| Home |
| About Us |
| Race Reports |
| Roster |
| Sponsors |
| Contact |
Team
Resources:
|
| Message Board |
| Calendar |
|
TEAM
ROSTER
RIDER
PROFILES
|
Peter Baiamonte
Discipline:
|
Road (Cat 3 /
Masters),
Mountain (Sport), Cyclocross
|
Age:
|
36
|
Race
Highlights: |
1st Place
Kissena Club Time Trial Championships, 2003
1st Place
LIWA Prospect Race, 1999
1st Place
Kissena Prospect Race, 1997
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
Kissena Club Criterium Championships, 2000
3rd Place
Kissena Club Time Trial Championships, 1999
4th Place
Kissena Club Road Race Championships, 2004
|
Pete is originally from Brooklyn and began
racing in 1990. Now living in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, he is a freelance photographer.
|
|
Andrew Berstein
Discipline:
|
Road
(Cat 3 / Espoir), Mountain (Sport) |
Age:
|
23
|
|
Race Highlights:
|
3rd Place
Balloon Festival Classic (3), 2008
< Photos >
1st
Place
Rutgers Campus Criterium (Collegiate), March 2006
<
Report >
1st Place
Rutgers No-Aero Time Trial (Collegiate), March 2006
2nd
Place
Kissena Prospect Park Series (4), 2006
< Report >
8th Place
Lou Maltese Memorial Road Race (Espoir), July 2005 |
Andrew prides himself on being
the youngest member of BVF. He recently graduated from Skidmore College
in Saratoga Springs, NY and rode on the
collegiate
team. He currently writes for the Saratogian,
VeloNews, and other
journals. Andrew was born and bred in Brooklyn.
|
|
Nicholas Eisenman
Discipline:
|
Road
(Cat 4 / Masters), Track
|
Age:
|
40
|
| Race
Highlights: |
Bronze Medal
30+ Match Sprint
New York State Track Championships, 1999
Various Placings at Kissena and Lehigh Valey Velodromes, 1998-2001
|
Nick is an Intellectual Property Attorney and an Associate at Fross, Zelnick, Lehrman and Zissu. Nick made a brief return to the track in 2006, but is taking the 2007 season to train and prepare for a re-return in 2008.
|
 |
D. Mark Carter, "DMark"
| Discipline: |
Road (Cat 4 /
Masters), Track
|
| Age: |
50
|
| Race
Highlights: |
10th Place
Floyd Bennett Field Tuesday Night
Race, 2004
|
DMark has been
racing since 2003 and joined BVF in 2004.
|
 |
Ben Dailey
| Discipline: |
Road (Cat 4),
Mountian (Sport), Cyclocross
|
| Age: |
34
|
| 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.
|
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.
|
|
Scott Demel
| Discipline: |
Road
(Cat 3 / Masters), Track
|
| Age: |
38
|
| 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
|
Scott is an architect and Associate at Rogers Marvel Architects and
also works on individual design and
photography projects. Originally from Texas, Scott now lives
in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn with
his wife, Sara.
|
|
Jason Gay
| Discipline: |
Road (Cat 4),
Cyclocross
|
| Age: |
37
|
| Race
Highlights: |
1st Place
Whitmore's Supercross C field, 2006
4th Place
Bethel Spring Series, 2007
4th Place
CRCA Club Race C field, 2006
5th Place
Floyd Bennett Field, 2006
|
Jason joined BVF in 2006. He is
the Deputy Editor of Rolling
Stone
magazine
and is the only member of the team to
have had cocktails with both Lindsay Lohan and Jonathan O'Brien.
|
|
Jordan Jan
| Discipline: | Road (Cat 4 / Masters)
|
Age:
|
39
|
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.
