Lots of stuff to upload this morning, so we really need your help for results.
Looks like Horace Burrowes won at Prospect. Others?
Roger Aspholm and Rufus Pichler get wins at Housatonic. Help us with the rest. We have one unidentified winner pic from Jack Baranski, and one loser pic of a pair of 303’s from an anonymous source.
Anyone know who this is? (Alister Ratcliffe winning the 3’s. Thanks, ADM)
Pothole 2, 303’s 0.
Tony Settel is the 45+ NY State TT champ.
Harlem results and finish line pics are here. Three cheers for Mike Green and his gang for a great race. Participation was doubled from last year.
Chris (insert joke nickname here) Baldwin gifts a win to Jerry Kapko. Enjoy the finish camera shot of Baldwin pointing in shame.
Jon Clifton Moore wins the masters – do you actually think I’m going to take any shots here, really, do you?
Schmalz makes nice with JCM’s back.
Greg “Hungry like the” Wolf wins the pro race – like he’s never heard that Duran Duran pun before…
Marco grabs an egg salad sandwich and a sassparilla during the neutralized laps.
Terrific job by Mike Green, Schmalz, and everybody responsible for pulling off the Harlem race. What a great event.
Speedy recovery to Tyler Matta.
Sakonnet race report from the Nature Valley Grand Prix – NRC Event and Cat 2 races
Johnny Hayes finished in 29th in the overall G.C and added 10 NRC points to our teams total for the season.
Chris Ruhl finished in 10th in the U23 competition (out of 30 starters) and in 64th in th G.C.
Chris Kuhl finished in 13th in the U23 competition and in 71st in the G.C.
The team was 13th in the Team Competition out of 27 teams that started.
Lee Rosenthal won the Stillwater Criterium – Cat 2’s before the pro race yesterday, Guy East was 4th and Jon Swain was 10th.
Jon Swain was 3rd in the Mankato Criterium – Cat 2’s before the pro race on Saturday.
Great job Chauner and Bob/Bruce at Harlem!
All in all we had a great time in Minnesota,
Basil
Basil – that’s great news. Thanks for the update and nice job with the junior squad. I think what you’re doing is really cool, and the results are impressive. Congratulations.
Editors – The Bethel dude is Alister Ratcliffe. He won the 3s yesterday at HH.
Schmalz: that woman in pic above wants some o’ that a$$.
That Housatonic winner is from Bethel Cycle team, not sure who or which field though.
Thanks adm!
Fantasic Race, great time had by all!
Just talked to Tyler on the phone (actually I went to the ER with him yesterday)…he ended up being pretty lucky, and is OK and in good spirts. He’s pretty banged up (looks like his left calf went a few rounds with Mike Tyson) and he has a good case of road rash, but no broken bones.
He’ll probably be hobbling around for a few days but it looks like we’ll see him back on the bike before long.
Good to hear that Tyler is doing well.
Field sizes were up, good hot weather, well-run races, nice jerseys for the winners.
Favorite name at Harlem: 4/5 race
35. Junior Proverbs, Barbados/USI, Yonkers, NY (#429)
also…he’s back?: MAsters 35+
21. Scott Mercer, NY (#223)
I want to see how bad "I finished"
Congrats Rufus! I see now that your race in Prospect was really a prep for the bigger fish! See you out there.
nice rides by rufus and andrew cohen who got 1st and 2nd at housatonic. but where were you wimps at harlem? doing the double was brain melting. again, congrats guys.
Excellent result Rufus and Andrew, in one of the toughest races I’ve done, the heat was a killer, many ran out of water.
But New Yorkers dominated the top ten spots… Great job JA especially Greg for speeding up Constitution Hill, when it seemed everyone was going backwards.
congrats to anyone who did well at HH–really tough day for such a long, hard course. has anyone seen results?
Housatonic 1-2:
Group of 8 got away early. Dan Zmolik was in it, but got popped later. 5 of them stayed out front.
8 more got away later, with a few others behind them.
The "field" did the last lap slowly (realizing they were out of contention). Only about 30 finished.
NYC racers rock look at all the top 25s, from NY clubs… tenacious and determined to the end….
Congrats on a great ride at HH Andrew, a real breakout race!!!
I’m dieing to see Harlem 123 pics
similar in course difficulty? (obviously excluding the heat yesterday)
A bunch did Housatonic and Harlem on a very hot day. Among them Davide Frattini who finsihed 4th in both races. Matt Howard. Ran out of gas towards end of Harlem Pro/1/2. Eric Berend placed in 3/4 at Harlem but was a little frayed around the edges as Big Jon proved he’s much more sensible and nicer than Schmalz claims. And Blake Longacre who looked like he was about to repeat Ned Braden’s SlapShot performance as he danced a couple of perfunctory laps to entertain the crowd.
bear mtn. has a long but easy climb in the middle, housatonic ends on a long and steep climb that a larger group hits together but quickly falls apart.
Impressive result for E. Behrend. Its too bad he blemished it with idiotic behavior, that embarrased himself and his team. Results or not, I’d boot’em – complete baffoon. Big Jon was the better man here!
Is that a Coors Light in Schmalz’ hand? No drinking and riding!!!
If you weren’t there, much of the Harlem course has been repaved since last year. I got great feedback on the conditions of the course. General consensus is that it’s a real good pretty easy not very technical crit course. There was a single bad crash in the 3/4. One incident towards the end of the 4/5. I hate to see anyone go down but after the last 2 years, I think Harlem has shown it’s not a crash fest or deserving of the title "Skinscraper."
I appreciate the great turnout and hope everyone enjoyed racing despite the heat.
