I realize it’s just Tour de Gila, and I realize you aren’t even racing as your proper Astana squad, but jeez, Johan. You’ve been around the block. Not only does Chris have none of these bottles shoved down his shirt, but you didn’t push on a single bottle! It should take *at least* two seconds…
Video Coverage Archive
A Man with an Unhealthy Love of Chamois Cream
Dave Zabriskie, applying his favorite chamois-related product at the ToC. Words fail. (@dzabriskie, via @muddylegs.)
How The Race Was Won – Liege-Bastogne-Liege 2009
Video from this year’s decent LBL. Great teamwork by SaxoBank, but the performance was almost too dominant. Philippe Gilbert and Lotto took a shot at it, but I really would have liked to have seen more organization out of the other teams. That having been said, I can understand why their legs all would have…
Bottle Handoff Technique
There was a great example in Fleche Wallonne this Wednesday of proper bottle handoff technique. As most of you probably know, it’s far more complicated than simply passing a bottle through a window. Why waste all that gasoline keeping the car moving forward when you could just as easily use it to accelerate your riders?…
How The Race Was Won – Fleche Wallo(n)ne 2009
Fleche-Wallone Video at last! Sorry about the jerkiness of some of the video playback—that’s from the live feed, not from me. YouTube and Vimeo at some point are now up, though not right now because I am way tired yes right now because I am crazy. [right-click for iTunes compatible download] Also made a few…
How The Race Was Won – Amstel Gold 2009
Amstel Gold! Ivanov wins a classic heads-up hill sprint, with daring attacks and savvy teamwork throughout. Also on YouTube and Vimeo. [right-click for iTunes-compatible download] Note well that all Americans do not hold such stereotypical views of the Netherlands as expressed in the opening of this movie. My implication that most do is purely for…
The Bos-Impey Crash
Since I’m stuck at work on Marathon-freakin’ Monday, instead of at home making an Amstel video, I’m gonna burn my lunch break weighing in on the crash (around 3:40 in the above video) from the final day of the Presidential Tour of Turkey. Public opinion seems arrayed pretty heavily against Theo Bos, all the more…
Schedeprijs Crash Aftermath
“I have road rash, but I think there’s worse stuff, too. My hip and ribs hurt. Fuck, everything hurts” -Robbie McEwen Big crash at the Scheldeprijs today, with, in the words of Sporza’s writeup, riders going down like “dominoblokjs”. The English (sort of) translation has some great lines, with McEwen saying Van Avermaet was “drunk”…
How The Race Was Won – Paris-Roubaix 2009
Little longer than normal this week—sorry about that, but it’s a big race. Not a particularly exciting finish this year, but still unfolded as hell-bent as a good Roubaix should. [right-click for iTunes-compatible download] YouTube and Vimeo will be are up tomorrow morning now.
How The Race Was Won – Gent-Wevelgem 2009
Yeah, you wanna know why I don’t have any blog posts this week? Because I am too busy making these. Fortunately, I won’t have a three-video week again until the Ardennes, and then hopefully never again after that. On to Roubaix! [right-click for iTunes-compatible download] Oh yes, also—if this doesn’t work, there are copies on…