This is the closest I got to the Single Speed Worlds this year – a pile of stuff on my kitchen counter. I even got a number plate, makes me look all official and shit.

And, thank you Martin, I do appreciate you mailing me all that.

24 hours of Moab in the books. The kids has fun out there. Check the vid:
From: stomparillaz
Subject: @4hrs of Mooob
Hola BIG jonny, and a good day to U sir! Been lurking in the closet of your site for many moons now… A proud member of the STompArillaz-creative-cycling-collective. Some Stompaz rolled down [...]

This just in:
From: Pounds O’ Bounds
Subject: Cross Race This Sunday
Hey Big Johnny,
Remind everyone that the first Cross Race in Arizona for 2007 is this
Sunday, October 21. Hope to see you out there. For more information go to
www.azcross.com

Oh snap!

Rumor has it that there is going to be some cross racing this year in AZ. Both in PHX and in the Dirty T. So if keep your ears to the ground and brush up on your skillz, cuz your going to need them. Races typically are in the city parks so a little [...]

Oh yes.
It is coming.
Are you ready?
From: Jimbo
Subject: Flight of the Pigs
It’s that time again. Come join me for the 11th annual Flight of the Pigs ride. See the attached flier.
Note that this year we will also provide a post-ride bbq afterwards, in addition to the lunch at Zoe’s Kitchen. See [...]

Team Ride Clean, sponsored in part by Drunkcyclist.com (yes, I write checks), took a few big wins this weekend.
And we ain’t even to Sunday yet.
Arizona’s new State Champion is Brain “Ham Fist” Forbes. He won it in grand style, losing his breakaway partner on the finishing incline. That makes two state [...]

24 Hours of Moab is this weekend.
Rumor has it, that’s it is the last race of promoter Laird Knight that is making any money. All the other races are way down. On many levels, Laird typifies race promotion, swindling of employees would be first on that list. Hiring sales staff, when they pursue and close [...]

Another fine reader email:
From: Brice
Subject: Emailing: F…FB.jpg
Jonny,
I realize that this is the same stale old story that has been around since the first 24 hr. race was conceived. The loudest, and in this case fattest, most enthusiastic friend who said he would “train hard all year,” bails on the team days [...]

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 record, (S.O.P.) and [...]

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 stayed [...]

Brinky went to Hamburg earlier this month. And yes, he’s a drunkcyclist.com sponsored athlete. And yes, he wanted me to say that!
From: Brinky
Subject: world championships/Hamburg
Germany was quite the venue for a triathlon w/ tons of people lining the course. A little too rainy (and a bit cold) for [...]

Oh my.
Adam Craig and Kellie Emmet took the top spots. Good on ya. Way to harden the fuck up.
Promoted by Mountain Mayhem stalwarts, the Telly Savalas Players’ Club, this year’s SSWC took place around Aviemore, complete with hour-long ride out to the race venue, a long LeMans start and what many riders [...]

The Vuelta started and I’m not very excited about it. Too much shit went down in professional cycling this last year, just too much. Maybe I’ll come around after a couple of stages and start to give a shit. But at the moment, I pretty much couldn’t care less.
Daniele Bennati (Lampre-Fondital) picked [...]

Local legend and friend of Drunkcyclist Steve Garro took a 3rd in the Hill Climb and a 4th in the Cross Country at The 2nd Annual World Off-Road Handcycling Championships held in Mount Crested Butte, Colorado last weekend.
Big ups.
I stopped by Steve’s place after my morning mountain bike ride, as he lives less [...]

Leave it to the Onion…
Non-Doping Cyclists Finish Tour De France
August 30, 2007 | Onion Sports
PARIS—A small but enthusiastic crowd of several dozen was on hand at the Tour de France’s finish line on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées Tuesday to applaud the efforts of the 28 cyclists who completed the grueling 20-stage, 2,208.3-mile race without the [...]

The first part of the AZ Underground Single Speed Series is in the books with The Future, aka Tool Shed Timmy, aka Gimmie Timmie, taking the top spot. More info here: meandrosco.blogspot.com.
Race #2 on the 25th. Info at: absolutebikes.net

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday… Race fans, hot rodders… Are you ready to sit on your ass in your back yard and not do a damn thing all day?
Sign me up, Chief.
Did I ride a bike today? No. Did I even look at my bikes today? No. What did you do, fat boy? [...]

El Serracho will be proud.
American Amber Neben won the Route de France Féminine Saturday after finishing with the pack on the final stage.
Going into the last stage, the American held a 1′04″ over Russian Svetlana Bubnenkova (Fenixs – HPB). Although Bubnenkova did win the final sprint finish and would win the mountains classification, it wasn’t [...]

Drunkcyclist is down with woman’s racing. I’ve put out a four girl squad at the 24 Hours of the Old Pueblo for the past four years.
From: the serrach
Subject: yeah yeah I know..
Its only women’s cycling but come on man, check out this headline -
Neben écrase l’opposition – cyclistine-mages.blogspirit.com
“Neben Crushes The [...]

Here’s a pic of our boy Snake at the head of affairs. Number two plate at the front, number one plate lurking. Oh, I can feel the excitement from here.

And by “excitement” I mean, “I’m thirsty”. And by “here” I mean, “sitting on my fat ass”.