At night, she still beams when riders like Jose Santos and Robbie Davis walk through the doors.
Of course, the city's subway system is known for its myriad physical challenges, placed before riders like hurdles on an Olympic track.
Instead, riders like Vincenzo Nibali, an Italian on Liquigas-Cannondale, were distanced further by a powerful ride that Wiggins, 32, had mentally mapped out months in advance.
But riders like Allen Stacy and Alberto Delgado, champion apprentices who began in Maryland, have been only modestly successful as journeymen riders.
I was able to keep at my own tempo when riders like Vinokourov and Joaquim Rodríguez [winner of both the weekend's stages] attacked.
In handcycling, three-wheeled machines couple specially designed aerodynamic wheels and multispeed gearing to hand-operated cranks, with legless riders like Zanardi seated snugly, upright, in carbon-fiber farings.
While riders like George Hincapie, Tyler Hamilton and Floyd Landis defied the code of silence with their confessions of drug use (and stories of Armstrong's drug use), that unwritten rule might still be alive.
The stage features a profile that will suit attacking riders like Sagan.
"In my mind, riders like [Vincenzo] Nibali or Betancur still remain the favourites, they have more GC (general classification) experience than I do".
It will be tough in the time trial because riders like Scotland's defending champion David Millar and England's Alex Dowsett have had time to prepare and make sure they are in good form.
Recently top Hoopla team riders like Nora Vasconcellos and Samarria Brevard left after receiving offers from bigger brands that management knew they couldn't, and shouldn't, refuse.
