Problems With This Testosterone TUE

Let’s stipulate there’s a racer out there who feels tired.  He blames it on his work.  But when he changes his job, he’s still tired. He goes to a doctor.  The doctor comes up with […]

Dials are the New Black–Interbike 2013

Velcro is so 2012. I dutifully made the pilgrimmage to InterBike.  I sweated out my salt in the desert. I rode bikes, I walked, I talked, I listened, I drank gallons of electrolyte beverage, I […]

Homemade Vuelta Tracker, with streaming, Infostrada and LUG

  I’ve enjoyed the “tourtracker” feature that the Amgen Tour of California and the USA Pro Cycling Challenge have provided through their websites.  You get streaming video as well as text updates and an updating […]

Read Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat

  Doping is not going away. It’s everywhere in sport and has been around for longer than most realize. I find the dismissive wave of “everyone’s doing it,” both overly simplistic and entirely missing the […]

The Glucose Anti-Solution

Why the common elements in doping narratives Doom any Truth and Reconciliation Commission   In his book Breaking The Chain, Drugs and Cycling – The True Story, Willy Voet tells of a moment in the […]

Live Update Guy and the Homemade Giro Tracker

Live Update Guy The Live Update Guy offers the best written play-by-play in the bike racing business.  If you have a need to read live bike racing, LUG is your guy. Part of the reason […]

The NAHBS Yawn

            Another North American Handmade Bicycle Show is coming. Another round of massive image galleries and unqualified praise is about to be served. I expect to come the same conclusion I made last year. NAHBS […]

The Myth of the Doped Peloton

Everyone doped?  Seems like a bit of a broad brush to me.  Reading admission statements from dopers, it seems like almost the entire peloton was jacked on something or other.  Listening to clean riders, you […]

The Confession Koan: a riddle, a puzzle, a soap opera

So Lance confessed. Only not officially. At least probably not yet. Do we need more? Only Lance’s most fevered core believed he was innocent, and that group is probably so small that they number fewer […]

The Un-Redacted: Other-7

Rick Crawford outed himself the other day.  If anyone bothered to read Levi Leipheimer’s affidavit and knew who Crawford was, the admission was unnecessary.  In some respects, it’s puzzling that he took so long to step […]