clean and positive. Don’t make us bring back the login.
I will dominate the race this weekend
denville crit sunday, tour basking ridge monday, also BIG track day at kissena on monday. I feel for people racing tomorrow at GMSR.
overheard…
question: you doing Green Mountain?
answer: I stay away from anything with the word "mountain" in it.
make sure you all wear your trashbags to keep the water out. i hear it’s the thing to do now. haha.
there are no hills, there are plenty of man-eating mountain passes.
Why is schmalz posting anonymously?
interesting fact: there are other witty people in the world
after work up to Waitsfield to cheer on my NYC brethren at the GMSR….
No mankini for me!!!
I’m too lazy to sign in
no friday chat?
I’m too lazy to chat
Mankini in the promised land
no trash talking? Oh yteah, there’s no cat 4 race.
Good luck to ALL CRCA riders(the BEST of to NYVelo riders) at Green Mountain!
Aaron Wolfe won the Cat 4 prologue.
new yorkers usually kick ass at green mtn. if dave taylor is participating he will podium in 40+
Wow – Aaron kicked BUTT and won the prologue climb on Fri. What a sweet result for him. Congrats Aaron.
Also serious kudos to Chris Shaw – 5th on same race and just behind Aaron. Not bad for a dude over 6 ft! Strong legs…
Plenty of other strong finishes from CRCA as well, as we would expect from NYC racers in the hardest stage race in the region…Yeah!
Chris Shaw 2nd today, which should put him in 2nd on GC.
How’s the weather there? Great work NYC riders!
should have placed me 2nd, but i got a penalty for the yellow line rule which bumped me to 6th on GC. doesn’t matter, i just crashed out in the rain. snapped my bars in two. i’m showered and dry while aaron is probably just hitting the final climb. represent for CRCA mr. wolfe!
Shaw, sorry about your crash. Don’t forget to wash your shoes!
Pro/1/2 show ‘Race Cancelled?"
Pro 1/2 field ran into a cop car that was perpendicular to the road right after a bend on a fast downhill. 20 went down. field refused to finish the race. don’t blame them.
Wow!! That is true Euro-style. Dont blame the pro’s one bit. There should’ve been GMSR marshals telling the fuzz that they picked a bad spot to be "johnny law" – Goodluck trying to get pro’s to line up in 07′. Bad experiences spread like wildfire!
Results just went up and I called some of my friends who are racing…Just how bad was the weather? Was it teeming all day?
Results just went up and I called some of my friends who are racing…Just how bad was the weather? Was it teeming all day?
Results just went up and I called some of my friends who are racing…Just how bad was the weather? Was it teeming all day?
Results just went up and I called some of my friends who are racing…Just how bad was the weather? Was it teeming all day?
if I remenber right, this is second straight year for dqing P/1/2 at Green Mtn. Last year was for too many riders going over center line. They came back this year.
Some course conditons require acceptions to the rules though. Like fast descents into corners for instance. It makes sense to protect the riders safety as opposed to sticking doggedly to a rule that may work against a safe race. Putting a police cruiser on the course in that situation was a bad call. I sorta blame the promoters for not alerting police officials of the potential danger of the vehicle location. Promoters are X-racers, they now better. Cops are cement heads when it comes to bike races. They dont know.
You’re probably right about 07′. Guys will still line up but goodluck getting really good pro teams. Protesting a stage is a big deal and a bit of a black eye to Velocity. That kind of shit will get around most pro’s will not tolerate a race that threatens they’re livelyhood.
Just read Atwood’s post. Clearly a different situation than I thought – but as he wrote, still ‘ a bone head move’.
Do not understand Lee3’s comment about black eye for Velocity.
Velocity provides finish line camera services for Green Mtn as it did for CRCA Harlem, Maltese and Mengoni races. To their credit , they have gotten Green Mtn results up within a few hours of race finish.
NorthEast USCF official
Alan Atwood wrote:
"You were close…..a state trooper who left his post on a corner saw the field and attempted to turn around to get back to his post. Problem was in doing his U-turn his nose got into the pro field going downhill at 50mph. Totally stupid. Riders did stop and did not continue. Can’t blame them really, but it was something totally out of control of anyone. Just a bonehead move from someone that should have known better.
As Atwood wrote, it really was no fault to the promoter. Just bad decision making on the head of the policeman. I’m sure the Pro peleton’s Stg. protest doesnt give the promoters the warm a fuzzy feelings and I’ll lay money on the fact that they will handle that section of the course differently next yr. They do a fine job @ the finish line and they get them up quick – great, thats a tough job!
"You’re probably right about 07′. Guys will still line up but goodluck getting really good pro teams. Protesting a stage is a big deal and a bit of a black eye to Velocity. That kind of shit will get around most pro’s will not tolerate a race that threatens they’re livelyhood."
Not everyone was on board with the protest. There was an accident and that was very unfortunate. But why refuse to ride? All the other fields rode the same course and found it safe enough.
What, the "pro’s" who make their livlihood on the road found it too risky? Or were they just trying to make a statement and ended up harming the overall race in the process? Plenty of 1 and 2 riders pay their own way and travel long distances to take part. How about them?
Green Mtn is not a pro race. No pro teams enter riders. Riders on pro teams enter the race on their own for training and to win some money for themselves. All US pro men were eligible to ride the USPRO Championship in Greenville. Non-US citizens on pro teams were looking for a place to race.
Yea I bet it must’ve been a tough decision for the small squad gunslinger pro’s.
What non-US pro’s showed up for GMSR?
Kevin: Dave Taylor podiumed the 30+
"What non-US pro’s showed up for GMSR?"
Read the start list or results
http://www.gmsr.info