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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2009
Di Luca: Really? Come On.
Danilo Di Luca is the next in a long line of my favorite riders who have tested positive for banned substances. While some are more…
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…
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…
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…
Lost Art: Mashing a Giant Gear
Cycling enthusiasts used to mash a giant gear for one, simple reason: it looked super cool. Do you want to ride like Lucho Herrera who…
Tour Organizers: Follow the Giro’s Lead
In response to criticism that the Tour de France is too predictable and uninteresting, the organizers of the Tour have taken a novel approach to…
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…
Assembly-Line Racing
I haven’t seen a Tour de France stage as uninteresting as today’s stage to Arcalis since, well, since 2005. What was special about 2005? The…
Guilt by association
Let’s get this straight; Yes, I’m an Aussie, not a Yank. Alas, it doesn’t automatically mean I’m a huge fanboy for Cadel. And if I…
Andorra 2009: Frank’s Carbon Ball
Well, here we are, on the eve of the first mountain stage. Tomorrow’s stage 7 will climb to Arcalis where we will begin to have…
Media Whore?
As the early kilometres of Stage 5 rolled by, with the usual early break forming, the protagonists being assessed for their chances of actually making…
Jan Ullrich
I’m going to come out and say it: Jan Ullrich is my favorite rider, ever. He had it all: class, strength, talent. On top of…
Manx Depression
Am I the first to make this pun? Probably, because I suffer from a condition called “Awesome”. I could validate that assertion by doing a…
How Dost Thou Annoy Me: Tour Favorites
I wanted to take a moment to talk about my favorite Tour Favorites. And, the best way of doing that is to go over which…
No Braking Allowed
Jens Voigt can always be relied on for entertaining comments to the press. One of my favorite quotes of his was during an interview discussing…
More Passport Revelations Coming Tomorrow?
Dutch news outlets are reporting that Erik Breukink has been informed of additional positive cases and is going to be coming “clean” tomorrow. There is…
Another One Down
It was announced this morning that Thomas Dekker tested positive for EPO on Christmas Eve, 2007. He was reportedly caught by studying blood values using…
Nod Snob
I love every kind of bike, from the tricked-out fixies all over Seattle (hello – hilly-ass town! Unless your fixie is a 39-27, you are…
Clever Thinking
Seattle is a much hillier town than most people realize. Hills of 15% grades and 2-4 km in length are a dime-a-dozen, and there are…