Author: cosmo

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.

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…

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…

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…

Well, normally, the World Championships marks the end of the season, leaving hordes of cycling fans as hungover as Tom Boonen in a Madrid hotel room wondering where the fork he left his rainbow jersey (speaking of ole’ Blackout Boonen, apparently, he “forks” on the first date). But, thanks to the ProTour, there’s more racing…

Ok, I admit it. I’ve gotten far too caught up in all this other crap like rider transfers, secret police, Robbie McEwen being out of it, etc. Time to get back to basics. How basic? How about the Tour du Senegal, a West African 10-day stage race. Like other events in the region, such as…

Aitor Gonzalez, winner of this year’s Tour de Suisse and perennial favorite for the ProTour’s non-existant “Least Consistent Rider” award, has allegedly tested positive for an unknown substance at this year’s Vuelta a Espana. Though reported only by l’Equipe, and unconfirmed as of yet through official channels, if true, this would be the third major…

EICMA is somewhat overlooked outside of Italy. After all, it’s name is a confusing and mysterious Euro acronym, where all the letters are out-of-order to us simple English-speakers. And, despite what the silver space-man riding a bike might suggest, the show isn’t particularly long on technical innovation. EICMA is where you go to revel in…

Enough of this globetrotting, baggage-losing, bum-rushing, air-horn-blowing madness! Time to get back to pre-chewing the gristly bits of cycling news so you don’t have to spend 15 minutes afterwards trying to floss them out. First item of business: Tom Boonen, World Champ on a bum stomach (perhaps not dissimilar to the twsited stomach that afflicted…