These are the photos from the Tompkins Sq Park Checkpoint where the racers were asked to strike a pose for the camera.
Archive for December, 2007
So you thought everyone forgot this year? Hell no. For those who don’t know what this race is about, here’s the scoop: A cheap, fun, fast, hectic race for those who usually don’t race, for those who race and don’t place, and most of all, for the ALLEYCAT VIRGINS. You know who you are.
Always in the top five? Come out and drink. Top ten? Come out and race. DFLs and rookies, dilettantes and wallflowers, come show your shit! Win some cash, win some booze, get reckless at the last race of 2007.
Cash prizes:
1st: 50%
2nd: 35%
3rd: 15%
And a SHINING GOLDEN ANDRE for top 5!!!
Short and sweet. Six checkpoints, all Manhattan, cash prizes. FIVE DOLLARS TO RACE.
2pm Register at the polo courts, Chrystie and Broome. Show up early, play some polo!
3pm race. It gets dark early, so this thing will be starting on time. You’ll want some time to plan your route, so don’t be late!!
dec. 22nd 1242pm bryant park
ofcourse the organizer has to show up late, but i feel i made a good entrance in my santa outfit. no one got to ice skate because they did not bring any, and if they did the line was insane. 23 people along with the cops showed up to race. i had to make the start a moving one, so instead of starting from bryant park, we rolled down 42 to 5th to 39th and started on 39th and 6th avenue. a little bit of confusion at the begining because the riders had to get there manifest at the main area inside grand central terminal. race got started, riders were of and i went to port authority bus terminal to check on the CP worker. as we were chatting, felipe dan and raf showed up with bikes on there shoulders running through crowded port authority station. 15 minutes later i went home, dropped the donated toys and got the prizes. i headed over to lake side and waited for the finish.
KING rolled around the corner of E 10 st 1st, followed by dan C. and raf negron. both were in the lead until they made a routing error by taking the FDR from 106 down to chrystie and canal st.
CP - bryant park
grand central station - get manifest !
toys r us - 44 +bway
FAO - 58th + 5th
Port Authority - 41 @ 8th avenue
canal + chrystie
lasker rink @ 107 inside central park
lakeside lounge 162 ave B (@ 10 st)
thanks to all the checkpoint people who voluuntered to make this race happen. i donated all the toys to bellevue hospital @ 462 1st avenue. on monday (posting pictures soon)
1. felipe “king” 1:03:00
2. jersey dan 1:03:34
3. rafael negron 1:04:10
4. dave trimble ( dave august) 1:05:32
5. cooper 1:08:00
6. victor 1:09:10
7. jack crank
kennedy red team leader - lost manifest/ DQ
8. andras
9. jason - baltimore (1st OOT)
10. izumi
11. andrew (red)
12. kai
13. fernando
14. heather (1st and only girl who had enough xmas spirit to race)
15. amadeo
16. egan (1st race ?)
no order …. lost the order these guys came in.
dillon - DQ (never finished)
cj
ilia- dc
greg - dc
guess who - thanks for the pictures
craig - philly
here are some pictures courtesy of bill …
jason(1st OOT), felipe (1st overall) bag from crumpler, zoo york gear and a kid robot hoodie, crihs
dan c (2nd) got a sweet manhattan portage bag courtesy of squid from cycle hawk
raf negron (3rd) bag from crumpler
heather (14 overall & 1st girl) schwag* from continuum cycles
also jeff from continuum cycles donated a kids bike.
thanks to the CP people - tone, bill, alex, mike, dylan n julie, jose m (who ddnt know he was doing a checkpoint until felipe yelled at him) lol.
speaking of jose, here are some pictures he took. you can also go to his page and check out the rest ….
http://negativo.org/gallery/Toys%20For%20Tots/
thanks for coming out
Mash Premiere hit baltimore on Dec 8th and a goood crew from NYC showed up.
me victor and dan took an early chinatown bus to baltimore to preride the course, and it
proved to be a smart choice as you will see in a minute.
