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6racing goes cross racing.

Published by Dan on April 13, 2008 in Events and Races. 2 Comments

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.

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King gets his crown back !

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

panorama.jpgdec. 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

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dan c (2nd) got a sweet manhattan portage bag courtesy of squid from cycle hawk

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raf negron (3rd) bag from crumpler

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heather (14 overall & 1st girl) schwag* from continuum cycles

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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/

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thanks for coming out

La Bruja

Published by 6Racing on October 30, 2007 in Races. 0 Comments

The Halloween weekend in NYC is always epic and 2007 was no exception. Whatever your in the mood for its happening here. Want to race bikes that go no where? Well Friday night was your chance. Chris Kim provided the bikes and the fastest legs in this city went at it. Corry the Courier vs. Felipe the King… Watching people ride nowhere was never this exiting. In the end Felipe was still the king. But Crihs still managed to crash a bike that wasn’t moving. Which in it self is somewhat of an accomplishment. The night finished off with the awards ceremony for the longest and toughest race series New York City has ever seen. Five races in five boroughs. Team Six took the top two spots in the GQ with Dan C. taking the title and Crihs holding it down in second. Crihs and Dan teamed up in Queens with Crihs taking home the yellow jersey for that race and then Pablo joined the squad in Brooklyn along with Kyle from DQM and Andrew Toews to win the team completion by one point. Kym joined the leftovers to hold down second place team in Brooklyn. The sprinters crown also went to Dan C with Pablo grabbing second place sprinter with only doing three out of five races. I cold go on forever. This series took five months there are just too many highlights(Kym finishing Broadway Bombing with a bloody hand to just nab 1st place away from Heidi).
Saturday, people could ether race their hearts out in the 13th annual Halloween race or drink and destroy at the 5th annual Black Label Bike Kill block party. About thirty people came out to Fort Green Park in Brooklyn under rainy sky’s to contest the race. About 300 people came out to Bike Kill a few blocks north to drink and break things. Around four the racers took off. Racing too ten different checkpoints spread out over Manhattan and Brooklyn as far north as One Hundred and Seventh St. and FDR and as far south as Seven Hanover Sq. Felipe, Rafael Negron, Dan C, and Andrew Toews raced to the Brooklyn Bridge to hit Seven Hanover sq first. After hitting two more checkpoints on the lower east side, the four being trailed by Lucas Brunnelle(http://www.digave.com/videos/) skidded in to Continuum Cycles to get their manifest stamped by Jeff. Then it was a nightly four block drag race to One Hundred Seven St and the FDR. After Twenty Three miles Dan C out sprinted Felipe the King in the last few blocks to arrive at Bike Kill first.
Sunday everyone got to relax and sleep in late.