I don’t think Kirk O’Bee will be invited to join this ride anytime soon.

October 6th, 2010 | Tags: dope fiends, L’Eroica | Category: Bike stuff | Comments (18)

People often ask me how I can bear to live in a stony-broke garrison town full of Bible-thumpers, Birchers and boneheads, a place that can’t afford to keep its streetlights on unless you care to adopt one, where economic development seems confined to the crucial tattoo, pawnshop and medical-marijuana sectors and nearly half the respondents [...]

October 1st, 2010 | Category: Bibleburg, Bike stuff, High-falutin' literary matters | Comments (5)

Seems it wasn’t Chinese pork that tripped up Alberto Contador after all. In what’s sure to give a boost to the Spanish beef industry, El Pendejo — disculpame, El Pistolero — says he tripped the Dope-O-Meter® after dining on a chunk of homegrown carne the team chef ordered up during the Tour ’cause the French hotel’s [...]

September 30th, 2010 | Tags: El Pistolero, Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Gilbert Shelton, Wonder Wart-Hog | Category: Bike stuff, Cartooning | Comments (25)

The world championships in Oz becomes but a tortilla chip in the movable feast of global doping as El Pistolero trips the Dope-O-Meter®. Must’ve been all that kung pao pork before the final parade stage, que no? Que triste es la vida loca.
• Late update: Juliet Macur of The New York Times notes: “In Contador’s case, [...]

September 29th, 2010 | Tags: clenbuterol, El Pistolero | Category: Bike stuff | Comments (13)

Lots of chat in comments about The Good Old Days®, when men rode steel and Campy.
I missed those halcyon days of yesteryear, having come to “serious” cycling late in life (I didn’t start racing until I was in my mid-30s). During high school and college I rode a series of Schwinns — five- and 10-speed [...]

September 28th, 2010 | Tags: steel is real | Category: Bike stuff, Cyclo-cross | Comments (12)

Man, fall is here with a vengeance. When Dennis the Menace and Dr. Schenkenstein popped round this morning at the start of a cyclo-cross ride, The Menace was sporting ear warmers and a jacket while the good Herr Doktor was in full winter kit, complete with tights.
I was supposed to join them, but there were [...]

September 26th, 2010 | Tags: road ride | Category: Bike stuff | Comments (32)

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• Late update: Christ, that was woeful. The kindest thing I can say about it was that it was better than no live streaming video at all. Phil and Paul have nothing to fear. Neither do Beavis and Butthead. Here’s a hint and a half for your [...]

September 25th, 2010 | Tags: Cyclo-cross | Category: Bike stuff | Comments (1)