Perro-Roubaix 2016

April 6, 2016 ~ Patrick O'Grady ~ 9 Comments

OK, so it's not exactly the Forest of Arenberg. I ain't exactly Peter Sagan, either. — OK, so it’s not exactly the Forest of Arenberg. I ain’t exactly Peter Sagan, either.

LUG-Roubaix: Behind the scenes

April 5, 2016 ~ Patrick O'Grady ~ 6 Comments

Rockin’ out

April 2, 2016 ~ Patrick O'Grady ~ 12 Comments

Reveille, but in Italian

March 19, 2016 ~ Patrick O'Grady ~ 9 Comments

"Right, off you go." — “Right, off you go.”

Field Marshal Turkish von Turkenstein (commander, 1st Feline Home Defense Regiment), rousted me out of a warm bed at dark-thirty this morning, thinking I needed to be earning my keep by following Milan-San Remo.

I explained that I no longer work for a racing magazine, but he simply yawned and replied: “It was time you got up anyway. Wake me when lunch is ready.”

Dopey

November 30, 2015November 30, 2015 ~ Patrick O'Grady ~ 25 Comments

'Tis a bitter pill indeed. — ‘Tis a bitter pill indeed.

It’s Monday, and my social-media feeds, as usual, are full of football.

Frankly, I’ve never understood how the rabidly antidoping cycling crowd can go so gaga over the NFL. It’s an inconsistency that I find amusing, like listening to a vegan extol the pleasures of watching a good cockfight on Sunday afternoon.