1999 DIRTY DOZEN RESULTS The 17th Annual Dirty Dozen was held on Saturday, November 27th. The weather was: High Temp. of 50 degrees F, Mostly Sunny. A record 54 riders (4 women) showed up for the start which was moved from the High- land Park Reservoir to the Washington Boulevard TRACK for better parking and facilities. Included were 23 anxious rookies. Five places (5,4,3,2,1 points) are awarded at the top of each hill. . . Hill #  . STARTERS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8  9 10 11 12 13 Total 1 Ryan McDermitt 5 5 3 4 5 5 4 5 3 5 . 1 . 45 2 Joe Papp 4 . 5 5 3 4 . 3 2 . 5 3 4 38 3 Daniel Chew 3 4 . 2 4 . 5 4 . 3 3 4 5 37 4 Johnny Knotts 1 1 4 . . . 3 . 4 . . 5 . 18 5 Adam Pollock . . . 3 . 2 . . . 4 4 . . 13 6 John Brockenbrough 2 3 . . . . 2 . . . . . 3 10 7 Mark Nicoll . . 1 . . 3 . . 5 . . . . 9 8 *Dave Wenger . . 2 . . . . 1 . 1 2 . . 6 9 Rob Gaus . . . . . . 1 . . 2 . 2 . 5 10 Ernie Marenchin . . . . 2 1 . 2 . . . . . 5 11 Jay Wolkof . . . . 1 . . . . . . . 2 3 12 Billy Kanarek . 2 . . . . . . . . . . . 2 13 Tom Chew . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . 1 14 *Bret Goodpaster . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 15 Dan Latt . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . 1 16 Greg Rhymer . . . 1 . . . . . . . . . 1 17 Dusty Baker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Bob Berg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Roger Brockenbrough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Warren Delraso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Henry Dimmick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Steve Downing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Jay Downs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Matt Eaton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 John Evanko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Steve Hutter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Kurt Kraus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Ron Lutz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Tom O'Toole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Jeff Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 CHRISTINE SICKENBERGER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Ruud Van Dijk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Rich Zawacki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 *Jeff Bell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 *Keith Biehl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 *Matt Brungard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 *Keith Chapman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 *Matt Copcutt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 *Phil Cresswell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 *DEE FRAZZINI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 *Matt Frey                             42 *ANGELA KENNEDY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 *Matt Lambert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 *Adam Lobert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 *Jody Lobert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 *Jeff Martello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 *John Mele . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 *Ryan Mele . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 *SHARON NEELI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 *Jack Neyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 *Frankie Ross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 *Marty Schneider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 *Alan Wenger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 *Jeffrey Wu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ................................ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Total  .  . Hill # * denotes a first timer or rookie WOMEN are in all capital letters In from Colorado visiting him family for Thanksgiving, Ryan McDermitt led the entire event. He had done the Dirty Dozen once before as a kid back in 1994. Ruud Van Dijk was the first rider out of the Liberty Tunnels. If two riders end up with the same point total at the end, the tie breaker is who has more wins, 2nds, 3rds, 4ths, & 5ths if needed.   Hill Wins Hill Wins  McDermitt  6  Papp  3  Dan Chew  2  Knotts  1  Nicoll  1   1999 DIRTY DOZEN NOTES 54 starters was a record turnout. 22 out of the 34 riders who rode in 1998 came back for more torture! Roger Brockenbrough was the oldest finisher again at age 65. Ryan Mele was the youngest at age 14. At least two other 14 year olds have finished in previous years - Max Bergholz & Josh Smith. Dave Wenger was the first rookie. Only two rookies scored points - the other one being Bret Goodpaster. Billy Kanarek was the oldest [46] points scorer this year. Families have been riding in increasing numbers. Two brother teams: Ride creators Dan & Tom Chew, and Jody Lobert & his older brother Adam who was an original member [pioneer] of the ACA back in the early 1970's before historian Joe Papp was even born! Three father/son combos: Roger & son John Brockenbrough, Alan & son Dave Wenger, and John & son Ryan Mele. Mark Powder officiated atop hills. Mark & Mary Hess drove the support vehichle[including snacks provided by Danny Chew]and videotaped the event. Jay Wolkof who now lives in California returned to his Dirty Dozen roots. While warming up at the Washington Boulevard TRACK, Keith Chapman crashed into the cable chain and never made it to the top of the first hill, but continued along in a support vehichle. At the top of Berryhill, Matt Eaton dropped out after he spotted a crack in his crank arm, but continued along with his wife Kathy in another support vehichle. Ron Lutz was so obese[255#] and slow that he only made it up 6 of the hills including Canton Avenue. After a crash atop Logan broke Billy Kanarek's derailluer cable, he did Pig Hill on a borrowed bike while his bad cable was replaced from Matt Eaton's bike no longer in use. The Dirty Dozen is very rough on equipment. Ryan McDermitt had the Dirty Dozen mathematically won after the tenth hill, so he took it easy after that except for leading a 3 man [along with Gaus & Dave Wenger] breakaway before the last hill. Not knowing the route, they missed the turn up Flowers Avenue, and Dave Wenger remained lost for quite a while. Since Ryan already had the win sewn up, the real competition was on now for 2nd place between Joe Papp & Danny Chew. Believing that he went into the final hill tied with Joe Papp, Chew won it in convincing manner [as he has done for the past 4 years]only to find out that official Mark Powder had made a mistake in Chew's points total after the 4th hill, and had been telling him that he had two more points than he actually had for the rest of the event. Exhausted Papp was delighted to find out that he was bumped up to 2nd place because of the mistake, and event organizer Chew frustrated that he had been bumped down to 3rd place with no more hills left. The Papp/Chew duel was very close throughout the entire event with Joe barely edging Danny out at the end by just one controversial point. Much congrats are given to Joe though for being able to rise to the occasion and give what seemed like much more than 100% of his body which was seen lying atop the last several hills like a corpse. At the post event pizza party dinner at the Chew House, Papp revealed to Chew that he was even more cooked/hammered than after his biggest result ever at the prestigous Univest Gran Prix race in September. Coming from 3 time ACA club champ Joe, this says a lot about the toughness of the Dirty Dozen. That Papp was able to push himself so hard for merely pride when there was no money to be won. So those of you who were able to ride up every hill[several riders were seen either stopped or walking up hills], consider yourself tough!   CLICK HERE TO RETURN TO THE DIRTY DOZEN MAIN PAGE ., .