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Rantcast #9 – Please, Don't Say "Mondialize"

Posted on 10 May 20132 July 2021 by cosmo

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)…

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Rantcast #8: For Sponsors, Winning Isn't Necessarily Everything

Posted on 3 May 20132 July 2021 by cosmo

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,…

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Rantcast #7: The Perils of Over-Specialization

Posted on 26 April 20132 July 2021 by cosmo

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…

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Ride on Washington, Stage 2

Posted on 25 April 20135 July 2021 by cosmo

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!

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Liege-Bastogne-Liege Techno Remix

Posted on 21 April 20139 July 2021 by cosmo

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.

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Liege-Bastogne-Liege Chorale

Posted on 21 April 20139 July 2021 by cosmo

The “Liege-Bastogne-Liege Chorale” from the How The Race Was Won® video for Liege-Bastogne-Liege 2013.

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Rantcast #6: The Death of "Trickle Down"

Posted on 19 April 20132 July 2021 by cosmo

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…

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The Chair That You’re Sitting On

Posted on 13 April 20139 July 2021 by cosmo

A country-fried techo remix of Paul Kimmage and Lance Armstrong’s exchange from the beginning of The Comeback.

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Rantcast #5: I Fight Fauxthority

Posted on 12 April 20132 July 2021 by cosmo

Script (not verbatim, contains typos, and sometimes I go off-book) So today I’m going to take aim at—god, I don’t even know what to call it. Authority? Nah, sounds too punk rock. Old fogeydom? Well, there’s nothing wrong with being an old fogey, per se—many of them are quite entertaining.  North Korean press release syndrome?…

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Paris-Roubaix Synth Techno

Posted on 9 April 20139 July 2021 by cosmo

Here’s a quick Soundcloud embed of “Roubaix Rumble” and “The Chase” from the How The Race Was Won® video for Paris-Roubaix 2013.

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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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