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Cycling’s silly season continues with the announcement of two new … magazines?
Yep, two new magazines: Paved and Peloton.
The first is a sister publication to Bike, whose editor Joe Parkin, author of “A Dog In a Hat,” has plenty of chops on road and off. He told Bicycle Retailer’s Nicole Formosa that Paved is aimed at [...]

Bon voyage, Professor

Laurent Fignon died today in Paris of cancer. He was all of 50 years old.
Most Americans remember him as the pony-tailed dude that Greg LeMond punked by eight seconds in the 1989 Tour. But Fignon had a fine career of his own, winning the Tour twice (1983-84) and the Giro once (1989), and taking the [...]

Attack of the Killer Bicycle

OK, yeah, right, not a lot of O’Grady®-label content around here lately, apologies, sorry sorry sorry. A tip of the Mad Dog propeller beanie to everyone keeping the sound cranked up to 11 in the comments so none of the other WordPress blogs can get any sleep.
Herself is on the road, helping her kinfolk marry [...]

Intelligent design

Lots of good thoughts in comments about the larval T-shirt/jersey design. Thanks to one and all. I think Jon P. hits the nail on the head when he suggests starting with a cheap T-shirt and taking time to dial in the pricey jersey.
The Mad Dog Media-Dogs at Large Velo jersey never did sell worth a [...]

More fun with Photoshop

Here’s another take on the whole New Wheeled Order thing. Amazing what a casually employed guy with a digital camera and Photoshop Elements can do when he’s supposed to be working for a living.
I don’t have a faux Cyrillic font on the MacBox, so I went with Cracked, which has a nice punkish look to [...]

Throw off your chains

Welcome to The New Wheeled Order.

Hope (hot) springs eternal

So the other day I decide I’m sick of hanging around Bibleburg and need a road trip. I’ve been wanting to scope out a route for a lightly loaded, weeklong bicycle tour of some Central Colorado hot springs, so off I went — on four wheels, not two — to examine conditions on the ground, [...]

I got the blues

It’s not the right color blue, but screw it, I ain’t buyin’ a new helmet for comedy purposes.

A word to the wise




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