The Week in Bike #22 – 30 May 2014
May 30 2014
Grumpy, day job over, Base79, ads, http://velocio.cc, Slappendel, Vos, Vos Classic, Women’s Paris Criterium, Universal Sports, party like it’s 2005, Giro, Quintana, protests, rules, denial.
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Sometimes (frequently, actually) people complain that things go by too quickly in HTRWW. Sometimes it’s on purpose, usually it’s not.
This gif is probably the best representation of how hard it is to line up the audio with speculative video cut single-handedly. With some more brains on the case and better tech, I bet it’d be easier.
Oh right…#HTRWW on #TDU is posted. Happy belated Australia Day.
"Sponsorship activation" is an ugly term but this is a good example with Soudal and their new sponsorship of the Lotto-Soudal road team. A new take on "sticky bottle"
I’ve noticed the Belgian firms/squads seem particularly good at this (cf. Niels, Etixx-QuickStep). It’s like their sponsors are businesses after an audience or something, instead of bored, spandex-seeking men.
“…[I]t’s not surprising that virtually all legitimate sponsors have fled the sport. It is now financed primarily by bored wealthy men who need a reason to give their wives about why they spend so much time with young leg-shaving men in tight pants”
—Floyd Landis, who apparently spent the five years since dropping the Armstrong-nuking emails stepping up his writing ability.
“First, let me say that I have no doubts about your ability to do our race. The rest of your team is our concern”
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Former Tour of California director (and current Ironman CEO) Andrew Messick, commenting on the last time the race didn’t invite an American who’d (albeit briefly) won a Grand Tour.
Strangely enough, the snub led to the nuking of every US Grand Tour title all the way back to Greg Lemond.
“They’ve obviously done harm to the race by not bringing me.”
—Chris Horner, in Peloton Magazine, during an interview in which he referred to himself as “the biggest US rider”.
I feel like it would be pretty easy for Facebook to algorithmically cull this bullshit from the newsfeed.
But the reason you don’t see a sign on Facebook’s lawn that says “delivering quality content” is because delivering quality content isn’t Facebook’s business.
So definitely don’t share this shit. Please don’t click it. Probably don’t even move your mouse over it. Facebook only cares what people click on—the only way to improve their algorithm is to improve yours first.
Tour Down Under Stage 4 finish crash
So weird to see this from such a low angle with the pack coming forward.
Chopper shots never quite capture the motion, and my experience/GoPro video is almost always of crashing riders sliding for a split second, then slingshotting back into the bunch.
Kinda cool, minus the fact that some dudes got severely dinged up in this tumble.
Vague about “not having to do this anymore”. Sneaky marketing plot?
I’m not sure that I do “sneaky marketing”, but I’m not above creating an air of uncertainty.
Day job over??? Does that mean full time cycling report gig??
Not yet. But obviously one would be a little easier to accept now.
Cosmo,
I’m leaving enthusiastic positive feedback. Congrats on the change to ambiguity. Keep the sarcasm and scepticism coming.