Velochimp: Astrochimp on Cycling

Tour of the Battenkill info from Deiter Drake.

The 2009 Tour of the Battenkill returns on April 18-19, 2009 in the Battenkill Valley of Upstate NY.   Some changes for next year:

Course & venue change to Cambridge, NY (12 mi. south of Salem, NY - site of 2005-2008)
100k / 62 mile [...]

Here are some photos of a recent ride with my new bike a Bianchi L’Una (2006) with SRAM Force gruppo.
Look for a review of the bike soon.

I’m the promotor/co-promoter for the Syracuse Race Weekend again this year. Since last year we changed up quite a bit of the event including moving the date up one week to May 17th and 18th. I added a longer Time Trial and kept it at Song Mountain. A new Crit course is also a major [...]

Photo by Andrew Kozak of Champion Systems

Why is the racer above running in the middle of the pack with his arms up in the air? The series of photos that leads up to that moment on Velocity Nation is impressive. In the Pro 1/2/3 race at Prospect Park(?) in NYC on July 29th. As [...]

Chris Thater Memorial Criterium happened Saturday and Sunday down in Binghamton, NY. This is one of the oldest races on the Calendar and one of the most prestigious. Top pro men and women come out and this year the event was even on TV.
My event was the Category 4/5 race which goes under the [...]

Photo by Dan Darkins

Mixing things up in a Criterium is probably the diciest form of bike racing there is. Except of course if you are Lucas Brunelle, but that is a whole ‘nother category of craziness. For the Weekend Warrior such as myself a Crit is as close as you will get to total chaos. [...]

Bummer Sunday morning. One of myfavorite low key races from last year was the Rome Circuit Race and Concrete Crit. The low key two event race was fun. The Colavita team got a win in the Crit with Rob Walters, and I got to finally mix it up in a race instead of trying to [...]

via Kottke.org…A Wall Street Journal article about athletes who work hard at winning trophies. They don’t train hard running or biking, but searching online and gauging the competition. ASome athletes are going to smaller lesser known races to win a trophy. They carpetbag the smaller events in order to win. Watching where your competitors go [...]

The Rochester Twilight Criterium just keeps getting bigger each year. This year the race moved up to a UCI 1.2 grade event. The crowds seemed bigger and the action in the pro race was fun to watch. The Downtown Rochester course is one of my favorites with the various twists and turns. Its just plain [...]

The inaugural Inner Harbor TT was setup to replace the Street Sprints from last year. The course winds through a creekwalk area and goes into a parking lot. I had someone (Wagner Construction) build a ramp for the race. The only problem is that the ramp should have been four times bigger than it was. [...]