Horsing around
There’s plenty of racing going on this weekend for those who can leave the confines of the city and alight in locales that are less populous and occasionally manure scented. Let’s explore the world of non-urban (*excluding portions of Central Park) smells shall we?
Saturday there’s the Tour of New York in Prospect Park. Also on Saturday is the Tour of Mt. Nebo in Holtwood, Lancaster County, PA.
Sunday has options also, with the Historic Riverton Criterium in Riverton, NJ and the New York State Criterium Championships at the Saranac Lake Downtown Criterium.
Wilmington is Saturday, too.
the hopeful friday pic is nuts
Love the name! Kind of like calling the Daytona 500 ‘The Tour of Florida’
agree it’s a bit ridiculous but it’s better than “Blistered Butt”
would you prefer, “Circuit de Park de les Gauches Bohemes”???
The p123 and 3/4 got canceled due to the sudden storm approaching. Otherwise, it could have been epic.
http://www.oneimagingphotography.com/Cyclings/Team-United-Thursday-Night69/Team-United-Thursday-Nightcat5/17476141_Bd2N8L#1330128825_Fjg8KV7
Rockleigh results?
IS THERE ANY DOUBT??? OLSEN! OLSEN! OLSEN!
I’m certain the Tour of NY is going to be “TOO EASY!” and NY Velocity will sweep the top 10 places in the 4 field.
Greg O won 123. 3 men break with Greg and Gavi in it. Two of them left at the final stretch, Gavi seemed to have been in a better position but Greg sprinted(Did Gavi just let up?) . As always, Greg looked strong. Congrats to him!
4/5…a gentleman attacked with 2 to go and he stayed away.
Does Olsen really call his 1080s the Olsen Twins?
http://velonews.competitor.com/2011/06/news/phil-zajicek-admits-doping-suspended-for-life_177847
I always thought Phil Z was one of the good guys and one of the most “talented” US climbers. I guess not. Then Again, I am an outsider Cat3…. Maybe the top US pros knew Phil Z was a fraud all along and kept quiet for selfish reasons. Wonder who else is going down from the Papp list?
A lot of people knew he was dirty. Terrible reputation.
Also what the fuck is that horse doing
Olsens 1080’s are too fat to be the Olsen twins!
The real question is who is Ariel Mendez gonna disqualify to scrounge up a win?
Joe Papp appears to have commented online regarding the story. Was then bashed by further comments…
BREAKING NEWS
Olsen’s 1080s test positive for clenbuteral, say the pressure was too much to be thin
Are not 1080’s
funny but true:
http://vimeo.com/24572222
Drink every time Paul Sherwen says “serious” or “sorry for the little bit of picture break up.”
damian’s tough-as-nails mind
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/nyregion/cyclists-embrace-a-handless-cuban-who-wants-to-race.html?hp
thanks to all who have helped!
http://devour. com/video/ blocked-bike- lanes/
Rockleigh Crit hail storm just before the start of the A race.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDPpdLpC8u4
http://www.usacycling.org/results/index.php?permit=2011-773
Way to go Greg!! Too bad poor attendance from CRCA. Perhaps CRCA should have considered sending our cream of the crop to the Crit State Championship rather than sending non-club members to PA race…
CRCA has very limited funds to send anyone anywhere. It would be great for everyone if women’s racing was bigger in the park and in NYC. Kudos to CRCA for sending a team to PA.
Would be a great thing to send a CRCA team somewhere. Just didn’t happen in Philly. The only actual CRCA racer was on another composite team, Fabienne Gerard (Pure Energy). The women on the “CRCA” team in Philly were only wearing jerseys with cRCA on them, they were not members.
CAn I race CRCA without been a member?
Does a rider didnt get suspended for racing on a team he is not part of it/?
if Crca had limited funds and had only a few weeks to prepare why did we even bother to create a team to go down? I agree with promoting Crca and also womens racing. Did sending non-Crca team members helped achieve this? Make no sense to me.
As the CRCA explained, there was supposed to be more CRCA representation on the team but the CRCA members dropped out due to their circumstances.
then hold them accountable for it. Make them pay for whatever Crca paid(if Crca paid anything). If Crca wanted to put the clubs name on the map and promote women’s cycling at such a highly exposed race Crca should have made the racers commit. Crca wants to promote women racing and women racers want the attention and support they deserve(I agree) but then they bail out 3 weeks to go? Lame
Can’t disagree with you that it is disappointing that more of the CRCA women didn’t show.