|
|
Robert
Lombardi
| Discipline: |
Road
(Cat 4 / Masters), Track (Cat 3)
|
| Age: |
46
|
| Race
Highlights: |
2nd Place
2008 Kissena Track Points Series Overall (Cat 4)
3rd
Place
Floyd Bennett Field Tuesday Night (Cat 4), 2007
4th Place
Kissena Prospect Park Race (Cat 4), 2007
NORBA Cross Country New Jersey State Mountain Bike Champion 1996
(novice)
Bronze Medal NORBA Grundig World Cup Race 1996 Mt Snow Vermont
Tuesday Twilight Racing Series 1997 2nd place overall (Cat 5)
|
Rob stopped bicycle racing in 1997 to pursue a Pro
Motorcycle
road racing career, but continued to train on the road bike for 250 to
275 miles a week, mostly in Prospect Park. He's also completed 13 full
Marathons and one ultra marathon. A member of the New York
Roadrunners Club since 1987, Rob still participates in running
races when they can be squeezed in. Oh, and he also instructs motorcycle
racing at the Poconos Raceway.
|
|
Alessandro Matteucci
Discipline:
|
Road (Cat 3 / Masters),
Track
|
Age:
|
42
|
Race
Highlights:
|
Series Winner
Cadence Cup, Propsect Park (Cat4), 2008
< Photos >
1st Place
Tour de Parc Criterium (Cat 4), 2008
< Photos >
1st Place
Kissena Track Opening Weekend (Cat 5 35+), 2008
< Photos >
1st and 2nd
Place
Floyd Bennett Field Tuesday Night (Cat 5), 2007
3rd Place
Harlem Skyscraper Criterium (Cat4), 2008
< Photos >
|
Alex was born in Rome and he moved to US in 1995. He lives in
Bensonhurst with his wife Angela and two daughters, Giulia and Claudia.
Alex road raced from age 13 to 18 with the last two years spent in the
A.S. Grottaferrata Team, one of the best in Central Italy at that time.
He had the luck to be trained by Antonio Fradusco (very successful
racer in the 1960's), who has coached among others a few Italian
National Team riders, a Champion of Italy and a former World
Champion. To quote Alex: "If after 20+ years of inactivity I
still have an edge in road racing I owe it to his teaching: thank you
Antonio!"
|
|
Christopher
Mazzini-Chin
Discipline:
|
Track (Cat
3), Road(Cat 3), Cyclocross |
Age:
|
31
|
| Race
Highlights: |
Various
Omnium placings, Saturdays @ Lehigh
Valley Velodrome 2002-2003
Air Products Finals Jersey Winner, Lehigh Valley Velodrome 2002
D20/MD State Criterium Champion 1999 |
Chris rides with an inclination to race on
velodromes. Brooklyn
born-and-raised, he lives in Bensonhurst with his wife Elizabeth.
Presently working in employee benefits consulting, He is also starting
a personal chef/catering service.
|
 |
Jonathan
O'Brien
| Discipline: |
Road (Cat 4 /
Masters),
Cyclocross
|
| Age: |
35
|
| Race
Highlights: |
13th
overall
Augusta Cyclocross Series, NJ, Men's C Division - Fall 2006 |
Having competed in New England and
Quebec
in high school and college, Jonathan returned to cycling after law
school and working abroad for a number of years. He focuses mainly on
local racing with occasional forays up into New England. Jonathan works
as an attorney for a firm specialized in the fashion and entertainment
fields and like Nacho, believes that "when you are a man, sometimes you
wear stretchy pants. It's for fun."
|
|
Jonathan Podwil
| Discipline: |
Road
(Cat 3 / Masters) |
| Age: |
42
|
| Race
Highlights: |
Assorted top 10 finishes |
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.
|
|
Adam Schildge
| Discipline: |
Road
(Cat 3) |
| Age: |
28
|
| 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 >
|
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.
|
|
Daniel Scholz
| Discipline: |
Road
(Cat 4) |
| Age: |
28
|
| Race
Highlights: |
Domestique |
Daniel joined BVF in 2005. A recent graduate of NYU's Steinhardt School
MA program, he lives in Carroll Gardens with his very understanding and
supportive wife.
|
|
Joel Simon
| Discipline: |
Road (Cat 4 /
Masters) |
| Age: |
43
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
|
