Well kinda…
Its deep in to road season, cross has been over for a while and there was certainly no USCF officials. Good thing since there was maybe one or two bikes that would have been legal. Most people were riding their normal track bikes with 23c slicks. The winner road a carbon mountain bike. A few people had the foresight to put knob’s on their bikes. The course a four mile loop around Randals Island had us wading through a small river, a sand pit, mud, rock pits, more mud, gravel, grass, and even more mud. The top five finished in about an hour with the winning speed averaging out to a blistering 8mph.
My race went like this.
Lap 1: My non-drive side crank arm fell off.
Lap 2: I got lost.
Lap 3: I crashed.
Lap 4: I did everything right passed like 12 people and got 5th. Crihs took 2nd and in my mind 1st since riding a carbon mountain bike was really not the point of this event.
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!!
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
Published by Dan on November 4, 2007
in News.
So while at interbike Squid got drunk with a bunch of heads from Chrome Bags and they came up with the idea of a making a bike messenger card deck to the benefit the BMA’s of four cities. The cities are New York, San Francisco, Portland and Chicago. Each city will have thirteen messengers pictured on the various cards and each city will have its own suit. I hear NYC has dibs on spades…
Rumor has it Chrome will make five thousand decks and they are going to sell for ten bucks a deck.
While I was at the photo shoot I managed to finagle the top ten finishers for the 13th annual Halloween race from Victor. Times were a bit sketchy so I wont include them. But here is the top ten with a few of my personal comments.
NYC 13th Annual Halloween Race
1st Dan Chabanov *Edged Felipe for the win in the last few blocks.
2nd Felipe The King *Caught a massive skitch over the Williamsburg Bridge to put him self back in contention.
3rd Andrew Toews *Don’t sleep on this guy. Third 3rd place finish in a row for him.
4th Ralph N. *Was in the lead after the bridge but got lost in Brooklyn.
5th Chris Cali
6th Yatica
7th Brantley
8th Dominican Chris
9th Cooper *Heard this kid was like 15?!?
10th Wesley
1st Girl Heather M.
Another Halloween Race come and gone. Till next year you ghouls.
The next race in NYC is yet another classic. So don’t miss Cranksgiving on Nov 17th.
More details soon.
