Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Kissena Velodrome | Track Bike Race | Team Sprints
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Framebuilding Class
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Move with Your Friends
Le Tour de France 2011 is now over. I watched 19 out of 21 stages. A Nyack ride and the Kissena International Omnium came up during the other 2. Like many cycling fans, I get excited as the mountain stages approach.
Here are a few scenarios that always come to mind:
Will Alberto Contador turn it on and drop the field like he did on Mount Etna at this year’s Giro?
Chris Horner showed he was stronger than all on the Sierra Road climb at the Tour of California. Perhaps we’ll see an American on the podium in France this year?
What about the Schlecks?
Back in March, just a day before the Red Hook Crit, I ran into Al Barouh riding at Prospect Park. As I was winding down and he was warming up, I remember telling him Cadel Evans would win it all. It’s true. Ask him.
Now that we’re up to speed on my love of cycling, I want to tell you about my good ol’ buddy Nick - the man who pushed me to go farther and faster on my bike. He basically called me a giant pussy without having to say a word. Thanks to Nicky Boy, I started racing the Boogie Nights series at Prospect Park last fall. Unfortunately, his 6-month internship at a Soho design house was up and he went back to his hometown in Canada. I continued to ride as hard as I could throughout the most brutal winter in years. Running into Eric “A-YO” Walker certainly helped. I think we were the only crazy fuckers out there in the park banging out laps while it was 20 degrees out. Summer finally shows up and I start racing as a cat 5 at Kissena Velodrome. I recently got upgraded to a cat 4 and now I’m really having a blast.
Nick returns to New York this week, so we invited everyone we know with a bike to join us for a ride to Bear Mountain. Most of my riding buddies here in NY haven’t encountered anything resembling a real hill or mountain. You know the kind with a sign at the bottom that says “Muthafuckin Hill”. This Saturday, it’s fucking on! I’m excited to see who sets the pace, who crushes the mountain and who gets dropped! It’s not "le tour". It’s better because it’s with your friends.