4 checkpoints and the finish, about 15 miles of racing thru bmores friendly neighborhoods was the
objective. while pre-riding, i incountered a drunk mexican he stumbled infront of he and got wat was coming
to him. “sorry paisano, get the fuck out of my way !”. anyways race started at night (i dont know what the deal is with bmore and night races?). its bad enough to be racing in bmore but at night its even worse. we got the blue light warning, and that got a couple of us a little nervous. basically, if you see a flashing blue light - RUN ! hahaha. so the race started. as usually i quickly got dropped but regained to catch up to the lead group by the 1st CP. going up broadway i quickly caught up to austin dan yatika and the lead bmore crew. nearing the second CP, austin and dan took off. i was riding with yatika and a couple of locals. heading to the reservour, me and a local separated away from the second pack about a good 1/2 block. entering the reservour i over shot it and was caught by the second group. getting to the mall (checkpoint C) our group caught austin and dan cause they could not locate the CP. i was glad i dat i was back with the lead pack, because i had $500 in mind. that was short lived. leaving the mall i could not hope a curve to get to the street and stay with the pack, because of cars entering the mall. pack developed a 2 block lead on me and some of em i would not see towards the end. riding down one of the most scariest st. ive ever been on at night, just motivated me more not to look back and pedal my ass off. going down Carey i needed to catch 5 guys, well 4 cuz alex (frm bmore) came out of nowhere and stood with me to CP - D. being a friendly guy and not trying to mislead him, he was sort of confused where he was going so i pointed him to the right direction. as we were entering CP -D dan yatika and willis(philly) were leavin da CP. iknw i had to have a strong finish to catch em. took pratt the rest of the way and alex had a 1/2 block lead i couldnt regain. along the way, we ran into yatika he followed alex to the finish.
it was a awesome race as always. b more always puts on a good show. after party was awesome, with ramps, BMX, music and mash movie. tricks were awesome. red bull pushed out some cash for pppl to do insane shit. BMX dudes were jumping the stage, doing 180, 360 and bar spins. austin and willis held it down on the track end by jumping 4 foot gap and a 7.5 foot gap(austin).I always have a good time when i go down there.
here are some pictures and results ….
willis ( www.shopgentei.com )
austin ( www.shopgentei.com )
bmx dude - bar spin ( www.shopgentei.com )
here are a couple pictures i took.
1. BMX dude jumping the stage
2. willis
3. eddie
( more pictures to come )
here are some pictures from kevin dillards site www.demoncats.com
oliver and self w/nati bo (4th place)
yatika
alex (2nd) bmore
dan (1st out of town and 1st overall) jersey - haha
$500 cash in hand
other notables
1st BMX and 1st girl ….
results
NYC up on stage. as u can see, we repped hard ….
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now my race is this saturday at noon (reg) 2-30 start @ bryant park
bring your ice skates and skate for free or u can pay for the rental.
lots of prices. registration is a new or unwrapped toy or $10.
proceeds will be donated to toys for tots.
no bridges all in manhattan. bring a lock.
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MONSTERTRACK 9
promo vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nAjPWnWyUg
visit: www.callejeronyc.com for more details
It’s the first day of December and the weather has decided to get all proper winter and shit on us. So waking up at seven in the morning turned out to be pointless. I suppose I should set up the trainer for a bit…
It was new bike day at my house a few weeks ago. I never though I would be riding a bike with carbon cranks or carbon anything for that matter but here I am with a full carbon beast. Took it out to the last road race of the season last weekend and managed a third place finish.
Anyway here it is…
PS Winter training is starting to get pretty regular so here is the deal. Saturday 10am ride to Piermont starts in Williamsburg. Sunday 8am to Gimbals(Google Gimbals Ride for info) and back. Saturday is about 62 miles from door to door. Sunday is about 100 but that can be cut down if you take the train up to the Bronx. The pace is moderate on Saturday most people are on road bikes but a track bike would be fine. Sunday is Road only and the pace during Gimbals ride is fast. If you would like to join for ether of these just get in touch for details. danchabanov@gmail.com