Petacchi takes Vuelta Stage 7

The embed will probably fail. It has been hard to find vids this year. Go figure. If you need to, click on thru: youtube.com. Ale-Jet is a card carrying bad ass. Story at Velonews.com.

‘Thunder’ hits Vuelta: Hushovd wins Stage 6

The embed may fail. In the event that it does, you can view the video here: youtube.com. I’ve had a busy couple of days this week. I would have liked to post more vids. We’ll see how the next few days treats me.

American Farrar wins Vuelta Stage 5

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Gibert takes stage 3 and GC lead in Vuelta

This is a few days old now, but still totally worth watching. In case the youtube embed tanks, you can see it here: youtube.com.

How not to finish a bicycle race

One Speed Open

Here in Fort Collins this past weekend, we had the OneSpeedOpen, 30 something miles of pavement and gravel, with the number one rule being that you can only have one working gear.  Aside from not allowing people to use gears, this aint your standard race, no one knows the route until the day of, the [...]

It’s that time of year.

Summer is winding down and Cyclocross practice has been in full effect (affect? effect?) in Cincinnati since July. My bike just got painted and rebuilt. I rode it for the first time on Tuesday night for hot laps at Kings and promptly busted the fucking shifter. In the sand pit. HUGE shout out to D2 [...]

A step in the right direction

HOLLA! This is awesome. People are talking. And some are doing. CrossVegas has joined the list of particularly cyclo-cross races moving to narrow the prize money gap between the elite men’s and women’s field. Organiser Brook Watts has announced a ‘podium bonus’ for the top three finishers in this year’s women’s race, with each rider [...]

Paul Wolfe takes Silver at Masters Worlds

The Wolfe is apparently in Austria. And he’s picking up big chunks of silver while he’s there. The man is class. Results, in German, at www.masterswm.org/…result. Ms. Wolfe was sent out a few photos via email. Congratulations, Paul. Good on ya.

Todd Wells is no longer in showroom condition

I’m pretty sure at this point I can safely name Todd Wells as a “friend of drunkcyclist” after my time as volunteer-luggage-handler-to-the-stars at Redland’s a few years back. God damn Millionaire that he is. (Pic from Facebook, no idea how to credit it properly.) For all you cat’s claiming Leadville is easy, take a look [...]

Black Jack, con’t

All I’ve got so far is a text message regarding Snake’s finishing place. 21 in my age group 30-39. Then 28th I think overall. And this photo.

esisssis

That should read “Es is S.I.S.” Schlaflos im Sattel 2010. (Sleepless in the Saddle) SiS 2010 It was planned as a two-man, nine-hour race. It ended up being less, and yet so much more. I was invited to take the place of the second man on a two-man team. Cleveland (wunnspeed) was looking for someone [...]