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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Please don’t give me free energy drinks or I say stupid things.

As I cruise the web I’ve continued to find either the random photos or videos of me doing stupid things at Interbike. Two things spring to mind: first – I’m an idiot and two – I should not be put on camera after downing coffee and numerous free energy drinks. That’s just a bad combination. [...]

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The Road Diaries

SRAM has a web/video presence call the Road Diaries. Here is a video of me being interviewed and being a smart ass. At this point I hadn’t crashed in the Industry Cup crit and was still feeling confident.

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So who’s the douche bag now?

Two minutes later I was bleeding and wondering what the hell I was doing Photo courtesy: Jonathan Devich So with the thoughts of going two for two as a media winner I rolled out of the Venetian Hotel to the Mandalay Bay, the location for the USA Criterium championships. I knew that tonight’s race was [...]

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This is what I’ve been doing, as if you care.

The Vegas ‘cross in full effect. I’m trying to get Schamber to race I’ve finally feel like I’ve gotten ahead of the game so I thought I’d write a couple of jumbled thoughts. I’ve been doing a crap load of traveling lately and was starting to feel the burn. Even as I write this I’m [...]

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I’m not an armadillo*

My meter has been on the low side recently I had been a little down in the dumps since returning from Interbike. I think it’s a combination of all the travel and general malaise that comes with the end of the racing season. But the coupe de grâce was Interbike. That place just crushed me [...]

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Neil’s wild ride – the photos

You’ve probably already read Neil’s account of the Industry Crit – claiming that he was up against the likes of Cipo and a few other notables such as McCormack, Hegg … Well – we do have the photos to prove it. Then of course there was the cheering section – for some reason known as [...]

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The buzz at Interbike

The SRAM booth continues to have a lot of traffic due to their road group. Last year it was the buzz because they had just unveiled it. Now that it is avalible people seem to be clamoring for it. We were wondering how far FSA is in making their own group… We picked up pair [...]

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