miwoodar

This guy rode me right off his wheel...


This guy nipped me...duh...I wandered out to the middle of the road and gave him the shortest route to the finish line (just out of the frame).

greatnate

I was really hoping I would have looked cooler in my first race pic. Nevertheless, I appear to be suffering haha.

greatnate

Closing down a gap several races later. I definitely prefer expressionless to grimacing haha.

carpediemracing 

Not a great pic but it's one of a few. Teammate shot them at Tues Night Worlds. In this case I'd been lapped 3x and was doing a sprint to the line before I pulled off the course. In other words I was waaaay off the back.



I have to retape my bars and I think I'm going to angle my levers up a touch (gasp!). I like the bars more flat than where I have them in the picture, but I like the levers a bit higher. I may just swap out bars as I have a heat treated bar waiting to be used. I'm considering the FSA Compacts too.

waterrockets 

Not a bad shot. It's nice when photographers take more risks with stuff like motion blur, but only a few of the exposures are going to be perfect follows.

carpediemracing 

Steve is learning still as he'll readily admit. He also got my bad side in a few so I skipped choosing those

Forza

2 for 1 sufferage...Hida and Me



And then there is causing suffer.

wanders

I really like the effect of the reflection in the first shot.



and sorry about butchering your picture.

BrainInAJar

At the Tour de Whiterock crit 3/4 combined field, part of BC's Superweek (which is only super if you're a cat 1/2, since 3/4/5 are excluded from most of the events, but I digress.) Roughly 30 seconds before my weak 4 ass is completely OTB.

Turns out, the guy up front setting the pace was sandbagging. And not just a 2 that had enough points but hadn't claimed his upgrade ( though there was a 2 in the field who had downgraded, and then still collected enough points to upgrade again but not claimed them ) but afterwards at the winners interview, turns out a few years back he rode the Giro and the Vuelta. I felt less bad about being thrown out of the pack.

Nate552

HCTT. 106 heat index, after flying and driving the 24 hours before. Yeah...suffering. Pics by my wife.

miwoodar

106 is friggin hot. Are the shoulders typically littered with that much gravel down there?

Excelsius

So how are most of the pictures taken in a race? Are there designated photographers?

Nate552

Brutal hot. The shoulders are beautiful for the most part on this course. That was right at the finish and after that is an entrance to a church and school, the road creeps onto the shoulder there for the turn lane.

Nate552

Depends on the promoter. Some have a designated photographer come out and they sell the pics, sometimes it's just hobbyists, sometimes it's a bored spouse (like in my case).

shovelhd

That is one hell of a shot, Nate.

Hida Yanra

huh - I just saw this... thanks for posting the photo, that race was my last decent RR of the year... good memories!

Hida Yanra

slippery when wet... (or dry)
nice position.
are the gains from the new giro significant, or is this just part of tax-deductable product research for you? ;-)

Nate552

Hard to say, it was my first ride with it and I haven't done any testing with it. If the wind would ever stop blowing in TX I'll do some field testing with it.

Obscene

Liberty Criterium cat4 yesterday: I'm 3rd wheel. major crash on the last lap ended my race (hopefully not season) prematurely

JohnKScott

From last night's NashvilleCyclist.com crit. I'm hurtin' here pretty good trying to bridge back up to the pack after getting caught behind a crash...


Gateway Tire & Service Criterium Race Series 2011 by NashvilleCyclist, on Flickr

carlosflanders

Ha! There's a dude racing as a 5 here who's a former US Pro Crit winner. A teammate of his was also a 5, former multiple national champion.

shovelhd

That's totally ridiculous.

pjcampbell

holy crap,. that is one bumpy looking road Nate. And is there a rider on that bike???

pjcampbell

disappointed with my times overall but the photographer did a real nice job. There is always next year?

echappist

i didn't know you actually ride for a local team