Greg Olsen of Adler beat breakaway companion Chad Butts of Champion System at the Bethel Spring Series Pro-1-2-3 criterium. View results at Carpe Diem Racing. Photos below best viewed via PicLens, then in full screen.
(Continue reading)Evans King of the Mur at Fleche Wallone Despite race organizers’ attempts to stave off the typical “sprint” finish at the midweek Fleche Wallonne classic, today’s race did indeed end with a big bunch hitting the bottom of the famed Mur de Huy. Of course, a sprint up the Huy is akin to watching a [...]
(Continue reading)Contador Drives From Spain to Belgium Because of Volcano As the Icelandic volcano continues to wreak travel havoc across Europe, some pro riders are taking matters into their own hands. After wrapping up the overall Sunday at the Vuelta a Castilla y Leon, Alberto Contador hopped into his custom-painted Audi wagon and drove 1,900 k [...]
(Continue reading)BOOK YOUR ZIPCAR NOW. Here’s the preliminary 2010 UCI cyclocross calendar for the New England/Mid-Atlantic (plus Nats). OK, cross is still five months away, but if you’re like me you’ll have these race dates memorized soon enough. There will of course be dozens of other races in the region (and we’ll be sure to bring [...]
(Continue reading)Caleb Fairly of Holowesko Partners Wins Pro Battenkill Race—NYC racer Pavel Gonda 14th Covered in dirt from a day battling the elements on unpaved roads, Caleb Fairly of Garmin’s U23 team Holowesko Partners won the inaugural UCI-ranked Tour of the Battenkill race yesterday. Fairly dispatched Floyd Landis (Bahati Foundation) on the day’s final climb and [...]
(Continue reading)Editor’s note: Sal Scotto is a Cat. 1 rider in the US. For the past few years Sal rode for New York–based GS Mengoni. He got an offer to race in Belgium this season with team Revor-Baboco, headed by three-time world cyclocross champion Erwin Vervecken, who’s focusing on the road this year. Sal’s been sending [...]
(Continue reading)Rolling up to Week No. 7 of road racing in NYC … But wasn’t Paris-Roubaix the most boring in years? I mean, Cancellara was awesome, as was Cervelo Test Team, but, um, kinda not very exciting. Almost an afterthought coming a week after the battle at Flanders, which was much more to my liking. Still, [...]
(Continue reading)Greg Donovan (Kissena) won the 2010 Tour of the Battenkill Cat. 4 (white field) race on Saturday. About mile 30 of the 62-mile up-and-down course he sprinted off the front of the main field and never looked back. He soloed across the line with a winning time of 2:59:35, a minute and a half ahead [...]
(Continue reading)Brooklyn-based Kissena Cycling Club has confirmed its sponsored races for 2010. See the schedule on the Kissena Web site. Kissena race director Charlie Issendorf also announced that the three races planned for Governors Island have been canceled. In addition, a tentatively planned race on the campus at the SUNY–Old Westbury has also been scrapped. Issendorf [...]
(Continue reading)Though a good many seem to already know, Bike Snob NYC is Eben Oliver Weiss. It was announced officially in a New York Times blog post today. The Times said Weiss “plans to reveal himself in a series of public appearances in May to be Eben Oliver Weiss, a former literary agent from Brooklyn. … [...]
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