May 1st Floyd Bennett Field - Season Opener- "Tony Maisto WINS!!"

Cat 3-4

Results: 1st Tony Maisto

Distance: 22 miles

Report: Chilly and Windy at FBF, Chris Castaldi ,Jackson Wandres, Jimmy Russo, Eddie Burlem and Tony Maisto. Easy first 2 laps with Wonder Wheels at the front, Chris is in a group off the front for about a lap that comes back then Eddie is in a group off the front with me and Chris controlling the field. the gap grows and Chris tells Tony to bridge up. which he does. when Tony sees that they have a nice gap and trys to organize a nice pace line but half the break is either spent or not willing to work. when it looks like they might regroup with the main field Tony went go to the front and pick up the pace. 5 or 6 guys are with him and They are able to break clear. with about 7 laps to go the break is working good together, then guys start to drop off. with 5 to go there is 3 left in the break, A champion dude, Andy Reiss and Tony. Andy is just barely hanging on and missing a ton of turns at the front but he agrees not to contest the sprint which is fine with Tony. With 1 lap to go Tony and the champion dude agree to a straight up sprint after the final turn which turned out to be a bad decision on his part. A fun race and a great team effort, Tony said he knew that WW was totally shutting down any chase from the main field because with 3 laps to go they had a 2 minute lead on the field.

Kenny and Jerry did the 123 race where Kenny got 9th.

April 29, 2007, NY Spring Series Last Race - Prospect Park

Masters 35+

Results:None

Distance: 43 miles

Report: Big Carbo attacks over the hill half way through separated the field. Tom, Doug, Dave and Jackson make the split... Jackson being lucky to be at the front and on Carbo's wheel when he launched!

Anyway, with a few to go Geoff Bickford goes with a couple Sony's and a Kreb and Carbo bridges up... five away, no WW's. Doug, Tom and Dave sit on the front of the field for many laps thereafter killing themselves to keep the gap down with little help from the many single riders in the 20 or so rider group. Jackson takes a few hard pulls. On bell the break is right in front of us on the hill, Doug launches with one Kreb and gets caught in limbo, break picks it up again and Doug hangs on for 6th despite surging group at the line. We rode well and then missed the break and then rode well some more. Oh well.