Tuesday the 16th

Give the Position Back Oscar

A few notables were missing from the line-up today. Little T, Sean Maher, and Chris C the headliners. So a smaller group. No surprise guests dropping in to wreak havoc. 

The pace was slow to tick up during the early backroads. Dan Smith and Matt Wigton looked ready to go a couple of occasions, as did Turner French but there were no big moves to speak of. Mountain Road was more tranquil then usual. Peter Morgan and Hunter P were pushing the pace, and for a small time there was a gap. But Stefano P, Sean Hurley and Noah Black kept it under wraps. 

That led to Steve B and Turner French counter attacking, and they took a 20-30 meter gap to the intersection. Then the marshals got involved...

Turner French and Steve B rolled up to the red light 2-3 sec after it had switched from yellow, behind Stefano P was making a late connection and was closer to them than he was to 2 or 3 guys just a few meters off the front of the pack. The gap was borderline to say the least. However Steve B moved under braking, making it appear he was going to hold up (the responsible move) but then veered left again and rolled it with the 2 others. Behind the peleton had plenty of time at the red light to voice their opinion and it was overwhelmingly calling for the DQ of the trio and points against their super-license. 

Stefano P would later sit up and rejoin, but that was likely becuz he couldn't keep up and not because he was remorseful. 

 With the pack now reset for the rest of the night, things quieted down. This gave Mike McG plenty of time to yell at guys for their crap pace-lining ability. Steffen H had a couple of big moves, Hunter P as well. He tried to get off the front going over I84 but the light at 322 was red. 

Going into the Turnaround sprint, more drama! 2 cars at the intersection caused it be single file thru the right-hander. Noah Black resorted to the sidewalk for a hundred meters. This resulted in Joe K, Hunter P, and Noah B getting off the front and thru the sprint line ahead of the emotionally deflated chase. 

From there it came back together. Hunter P jumped hard again on Atwater. Peter Morgan was able to bridge and they were working a gap but there were multiple cars going multiple directions thru the green light on 322. That gave the pack a chance to catch up. Hunter P jumped again before route 10 but the light was red. 

Going into the Greenhouse sprint, Peter Morgan was allowed to roll off the front. He held a gap up to and thru a red light at the top of the hill. He was a bit slow to get going after the light but he had a teammate sitting up for him at the front. The chase got going and from it, Hunter P launched late and just edged Peter out at the line. Ben Bruce picking up 3rd from a ways back.

From there the reminder of the pack finished up the ride together. Stefano P rallied for the last sprint along with Ben Bruce. 

Tuesday the 9th

 Another Banger

 Sprint points

Turnaround Sprint:
Little T
Turner
Hacker

Greenhouse Sprint:
Little T
Rob Dux
Hacker 

Final Sprint 3:
Little T
Christian Stahl
Turner French

Tuesday the 2nd

Fast and Furious! 

Many attacks throughout the night (despite a couple of the regular attackers going up to the 'Rent)
For the first sprint, Sean Maher jumped early and was able to stick the landing. Little T and then ??? after that. (please come forward to claim your prize).

Well after that, a breakaway of 6 was formed at the corner of Cheshire street and east Johnson.
Turner French, Fritzi Johne, Seam Maher, Mike McG, Chris C, and Little T. that group stayed away, but since there was an extra rider past the 5, points were diluted a it. The group still went for the sprints though, and Sean M took #2. Little T the finale. 

Tuesday the 26th

Getting Wiser Each Week

A good-sized group rolled out Tuesday night under near-perfect conditions. The pace on Route 10 was brisk from the start, which created an unusual bit of drama that most riders never even noticed.

Steve B had started ahead of the group, separated from the group before the ride had fully formed and found himself up the road with a small gap heading through the early turns. A handful of riders, including Stefano P., Steffan Huber, Sean Hurley, and Turner French, spent the opening miles taking turns at the front trying to close a gap that much of the field wasn't even aware existed.

As the ride approached Mountain Road, the pace predictably ramped up. Turner French was among the first to move clear before visiting rider Nick Amato appeared seemingly out of nowhere and bridged into the space between the groups. Then it was Andrew Suzuki's turn to launch. The result was a familiar Mountain Road selection, with Turner French, Andrew Suzuki, Chris C., and Hunter P. driving the pace while the pack worked to limit the damage behind.

This time, the chase had enough horsepower to keep things under control, and by the traffic light much of the field had regrouped.

The ride settled somewhat as it entered Southington. Roan from the New Haven Angels spent some time off the front before peeling off near Mount Southington, and the pace remained relatively steady until Welch Road.

There, Chris Sima launched a well-timed move. Given a small gap through the opening corner, he put his head down and steadily increased his advantage while the riders behind hesitated. Sima carried the move all the way to the sprint line, narrowly holding off a charging Turner French before being brought back shortly afterward.

The action resumed on West Street and Atwater, with Stefano P., Nick Amato, Ben Bruce, and others taking turns animating the front of the ride. Andrew Suzuki made another attempt on Atwater, but the group remained attentive and kept things together.

The next major selection came on the Greenhouse climb. A group of five riders, including Andrew Suzuki, Turner French, Nick Amato, and Chris C., separated from the field and opened a small gap over the top. Hunter P. later bridged across with Sean Maher and Little T in tow.

Around this time, Steve B. finally reappeared after his extended solo adventure. Depending on who you ask, he was either rejoining the ride or simply allowing everyone else back into it.

