No Longer in Showroom Condition

This was taken about 15 minutes after I finished LT 100. Either pedal your bike or go back to the farm. Snake

Fall in Colorado

HTFU

Snake sent me an email the other day. Do you remember me saying something this year about the tour de france and after the protest stage about some manager saying to race their bikes or go back to the factory? Yeah. I remember. Dude’s were getting soft. Snake found the link. Career change, anyone? If [...]

Cheers

came across this tidbit whilst surfing… from the WADA website – paragraph 8 of the “code” SUBSTANCES PROHIBITED IN PARTICULAR SPORTS P1. ALCOHOL Alcohol (ethanol) is prohibited In-Competition only, in the following sports. Detection will be conducted by analysis of breath and/or blood. The doping violation threshold (haematological values) is 0.10 g/L. Aeronautic (FAI) Archery [...]

“I’ll Get More Air This Time!”

Three of us from the CSU team headed up to the mountains to get some final high mountain singletrack before the trails get covered with snow for the winter. Man Pup was our driver, he earned that nickname because on the bike he has man strength, and off the bike he has the energy of [...]

My view

My view – notice not from the right side but from the center of the lane.  I’m moving very fast. I think that the most dangerous thing we can do is to hang out on the right side too much. Being in the center has saved my life more than once… saved me from being [...]

K-Billy’s Super Sounds of the 70′s weekend just keeps on… truckin’

More cell phone pics came in on the heels of this morning’s post. Go figure.

Local female CX racer hit by car.

Ali Delgado was hit on her bike yesterday, coming down a hill, a car didn’t see her and turned left. She crashed into the car. She’s at University Hospital now in ICU. Allie is a local CX racer. We raced together a couple weeks ago. She is actually a teammate of Low Brow, one of [...]

As big as BALCO?

Seen those new Nike commercials? The one’s that go “Boom!”? Yeah. Boom. That’s what they’re saying. We’ll see, of course, how it all plays out. MONTREAL – The head of the World Anti-Doping Agency says he wouldn’t be surprised if some BALCO-like revelations come out of the ongoing investigation into cycling that has Lance Armstrong [...]

“The longer I’m involved in this, the more I marvel at how widespread doping is.”

A few of these links are getting a little long in the tooth, but the story just keeps unfolding in front of us. Another iced latte? Sure. And bring me a donut as well. This may take a few minutes. From: bgw ….ettore torri, italy’s anti-doping prosecutor ain’t pulling his punches…just telling it like it [...]

PIT-DCA on a CX bike.

My girl Low Brow is riding from PIT-DCA this week. 340ish miles. I am super proud of her. Her most recent Facebook post: Now leaving Williamsport, Maryland. Its pouring rain. Two more days till we reach DC. WOOOOOWOOOOO! You go girl. See ya soon. XO.

Doping is as doping does

Stefan Matschiner has revealed details of how he helped his athletes carry out blood doping and has promised further revelations about how he helped them cheat in a book he plans to call ‘Borderline’. The Austrian was the agent for Bernhard Kohl, Michael Rasmussen and 20 other high-level triathletes and runners until 2008. He was [...]