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. … [...]
(Continue reading)This past weekend’s Redlands Bicycle Classic in California was the National Racing Calendar (NRC) opener. Many of the best teams in the US were there, including New York City’s CRCA/Foundation, which sent Lisban Quintero, Gavriel Epstein, Eugene Boronow, Alejandro Guzman, Daniel Estevez, and Joshua Alexander. Epstein was the highest Foundation rider on final GC, in [...]
(Continue reading)Dan Chabanov of Adler won the third Red Hook Criterium in Brooklyn tonight, outsprinting a group of four for the win. Read my full race report on VeloNews.com. Official results: 1. Dan Chabanov 2. John “K-Tel” Kniesley 3. Al Barouh 4. Chris Thormann 5. Pavel Marosin 6. Matthew “Tio” Arleck 7. Brean Shea 8. John-Taki [...]
(Continue reading)What a week it’s been. Rather busy for me, and I hope for you, too. Before week three smacks us in the face, let’s reflect on week two. [Cue sounds of thunder and loud winds and whiny bike racers and carbon rims gettin’ all squeaky.] Grant’s Tombage It started with Saturday’s Grant’s Tomb. I had [...]
(Continue reading)“The Unifying Machine” is a collection of work by a group of artists that have been connected through the ‘”machine’s” power to create community through a common ground. This art exhibition will take place at a converted workspace loft at 141 Beard St, Building 12 B in Red Hook Brooklyn from March 18 to 21 [...]
(Continue reading)VeloNews.com contributor Evan Cooper offers a report of the wet, windy, and wild racing that took place on the Upper West Side yesterday at the Grant’s Tomb Criterium. Read the article, “Gen. Grant’s wrath comes down upon Eastern collegiates,” here.
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