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Crihs wins valentines day race and comes in 2nd overall in boston

Published by Chris on March 18, 2008 in General. 1 Comment

thursday feb. 14th at tompkins was the start of the valentines day race. cali and yatika organized this event and about 30 people participated. it started shorlty after 630 and from the begining it seemed like it was going to be a fast race. I was the first person to Continuum to get my folder which you had to use to collect the items at each checkpoint. after continuum, the first checkpoint was on 17th off 3rd at another bike shop. i over shot 17th and took 18th to second and then got back on to 17th st. after that checkpoint, we went up third avenue to 60th st. Raf, andrew t cooper and myself were pretty much riding together. raf tried to lose use, but was not too successful. going to the love sign on 55st and 6th, i had lost andrew and cooper. i later learned that cooper got a flat at 60th, so it was just me and raf in the lead. we kept taking different ways to get to the next checkpoint. he would always leave the previous CP first but, i would always get to the next one first. at billys bakery where we met bill’thy, i fumbled my newspaper which caused me to be a good 3 blocks behind raf with 2 checkpoints plus the finish to go. next stop was crumpler and we had gotten there at the same time, i got out of there first and took a brief lead going to 10th and broadway. Nearing the finish line at lakeside, i had a avenue lead on 3rd which was quickly shortened to a couple of feet by the time we had arrived to avenue A. from ave A to B on 10th st. it was a sprint finish which raf won. he got to the finish first but did not hand in all his material inside the envelope as cali made clear at the start of the race. it was a good race and well organized. great job guys.

here are the checkpoints

cps: start @ 10th and b in the handball courts
1 continum cycles
2 141 east 17th-manhattan velo
3 18 West 27th-elite couriers
4 1350 6th ave
5 151 E 60th-mariella’s pizzza
6 315 west 38th-City bikes (btwn 8th and 9th
7 184 9th ave(somewhere near 15th?i dont remeber)
8 49 8th ave-Crumpler store
9 The church @ 10th and Broadway

and it finished at lakeside

some results ….

1. crihs

2. raf

3. victor

4. mattio

5. andrew t.

11. heidi (1st girl)

2nd girl. heather

3rd. katy

*no other results were available

heres the video to the race

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZINxj4gom4w

BOSTON -pony UP !

took a bus out saturday (2.23) at around 1 raining not looking forward to the trip. im not a big fan of boston and riding the maze like grid it offers, then theres the rain and left over snow. got there, chilled at jacobs and got some info of the whole bet thing. not that many people were hanging out but as it came closer to race time, it got packed. i placed an extra $10 on to locals who i thought had a good shot of winning. i was not trying to place extra bets on myself, that would be a bad idea considering i always have bad races there. there were about 35+ races registered and people had there money on there pony’s. the race started in chinatown with no manifest. we had to ride 5 miles out in the suburbs to get your manifest and hed back into the downtown area. there was a $50 prim which Dan C. got. leaving the house, we were a group of 7 riders - 4 of the favorites were riding with us leading the way. All the checkpoints were basically in the downtown area, with one being a bit out of the way. by the time we got to the checkpoint that was the furthest out, it was just lucas, pete r., dan and myself. nearing the last checkpoint, dan took a nasty spill because of the snow, but he got up and was ok. not realize that i had hit the last checkpoint, i saw lucas roll-out and i quickly followed him. pete and dan were right behind me. not able to close the gap between me and lucas, he got to the apt. first and handed over his stuff to the organizers. victor thought he was finished, but did not realize that you had to hit the finish checkpoint twice so he went back out and did so. pete came in 3rd and dan c. followed. went downstairs to find my bike in a pile of snow with a broken fender. pete came down as i was asking who had done it and he said he accidently stepped on it. it was all good. hes a veteran, he can do that. haha. so the party started, DJ, $1 beer, free red bull and the social scene. got some chinese food and waited for the awards. after everyone got there prize, people started to have some fun. The after party was insane. It got crowded around 1.30 - 2, because boston bars close early so i guess this was the spot to be. it lasted well in to the morning. DIPLO came through and was spinning some records. around 430 AM, the party moved upstairs. i was still wide awake. 7 am me victor and craig were still awake and hungry, so we went to the diner and got some food. i got on a 830 bus back to NYC while everyone else stayed in the bean. thanks to jacobs for a great race and a awesome time in boston ….

RESULTS

1. lucas

2. crihs (1st out of town)

3. pete r.