Really? Can’t DJ make smarter decisions and actually send the strongest guys in CRCA to race at state champs? or philly? Why spend money and time with a composite team that only includes one actually member of CRCA………FAIL.
Olsen took two state championships, despite getting second in the 1,2,3 and fifth in the masters.
if CRCA has limited funds then why are they wasting them on non-CRCA riders?
CRCA composite team to Mengioni
CRCA composite team got to ride a free race – considered smart racing?
all expense paid philly vacation to mengoni
David Jordan to resign
I assume that any CRCA decision regarding Philly was approved by the Board. Is that correct? Have not seen Board minutes in some time.
Why come up with the same lame, stupid comments. Having CRCA on a jersey in a big race is no different than any other sponsor appearing on a jersey. It promotes the club. No one watching the race really cares if the women on that composite team were actually CRCA members. It would have been nice had it been an all CRCA team, but that didn’t work out.
http://outside-blog.away.com/blog/2011/06/lance-armstrong-and-tyler-hamilton-walk-into-a-bar.html#tp
CRCA has plenty of money. What’s in short supply is dedicated volunteers willing to do the hard, thankless work of putting on safe races, keeping racing in favor with the city and parks department, helping to bring new riders into the sport, and trying to promote the club. It’s sad that jackasses come on here and second-guess decisions that they obviously have no knowledge of. If you’re not a CRCA member it makes no difference to you what they do with their funds, if you are then you should ask the CRCA (or better yet, run for the board and do something yourself). If CRCA offered everybody a free bike half of you would complain that it wasn’t carbon, or that you had to pick it up on a Sunday.
Mats, you want to find out whether the board approved a decision, ask the board.
If the CRCA is like Superfriends, does that make Schmalz Elongated Man and Olsen Lex Luthor?
I have yet to read any articles about how CRCA did in that race…not even a picture. Did our racers attack and stayed at the front to get some TV time?
The only ones I saw was Fabienne and she was wearing another team’s jersey.
If CRCA had just 3 weeks to prepare and riders dropped out, we should have just pulled out. Instead put the money towards sending our best crit racers(men and women) up northe this weekend.
I imagine CRCA has access to calendar of major races. What other races are we sending riders to? We have strong 1,2,3 men and women who can bring home State or regional titles. If we want to get a positive exposure for CRCA, why don’t we start by focusing on these big races that we can well? What value did these ringers at other than go around in circle wearing our kit in mid pack?
13 park races, Bear mountain, Maltese, etc etc.
Or, this year’s president and board is trying some new things. Getting CRCA women to a big name race was the goal and a great goal. It was unfortunate that circumstances arose that meant the CRCA women slated to ride ultimately could not. But, that sets a great foundation for next year. And maybe the idea of helping get a CRCA team in the State RR championship, and who knows what else.
Do you want to be part of something that tries new things to promote cycling, or do you want just keep going round and round central park racing against the same old guys, with the same old guys winning and the rest of us doing our best…
Support positive change and encourage it rather than constantly trying to drag people down.
I agree, and I do appreciate some of the great things DJ and the current board have done. I support it, but changes take time and need to take baby steps.
I still don’t agree with spending the time/effort and resources to recruit rider from abroad or out of state/club, just to send a team in. Did CRCA consider NOT participating at all when they discovered that our own riders were not available?
Did CRCA have a tryout or some sort for this event? Or publicize our intent to participate in PA race? Perhaps they should have announced it’s plan to attend this race much earlier than they did?
Making changes…yes, how about sending a fully supported kick ass team to TT/ROAD/Crit championship so that we can sweep all State titles?…that would have been a change, a great one to put the club on the map.
I am grateful for the effort and some positive changes. New direction? Awesome!
However, as far as this our representation in PA and the way money was spent, I don’t agree.
are you guys seriously acting like a state championship matters that much? come on… how many CRCA members or NYC locals ever really take that seriously when its upstate?
Then run for the board yourself. Every year it is a challenge to get folks to run. Rarely are positions contested. Run for the board and you can be the person who changes CRCA for the better.
What’s the issue. A CRCA club member won two state championships and another placed fourth. Seems like an ok day for a race everyone whined was too far away. Make a bid and hold it in NY or on LI.
NY State Champs to Central Park.
…a few months ago CRCA was talking about going broke and now they’re wasting money on a bunch of non-CRCA members going to Philly to serve as pack fodder…
Again, my hats off to those that take part in it. I am just expressing my opinion as a member.
