My summer of having no responsibilities, except of riding bikes and enjoying the days and nights is slowly coming to and end.  Monday morning brings a harsh slap of reality to my face as I begin this new endeavor of life known as graduate school.  With that I bring you the conclusion of my summer [...]

I entered a trance like mind-space induced by speed Rejoicing I went up residential 23rd and ripped down 24th Eating green lights, speeding for ten streets The sun came out, and, feeling like a teenager I went up the hill and did it again. A state of joy can persist tossing away worry and want [...]

While Snake gets ready to kill it this weekend, I’ve been pondering some thoughts on women’s racing. Since the shitstorm I created this summer, women’s racing has been something I’ve wanted to post about on DC for a long time. Here it goes. As my first year of road racing comes to an end (can [...]

This on in from our boy Snake via cell phone. Plate 21 this year. Black Jack. It pays 2 to 1. Get some.

Snake snapped a few pics of me while we were out on the Saturday Shoot Out. I guess no one would believe it happened if there wasn’t photographic evidence. I think there is one out there somewhere of me in a parking lot with my beer guy hanging out. Rock it if you got it, [...]

Thanks to Ryan for sharing this.

MESA, Ariz. — A 13-year-old Mesa girl was hospital after she was hit Monday morning while riding her bicycle. Mesa police said it happened in the area of Gilbert Road and Southern Avenue. Mesa Fire Department spokesman Forrest Smith said the girl was in a crosswalk when she was hit at a relatively high rate [...]

The High Cascades 100 is in the books, I am sore, tired, cut/scraped up, walking slow, afraid to cough, and still kind of out of it.  Despite all that, the race was a fantastic event, the challenge of racing 100 miles on my mountain bike was a great way to cap off the summer, and [...]

Today is my deathday. Raise a pint. Be careful out there. And keep the rubber side down.

2000 Landshark cyclocross world touring mountain expedition go anywhere bicycle. Currently locked to my roof rack on my truck in North Seattle.  I am open to an owner-change. The bike is legendary.  I have owned it for 10 years, first owner.  Three paint jobs, 10 wheel-sets, several un-builds and rebuilds, and here in 2010 I [...]

Federal prosecutors have intensified their criminal investigation of the cyclist Lance Armstrong since the end of the Tour de France last month. They questioned many of his former associates, including cyclists who have supported and detailed claims that Armstrong and his former United States Postal Service team participated in systematic doping, according to a cyclist [...]

This is the photo he sent me. The photo was all that he sent me. No text was necessary to explain just what he meant: El Tour de Tucson.