Continuing on from their No 7 Keirin-inspired DND gloves, Red Hook Crit and Giro have produced a run of commemorative Barcelona DND gloves. Available tomorrow at Barceloneta Bikes and at the RHC Barcelona. See more information at the RHC Facebook.
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The Official 2014 Red Hook Crit Barcelona Prize Bike
Jonah Birns designed this insane Red Hook Criterium Cinelli Vigorelli prize bike for the RHC Barcelona. Personally, I think this is one of the best looking RHC bikes to date.
Check out a few more photos below, including bike assembly process shots by Barceloneta Bikes.
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2014 Red Hook Crit Barcelona
Well, yesterday the 2014 Red Hook Crit Barcelona opened for registration and I missed out on posting it. The men’s field is at waitlist status but the women’s field is open and of course, spectators can go for free.
Head over to the Red Hook Crit Barcelona site for more!
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The 2014 Red Hook Crit Brooklyn 07 Video
Crihs really did a great job on the 2014 Red Hook Crit Brooklyn video. Enjoy!
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Red Hook Crit Brooklyn No 7 Gloves
Each year, the Red Hook Crit rolls out some pretty great products to coincide with their races. The newest being these No 7 Keirin-inspired gloves by Giro. Pick up a pair at Red Hook Crit.
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Red Bull Profiles the Red Hook Crit
I was at the first Red Hook Crit and it has indeed grown to something even David Trimble couldn’t have predicted. See more at Red Bull.
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JP Bevins Photographs the Red Hook Crit Women’s Field
Photo by JP Bevins
These came out so great dude! See more at No Life Like This Life.
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Tales from the 2014 Red Hook Crit – Manual for Speed
Red Hook Crit is here! Happy face! Put on your happy face. Yes it’s going to be cold, wet and it’s going to suck. Yes, that happy face of yours is going to be sprayed by the fender-less track bike topping upwards of 30mph as you rip through slick corners. Yes, you’re going to fall. Hard. Over people. Yes, you will lose this race you’ve trained all year for.
But, there is good news. Two journalist dudes will be in your face with a camera, making you look cool. Or in this case, one journalist dude who kind of looks like me (Prolly). Or I kind of look like him, because technically, he was born first… Check out Manual For Speed’s Tales from the 2014 Red Hook Crit below!
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Cinelli Vigorelli 2014 Red Hook Crit Special Replica Frameset
I’m not going to type anything because this is only limited to 20 pieces and it’s going to sell out FAST! Head over to the Cinelli Winged Store to buy one.
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Tales from the 2014 Red Hook Crit – Chris Lee
In order for the Red Hook Crit to maintain its unofficial title of the gnarliest track bike criterium, it sometimes must rely on mother nature. This year’s race was a total wash. Literally. Rain poured all day and well into the women’s and men’s circuit, shortening both and creating a less-than-desirable mental mind fuck for the racers.
Even the photographers and crowds suffered.
Chris Lee has contributed multiple times to the Radavist and I couldn’t think of a better person to capture and document the eerie environment of the 2014 Red Hook Crit…
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Manual for Speed at the Red Hook Critical Mass Tournament
Look, Manual for Speed isn’t exactly your everyday cycling news or photo site. They’ve clearly transcended that into the world of the weird. Daniel approached the 2014 Red Hook Crit with relatively new eyes and made the connection between it and Critical Mass. Before you get upset, he has some valid points…
You’ve really got to go to Manual for Speed to read the whole story.
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The Street Covers the 2014 Red Hook Crit
This is a great watch!
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Tales from the 2014 Red Hook Crit – Dan Chabanov
Dan Chabanov is one of the first people I knew who transitioned from a cocky bike messenger to a less cocky, more mature professional bike racer. His perspective is unique, especially at the Red Hook Crit, because, you know, he won it a few times.
I reached out to Dan to lead into the Tales from the 2014 Red Hook Crit series here on the Radavist. Below you’ll find his report.
Red Hook Crit Observations from the Ground
Words and photos by Dan Chabanov
It’s amazing how much access you can get to an event when you know pretty much everyone putting it on and you’ve won it three times. Dave Trimble runs a really tight ship so I consider it a special privilege that he lets me get away with running around with my little point and shoot in places where I clearly shouldn’t be.