That’s not a Coors – it’s a wine cooler!
Overly Medicated
Behrend did well in Housatonic and finished 3rd in Harlem. That takes balls and ability in my book. Yeah, the guy’s eccentric. So what? Boot ’em??? This is New York City, Church Lady. Room enough for everybody. Take the pole outa yer ass and do better.
i want to hear about idiotic (non-schmalz related)behavior
I witnessed the "eccentricity" – It was out of hand. I left IMMEDIATELY after. It looked like things were going to get fisty.
I hope he got laid that night – I think he needed it!
Check out M.Ragazza’s Zipps after HH! Potholes 3 zipps (zip) – the rim completely caved but the tubular was still inflated! It was quite freakish.
Greg Wolf sent me his numbers from his SRM at Harlem:
1min: 504w
2min: 451w
5min: 393w
10min: 349w
no joking around there…
Great job Jerry. Your the man.
so what the f’ was the "eccentricity"
lee3, aren’t you guys on the same team? u’re skankin’ on your teammate?? waht’s up with that?
Schmaltz, that’s a very "I’m a big-time race promoter now" pose you have going there. Good race, you guys, thanks for putting it on.
I’ve officialy achieved "legend in my own mind" status
Check it out, the lady in the blue shirt and sunglasses is brazenly scoping Schmalz’ gear
A screaming tirade with plenty of F bombs dropped for all the kiddies on the street to hear against another group of CRCA riders. Presumeably provoked by a rude under the breath comment. Kind of like an in person demonstration of the CRCA net barrage of anti bullying commentray after the infamous unclipping incident. Provoked or unprovoked it was wholly inappropriate. Not a bootable offense but worthy of a short suspension.
Nice – an obscenity laced tirade from a racer in front of the people who live in the neighborhood. That’s going to help with the promotion…
Shaw,
Much respect — doing the double was an incredible feat. You were ahead of me on the final clkimb, I was wrecked. When i saw you did Harlem, I was shocked, GREAT job, very ballsy, I had to eat lots of food, drink cider and watch the Tour de Suisse.
FBF tonight? Crca Sat?
Good Job
This guy is beyond "eccentric". It’s too bad, because he is a strong, aggressive racer, but he reflects poorly on himself, his team and the local sport in general.
i was standing right there when the shouting was going down, I got to hand it to john M, the big guy kept his cool, he has totally changed his racing style as well. he deserves his results this year for sure.
Shaw,
Much respect — doing the double was an incredible feat. You were ahead of me on the final clkimb, I was wrecked. When i saw you did Harlem, I was shocked, GREAT job, very ballsy, I had to eat lots of food, drink cider and watch the Tour de Suisse.
FBF tonight? Crca Sat?
Good Job
drink less cider
take pot belge
The yelling was directed at Big Jon?
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and his bike-
If Andy had a pic of Ginger just before she jumped Siggy, I bet it would look disturbingly like the pic of the woman checking out Schmalz
Jon Clifton-Moore.
Maybe that’s what they were arguning about?
any pics of housatonic hills?
I had a really good time working the mic. for the 3/4 race. I enjoyed announcing the riders and some of their accomplishments and such. Sorry for those mixing it up that I could get thier names out. Mike emailed a startlist to my work after I left unfortunately and I was not given one until 5 laps to go! The head honcho David (?) would not let me do the womens and pro field for some reason unknown to me. I guess he liked the other dude more despite the fact that I feel like I called a pretty good race. What did you guys think? Did it suck or what!
Smelly and dirty are not synonyms for organic.
you sucked…but its all good
…cubs win!!! cubs win!!!
They should just make rules that any idiot who starts barking and swearing anywhere on the course is out, USCF license revoked for 2 months….one thing people forget is that a bike race can’t happen simply by booking a gym or court for an hour at the local YMCA, you do that then close the doors and swear all you want….you basically are taking up roads that people live on. Some guy who had a bad saturday running errands in the heat who can’t park in his usual spot and has to walk a block past a bunch of guys in tights on bikes doesn’t want to hear some jokers spitting swears in front of his kids. I flatted at housatonic and rode solo, but thanked every highschool kid and cop at every corner, and every single one smiled at me and cheered back and a couple said, "our pleasure"…simple thanks goes a long way….without those people you have no races, and believe me if enough local people call foul you aren’t getting those roads to race on either. Also, the race people are putting on a race…enough bitching about the conditions, if you don’t like them don’t race. Yeah it would have been nice to have those pot holes sealed up at Housatonic, but that’s bike racing….live with it, it’s a classic American northeast attitude of "whaaannn everything is not perfect, that course has crashes, it’s a little bumpy"….enough, stay home and ride your fancy trainer then.
I think its laughable that racers would complain about potholes on a course like Housatonic. First of all it wasn’t even an issue. Second you’ve only got the whole year to take a ride up and pre ride the thing.
When guys complain about the narrow roads and sketchy pavement on miles 3-8 there they should know beforehand its a key to get to the front before you make the right off the main road.
Don’t take the time to prepare for the race just complain after.
I’m not complaining, but my broken collarbone is. Be careful saying "first of all it wasn’t an issue" when it really was. No amount of preparation or pre-riding the course can prepare racers for those ruts. So, if you’re not in the front of the field after the right hand turn, tough cookies?? I do however think the coordinators did the best job they could and were very nice to me after the course chewed me up and spit me into the hospital. I’m sure you are not one of those nice folks that helped me out. Thanks again to Tom from Zephyr for picking me up from the hospital.
Not all children who misbehave need to be medicated. The impression that my wife and I are getting is that there is a selfish desire to find a quick fix. WBR LeoP