Updated 2 hours ago NBC Universal, Inc. If you ask Lisa Selmquist if she’s a cyclist, the answer is an emphatic “no.” “Not at all. And I will never admit that I am one. I’m a want-to-be cyclist,” Selmquist said. But, the aspiring rider from Hamden is making a real-life impact. She is "Team Pedaling for Pop Pop," a one-woman powerhouse raising money in this year’s Closer to Free Ride. “It’s a team that I started with just myself as the rider for my father, Joseph Esposito,” Selmquist said. “He was diagnosed with prostate cancer back in November and had surgery this past February, and is now cancer-free.”