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TEAM
ROSTER
Brooklyn Velo Force at the Gorilla Coffee
shop with Darleen and Carol,
owners of Gorilla Coffee,
and Susan Combs, president of Combs
&
Company
Insurance
Brokers.
RIDER
PROFILES
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Peter Baiamonte
Discipline:
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Road (Cat 3 /
Masters),
Mountain (Sport), Cyclocross
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Age:
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38
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Race
Highlights: |
1st Place
Saturday, 1st Place Sunday
Whitmore's Super Cross Cup Weekend (Masters), 2009
1st Place
Kissena Club Time Trial Championships, 2003
1st Place
LIWA Prospect Race, 1999
1st Place
Kissena Prospect Race, 1997
2nd Place
Nittany Lion Cyclocross (35+ 3/4), 2008
<Photo>
2nd Place
Kissena Club Road Race Championships,
2003
2nd Place
Kissena Labor Day Track Championships (road bike race), 1994
2nd Place
Kissena Club Time Trial, Road, and Criterium Championships, 1995
2nd Place
Kissena Prospect Race, 2000
3rd Place
Pete Senia Memorial Road Race (Masters), 2008
<Photo>
3rd Place
Kissena Club Criterium Championships, 2000
3rd Place
Kissena Club Time Trial Championships, 1999
4th Place
Kissena Club Road Race Championships, 2004
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Pete is originally from Brooklyn and began
racing in 1990. Now living in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, he is a freelance photographer.
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Sean
Barry
Disipline:
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Road (CAT3 /
Masters)
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Age:
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35
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Race
Highlights:
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Multiple 1st Place Finishes
Cadence Cup, Prospect Park (CAT 4 and 5), 2009
2nd Overall
Cadence Cup Prospect Park Series (CAT 4), 2009
2nd and 4th
Place Finishes
Cadence Cup, Tuesday Night Series (CAT 3/4), 2009 and 2010
3rd Place
Tour de Parc (Masters), 2010
4th Place
New York City Spring Series (CAT 3/4), 2010
7th Place
Brooklyn Grand Prix (Masters), 2010
8th Place
Tour de Syracuse (CAT 3), 2010
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Sean moved from
London to New York in 2005 and currently lives with his wife in Carroll
Gardens. He is a freelance journalist and co-founder of DocMatcher.com, a
website that helps patients find doctors more easily.
Sean started
road racing in the UK when he was 13-years-old and spent a year racing
in Spain
when he was a senior rider. He quit cycling when he was 20 to pursue a
career
as a journalist and returned to the sport in 2009.
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Nicholas Eisenman
Discipline:
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Road
(Cat
4
/
Masters),
Track
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Age:
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42
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| Race
Highlights: |
Silver Medal
40+ Keirin
New York State Track Championships, 2008
Bronze Medal
30+ Match Sprint
New York State Track Championships, 1999
Various Placings at Kissena and Lehigh Valey Velodromes, 1998-2001, 2008
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Nick is an attorney working at Major League Baseball, specializing in trademark and copyright protection.
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D. Mark Carter, "DMark"
| Discipline: |
Road (Cat 4 /
Masters), Track
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| Age: |
52
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| Race
Highlights: |
10th Place
Floyd Bennett Field Tuesday Night
Race, 2004
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DMark has been
racing since 2003 and joined BVF in 2004.
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Ben Dailey
| Discipline: |
Road (Cat 4),
Mountian (Sport), Cyclocross
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| Age: |
36
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| Race
Highlights: |
1st, 4th, 4th, 5th Place Finishes
Overall 2007 Champion (Cat 5)
Kissena Floyd Bennett Field Tuesday Night
Series, 2007
<
Report >
3rd Place
NYCMTB All City Cross Country
10th Place
Augusta Wintercross
15th Place
Battenkill-Roubaix (Cat 5), 2007
Qualified as "Super Randonneur" having completed a series of 200, 300,
400, and 600km endurance rides in one season, and completed
Paris-Brest-Paris in 2007.
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Ben, a native New Yorker, is a long time mountain
biker who has taken up road riding and racing over the last few years.
As a professional camera assistant/cameraman, Ben has combined his
interests to produce material for the show Bike TV. In 2007, Ben
completed one of the world's most difficult and historic endurance
rides, the 1200km Paris-Brest-Paris.
