Yes! It’s bike season again! Here’s Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, half of the Belgian season’s opening weekend, run in some unseasonably nice weather over various cobbles and bergs, and featuring an inordinately large number of mechanical problems. [right-click for iTunes-compatible download] Contains a photo from Jeff Jones’ Cyclingnews days, and footage from Sporza.be. Be sure to…
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QuickStep vs. Lotto – A Classic Rivalry
This weekend’s races at Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne mark the beginning of the classics season in professional cycling. It also marks the renewal of the sport’s best rivalry, between QuickStep and Omega Pharma-Lotto. But what’s that? You’d like to know some of the backstory behind this grudge match? Well, have I got a chart for…
A Periodic Table of Professional Cycling
With the UCI ProTour now extending from January through October, it’s getting a little hard to keep track of the where and when surrounding various professional events. Well, struggle no more: Cyclocosm.com proudly presents our Periodic Table of Professional Cycling—and thanks to Operation Monetize, you can buy it (and any of our other graphics) as…
Winter Training: Calculate Your Jens Factor
No one disputes the importance of base training, and the truly serious make careful note of time, distance, and wattage in their pre-season rides. But when it comes to outdoor training—at least at my latitude—that doesn’t really capture the whole story. [click-through for larger sizes] Jens Factor, as defined by this chart, is just that—an…
The Raphxis of Evil
Right off the bat, the title should give you a hint that you might want to take this one with a grain of salt. Or several. That said, despite regularly producing some of the most original, creative, highest quality work in the cycling world for the past four years, there’s a fair amount of respect…
Chris Horner’s Cyclocross Essentials
So now that the domestic ‘cross season has (more or less) wrapped up, it’s time to reflect. Did things not go as well as you’d planned? Did the big investment in equipment and training still not pay off on the results sheet? We at Cyclocosm think that, next season, you could benefit from a better…
The Wiggins Paradox
The biggest confusion of the off-season, rendered as a Venn diagram for simplified analysis. (click-through for massive, better-branded version.)
Ted King In "The Bodyguard"
An aging champion struggles to regain his form. A brash rookie refuses to conform to the ways of the peloton. Together, they can overcome the forces arrayed against them—but only if they first conquer the demons within. The Bodyguard is the timeless tale of a bond forged between two men in the quest for victory…
Mendrisio Worlds Tag Cloud
The Elite Men’s World Championship Road Race in the words of the people who watched it live: (click image for full size) Source text from Cyclingnews’ live report, the final thread of Podium Cafe’s live discussion, and the first 50 results of a Twitter search for “Mendrisio” on 9/27/09. Cloud generated by Wordle with manual…
JV Ponders Some New Garmin Graphics
Also, is it just me, or do all Jon Vaughters’ shirts look the same? (via Matthew Koschara’s Facebook feed)