Tag: local scene
Thursday Night Report. Kinda.
PHOTOS BY MARK WICKHAM. Let’s begin with a rough, non-verbatim transcript of emails, text messages and telephone calls that went down between four bicycle riders last night — prior to 5:30pm. “Hey, what are you thinking about tonights ride?” “It’s snowing” “You wanna ride?” “It’s wet snow” “It’s Thursday Night, I’m going to ride” “It’s [...]
Read moreBlow the Dust Off.
FYI the Peterborough Cycling Club starts another season of cycling awesomeness in 3 weeks. That is right, in 3 weeks we will be out on Thursday Night rides again. That is pretty exciting news right? Listen! I got myself a sneak peak of the upcoming season schedule for these Thursday Night rides and let me [...]
Read moreArmour Hill Cyclocross!
Ed Note: We have a double shot report from this past Sunday’s CX race at Armour Hill. Charlie Best chimes in first while Jon Moreno bats clean up. Two interesting views on a great morning of racing. Now, drag yourself out of bed this coming Sunday and meet the PCC CX crew at Squirrel Creek. [...]
Read morePCC Worlds Race Report
Here is Jon’s race report from last weekend’s club race. One day we really have to get this guy his own Ptborides login! With any luck there will be a “a race” report to follow. Thanks for this Jon! Now, I don’t know about you but, I don’t think that this years PCC World Championships [...]
Read morePCC Worlds. Pre-Race Commentary!
The PCC World Championship Road Race is happening this Sunday at the ridiculous hour of 7:30am. Several groups of riders will roll off the start line, competing in races of varying distances. We’ll get a little more specific on this later in the post. Like last year, Jamie Elcombe and I sat down and hammered [...]
Read morePeterborough Cycling Summit
An interesting thing happened to me this past Tuesday morning as I rode my bicycle from the Silver Bean back to work. I was stopped at a red light as a man approached and said “I see these red lights apply to you as well”. “Yes, they do” I responded. It was a simple exchange, [...]
Read moreMmm…The Hilly Thursday Night Report
Short hilly night. Shiver. A large B group rolled down Sharpe Line soon after the A group rolled out. Right from the very start you could feel tension in the air that was slowly building as we approached our first big hill on Howden Quarter Line. Now, I say slowly because it seemed to like [...]
Read moreFriday (Tuesday) Morning Thursday Night Report. 07/12/12
A late breaking report! News from a great ride by the B Group, no word from the A Group – guess that means they had a less awesome time. Dirty Thursday is just around the corner. Be part of the story – come on out! Words from Jon M – the man on the scene. [...]
Read moreFriday Morning. Thursday Night Report. 06.28.12
Ed: Note. This is the Thursday Night Report from Thursday, June 28th. Since then, at least one other Thursday night has happened. Maybe two? Matt Stetson wrote this and we would be jerks if this piece didn’t find a way onto the site. This is the B-Group report only. There is a better than average [...]
Read moreFriday Morning. Thursday Night Report. 06/01/12
THE B GROUP REPORT: JON MORENO This is a special Friday morning report from Agent Di2. Thursday after noon I received a very welcome call from John Hunter, our Shimano representative. The reason for the call was that John wanted to know if I was interested in riding a super high end Steven’s cross bike [...]
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