Been down so long, it looks like up to me. I just pulled down 351 new emails. I guess Daddy’s been a bit absent of late. And he has his work cut out for him. I may never dig my way up out of this hole. Link dump: [skids hurt children] youtube.com [blogness] snakehawk.blogspot.com [blogness] [...]

I’m back in the bike shop. Maybe I never really left. Maybe it’s better this way. I woman came in today, one of the rudest short stack Phoenix Princess’s I’ve ever had the bad luck to run across. And I’m the middle of quite a spell of bad luck. I showed her our cheapest mountain [...]

This just in: From: Marty Subject: DAMAGE! Newsflash – RideClean Team member Dan McGehee RE-broke the UMCA 100 mile World Record October 6, 2007 in Kaneville, Illinois, by beating the existing mark of 4:01 set by Marko Baloh. Dan cranked out a 3:56:03 !!!!!! Details will follow, and the UMCA has yet to certify the [...]

It is, after all, the Year of the Cougar. Let’s be careful out there, boys. This shit is serious.

Latest Drug Crackdown Could Expose Some Athletes A complete list of buyers who received steroids, human growth hormone or other performance-enhancing drugs from a drug-trafficking network uncovered by federal investigators this week could take months to compile, federal agents involved in the crackdown said yesterday. At this point, it is too early to rule out [...]

What is what is happening with the cycling world’s proverbial hot potato team, your favorite and mine, the Terrors of Kazakstan, the Dopest of the Dopers, the Infamous Astana you ask? I’ll tell ya in three words: Leipheimer and Trek. As in Leipheimer will ride for them and Trek’s going to supply the bikes. American [...]

This just in from Mad Dog Media. Photo Credit: Mad Dog Media At least he’s down with Satan.

Does this count as a blemish against the event? Paolo Bettini of Italy prevailed in Stuttgart, Germany, after a week of polemics that threatened his participation. The 33 year-old from Marina di Bibbona formed part of a five-man group with Frank Schleck (Luxembourg), Cadel Evans (Australia), Alexandr Kolobnev (Russia) and home rider Stefan Schumacher. It [...]

I’m calling it. This is the Year of the Cougar. We’ve had the twenty niner. We’ve had carbon fiber in all its stupid light & expensive glory. I had pegged the twenty seven inch and a quarter knobby coaster brake wheel for a comeback, but I might be ahead of the curve on that one. [...]

This is Friday morning and I’m sitting with the rest of the assholes in the media center soaking up internet access and free coffee like I’m a fucking sponge. They place I stayed at the last two nights had intermittent internet wireless access that kept throwing me off. So I got yesterdays write-up posted this [...]

Heading west out of Flagstaff on I-40 I see the exit for Devil Dog Road. Every time I see this exit, I think the same thing – What the Devil Dog Road? Where does it go? And when will I ride it? AssFork. Arizona’s A # 1 shithole. The sign says “Ashfork”. But I know [...]

I’m nearly out. Shit got done around here this morning. Up at 6:15. Feed the daughter, help out mom. Get everyone sorted. Kiss wife in driveway. Drop off said daughter. Call grandparents and thank them for dinner last night. Go by shop, get there same time as door opens for first time this week, leave [...]