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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 quest to make the bike go faster never ends. Once the big things are taken care of, it’s time to focus on the little things. And when the little things seem dialed, it’s probably […]
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 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 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 […]