I have a love/hate relationship with the RHC. I love going and supporting all my friends who are racing. I love taking weird photos of them. I don’t really like having random strangers bugging me in the bathroom about why I’m not racing though. Honestly that question is getting pretty old. I imagine it’s like being a marathon runner who constantly gets questions about why he isn’t running the 1000m or something like that. Maybe that analogy makes no sense but I don’t really have a good answer to that question anyway. Bike racing is supposed to be fun and I’ve had more fun watching the last two years. So let’s just leave it at that.
In that time, this race has gotten pretty crazy, but this year with the downpour it was particularly intense. After a bad crash interrupted the women’s race there was a sense of dread ahead of the mens race. Dave and Al were crazy stressed out and worried. They couldn’t realistically cancel the race but at the same time I know they at least considered it. In the end the race was shortened to 15 laps and a couple hundred people stood out in the rain and cheered.
The RHC has changed a lot in the last four years. In 2010 I got made fun of for bringing a trainer to warm up on. Last Saturday three hundred people showed up with rollers. The field has also grown decisively more international. Thibaud Lhenry’s win on Saturday is the first in Brooklyn by a foreign rider. The field gets deeper every year and at this point I think it’s no longer possible to be successful at the RHC without being full on. For better or for worse this is no longer a race that can be won with a cavalier approach, some track bike experience, and a bunch of fitness.
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A Look at the 2014 Red Hook Crit Cinelli Prize Bikes
While this isn’t exactly new to the avid followers of the Red Hook Crit’s Facebook page, I wanted to give Cinelli and David Trimble some love for building two great looking prize bikes: one for the women’s winner – Jo Celso – and one for the men’s winner – Thibaud Lhenry – of the event.
See more photos below.
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Eine for Stanridge Speed and the 2014 Red Hook Crit Hate Track Bike
This came out so rad!
“Ohio based Stanridge Cycles is excited to announce the arrival of Katie Arnold to the team as it heads into it’s 3rd season competing in the Red Hook Crit Series. Arnold will join previous Red Hook winner and Cat 1/Pro, Evan Murphy at the start line in NYC this weekend.
This years Red Hook Crit program began in October of last year while in Shoreditch, London visiting Deathspray Custom. Ben Eine’s work on Mother London caught the eye of Stanridge Cycles Owner Adam Eldridge. After returning to the states Ben was contacted and it was on. Ben hand painted both frames for the event.
This year Enve Composites Paul Components and Vittoria Tires have joined as new team sponsors while Endo Custom remains as the jersey maker. Riders will use a variation of the iconic Stanridge HSP MkII (pictured) during the series to showcase a team that competes at the highest level of fixed crit racing.
“I enjoy creating bikes for this series. Having these frames used under race conditions means much more to me than hanging them on display at a bike show. They’ll get beat up, scratched and used which is perfectly fine with me”. – Adam Eldridge, Owner of Stanridge Cycles.”
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Red Hook Crit: San Marco Concor Saddle
The 2014 Red Hook Crit is approaching and to celebrate this year’s race, they’ve continued to roll out collaboration products, like these San Marco Concor Saddles.
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Ass Savers for Red Hook Crit
As I’ve said before, Ass Savers makes a damn good fender and these special edition Red Hook Crit models are rad!
“For the 2014 Red Hook Crit season, Ass Savers and Red Hook Crit have out done themselves and created three brand new designs based on the newly released Ass Saver Original model. For each race in Brooklyn, Barcelona and Milan, a unique design will be released in a limited series. The designs have been created in collaboration with Red Hook Crit’s creative director Jonah Birns and are a tribute to the motorsports era of the 70s.”
Scoop one up at Red Hook Crit.
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The 2014 Red Hook Crit is Coming!
… we’ll take a break from NAHBS-ness for a second to post some Red Hook Crit love. Up top is this year’s Monster Track winner, Cooper, wearing the new Red Hook Crit Jersey by Castelli and below is Crihs’ documentary on the race.
Red Hook Crit is less than two weeks away – March 29th.
