Baller. These dudes were thud squad.

Yes I did. Up and out the door early, summer in Phoenix style. Neither my face nor my legs have seen a razor of late. The face I’ll shave. But, I cannot see the point of taking the hedge trimmers to the pins. Why pretend I’m something I’m not?

Arizona native Chad Beyer is toeing the line at the Giro this year. A lot of us in the DC family knew this guy when he was a kid. Literally. I met him when he was twelve. We’ve been hyping a bit over the years as his pro career progressed. He took the Green Jersey [...]

Oh hell yeah. I’ve got a Hampsten poster on the wall, signed and framed. One of the biggest days in the history of American cycling. These are different images from the same day: 1988 Giro d’ Italia, Stage 14. Andy Hampsten remains the only American to have won the Giro. Good article available at http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2008/giro08/?id=/riders/2008/interviews/giro_hampsten08. [...]

Image source: http://www.sevenstarscycles.com/2011/02/blog-post.html.

Johan Museeuw took the Ronde van Vlaanderen three times in his career; 1993, 1995, and 1998. Doing it once is the stuff of legend. Three is the mark of a very hard man indeed. 1998 – Tour of Flanders Dude was a Baller.

Nah, I am tired of being lied to.

Ah yes, the Giro. With all its wonderful fireworks, trials, tribulations, glory and anguish. This was the exciting race to watch when we endured the rather boring years of Juan Pelota’s dominance in the Tour. Yeah, I said it. And it starts next week.  Check this:  http://www.steephill.tv/giro-d-italia/. A little bit of glory from years past.

Freddy Maertens was a baller. Full stop. Freddy Maertens – Gent Wevelgem

This might be the best I find tonight. Last 8k and Côte de Saint Nicolas. Boom goes the dynamite.

I did a little of this to start the day off proper: I caught the last 40k (the part that really matters) of LBL on streaming video as the kids got silly on candy. Baller. Motivated for sure. Couldn’t get a ride in yesterday as life just didn’t allow it. Today was different. I got [...]

Philippe Gilbert doesn’t have nerves of steel. Steel is nervous about Philippe Gilbert. Image source: http://velonews.competitor.com/2011/04/news/unbeatable-philippe-gilbert-takes-liege-bastongne-liege_169905. There’s just no stopping the guy … even when he’s outnumbered two-to-one. Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto) capped off an impressive sweep of the Ardennes classics Sunday, easily out-sprinting the Leopard-Trek brother act of Fränk and Andy Schleck at the [...]