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great seeing you out there, ty for coming to the best bike race in the world 🖤
November 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
ska 4 me @ southwick
October 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
dawg y the lobster dying like that
August 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
whichever you pick, godspeed, hoping i can finesse the schedule and come shred bikes 😎 gotta defend my title for the Peoples Choice of 2017 GPB
March 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
worth pointing out you’re on an uncontested road weekend and a new mtb series and an classic mtb race is the day after your race. in the month everyone is transitioning from finishing school to summer vacation

attendance will be different than a race in a schedule overfilled August
March 12, 2025 at 9:10 AM
GPB had less than twenty masters and half of them would have been fine racing in one of the other fields

it’s your choice to run either a W beginner, a straight cat 5 M, or? . more of the athletes are there, and you can tune the remaining fields so the masters can feel fine racing in other slots
March 12, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Drop the masters field and slot in something else

to be as neutral and polite as possible about this, that age demographic is falling off. a half day crit is a very particular atmosphere, you have less luxury in running a full schedule and allowing enough parity in race options
March 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
it’s been really nice seeing him pass the torch to henry coote. different generation, but seems to want to pass forward the flame

classy curtis until the end 🥂
January 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
damm dawg i’m sorry
December 28, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Tune in February when Mike and I re enact a time travelers loop! bsky.app/profile/lati...
Happy to!

To be clear, I'm not talking shit about the series, or the promoter

This is something I've run into so many times it broke me

The difference here is someone is STARTING OUT with money, which... is a fuckin huge difference

I'd just run the first year cheaper to gauge participation tho
December 28, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Mike maybe it _is_ cheaper already 😱

Every time you tell a promoter story i keep wondering if you are my future
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December 28, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Mike you’re gonna hafta gonna come on the pod and tell me about it so we can then have a discussion on what we think about that and other things have aged
December 28, 2024 at 6:07 PM
the prices are tuff enuff that my evening activity is looking up possible sponsorship opportunities and sending them to john

i once paid $3k to reverse a venue’s policy on charging $10/car for parking. super grateful we still made money but I’m baffled that didn’t teach me to ask for sponsorship
December 28, 2024 at 6:02 PM
my personal take is john is about to sink and incredible amount of resources into New England biking and whether it affects all of us or some of us remains to be seen
December 28, 2024 at 5:51 PM
to give a small taste of my thoughts on this:
- the current scene has lots of pain and complaints and frankly minimal solutions the past fourever years
- there’s definitely money out there, it sounds like it’s not in the most helpful spots
- both of those points equals the sport is gonna change
December 28, 2024 at 5:47 PM
my wish is these prices reduce or certain fees disappear after a major sponsorship steps in to cover costs

these are perfect line items to tell a cash rich business to cover costs for
December 28, 2024 at 5:25 PM
cozy cx szn time
August 26, 2024 at 12:12 PM
I’m late to this post and late to skills so just gonna use the first race as a double up day and do skills there 😎😅
August 23, 2024 at 2:17 PM
left or right, you may have one from me for cheap
August 9, 2024 at 3:01 AM
no more dygerts no tyvm
August 5, 2024 at 3:04 PM
anyways when do we get faulkner to cyclocross as a treat
August 5, 2024 at 2:33 PM
faulkner got her start riding and racing in a park in nyc because its the safest place to ride and now her racing is all europe

i get how the conversation gravitates towards non pros racing but faulkner is proof the euro only model works 🥲 which is sad
August 5, 2024 at 2:31 PM