I rode for three hours this morning. I weight 210 pounds. I just ate three turkey sandwitches. I’m happier than a pig in shit. Last Sunday I put 10 speed Dura Ace on my Moser. She was fixed until then. All morning, when I was with the group ride, before I got dropped out by [...]

From: Lovedog Could you please post this statement from my self and Gord Fraser. After talking with Gord and hearing about some of the feedback he has received, it seems some of the content of my previous email have been misconstrued. So please allow clarification. Please understand this VERY CLEARLY: The email was not about [...]

Something we all should be thinking about. From: John Regardless of how anyone feels about US foreign policy this guy deserved way better, any way you look at it. I like to remind myself what a pussy I am right before I get on my bike….. I couldn’t agree more. In case you’re wondering why [...]

You know the drill, vid after the fold…

Matthias Kessler fired by after positive B-sample. Team Astana has fired Matthias Kessler following the positive results of his B-sample, the team announced Friday. Swiss Cycling, the national federation responsible for Kessler, had earlier in the day officially announced the results of the B-sample. “The B-sample confirms the A-sample,” said Lorenz Schlaefli, the director of [...]

Another one from Zabriskie coming at ya. Click “read more” to view the embedded video from the fine follks at Velonews.

Did you know U.S. Senator David Vitter (R-LA) is a Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar? Neither did I. Vitter, of course, is now world famous for three things: (1) being Southern Regional chair of Rudy Giuliani’s presidential campaign; (2) campaign ads that portray him “as a solid family-values sort of fellow” and defender of “traditional [...]

In case you were wondering what the Judge who presided over Scooter Libby’s recent court appearance thought about Bush commuting Libby’s sentence: In his first public remarks since President Bush commuted Scooter Libby’s prison term, Judge Reggie Walton said he was “perplexed” by the president’s belief that Walton’s sentence was “excessive.” Walton, a Bush appointee [...]

This is to be tonight’s catch all post. Go figure. Email from Lovedog: From: Lovedog Two links here (one NPR audio player, one for RealPlayer, both are the same 29 min. interview) regarding Floyd and his book and his ongoing doping legal issues: npr.org/blogs/talk/2007/07/floyd_landis_on_floyd_landis, and npr.org/templates/story/story. Interesting perspectives, comments and arguments. It is worth the [...]

This just in: Race flyers and reg. are open for the following races here: redroseraces.com Sat. July 21- Robert Fulton Road Race- highlights- cool, challenging 10-mile course, featuring an 80-mile road race, also the PA State Championships for 1/2, 3, 4 and 5 men. Open to riders from other states too. Women’s races for Cat. [...]

Not quite sure how this has happened. I didn’t used to agree with the old boy on, well, anything. Suddenly, I find myself reading his page and (gasp) saying “yes”. Be gentle, Andrew. Be gentle. He’s arguing he didn’t decide to go to war; Saddam did. He’s saying he agrees with his Republican critics. He’s [...]

Some of the information gathered for me by the various reporting tools I’m running server side is interesting. Most of it is extraneous bullshit that doesn’t make any difference to me one way or the other. This I’d but under interesting. IE 7.0           28.3 % Firefox 2.0   25.6 % IE 6.0           24.2 % Safari           9.9 % Firefox 1.5   2.2 % [...]