So, you are telling me Alessio Threadlock, that because you guys volunteer your time to do this, I can’t disagree? or express my doubts and frustration? I hope you realize hearing members concern is a part of being able to make decision on behalf of the hundred’s of members out there and using the resources we all paid. I don’t think I have attacked anyone or the club, and in my message I even suggested another alternative.
If CRCA believed it was the right decision, then stick with it.
I just don’t think CRCA gave good enough reason why it went to the race in the first and how it was prepared.
May be I will consider taking part in helping the board next year. And trust me, if something goes wrong or if people disagreed on something, I will not say “well, then you do it”.
I’m not on the board now nor have I ever been. You, and all CRCA members, are entitled to disagree with the board. But whining on this board is not really doing much. if you haven’t already, you should let the board know your concerns. They are the ones who would be best able to address them and if they think it proper, make changes. Even though it would be easy to confuse this as a CRCA web site, it is not. Who knows if any board members read what you posted? The board members I’m sure are all willing to listen.
As a member of CRCA I don’t see how sending a team of woman from across the country in any way shape or form helps the club, nor do I want my membership fees going to something like this that in no way promotes racing in NY, it seems to me that a couple of people on the board thought it was a great idea and they wanted to be involved in “big time” racing, so they just went for it.
Somewhat insulting to NYC bike racers, aka, bowling pins
http://velonews.competitor.com/2011/06/news/experimenting-with-the-sport-a-conversation-with-john-eustice_178377
When its not about mocking our fellow riders, its all about articulating complaints. Charlie monitors the site, alan atwood monitors the site and I’m sure the CRCA board does as well. Like it or not it’s a part of the NYC racing scene. And when the CRCA board goes out and spends a ton of membership dues on paying for foreign riders to serve as pack fill just after talking about being broke it makes sense that the backlash is articulated here. maybe everyone will forget about this whole thing by the time board elections roll around, but in the meantime it seems reasonable to expect the board to clarify what’s going on with our membership dues / the club financials and why they decided to spend this money. .
as a member of usacycling, i don’t understand why my membership dues go towards developing a very small group of connected junior/U23’s in europe with no voice in how that gets allocated. i guess there is a difference, but what’s the big deal? on the same token, the CRCA has a junior team that consists primarily of kids from upstate who don’t race in the city, don’t do any marshaling duties and have nothing to do with NYC cycling, yet we allow it. teams like AXA are allowed to put the CRCA at the end of their name in direct violation of subteam regulations. i could go on, but there are differences in the way the CRCA operates all the time. I hardly see why its such a big deal to these whiners that the CRCA tried something by sending people to the most important race for women in the region (if not USA). so, it didn’t go perfectly as planned, so maybe it will improve next year. or, we could go back to having a bunch of races for entitled I-banking pricks who will never be anything other than posers without any attempt to build something better.
I can’t find it now, but didn’t DJ say somewhere that those racers paid their own ways to Philly? Or am I hallucinating?
This thread is fucking dumb.
If the CRCA can’t field a team with their 2 or 3 women riders then they do what most teams do, they find ringers. Is it CX season yet? This shit is harshing my mellow.
You have a point there.
If someone wants to argue but the Jrs or Axa, go ahead. Unfortunately, I am not bothered by it.
What bothers me is that poor planning and execution on CRCA’s part to get a team in the PA race. 3 weeks lead time for such a highly visible event? Come on now…
Yes, I do want to see CRCA races to be just more than going around in circles in CP…but again, BABY STEPS.
There are different ways for us to have spend the money to promote the success of CRCA, the riders. And better planning.
I also always wondered, why representatives from each sub-teams were never mandated to attend these board meetings…Teams have a lot to contribute(racing and ideas) and they have responsibilities to inform their team members of rules and policies of CRCA(marshal, pulling a Gavin/Paulie, night ride etc) but that’s a whole another discussion.
not be a member of CRCA next year.
Two options – change things by getting on the board and making a difference; or
no join next year, race for non-crca or unattached.
I am not on CRCA and this thread is just tired. CRCA comes down to central park bike racing. Thats it. If want to race in the park, join crca and/or get involved and make things better.
XKGH to CRCA, since you are not a member, we welcome you!
It’s better than joining Mengoni. Come play with us.
Can we pitch in $70 to give superhighcadence his CRCA membership fee back and have him go away.
Pitch in? You cheap bastard…