The Olympics is a monster. Part of me wishes it can be killed off. There are so many reasons to dislike the Olympics. I’ll start with the smaller-bore problems. I don’t like listening to athletes […]
When I first started following the Tour, one of the many things that surprised me about pro racing and racers was their emotions. Compared to what I seemed to be seeing with American pro sports, […]
The opening stages of the 2021 Tour de France has not only had spectacular racing, but crashtacular carnage. So much that the crashes have dominated the reporting of the first three stages . Every time […]
Hugo Koblet popped into my head. The Swiss rider, winner of eight national championships, six-days in Chicago and New York, medalist at the Worlds, and winner of the 1950 Giro d’Italia and 1951 Tour de […]
I received an invite last Friday to a media event for LeMond Cycles. The event was in five days’ time. They were going to showcase the allegedly lightest-in-class e-bikes that LeMond is building in his […]
(Also posted to Substack, but don’t read it there.) Substack, I come to bury thee. As a lover of written word, this is hard. But as a member of society, I feel the destruction of […]
A friend let me know in January that he was doing a fund-raising ride on May 8. I guess I could write I was invited on a century. It was for Padres Pedal the Cause […]
The pandemic caused all sorts of realignments, many messy, life altering, and profound. The bike racing world was hit as well. In March 2020, racers were either on the verge of starting their racing seasons, […]
Figures. Bicycle Day is April 19 because on this day in 1943, Dr. Albert Hoffman, a Swiss chemist, working on behalf of Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, first known for Saccharine, dosed himself with 250 micrograms of Lysergic […]
The other week I built a wheel for a commuter bike. It’s been over a year since I built one. It was soothing. I like to pretend it was necessary. But not really. I could […]
