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Bikes vs. The World Archive

“Bikes vs. The World” was a contest between a bike thing and a tangentially-related not-bike thing. Aside from being the first pure-humor content on Cyclocosm, it also involved getting handy with HTML tables, which were still (over)used for page layout at the time.

Bikes vs. The World: Round #6 – Dave Zabriskie vs. Zabriskie Point

Posted on 24 January 2006 by cosmo

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…

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Bikes vs. The World: Round #5 – Jan Ullrich vs. Lars Ulrich

Posted on 6 December 2005 by cosmo

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…

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Bikes vs. The World: Round #4 – Steel 531 vs. Steel Reserve 211

Posted on 28 November 2005 by cosmo

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…

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Bikes vs. The World: Round #3 – Lance Armstrong vs. Neil Armstrong

Posted on 21 November 2005 by cosmo

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…

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Bikes vs. The World: Round #2 – Gary Fisher vs. Bobby Fischer

Posted on 14 November 2005 by cosmo

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…

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Bikes vs. The World: Round #1 – Campagnolo vs. Camp Anawana

Posted on 6 November 2005 by cosmo

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…

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About the Author

a headshot of Cosmo Catalano

Best known for his How The Race Was Won® video series, Cosmo Catalano began blogging about pro cycling from a bike shop in 2005. Between then and now, he's designed cycling infographics, built cycling web apps, and supplied cycling content to print and broadcast media, all in the name of backing up his near-endless criticism with proof that it can be done better. He complains about cycling on Twitter at @Cyclocosm.

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