The renewed pressure at the front splintered the chase and left a select group of eight to nine riders contesting the final miles. Just before the downhill run toward the finish, Sean Maher and Jacob Hacker slipped away with what appeared to be a winning move. Behind them, the pace steadily built until Little T launched his sprint and came around Hacker in the closing meters.

Next week, SGR goes into summer-chill mode, as the TNC at the Rent starts up for 6 weeks.   

 

 

The Wonderful Life of

Guy D’Aniello

9/12/50 - 5/20/26

 

Truly one of, if not THE original SGR rider....

 

Guy's Rememberance will be at 3:00 PM, Friday, May 29, 2026

 

NEBCO

175 Amity Road,

Woodbridge

Tuesday the 19th

Wacky Weather and a Partial Rain-Out

Rain cells moved thru the area in the hours before the ride tonight. And those that rode in from the north (and likely from the south... And the east... and probably the west) got wet on the way to SGR. 

 

The weather ultimately held up for the most part during the ride but it was still wet. The pace pedestrian until the end of mountain road. Joe K snuck off the front with a well-timed surge and got through a green light at the end of mountain Road. Turner French took off later and hit the light alone by a little but went thru with it red as red can be. That pissed off the entire group.

 

Steve B and Sean Maher picked up the pace on Moss Farms to chase the 2 up the road. Steady fast pace eventually brought back Joe K towards the approach to 322. Turner would stay out a little longer but was back on Mount Vernon. 

 

For the turnaround sprint. Sean Maher attacked right after the turnaround and was able to stay away to take it. Behind the others were looking at each other but eventually got it going. Turner French, Steve B and Little T went at it with Turner Frnech getting 2nd in front of Little T despite a handy leadout from Mike McGinley. 

Sean Maher was back in the fold soon after. The next moves were as the ride came up to route 10. Dan Smith attacked turning onto West Johnson and he took a gap into the intersection. He was gifted a green light. Behind more red-light shenanigans this time from Hacker and Little T. The pack was held up and that is all that the 3 needed to stay away for the rest of the night.

 

Tuesday the 12th

Loose Cleats Sink Fleets 

The ride got off to a pretty sedate start today. Half because everyone was behaving themselves, half because the group rolled north into a headwind instead of the usual tailwind-assisted chaos.

Early moves came from Chris Sima, Sean Maher, Turner French, and George E. Sean Mayer eventually decided enough and drilled it on South Brooksvale, opening a respectable gap heading to Mountain Road.

Then came a top-10 "Worst-timed Traffic Situation" in SGR history.

A car stopped at the intersection of Mountain Road and North Brooksvale managed to back traffic up in basically every direction possible. Sean, after all that work, came to a complete stop while the rest of the group casually rolled back onto his wheel and filtered through the left-hander like grandmas leaving a grocery store parking lot.

From there, Hacker and Hunter P kept things moving up Mountain Road. The pace stayed steady but without any decisive attacks. A few times it looked like Turner French, Sean Maher, Sean Hurley, or Chris C were getting ready to launch something, but it was bit of a stare-down contest.

On Moss Farm Road, George E remained active at the front alongside Turner French and the usual suspects. Turner and Hunter P hit the gas heading toward Marion Road, stretching the field but not quite snapping the elastic. Chris Sima was back up there after that pushing the pace and it keeping it volatile.

Steve B then took his turn on the front and from there things devolved into tactical musical chairs among the Angels. Guys were simultaneously trying to launch teammates, chase teammates, block for teammates and stare at each other long enough for somebody else to make the mistake first. Classic too-many-cooks in-the-kitchen. 

In the end, the pace stayed decent, if largely unimpressive, all the way to the light on 322.

Mount Vernon brought another shift in tone when Nate Summers pushed off the front and initially nobody seemed too concerned about it. His dad briefly assumed the role of Hall Monitor at the front of the field, but once Sean Maher accelerated across the gap the group collectively remembered this was, in fact, a race without an entry fee.

Even so, the pace periodically dropped to iron-deficient, clinically anemic levels, which somehow made everything more tense, not less. Sean Maher, Turner French, and Steve B all had moments where an acceleration looked like it could become a race-defining move, but each time it turned into another extended staring contest at the front of the pack.

By the end of Mount Vernon, the hesitation had become so severe that a small group of four or five riders simply rolled away. Chris C, Joe Rod, Sean Hurley, and a few others carried a gap onto Welch while the heavyweight contingent behind them finally organized enough to start pulling things back together.

Sure enough, it was together by the hill, with Turner French, Hacker, and Hunter P leading the group through the corner onto West Street.

Then everyone reset again with more “No, you do it” tactics followed as the pace slowed to a Cat 5 crawl, allowing Chris C and George E to push clear off the front. Nobody immediately committed to the chase, which allowed Chris C to ultimately grab the sprint while Turner French cleaned things up from the reduced pack behind.

That setup what became the decisive move. A small group came downhill with speed and intent, caught a light by the I-84 interchange, and even received the rare and highly prestigious “friendly draft from a box truck” bonus card. At that point the gap was gone for good.

Turner French, Steve B, Chris C, and George George E were away and that was effectively the race.

Sean Maher did manage to solo push off the pack, but with the Cheshire lights working against the chase, the main group was not coming back together.

Another classic Tuesday night: tactical confusion, selective heroics, accidental traffic neutralizations, and just enough cooperation to make things interesting. Great ride!