A complete list of events I have thrown or covered or had a ton of fun being a part of. Enjoy!
LA Fixed Gear Circuit Race: Re-Cap
I raced the first ever sanctioned fixed gear crit this past Sunday at the LA Circuit Race with my CBNC teammates Greg, Dusty and Zoe. I feel blessed to have been invited to take part in such a race and while there were a few bugs, I look forward to more of these and I hope it becomes a normal type of event at sanctioned races.
Greg and Kelli warming up.
Our fellow teammate Kelli came out and dominated her Road crit as well, she is one to watch out for…
The race was supposed to be two laps on a mile course with two slight uphills, then it got knocked down to a one lap, four mile, hammer fest due to time restrictions (bummertown). There was a slight issues with the brakes, all track bikes or single speeds had to have two brakes, not too many people did… James Z handled it and we were off to the races.
There was a crash in the pack which took Zoe out (those involved are good to go) and kind of shook everyone up, but in the end Tony Z won on a sprint to take the win.
There was a raffle afterwards and Greg and I both came away with STTB t-shirts, which saved us from begging Kyle for one. Hahaha. There was room for improvement with this type of race and I look forward to the next one. We as the fixed gear racers felt a little out-of-place and the looks and questions from the crowd were great. I must have heard the word Fixie or fixed gear about a thousand types yesterday and I think two of the best quotes on the race rules from the officials were “you can’t race with bags on and take of your lights”. Props to James Z for organizing this and thanks to the Bahati Foundation for putting it on.
675 Alleycat: Re-cap
Super fun and fast Alleycat Friday. It consisted of all seven bridges downtown and a killer route to hit each one. Seven Checkpoints at the end of each bridge, where you just had to grab a playing card and keep hustling to the next one. That really was the point of the race, get each checkpoint. Unfortunately, the front pack blew by the first one and then blew by most of the rest of the checkpoints. Just as I caught up to the front pack, I saw they missed the first one, so I just chilled and then hooked up with Jimmy (3rd place) and Jose (4th) to work together and get all the checkpoints. I figured we were good to go on the win…
Hern saw the same thing going down and swooped the win! Nice work!!!
Then Robert (CBNC) got 2nd! Great showing by Team CBNC with 2nd (Robert) myself (5th) and Ace getting DFL! FTW!
WPH Crash Race 2012: Results
Finally. The wait is over. I am very proud of my CBNC teammate Kelli for crushing hundreds and hundreds of dudes to claim 2nd Women’s Fixed overall. Good shit!!! Congrats to all of the winners and everyone who raced, plus a huge round of applause to Don, Hern and all of the volunteers who made this possible. Big ups to LA for the Marathon and closing down the streets, for without the city this wouldn’t have happen at all. Hopefully we can all focus on the rest of the year now. LOL.
Results:
Women’s Fixed Gear:
1st Kapri Gonzales (Arizona)
2nd Kelli Samuelson (LA) (CBNC)
3rd Becca Cohen
Women’s Geared
1st Jo Celso (1st Womens Overall) (San Diego)
2nd Sam Bell
3rd Lindsay Nelson
4th Jen Whalen
Men’s Fixed Gear
1st Edgar “Willo” Juarez (Long Beach)
2nd Scott Piercefield
3rd James Zaldua
4th Henry Grijalva
5th PNUT
Men’s Geared
1st Robbie Miranda (1st overall) (Chula Vista) (RAD)
2nd Evan Stade
3rd Tim Mcgee
4th Fabian Vazquez
5th Dave Lettieri
Dead Fuckin’ Last
Tina Pham
Pot ‘o’ Gold Scramble: Results
Friday night, Iggy held a super fast fun race. Five Checkpoints in DTLA, then ending at Lil Joy. 20-25 racers came out to show support for DTLA and the upcoming Westside Invite.
I supposed to take it easy and show the out of towners where to go, but I got caught up in race time and took off on them. Kell followed my lead and with a broken leg in boot with a clip he got 8th and first out of town. Dat shit cray.
Martha captured first overall.
Ash got second.
Andrew with third.
Good shit, looking forward to the next one.
Feel My Legs #7… Results
John B wins FML!!! No prizes, no entry fee, just Street Cred. It’s a gnarly race, FML takes riders up 10 of the steepest streets in Los Angeles and at least 2 of the steepest in North America.
That’s how you climb the steepest street in North America… in the rain. Beastly.
Peep photos more over at Wolfpack.
Then check out full details and info at True Love Health, Solid work on the 7th running of this race, Matt!!!
Concrete Jungle: 2/28/2012
What a fun night of racing! Last night was Concrete Jungle, a super fun super fast alleycat. It was the first of many benefit races (once a month) leading up the Westside Invite (being held in November). It consisted of five pick ups (in order) of different sized fedex boxes, then go get your “stand by” stamp, then head off to five drop off locations, which you could do in any order. This is where I fucked up. I didn’t notice that address were written on the boxes and thought you just went back to the pick up locations. What a DUMBASS! That cost me more than a few places (11 overall) in the race. Luckily, my CBNC team member Robert passed me going the opposite direction and yelled out where the locations were. Even with that mistake, the race was a blast and I’m looking forward to the next one!
Overall winner was Chuck (DTLA), 2nd Haul-ass (DTLA), and Hern (MASH) bringing in 3rd!
