plowmanjoe

https://redhookcrit.com/

My first ever bike race of any kind was the red hook crit a few months ago. I missed qualifying by exactly 1 second. part 2 is tomorrow at the brooklyn navy yard. I'm hoping to qualify this time around. either way it's an amazing event to get to be a part of.

anyone here going tomorrow? looks like there's no rain tomorrow, thankfully.

Jared.

Not going, but good luck. Have fun.

Huffandstuff

Nope, I'll be doing my own race, it's called quickest to hang dong.

https://pdxwnbr.org/

Mumonkan

my weather says 40% chance of rain till monday night, but im not because getting there from the island is annoying and i have work early in the am all weekend

plowmanjoe

right around 5-6am the rain should stop. according to weather.com for brooklyn.

you should just hop on the ferry and bike over the manhattan bridge. should be easy enough. it really is an amazing atmosphere at night, it's fun.

plowmanjoe

thanks

plowmanjoe

i qualified for the main race and i'm pretty satisfied with how i did. avoided a few big crashes, i'm most happy about that.

1 rider in the 1st qualifying group had a bad accident coming into a turn way too fast. it looked really bad when i biked past.

overall the course was super fun. i had fun with the turns. a lot of the top guys got knocked out really early because of crashes though. i feel kind of bad. the course was very fast and tricky.

hamfoh

had a friend send me a video of that crash, or one similar to it, on lap 1/final turn. crash took down Dan C and Evan Lee, unlucky for those dudes

plowmanjoe

the crash on the following lap was worse, barely avoided it.

the qualifying lap crash on the second to last turn was grusome. there was a lot blood. he must have met the steel barrier face first at full speed. the metal was actually bent from his impact.

hamfoh

here's the one he captured
there's a really HQ one of when chas went down too

hairnet

Was it pedal strike? Also, were they drafting at all in this race? Didn't look like it.

Nagrom_

Are you not allowed to use brakes?

TheRealFaux

You kind of have to or you'll get dropped.

Here's the one with Chas, same corner:

It was a 102 person field and only 5 people finished. I'm pretty stoaked because my friends finished 2nd and 3rd.

seau grateau

Amazing bike throw in that first vid.

Impreza_aL

fixie fame.

Mumonkan

negatory, track bike crit

im a little peeved that only 5 people even finished to be honest

Nagrom_

That's ****ing stupid. I'm surprised the city even let them host a race where the obvious objective is to cause crashes.

seau grateau

It's the racers that cause crashes.

calv

Brakeless racing on a tricky course sounds like a lot of bros cant help it.

TheRealFaux

Barcelona and Milano are hosting RHCs this year too.

Obviously not all 97 others crashed, they were also pulling those not in contention. Halfway through on lap 13 of 26, there were only like ~30 left. This one was the worst as far as crashes though.

Nagrom_

The organizers no EXACTLY what they're doing.

"Hey, let's make a really fast and technical crit course, only allow brakeless fixed gears, and get this, no racing license required, so we'll get tons of unskilled riders! "

Mumonkan

i think the idea is to get people to experience racing without having to get licenses and go through all the usual rules to make it more accessible

youre also taken off if youve been lapped, which happens pretty quickly (at least last year, i can only imagine it got faster and pulled faster riders this year)

i wanna see a video of the "big" crash everyones talking about

Nagrom_

You can't mix pros with Joes. Unless of course you're looking for crashes.

The two videos above seem pretty big. When bikes get thrown 20 feet in the air, I think it's pretty serious.

Mumonkan

that was definitely a big deal though they all look fine enough to get up and wonder where his bike went

supposedly theres another one with more people involved, someone said "there was blood everywhere"

yummygooey

the price of being fixie famous