Grab some popcorn, sit back and watch the fireworks as the fallout from Pappsmear is starting to take effect. The latest rider to come clean is non other than Jonathon Chodroff of Jelly Belly. I think Burt Hoovis called this one months ago… Jonathan Chodroff has admitted to buying and using erythropoietin (EPO) in early [...]

So lets forget all the bullshit about Interbike going back to Cali. We still have one year left in Sin City and the festivities start for me this Sunday when I post up for the afternoon at Rehab. It seems like a fine way to kick off 4 days of bike related activity. Now my question [...]

This past weekend those fine future oil nerds from the Colorado School of Mines put on a nice little mtb race at Sol Vista resort.  The race would be me first experience of being a collegiate athlete.  Saturday was XC, lined up in the B’s because that’s where USA Cycling stuck me.  Course has a [...]

The General has a way with words. [Petraeus] That phrase describes this experience pretty well. Incredibly more nuanced is an international city, and the approach must be in accord. An approach to city riding – I’ll go anywhere… for reasons great or small. “But must there be a reason?” asks the [hypothetical] young cylist. “Yes, [...]

Last week I got a call from Scandinavian Jesus talking some nonsense about riding in a 100 mile mountain bike race that was going to be all on fire roads. I wished him luck and then went about the rest of my day.  He waited until later in that evening, after I already had a few adult beverages, and asked [...]

San Bernardino police are looking for a driver who struck and killed a bicyclist Friday. Lauretta Jean Romo, 43, of San Bernardino, died at the scene near the corner of Highland and Davidson avenues at 12:42 a.m., San Bernardino County coroner’s officials said. Romo was riding a mountain bike west in an eastbound lane on [...]

It’s just too important.

So the addition of a second child has been a wonderful experience, but as expected it has cramped my style a bit. Sleep has been compromised (no real surprise there, right?). With the diminished sleep has come suppressed energy levels and thus motivation to ride. Of course all of this is temporary and a very [...]

For those of you who have never visited the fine burg that is Flagstaff, Arizona, there is a watering hole/convenience store/refuge for dorky cyclists known as the Pay N’ Take that is unlike any other establishment in which I have become inebriated. When I first moved to this town, I spent most nights sitting at [...]

This one in from our man Corey the Courier. And by “in” I mean he sent it to me two months ago. From: Corey the Courier Subject: Rocky 8 There was an alleycat in Philly on July 10. It was a two person relay race where one rider sprints up and down Ben Franklin Parkway [...]

File this one under Inspirational Thanks to nyhc00 for sending over the link

I didn’t want to put anything up yesterday because I felt Jonny’s post about Laurent Fignon was pretty important. He is really only one of three French cyclist I could call myself a fan of. Even when he lost to Lemond, I was still a bigger fan of him than my own countryman. The other two are  Thomas Voeckler and Christophe Moreau. [...]