24 Jan
It’s baaack! And you thought I had gotten sick of it. Today’s match-up: Utah’s own Dave Zabriskie vs. the 1970 counter-culture classic Zabriskie Point. Click here for a listing of the previous battles. Category Bike Culture: Dave Zabriskie Pop Culture: Zabriskie Point (1970) Winner Claim to Fame: Bicycle racer, ’04 US TT Champ, Fastest TT […]
6 Dec
Now we’re talking. The drummer of one of the all-time great metal bands versus the eternal challenger for the TdF title. Both German-born, both constantly disappointing me, both with the same last name. Oh, yeah, this is a gonna be a good one, folks. Far better than these other whimpy fights. Category Bike Culture: Jan […]
28 Nov
I really don’t know how these two combatants got tangled up. I mean, can you think of two things less related than a well-regarded vintage bike tubing and a smooth finishing, oddly glowing malt beverage? I guess it might be a make-up call for last week’s pathetically obvious battle. Rounds 1 and 2 can be […]
21 Nov
Yeah, I know, this one is obvious. If you gave a 7-year-old kid a cycling blog, this is probably the sort of crap he’d come up with. But come on, I can’t keep filling this page with arcane nonsense or no one will want to read it. Category Bike Culture: Lance Armstrong Pop Culture: Neil […]
14 Nov
Ok, so perhaps last week’s contest between Campagnolo and Camp Anawana was a little esoteric. No big deal. Today’s battle between Gary Fisher and Bobby Fischer (yes, that link is his official page) should prove far more of a crowd pleaser. Category Bike Culture: Gary Fisher Pop Culture: Bobby Fischer Winner Claim to Fame: Mountain […]
6 Nov
In what we at Cyclocosm hope to make a regular weekend feature (at least during the off-season), out expert team of analysts will take two similarly-named elements Cycling Culture and Popular Culture and send them into a head-to-head deathmatch from which only one will survive. This week’s combatants are: Campagnolo and Camp Anawana. Let the […]
In addition to having the fastest race uploads YouTube, CyclingHub's been branching out into original content, with commentary, rants, and interviews—like this one with BORA-Argon 18’s Jan Barta and Sam Bennett from their Mallorca training camp.
mad skills
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.
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