Script (not verbatim, contains typos, and sometimes I go off-book) Yeah, I’m back. needed a little post-Giro, post-How-the-Race-Was-Won vacation, to cool the engines, ride my bike to Montauk, not get fired from my day job, and—oh yeah, sleep, which is, for the record, what I am not doing now. Let’s start by going back, way…
Rantcast #10: On Coverage and Contractors
Script (not verbatim, contains typos, and sometimes I go off-book) Yes, it’s another delayed Cyclocosm Rantcast—but I’m not sorry, because last weekend I was temporarily relocated to the redwoods and hoppy, delicious ales of Sonoma County to ride bikes with fun and interesting people, and watch a little event you might have heard of called…
Rantcast #9 – Please, Don't Say "Mondialize"
Script (not verbatim, contains typos, and sometimes I go off-book) Yes, the Rancast is back this week, with more-or-less proper intro music—more on that later. But I’m going to surprise most you today by NOT ranting about BeINSport’s Giro coverage—or at least few miserable dribbles of it (dribbels of the not-on-nosebleed-cable or dish package variety)…
Rantcast #8: For Sponsors, Winning Isn't Necessarily Everything
Script (not verbatim, contains typos, and sometimes I go off-book) Let’s talk for a moment about why anyone would sponsor a cycling team. It’s such a bizarre relationship—between 5 and 20 million Euros or the equivalent in dollars or bitcoins, and effectively get no tangible return. They don’t own the team, or the rider contracts,…
Rantcast #7: The Perils of Over-Specialization
Script (not verbatim, contains typos, and sometimes I go off-book) Today’s rant is abbreviated and delayed somewhat by time and circumstance. If you haven’t been following me on twitter, or haven’t seen the previous post at Cyclocosm.com, then you don’t know that I spent yesterday riding from my home base in Hartford CT, to New…
Ride on Washington, Stage 2
Just a quick update: I’m jumping into the second leg of the Ride on Washington today. I’ll be doing my best to live-tweet antics on @Cyclocosm, and, as an added bonus, if you chip in $20 of the $500 I promised to raise, I’ll do a mini-rant cast on the topic if your choice!
Liege-Bastogne-Liege Techno Remix
The techno remix of the “Liege-Bastogne-Liege” chorale, as featured in the How The Race Was Won® video for the 2014 Liege-Bastogne-Liege race.
Liege-Bastogne-Liege Chorale
The “Liege-Bastogne-Liege Chorale” from the How The Race Was Won® video for Liege-Bastogne-Liege 2013.
Rantcast #6: The Death of "Trickle Down"
Script (not verbatim, contains typos, and sometimes I go off-book) SRAM, SRAM, SRAM, sram…I don’t really dislike you guys—it’s just bad timing. No, I’m not complaining about the ham-handed marketing of having a launch event and then embargoing it for three days in this interconnected, live-tweeted milieu, or that you’re offering hydraulic road brakes—despite being not…
The Chair That You’re Sitting On
A country-fried techo remix of Paul Kimmage and Lance Armstrong’s exchange from the beginning of The Comeback.