Got home at a good time. Not too early in the afternoon, but not too late either. Played with my daughters. Dinner was a bowl of chili. It was good.
A shot of Pelinkovac, a can of beer. Then helmet, the shoes, and the bike. Bell. Sidis, and Fondriest. The door, the resounding click as [...]

From: frye
Subject: recycle
i finally found a use for the stock bars from my track bike…..tap handle…swweeett if yur east valley and need a drink hit me up for some delicioso tecate.
love the site
later
frye

Frye, you just might get some takers. Better find some other old parts to make a tip jar, quick [...]

Just got home, checking email and the like. What’d I get? I got this:

Need to blow an hour? I did. And this is how I did it.
Honestly, I was typing away as this played in the background. I haven’t watch more than a few minutes of the video. It appeared to be a fine day over across the pond. No so much of [...]

Drunkenness, hangovers, and debauchery tend to come to mind when one thinks about alcohol and its effects. But could alcohol also have been a catalyst for human civilization?
According to archaeologist Patrick McGovern this may have been the case when early man decided to start farming. Why humans turned from hunting and gathering to agriculture could [...]

Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2010 – (1/4) The hills
Tom Boonen is as explosive as ever. The form looks very, very good. Heinrich Haussler also looks to be on form. No lack of confidence in that young man.
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2010 – (2/4) Flecha attacks
Flecha lights the dynamite. Boom!
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2010 – [...]

This one languished in my inbox for a few weeks. I had a class canceled on me, with about ten minutes notice, one afternoon last week. So instead of, you know, working ahead or some shit like that, I set about reading through some of my long overdue emails.
We do [...]

“I knew that the form was good and that the team confided in me, but I would be lying if I thought at the start line I was going to win, even though I knew I could be at the front. . . In fact, during the team meeting, they asked what I thought the [...]

Monaco’s Cycling Federation has handed a two-year suspension to former Silence-Lotto rider Thomas Dekker for an EPO positive that resulted from the re-testing of an old sample last year.
Dekker, who was licensed in Monaco, learned last summer that the UCI retested a sample from December of 2007, after doping officials found suspicious data in the [...]

From: Response
Subject: HK bike trend?
I see this in HK only. 20 inch bikes with banana seats and home made aluminum extrusion sissy bars.
Allows an adult to ride a cheap kids bike for a fraction of the cost of the piley overpriced 20″ commuter bikes that are so popular here. I think there [...]

These came in from one of our South of the Border Correspondents. He titled his email “boguie wonderland.” There was no accompanying text. What the hell is “boguie”?
I take it to mean this:
Anything that is perceived as “upscale” from a blue-collar point of view. ‘Bougie’ (pronounced boo’-she) is a hacked truncation of [...]

After 11 years as a professional, Bobbie Traksel (Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team) locked down the biggest win of his career as he out paced Rick Flens (Rabobank) and Ian Stannard (Sky Professional Cycling Team) to win the 63rd edition of Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne in Belgium on Sunday.
In classically brutal Belgian weather conditions, the 28-year-old had instigated what [...]

Juan Antonio Flecha wins Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. Hot damn. Sky just bagging one right out the box. Read about the race at cyclingnews.com as well. Love this pic too: Gritty.
I picked Flecha as a dark horse, Snake tapped Heinrich Haussler for the win. He was damn close, that [...]

From Velonews.com:
American cyclist Tom Zirbel announced on his blog Friday that he is retiring from cycling rather than continue an aggressive fight against doping charges.
“I’ve decided to walk away from the sport,” he wrote, saying that he will not contest the 2-year suspension he received after testing positive for DHEA last year. Zirbel, who indicated [...]

More of the ongoing exchange between Mr. Zirbel and myself. I asked him, essentially, where he was at in all of this. This is his reply.
From: Tom Zirbel
Obviously, my life has been turned upside down since that day in mid Nov. in which I received the news of my positive ‘A’ sample. [...]

It is truly my favorite time of year. God damn, I love me some Classics. This coming weekend brings us both Het Volk (now called Omloop Het Nieuwsblad to be all correct about it) and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne. We’re going to see some fire!
In Het Volk (sorry, I just can’t get used to Nieuwsblad) [...]

From: Response
Subject: Chinese bike
Here is at typical bike in my town. 24 inch built for two, no lie.
This one is in pretty new condition. Many folks don’t even remove the bubble wrap from the frame and they ride the with every bolt loose so the kick stand mounted on the rear axle [...]

A driver whose van struck and killed a bicyclist in Pittsfield Township in July was sentenced today to two years of probation.
Nicholas Wahl, 20, of Clinton, pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in a sentencing agreement that allowed him to avoid jail time in the death of Tim Pincikowski, 45, of Saline.
Judge Melinda Morris sentenced Wahl [...]

We got an unsolicited email from Mr. Tom Zirbel recently regarding recent post of ours. The title alone is enough to tell you the direction it took, the author called it: Another one eats it. The tone was tough as we don’t often pull our punches.
From: Tom Zirbel
Hey man,
I’ve been getting [...]