It is not dying. But it is sucking.
Hey, what can I tell you? The old Beatles album seemed appropriate for today’s indoor-cycling soundtrack.
“Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.”
Downstream appears to be where we’re headed, a’ight. In the SS Wall Street, a cruise ship full of coronavirus and cheap oil, captained by a drug-addled golf cheat with a crew of button-down barnacles, lampreys and other hangers-on.
Tomorrow may never know, but today isn’t exactly up to speed, either.
Tags: Cateye CS-1000, Revolver, The Beatles
Mad Blog Media 
March 9, 2020 at 3:43 pm |
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop drinking…
March 9, 2020 at 4:10 pm |
Alcohol kills the virus. I think the best way to administer a sufficient amount is by mouth. Kill those bugs from the inside.
March 9, 2020 at 4:11 pm |
I spy a Paul headlight holder on that front fork. I need to go out to the garage and make sure mine is still on the Doublecross.
March 10, 2020 at 6:32 am |
Good eye, Paddy me boyo. There are three bottle cages on the Soma, too. Though I don’t even really need one as I spin along at about 90 bpm for a half hour or so.
March 10, 2020 at 11:06 am |
Those are Paul cantis on that Soma as well, right? They make really nice stuff.
March 10, 2020 at 3:15 am |
Geez, I get claustrophobia just looking at that setup. Back when I had to ride a bike-to-nowhere it was about 6 feet from a TV screen with an Italian bike race DVD going and I could barely last an hour. You’re a tougher man than me PO’G! BRAVO!
Meanwhile, Italy is now CHIUSO. But I think I can still ride my bike outside and replenish our fresh-bread and wine supplies, so no complaints here – I could be there… under the hapless Caligula Administration.
Morons Are Governing America.
March 10, 2020 at 6:35 am |
Yeah, I can’t say it thrills me to be taking the old Ride to Nowhere.
Back in the Day®, when I was a Serious Cyclist©, I’d set the thing up in front of the TV and watch old classics, or Tour stages, pounding along to The Allman Brothers or some other hard-driving music for the better part of quite some time.
But I can do without the TV for a half-hour, as long as I have some decent tunes to distract me from that boring white wall.
Today I might go for a short walk outdoors. It might not be smart, but I need to get the hell out of this house.
March 10, 2020 at 6:48 am |
Back when I lived in the NE and winter was for real, I could ride the Tour de Nowhere for however long an LP lasted. Usually Mozart or Puccini or something rousing. Mendelssohn’s Fourth, of course.
March 10, 2020 at 10:24 am |
You listen to “Performance Today?” That’s a must-have around here. I have plenty of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and the gang on hand, but it’s always pleasant to hear some new voices.
March 10, 2020 at 3:47 pm |
Unfortunately, Performance Today coincides with my time in the cube farm.
March 10, 2020 at 11:15 am |
Be cool buddy. Don’t overdo and go backwards. Unsolicited advice from an old guy who thinks it is easier to ask forgiveness than permission. Trainer riding music should be about 90 beats per minute.
March 10, 2020 at 12:20 pm |
Trainer music.
March 10, 2020 at 10:48 am |
OK, now I’m pissed off! We’re supposed to stay at home except for going out for provisions or a medical emergency…until April 3! GRRrrrrrrr!
March 10, 2020 at 11:20 am |
We just cancelled a $900 flight, and maybe, just maybe, might get some credit for a ticket later on. For sure it will cost the $200 cancellation fee. Welcome to the world of public health. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
March 10, 2020 at 2:51 pm |
Wow, that’s over the top! Guess the carabineri will be out in force harassing travelers to enforce it. Maybe you can take the _long_ way on your bike to pick up provisions.
March 11, 2020 at 4:12 am |
There now seems to be some backtracking on this. I’m still using the shopping bike for..well…shopping.. while the official govt. decree now says outside exercise is OK as long as you’re a meter away from anyone. Since I spend plenty of time closer than one meter to my wife, riding around with her (just the two of us) should be OK. We’ll see.
The study-abroad kids are finally on their way across the Atlantic to Iowa, which now has a few Covid-19 cases of its own. How many of these kids will self-quarantine for 14 days? Probably around the same numbers who show up to vote for Bernie. Looks like the only reason Sanders did so well in 2016 was that he wasn’t Billary.. but against Ol’ Joe he’s going nowhere fast. I fear he’s the US version of the UK’s Jeremy Corbin, so as dull and senile as Biden appears to be, looks like he’s our only shot to oust Caligula…unless Covid-19 takes him (and Pence) out sooner? I’d have zero issues with Nonna Pelosi in the White House.
March 10, 2020 at 3:48 pm |
When we were in Rome we bought food every day.