I’m not sure if there was a favorable wind window to optimize times. I do know that Cindy tried to outsmart it around noon but don’t think she was successful.

Posted: May 23, 2023 at 9:30 PM ET

We had 7 riders at the Academy for the TNR on a nice, sunny and cool evening ride – JOK, Tim C, Issac, Patrick, Eric, Ben W and myself.

Posted: May 19, 2023 at 1:33 PM ET

My new strategy for all future hillclimbs is to show up at the start, complain how fat and slow I’ve become, how unlubricated my chain is, how I hadn’t shaved my legs in several years, how both of my tires were so low on air that they were rimming out and how I had to wear a kit 5 sizes too big because all I had access to were the clothes from Paul Bunyan’s closet. Oh, and then come in second.

Posted: May 16, 2023 at 9:00 PM ET

I think the 5 pm folks (there were 14 of us) got a bum steer with the wind tonight. There was some assist but by the time I rode back to Sunderland at 5:45, it was all I could do to keep from getting blown down to Chicopee!

Posted: May 9, 2023 at 9:30 PM ET

We had some decent pavement after Deerfield’s Highway Department put in some effort last year to fix up the deep crevasses on River Road. I think maybe one too many search and rescue missions were sent to find lost cyclists and it just became cheaper to fix it.

Posted: April 25, 2023 at 9:00 PM ET

So the downside of the 5 pm start time for the Tuesday night TT/HC series was in full cry this evening – rush hour traffic up the hill from Amherst and Leverett to Shutesbury and beyond was palpable.

Posted: April 18, 2023 at 9:26 PM ET