4. dan c (2nd out of town)

5. jonathan

6. craig r

… 9. victor (3rd out of town)

again NYC comes through and runs the out of town by placing 3 guys in the top 10)

here are some pictures i took

pony up the cash !

dan’s chin

party time

cutie pies

Diplo

aftermath

more pictures.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/crihs/

Dan wins Capital Crimes Alleycat

Published by Chris on February 5, 2008 in General. 1 Comment

Jersey dan beat out chris cali despite cali getting to the 1st and last checkpoint before the finish at Continuum Cycles (199 avenue B).

Alleycat started at the polo courts. with about 30 people registered, the race got under way around 330. First checkpoint (which was mandatory to hit 1st) was the Main Post office over on 31st and 8th. Cali set the pace by getting there 1st, followed shortly by dan. link got there 3rd and the pack of me dave cooper came in as dan and cali were leaving. Second CP was 23rd and 11th. Everyone pretty much split there own way. i saw dave link and cooper. at this point dan and cali had left. I took 10th up to Central park south where i entered at 7th avenue. Got out the park on 90th and zig zagged my way to jacks house on 120 n 1st. As i got there dan was taking off, i went in jacks building and there were a pile of bikes in his tiny walk up building. i was 6th at this point and wouldnt really make ground on anyone. Leavinf jacks, i could see dave and cooper, but a block behind them i saw link. I got a skitch of this SUV for a good 10 blocks that let me catch link who was like 6 blocks ahead. we rode together from mid 80s to 59 st where he was more aggressive and dive through oncoming queensbridge traffic.

the rest of the way i would play catch up but getting caught at every major street intersection did not help. they grew a good lead on me. On Bowery and Worth i saw dan going to the finish. As i got to 60 centre (supreme courts) dave link and coop’ were on there way to the finish. I took a different route hoping that i would come in 2nd or 3rd. Wasnt ment to be. I did not know cali was on dans tail and coop dave nd link were a good minute ahead of me.

It was a good race considering i had not race since Cranksgiving. Thanks to Alex and Victor for this own.

Pictures below by fred askew ( www.fredaskew.com )

here are the check points

start- polo courts broome and chrystie

main post office - 31st n 8th

chelsea park - 23rd n 11th

jacks house - 120 n 1st

supreme court - 60 centre @ worth

FINISH - continuum cycles 199 ave B @ 13 st.

start

winner winner

Dave and coopers bike

Cali thought he had it (bummed)

dan and cooper (btw - kids 15)

inside continuum after the race

~~RESULTS~~

Dan 1:00
cali 1:01
cooper 1:02
dave 1:02
link 1:03
crihs 1:03
izumi 1:05
j.t 1:08
hiromi 1.11
10th - prentice 1.11
nick williams 1.12
heather 1.12 - 1st girl
andreas 1.15
nicola 1.15
kyle 1.15
luke DQ lost manifest
graham 1.16
brittlee 1.19 2nd female
heather 1.19 3rd female
C.J 1.21
gabe 1.22
fernando DQ raced-went to work and came to finish)
ben 1.34
julian 1.35
takuya late(japan)
takashi DFL (japan)eventualy made it.we asked about him thinkign he was lost but went toall checkpoints and at finish was telling me how there was noone at the checkpoints and i pointed out tot him that the checkpoint crew was drinkign right infront of him

28 registered/26 finished 2 m.i.a. (olga and ray)

King gets his crown back !

Published by Chris on December 26, 2007 in General, News and Races. 0 Comments

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)

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

Update: ABCD race, Toys for tots and MT9

Published by Chris on December 16, 2007 in General. 2 Comments

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.

_______________________________________________

MONSTERTRACK 9

promo vid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nAjPWnWyUg

visit: www.callejeronyc.com for more details

STOLEN !!!!

Published by Chris on November 8, 2007 in Announcements and General. 1 Comment

so today my point and shoot camera was stolen.

