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This was a big weekend for Boston Bicycle School at the TD Bank Mayor’s Cup at the 7th annual Hub On Wheels events at the Boston Cycling Celebration.
To start the day off, we were awarded a check from TD Bank in the amount of $10,000 to support Boston Bicycle School and our after-school programs. It was a welcome surprise that we were not expecting. Many thanks to TD Bank and everything you have done to encourage cycling in our community.
Racing started off with our Juniors. Terence, Gavin, Max, and Tiara all took to the streets of Boston for their very first race. Everyone kept the rubber down and had a great time. I’m sure their ears are still ringing from all the cowbells from the fans in the crowd.
Up next in the Men’s race was Robbie, Matt, Kevin, and Jake. The guys had a hard, fast race around City Hall plaza. With many big names in the race, everyone held their own and lined up to put Robbie in 14th for the final result.
Many thanks to all of the sponsors, volunteers, and participants who made the races and festivities happen.
Robbie, Kevin, Jake, Harrison, Andrew, and Josh all headed up to race in Portsmouth, NH over the weekend at the 7th Annual Smuttynose Brewing Co. Portsmouth Criterium. It was a tough race, but none of the breaks survived, so the race ended in a pack sprint. As he always does in Portsmouth, Robbie found his way on to the podium placing 3rd in the sprint.
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The Krempels King of the Road Challenge is a fundraising event on October 15th, 2011 for the Krempels Center, a Portsmouth NH based nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of people living with brain injury from trauma, tumor or stroke.
This event has a special connection to our team, through our very own Robbie King (To support Robbie directly, donate here).
Please support the cause by joining in on the ride on October 15th, making a donation, and checking out kingchallenge.org and the event’s Facebook page.
I headed up to the Donovan-Ruhlman Naugatuck Criterium this weekend. The combination of a 50 miles, and hot weather made for good racing. With a smaller field I was certain a break would stick and on lap 2 I found myself off the front with 6 others including David Wenger the current Elite Crit champ. Immediately the field start to split and 6 others split off to pursue us, coming as close as 15 seconds before fading. Shortly after the mid way point we made contact with the field. The 6 of us each tried our hand at starting another move, but everything was shut down by the field. Due to the slow pace, the second group of 6 chasers lapped the field as well, putting a total of 12 riders 1 lap up. CCB, CCNS, and Bikereg had the numbers both in the field and the break and kept the speed up in the closing laps. Peter Hurst made a last lap bid to steal the show until a CCNS rider attacked 500m out at the base of the small rise. I followed and we quickly had a gap. I bided my time and jumped with 250m to go to win a few bike lengths off the front a chasing field.
Pro 1/2/3 50 miles 55 starters
Place Bib Time First Name Last Name Team City State
1 Colin Jaskiewicz Boston Bicycle School Montclair NJ
2 Luciano Bezerra Navone Studios Bridgeport CT
3 Alister Ratcliff BikeReg.com / Cannondale Durango CO
4 David Wenger Super Squadra
5 Jeff Buckles Capital Velo Club Glastonbury CT
Schooled on Boston is a fundraising ride for Boston Bicycle School (BBS). BBS is a club that organizes and runs an after-school cycling program for Boston area 14-18 year old high school students. Our mission is to propagate the joys of cycling and develop young riders; allowing them a chance at success, while emphasizing that riding bikes is fun and healthy.
The ride will take place almost entirely in the City of Boston and will include city streets, bike paths, winding country roads, hills, and pass by beaches and forested parks. Come experience and eye opening, guided ride of Boston followed by a BBQ with free food and frosty beverages. Best of all, you will be helping urban youth find the joys of cycling.
Check out the Schooled in Boston page for all of the details.
Lots of news and updates for Boston Bicycle School today!
First, we recently recieved our team kits, so keep an eye out. Order one Here
Second, check out the Boston Bicycle School Team page which includes bios for all of our riders, and links to all of our awesome sponsors.
Finally, we added a Photos page, starting off with pictures from our After School program.
While the rest of the crew was busy at the Purgatory Road Race in Massachusetts, I stayed local and raced at the inaugural Historic Riverton Criterium. Now if you’re wondering how an inaugural event can be historic, legend has it that starting in 1895 there was a race from Manhattan to the Riverton waterfront held on the same weekend. Hopefully this race will continue to promoted as it offered something you rarely see in the New York metro area, a technical criterium. With six turns in one kilometer I knew this race would be won from a small break early on. From the start I stayed top five and by the fifth lap seven of us had a gap. With three Van Dessel, two Stan’s No Tubes, a Philadelphia Ciclismo rider and myself we had the right mix to drive the break. As quickly as the break formed we had forty-five seconds on the field, only to be held up by a crash on a tricky turn in which we lost a Stan’s No Tubes rider. This turned out to be bad news for the break as now Stan’s and G.S. Mengoni were driving the field behind us. As the laps ticked down so did our advantage, at fifteen laps to go we had roughly fifteen to twenty seconds. A small attack by myself spit the last Stan’s rider out of the break and gave us about twenty seconds to work with in the closing four laps, it was my goal to attempt to split the Van Dessel riders up before the finish, but with the field closing in, I hesitated and kept the breaks momentum going.
Going into the bell lap with a fifteen second gap the game of cat and mouse started. With three riders, Van Dessel was the first to send one off, which was quickly neutralized by myself. After some more attacks that were quickly subdued we were approaching the final corner looking at each other. Suddenly Bill Elliston of Van Dessel jumped to the last corner, I followed but he had a small gap going into it already. I opened up my sprint and was gaining fast, but it was too late. Second place.
Looking back I should have attacked the group, I was the strongest rider and driving force in the break. I ended up underestimating my strength and leaving it too late.
If you believe in yourself, you will know how to ride a bike!
BBS gets second with Robbie. Vinnie and he were in the break early and worked hard together to keep it going.
Great work!
Josh?