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Scott Demel
| Discipline: |
Road
(Cat 3 / Masters), Track, Cyclocross
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| Age: |
40
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| Race
Highlights: |
2nd Place
Poughkeepsie Criterium (Cat 4), 2006
< Report >
2nd Place
Big Apple Bicycle Classic (Cat 4), 2006
< Report >
2nd Place and
4th Place
Johnny Cake Lane Road Race (Cat 4), 2004 and 2005
<
Report >
3rd Place
Fitchburg Longsjo Points Competition (Cat 4), 2006
< Report >
3rd Place
Sturbridge Road Race (Cat 3/4), 2007
< Report >
1st Place
Staten Island Criterium (Cat 5), 2003
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Scott is an architect and associate
at Rogers Marvel Architects.
Originally
from
Texas,
Scott
now
lives
in
Bay
Ridge,
Brooklyn
with
his
wife,
Sara.
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Mike Howard
Discipline:
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Track (Cat4 /
Masters)
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Age:
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65
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Race
Highlights:
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Kissena
Rider of the Year 45+, 2000
Gold Medal Team Sprint 60+
Pan-American Masters in Cuba, 2010 UCI
Bronze Medal Team sprint 60+
Masters US Nationals, Frisco, Texas, 2010
500 meter 65+ Silver Medal
Team Sprint 60+ Silver Medal
2000 meter 65+ Bronze Medal
Masters Atlantic Coast Regionals, Lehigh Valley Velodrome , 2010
Gold Medal Triathlon
Pan-American Masters in Cuba, 2005 UCI
New York State Track Champion, 2000
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Mike is an established artist with his own work and partnership
with the Mary Howard Studio
and a long-time member of BVF. Does his successful riding influence
his art? You can decide - there are ups and downs in both.
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Jordan Jan
| Discipline: |
Road (Cat 4 /
Masters)
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Age:
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42
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Challenge, competition and camaraderie are the
reasons Jordan cycles, and harmony, scenery and synergy are the reasons
he skis. Jordan is originally from the Southern Alps in Slovenia where
the roads are anything but flat. Classical music and youthful
enthusiasm brought him to the States nearly 20 years ago, and he spends
his weekdays as a multimedia consultant in SoHo.
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Mark
Lauterbach
| Discipline: |
Road (Cat 4 /
Masters)
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Age:
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42
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Race
Highlights:
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Assorted
Top-10
Finishes
as
a
Cat
5 |
Mark is a dad, a doctoral student and the
director of research and
assessment for the Cooke Center for Learning and Development...and he
even sometimes finds time to train for racing.
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Robert Mecea
| Discipline: |
Road
(Cat 3 / Masters) |
Age:
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43
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Robert has been actively racing since 1991 and is
currently obtaining ACSM certification as a sport trainer. If
he's not on his bicycle in the race field, he might be at the front of
it, riding the pace motorcyle.
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Jonathan Podwil
| Discipline: |
Road
(Cat 3 / Masters) |
| Age: |
44
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Jonathan
is a visual artist and digital retoucher/animator and lives in Clinton
Hill, Brooklyn with Jessica and 3 daughters Ingrid, Isa, and
Camilla. Random fact: speaks Swedish,
German, Danish, French and a little Spanish & Dutch.
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Josh Pulver
| Discipline: |
Road
(Cat 3 / Masters) |
Age:
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38
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Race
Highlights:
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1st Place (two races) and 2nd Place
Overall
Floyd Bennett Field Cat 4 race series,
2002
2nd Place
Prospect Park "Tour of New York" (Cat 4),
2002
8th Place
Palmer Road Race (Cat 4), 2002
15th Place
Bear Mountain Road Race (Cat 4), 2002
15th Place
Jiminy Peak Road Race (Cat 4), 2002
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Josh is an Architect in New York City and
founder of A+C Architecture +
Construction .
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Adam Schildge
| Discipline: |
Road
(Cat 3) |
| Age: |
31
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| Race
Highlights: |
2nd Place
Prospect Park Race (Cat 4)2004, 2005, 2006
5th Place
Kissena Tuesday Night (Cat 3/4), 2006
15th Place
Bear Mountain Road Race (Cat 4), 2006
< Report >
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Adam is originally from
the Jersey
Shore
and now lives in Kensington. A natural member of the team, Adam is a
direct
descendent of John A. Roebling, designer and builder of the Brooklyn Bridge.
After living in Germany for a time, he was lured back to ride 1000
miles across
the Pacific Northwest, and has been racing since finishing that trip in
2004. Adam
recommends commuting to Manhattan by
bike, but
also advises a strong lock for Times Square.
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Joel Simon
| Discipline: |
Road (Cat 4 /
Masters) |
| Age: |
45
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Joel raced for three years as a junior for Team
Brooklyn. After a brief 25-year hiatus, returned
to competitive cycling in 2006. He re-joined Brooklyn Velo
Force
in 2007. Joel lives in Carroll Gardens with his family.
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