Tour de France Drinking Game

Drinking games are almost a rite of passage for a member of the Browne family. In honor of my Irish dad I’m sharing this version of the family tradition which combines two things he loves: watching the Tour de France and drinking. If you are participating in my Versus Tour de France daily online live [...]

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Tour of the Gila – who’s to blame? Snow or French Canadians?

Once again I need to step in and sort shit out and this time it’s the Tour of the Gila. This proud race was on the verge of extinction until SRAM stepped in with some much needed sponsorship dollars. To further pump life back into this New Mexico stage race Armstrong and crew for the past [...]

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The story behind Liege-Bastone-Liege

Sometimes the mainstream “gotcha media” misses the true stories. This is never more obvious than the story I found buried in Eurosport regarding the recent Liege-Bastone-Liege. After I translated the story from what I think is French to English (and those who follow my Twitter translations of streaming videos know how spot-on it is) Spanish [...]

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My two favorite things combined: Beastie Boys and Battlestar Galactica

I got this link courtesy of WIRED Magazine and couldn’t help myself. Katie King skillfully combines both the Beastie Boys Sabotage video and montages from Battlestar Galactica. Sit back and enjoy nerds…

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Riding with Armstrong and the Trek Madone

A couple years ago Trek unveiled their 2008 Madone road bike in Madison, Wisconsin. This new Madone was a break from the OCLV frames we’d seen from them in the past, so it was a big deal for the company. The Madone was launched with a lot of fanfare in a theater in downtown Madison [...]

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Behind the scenes with Landis at the Boulevard road race

The Boulevard road race in San Diego county is the unofficial kick-off to southern California racing. It’s not uncommon to have visiting pros line up and compete in this tough road race. Weather conditions in the town of Boulevard during this time of year range from oppressive heat to snow to everything in between. This [...]

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Interbike and playing hurt

The Interbike bike show for the working media is a complete shit show. There’s really no other way to explain or sugar-coat it. Each year I went as an editor I could have written a post about all the shenanigans that occur: from the photo shoots in our hotel room, to hanging out to all [...]

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We’re bored and we’re drinking

I’m at the Specialized launch and rooming with Cushionbury of Bicycling Magazine. We’re bored so that means one thing, we’re drinking.

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Rally racing the rental

Tim has a death grip on the “oh shit” handle as we drop down the mountain. He really freaked when he saw me take this picture with my phone. “Watch the road Browne!” As I have mentioned before, I rent the car for these trips. I reason being is that I enjoy beating the crap [...]

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Gayest. Helmet. Ever.

Cameron Fox is racing for Sho-Air/Sonace and he contested the tt in this helmet. Fox is a little odd.

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