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Bike Week Reflection on the Popularity of the Sport.
One of the advocates for Bike Week recently asked me if I thought that competitive cycling was going to become more popular. I didn’t have an answer, but it got me thinking. Would it be a good thing if bicycle racing "blew up?"I have lived through the blowing up of one subculture activity already. I have retched as the passion and its asthetic was appropriated and abused by the masses. In the
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There Is a First For Everything: RMM Issues Apology
Dear Team, I hate apologizing. Mostly, I avoid it. So, why am I apologizing this time? Because I hurt people who I care about. In my last post (deleted) I hurt Ryan O’Hara and I hurt my team. When I originally put up the offending post, I didn’t think it through. When the negative comments started rolling in, I treated them as the usual disgruntled idiots who always post
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Announcement: New England Velodrome Opens Tomorrow 5/5/09
Tuesday is beginner night with C and D races.Wednesday is advanced night with A and B races. Racing begins around 6pm both nightsBikes are available rent if you don’t have a track bike. Generally there is a train that leaves Cambridge around 4 on both nights if you need a ride. Hit me up if you are interested in joining. I will be there on Wednesday to challenge all A riders (and then
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Race Report: Jiminy Peak Cat 3 2009
We should have won. We had all of the bases covered. We had climbers sitting in, sprinters willing to detonate themselves controlling the final miles of the race and an attacker getting into breaks. We were coming off a stellar performance last weekend and we were confident in our team as a whole and individually. Jiminy peak consists of a climb and a descent. You descend 4 times and climb 3
