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Pete Senia Memorial is last fling for many New York roadies in 2009

Pete Senia Memorial is last fling for many New York roadies in 2009

This Sunday those local roadies with anything left in their legs will line up in Prospect Park for one of the last road races of the season, the Pete Senia Memorial Bike Race. According to the race Web site, here are reasons to enter the last fling of the season: Register at BikeReg.com Great Brooklyn [...]

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Kissena posts 2010 road schedule

The Kissena Cycling Club has announced its scheduled road races for 2010. The tentative list includes 35 races in various locations throughout the New York City area. In addition to the ongoing race series at Brooklyn’s Prospect Park and Floyd Bennett Field, a third race will take place on Governors Island, the Governors Island Cycling [...]

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Calling cycling reporters, writers, and photographers

Photo by Fotoreporter Sirotti

CyclingReporter.com, a new Web site that covers a slice of the bike racing scene in the New York City area and beyond through race reports, photographs, and articles, is looking for reporters, writers, and photographers. Want to share your last race experience with a growing audience of passionate bike racers? Do you take pictures at [...]

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Boogie Nights: Fixed-gear race series returns to Prospect Park

Boogie Nights: Fixed-gear race series returns to Prospect Park

Kissena Cycling Club member Al Barouh is running a Friday-night race series in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. “Boogie Nights” starts is scheduled to run from Oct. 2 to Oct. 30. Riders are asked to meet at 9 p.m. at the Grand Army Plaza entrance of the park. “The event is a strictly fixed-gear series that blends [...]

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New York phenom Evelyn Stevens confirms at World Championships

New York phenom Evelyn Stevens confirms at World Championships

I just can’t get enough of the Evelyn Stevens story. She started racing in July 2008. Yesterday she finished 15th in the women’s World Championship road race. She wasn’t pack fodder either. Stevens worked hard, chasing down breaks for team captain Armstrong and helping to whittle down the field with a blistering pace over the [...]

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My first cyclocross season and other hairbrain schemes

My new preowned—and first—cyclocross bike: the LeMond Poprad. Got it off Craigslist for a song. Just add mud.

Finally, I’m going to give cross a go. Just wish I had a car. So far I’m doing seven races, in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Long Island, and good old New York City. It’s probably a crazy schedule considering I’ve never done a cyclocross race. And it’s probably a crazy thing considering I’ve never [...]

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Sketch: Merlin Agilis

Merlin Agilis sketch by Leslie Steiger

Thanks to Leslie Steiger for this sketch of my Merlin Agilis.

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