Long Beach cyclists come out to support the TdF

It’s cool when your hometown comes out and embraces a sport that has been a passion of mine since I was a kid. What’s even more amazing is that in the fifth largest city in California with the traffic to match, cycling is started to be woven into the infrastructure. This is  due not only [...]

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Douche of the month goes to…

Last month I didn’t get around to my douche of the month award because I was a douche myself and didn’t get around to it. But just to get you up to speed, last month’s douche was Cadel Evans. “Whaaa, don’t touch my slightly injured shoulder” or my favorite or “I’ll cut your head off [...]

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Tour de France horn ringtone

I’ll say this right away, ringtones are stupid and nine times out of ten very embarrassing. However this all changed very recently. On my last press junket I went to the A2 wind tunnel to check out how aero the Specialized helmets and bikes are. During the Tour, Nic Sims from Specialized had his film [...]

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Random photos from Dad’s camera

My dad had accumulated a bunch of photos on his camera’s flash card going back to this year’s Tour de France. So I downloaded them for him and will burn them to a DVD. Also on the card was a photo of a photo of him back in his racing days. The prologue in London. [...]

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Update your damn blog!

I dropped off of the blogosphere last month because we were all consumed by yearly Tour de France fever. Also I really wasn’t doing anything that was blog worthy (not that this post may be either). I didn’t go anywhere or do much of anything. Tim did a great job of carrying the ROAD Magazine [...]

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The ignorance of the mass media

I often listen to call-in press conferences. Most of the time press conferences aren’t too interesting. By the time the press conference is called, most bike editors already know the news. It’s mostly to get the mass media clued in to what’s going on. So when Versus had a press conference about their Tour de [...]

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