Step 1: Begin the morning with buckwheat pancakes.
Step 2: Race around the house like a mad man cleaning your bike and packing. (Forget to bring a jacket or vest.) Listen to the Strokes on the drive.
Step 3: Be sure to date your teammate’s sister. When she arrives to feed you at races, the added support [...]
“You win some, you lose most.” Peter Bell has been fond of this saying as we’ve navigated the currents and eddies of road racing in New England and beyond over the last few years. It underscores how fickle cycling is, what it takes to put together a good race. Typically, when you lose, its because [...]
Early racing is fraught with over serious evaluation: the risk of placing too much emphasis, or regret, on April races is born out countless time, by countless teams. Still, success in any month is wildly fun and its with a lot of pride that I get to post this highlight of rides from Ryan Kelly [...]
I haven’t raced my bike since Mayor’s Cup. Since 2005 I’ve raced cross, but then 2012 was a busy year and I had to choose between “racing bikes” and “being a functional human being”.
So it was a long time between bike races, and though one would expect me to be SUPER ABSURDLY EXCITED about Marblehead, [...]
Though afflicted by Lyme disease, poison ivy and a variety of other life changing obligations, our man Ryan Kelly was a huge boon to the team this year. If you aren’t familiar with is online exploits, his 200on100 fame or his various internet side projects, the New England peloton staple is a hilarious guy with [...]