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2009 Broken Chain Award: Douche of the Year
The Rusty Chain award, an award going to the la grand Douche of 2009. This year's top contenders are Rebellin, Schumacher and Di Luca.
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Bruyneel’s Bad Year
For most directors, winning Le Tour for the billionth time would make for a successful season, but not for Johan Bruyneel. It turns out that…
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VDB: 1974-2009
Every now and then, I see a headline that I know won’t soon drift from my memory. Frank Vandenbroucke was found dead today in his…
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Second Place: The Agony of Winning at Losing
After narrowly losing Milan San-Remo to Mark “The Manx Mounth” Cavendish, Heinrich Haussler was in agony. Many people might have been delighted with his accomplishment; he…
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General
Can’t touch this…
When I went to bed last night, I thought about the World Road Race Championships, and whose name I would be reading this morning as…
There’s a couple of ‘roos loose in the top paddock…
What’s going on in Cadel’s head? Maybe the intense heat of Spain has melted his synapses, which were already near breaking point, or perhaps it’s just…
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Folklore
Johnny T and The Lung
Things were always better in “the good old days”. That’s what my mate Johnny Klink always says, especially when we’re talking about mountain biking (which…
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Theory of Bike Fitting: Tall Riders Walk Their Own Path
Fitting yourself to your bike properly and being comfortable while riding is probably the most important aspect of cycling. It doesn’t matter if you’re riding…
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Why we watch
The tour has been over for a week now, not that I really noticed. And that should have been a capital ‘T’ in “tour”, right?…
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Flandrian
Flandrian. While its real definition is a lot more complex than I’d ever imagined, it’s a word that is bandied about frequently here in relation…
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Maybe there is no ‘I’ in ‘team’, Lance…
…but there is a ‘you’ in ‘c*nt’…
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Next Year
The scorching sprint-dust and verbal detritus emanating from the Manx Mouth hasn’t even settled on the Champs Elysees, and already talk has turned to next…
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Hindsight 20/20: Tour de France 2010
The Tour has wrapped up for 2009 and it fulfilled it’s usual place in the calendar as the biggest – but not greatest – cycling…
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Ventoux 2009: Frank’s Carbon Ball
Well, it’s time for predictions using my carbon ball, which is lighter if less effective for peering into than your typical crystal ball commonly used…
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Monsieur Mont Ventoux
For those cyclists who might shop at the Big and Tall shop, we are a minority, we stand out in a pace line, we don’t…
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A Day to Remember
Today was perhaps one of the best days of bike racing of the season – brought on by my trusty favorite pair, the Schleck Brothers. …
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Inside the Tour: Battle for the Biggest Baby Award
This Tour seems to have been dominated more by gossip than by racing, contributed to in no small part by a rotten route. The press…
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Spartacus
About 30km into the stage today, Fabian Cancellera (aka: Swiss Bear, Spartacus, Big Baby, Freak…) pulled up beside me, sat up and reached inside the…
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Baby, It’s Cold (and Wet) Outside. Lets Race Some Bikes.
As an objective, rational, and calculating cycling fan, I’ve never been able to get excited about any rider on the now-defunct Gerolsteiner team. This is…
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Damned if you do…
It must be really getting to Cadel. The constant calls from the media and the fans (myself included) to “have a go”. Attack. Stop sucking…