-canon silver point and shoot 510

-zoom lens (4x)

-strap

-256kb memory card

wasnt locked =(

haha but really it was stolen. some asshole decided to ask me if i was okay and then walked off with my camera as i was arguing with another asshole who cut me off, which led to me going head over heels. so today while i was working, going down bway, I get to 26 and i see this benz pull up to this parking lot. i was moving along with traffic when he decides to adjust and pull out without looking if anyone was in the bike lane, forcing me to avoid him which then led me to get pinned between a cab. my handlebars got tangled and came towards me which then stopped my bike in a instant. next thing you know i was on the ground, cam and cell as well. bike seat and handle bars twisted i get up and was seconds away to throwing my U through his window then i thought about getting arrested for the samething a month back so i decided to call the cops. in the between me arguing with dude, i see this walker walk up to me and ask me if im alright then walk away. i guess as he was walking away he saw my cam and walked off with it. if i see u on the st. you better hope u dont have dat camera on you.

cops came, dude was gone. filed a report, dropped two packages and then took the rest of the day off. f-ing dickhead drivers.

IF YOU SEE A SILVER BENZ with plates ISIAH54 delaware. break his mirror for me or at least let me know and ill do it …..

Mash premiere alleycat & movie

Published by Chris on November 7, 2007 in General. 2 Comments

Probably the most anticipated track bike movie over made, the East Coast M.A.S.H premiere was finally here.

Some SF dudes made the trip for the premiere. this was awesome, because i wanna to see how they rode in NYC traffic.

The alleycat started at the polo courts (broome & chrystie/forsyth). With a good turn out in hand, i was siked to race because of the talent that had came out to participate. The likes of austin, yatika, dan and newcomer raf negron to name a few. After a delay waiting for a racer, race started just as quick as they said go, about 30+ racers were off !

first check point was Tompkins sqr. park, so i was the only one to hit essex/ave A. i got slowed down at houston st because i did not have the light. As this happened i saw the lead pack making the left onto Avenue A from houston. I knew i had to catch out quick if i wanted to be in contention. I got to the checkpoint and caught up to austin as he slipped and partially fell exiting Tompkins. Garret (mash) was with us as we raced up 1st. avenue and caught the rest of the pack. 2nd checkpoint being 52nd n 6th, we made da left on 23rd and headed up six. i followed dan wrong way up bway, to 24th to see austin and raf fly by going up six. With a half block lead, i lost the lead group in 6th ave traffic and i had to catch up. not really thinking, i went to 53 and 6th before i saw 2nd group (yatica & co.) roll in. 1st one out, i went down 52 and wrong way’d it up 7th to 55 and then wrong it up bway to the circle. thinking this over, i should of headed up six into the park all the way to lenox and 110. but instead i took Central park west all the way up. Fearing i was a good 5min back, i stepped on it to make some ground on dan raf doug n austin which would crash before heading to the upper west side CP’s. i hit lenox n 110 instead of skate park at 108 (in riverside) like the rest. i met up with doug along the way and went up riverside drive to 79 round-about. got on the highway and never looked back. bumper to bumper traffic def helped. doug sporting a da capability to coast took off on me about 57 ramp where the highway goes down to st level. with a 2-3 block lead i tried catching a skitch which was succesful for about ten blocks, but the mother driving the car politely asked if i could get of so i did. hahahaaa. doug nowhere in site i just tried to mantain good speed. at about canal raf rolls past me with some speed cruisin. i tried to catch up and maintained the fast pace he set in the middle lanes. making a pre-mature turn of the highway on barclay(i believe) and i made the turn on albany after all da WTC construction and ped traffic. hitting the CP 2nd and seconds ahead of raf i took off up exchange place, threw new and up broad st to wall. wall to water were i saw dan sprinting about 3 blocks behind me with raf right behind him. i was trying to lose, so i got off the saddle. rright at the Brooklyn bridge, i got jammed by a van and raf passed me but overshot the entrance. since i knew were i was goin i took second, luckily !

won some needed money (2 cash. $100 2nd nd $100 1st track), gshock and some kicks. swt !

me cash

good job DOUG (1st)

doug (1st)

2. crihs, 3. dan, 4. raf negron, 5. andrew n 6. yatika

thanks to kyle, brad, DQM, trackstar, MASH and ev one who had to do something with the premiere which was FReee !

now to the movie. the camera work was insane ! there were some awesome parts in the movie. my fav to riders from the clips were prb demarco, massan, dirt and joe(who ddnt get enough air time)

btw this dude came and concord at the banks. i didnt see anything but i heard it was pretty insane. vids on youtube.

j.martinez photo

check out j.martinez blog for more pictures

http://negativo.org/

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Crihs wins valentines day race and comes in 2nd overall in boston

Dan wins Capital Crimes Alleycat

King gets his crown back !

Update: ABCD race, Toys for tots and MT9

STOLEN !!!!

Mash premiere alleycat & movie

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