Can’t Stop Disc Brakes
Is it performance or fatalism? Road bikes are going to get disc brakes. This much has been clear for the past few years. But there’s much to suggest the reason is fatalism, not better […]
Category: Thoughts
Essays, philosophizing, reflecting, theorizing, wondering, wandering, ruminating, percolating, etc.
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 […]
Malcolm Gladwell Isn’t Really Trying
Malcolm Gladwell’s writing doesn’t break a sweat. His game is taking complicated-seeming ideas and, over the course of a breezy tour, reducing them to fairly simple explanations. It’s a great skill and an act that […]
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 […]
What we should have been talking about When we talked about UCI Rule 1.2.019
The ruckus over UCI Rule 1.2.019 earlier this year left me unmoved. The rule seems kind of dumb in that it seems too broad, the UCI hasn’t explained the value of the rule, and USA […]
Lance Armstrong and the Jedi Mind Trick
One of the fascinating things about the Armstrong saga is what we can learn about the world from how information about him, when brought to light, is received. I’m amazed when people, sometimes unknowingly, cite […]
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 […]
Crisis in the Champagne Room
There’s a saying: there’s only one political party in America and it’s The Incumbent Party. Once you’re in, no matter how incompetent or corrupt, so long as you didn’t murder somebody or have sex with […]
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 […]