Kazane Racing

This is a term that gets thrown around Bryan Park a lot. Sometimes it accurately describes the situation, sometimes not. No one’s accusing us or anyone else of it but it’s something I hear a lot.

Our goal is to get a guy in every meaningful break and try to win the race. That’s hard with only 4-5 guys but we do a pretty good job of it. Once our guy is in the break it’s the job of the rest of us to help insure that it stays. This is not such an easy thing. You have to make quick decisions based on a variety of criteria. The decisions depend on who is in the break with the teammate and who is trying to either chase or bridge up to it. For instance, tonight Dan King and Mason both missed the break. Both of those guys obviously wanted to get up to it. Dan would want to get up clean since he had a teammate in the move. Mason could probably be happy either way. The ideal situation would be to get a guy sitting on a bridging move to the break. Unfortunately this was not possible because they weren’t allowed to get up clean.  When 2nd tier riders - the strong cat 3’s - try to bridge or chase the best thing to do is shut them down. Eventually those guys get tired from chasing that they give up. This is not negative racing. This is racing to win. The only way that racing will get more fun is if the large clubs split up into mini-squads for Bryan Park. We tried this a few years ago when Ciclismo was too big. For instance, if Nature’s Path has 5 guys who race together in 40+, and 5 guys who do 1/2 races, let them become 2 squads.

“Negative racing” is a different situation. It’s when a significant amount of riders, usually not the top guys but not the bottom guys, mark certain riders and constantly chase them down or won’t work with them. This happens with the RPC guys a lot, and also with Jeff Brandon. It’s frustrating for them and also frustrating for the other guys who are trying to make a race of it. The only real negative racing I saw was with guys letting some riders up the road but would automatically sit on Mason.

When it comes down to it, Dee was our strongest guy tonight and he got into the right break and took 2nd. The whole break worked hard including the winner Chip Goble.

this guy rolls with a 50×14 on his pinarello fixed conversion. whatever happened to the days when everyone rode 48×16 on the street. now you either have to spin at 200rpms with a 46×18 or go 1rpm on some huge gear that’s too big even for track racing. it’s getting out of hand.

just when you thought golf couldn’t get any dumber, now there’s a reality show about it called highway 18. this is getting out of hand.

sd

Rostello/Fiorucci is stepping up and putting on another race on September 14 - a crit down at Ft. Lee. Decent cash, plenty of categories. Everyone should support this. Racing in the fall is the best because the weather is usually cooperative. If you do cross what better way to train than getting your heartrate up at a crit. register at bikereg.com.

-Adendum: It actually doesn’t seem to pay cash as promised. I’ll still do it but that will definitely hurt the higher level races.

I’m not sure what it means. I think it’s something to do with video games or something. Next time I see a 13 year old I’ll ask.

Sara Caravella taking 2nd at Iron Hill.

Agritubel (who?) in every break in the tour.

-sd

We’d like to welcome Chad Rathbone to Kazane racing. Chad’s been a messenger for years is having a great year on the bike without any team support. He placed 2nd in Friday’s crit in Roanoke in the Cat 4 race and will be a 3 soon. We like a lot of things about Chad, but mostly the fact that he’s not afraid to stick his nose out into the wind to try to win a race. This team has never been, and never will be, about sitting in and waiting for a sprint even when the race is going up the road. Chad fits in perfectly with this philosophy.

spreading the love from church hill all the way to the libbie/grove area (but no further).

After this weekends races several things have proved themselves evident:

-Kazane Racing and Keirin Culture will be moving headquarters to Roanoke, VA for 2009. However Richmond will still have a KAZANE to call there own. Look forward to more aggression @ THE WORKING MAN’S RACE and possibly podium girls for the New Year. A Kazane run road race in Roanoke as well as a top-secret race led through the streets, alleys and bars of the “BIG LICK.”

-The dismantling of former RICHMOND CICLISMO (RIP) was indeed a great turning point for Richmond based cycling. Not only did more teams step up to get down and dirty but the competition in the area has raised the bar. Cycling wars are best fought with vengeance and wounds are best licked w/ beer and the friends that caused them!!! Good luck to HPC, ALTIUS, and CBC for the rest of ’08.

-N00BZ have more fun! I’ve heard the CBC team referred to as the newbies and indeed they have learned a lot this season. More lessons still needed and that goes for everyone not just the N00BZ.

*VCU CYCLING * TAKING NO PRISONERS, JUST YOUR GIRLFRIENDS!!!

********Downtown Richmond gets painted RED! Kazane welcomes one more aggressive, badass messenger to the team!!! Look for him off the front of a race near you!

See you in the ditch,
-THE GREAT !!KAZANE!! (109)

“Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. That was the most arrogant and mendacious minute of “world history,” but nevertheless, it was only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths, the star cooled and congealed, and the clever beasts had to die. One might invent such a fable, and yet he still would not have adequately illustrated how miserable, how shadowy and transient, how aimless and arbitrary the human intellect looks within nature. There were eternities during which it did not exist. And when it is all over with the human intellect, nothing will have happened.”

“The liar is a person who uses the valid designations, the words, in order to make something which is unreal appear to be real. He says, for example, “I am rich,” when the proper designation for his condition would be “poor.” He misuses fixed conventions by means of arbitrary substitutions or even reversals of names. If he does this in a selfish and moreover harmful manner, society will cease to trust him and will thereby exclude him. What men avoid by excluding the liar is not so much being defrauded as it is being harmed by means of fraud. Thus, even at this stage, what they hate is basically not deception itself, but rather the unpleasant, hated consequences of certain sorts of deception. It is in a similarly restricted sense that man now wants nothing but truth: he desires the pleasant, life-preserving consequences of truth. He is indifferent toward pure knowledge which has no consequences; toward those truths which are possibly harmful and destructive he is even hostilely inclined.”

Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept. For something is possible in the realm of these schemata which could never be achieved with the vivid first impressions: the construction of a pyramidal order according to castes and degrees, the creation of a new world of laws, privileges, subordinations, and clearly marked boundaries — a new world, one which now confronts that other vivid world of first impressions as more solid, more universal, better known, and more human than the immediately perceived world, and thus as the regulative and imperative world.”

-JH

Ok, this really wasn’t written by Hessian, but I think random passages from Nietzsche’s On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense could easily pass for a Hessian guest blog because it’s no less comprehensible.