Today’s post is late and short. I apologize, but was riding the spectacular Kingdom Trails in Northern VT today. It would have been indescribably spectacular had someone not jacked my mountain bike last night. The old gray Scott, set up for single-speed is the only mountain bike I’ve ever really enjoyed riding, and this upsets…
Month: October 2005
Pro Cycling News – It's Really Slowing Down
Yes, the end-of-the-season drop off is on in full force, despite that fact that, thanks to the ProTour, the 2005 season is still very much alive. Interbike Stories are now very sparse indeed. I’ll have to go to Competitive Cyclist to get you a new Interbike report. Just keep in mind that, unlike cycling news…
Pro Cycling News – Is It Paris-Tours Yet?
Seriously. Mid-week in the late season is the worst time for news. All the rider transfers for next year have already been announced, there’s no high-level racing because most of the big names (like Voigt and Basso) have called it a season, and even the flood of Interbike highlights is dying slightly. (You may notice…
Serfas Optics – Review
For all of you out there who’ve been thinking “man, I wish the same people who made my grandma’s bike saddle would make sunglasses,” Serfas Optics has arrived. Eyeware from the famous Tawainese manufacturer brings a variety of styles to a pricepoint (MSRP $50) somewhat less obscene than bigger name brands. But how does the…
Pro Cycling News – Also…
One (hopefully) last bit from Interbike, and Jacob Piil, who was on nasty form at Worlds broke his hip at the Championships of Zurich. Another nasty Worlds rider, Men’s U23 winner Dmytro Grabovskyy has signed with Quick.Step (like they need the help), depsite winning his rainbow stripes on Andrea Tafi’s Saunier-Duval bike.
Pro Cycling News – Is Everybody Doping?
It used to be that if you wanted to bust someone for doping, you just kinda barged into their hotel room at like 3am and rifled through their bags until you found something illegal. But this tended to annoy riders, and led to many protests. This in turn was deemed bad for the sport, as…
Pro Cycling News – Bettini Gets Revenge, The ProTour Gets Won, Interbike Gets Done.
There are really no verbs in cycling to describe just how thoroughly Paolo Bettini won today’s Championship of Zurich. “Mushroom stamped” is I guess as close as I can get to it. The diminuative, balding, swarthy Italian benefitted from some pretty dominant Quick.Step teamwork and an unquestionably nasty set of pistons and just plain lept…
Pro Cycling News – Technical Difficulties, VeloNews and Humps
What am I to do? Blogger is down for planned maintenance from 4:30pm to 5:30pm. That’s awesome dudes, but it’s friggin 12:23pm over on the West Sy-eede as I type this. Why are you down? How I am to report to people the continued dominance of Nico Eeckhout (and check out who took third again…