Oh, this one is going to be good. Tour of the Battenkill hits off on April 18th. That’s next Sunday. Gallery from 2009 edition here: pbase.com/best_of_battenkill_2009_pro&page=all. From: Dirty Biker so i have a man on the ground at tour of the battenkill i asked him to send me a race report and i just got [...]

Sport Illustrated (SI.com) has an interesting little read up about the stain on Spain. Five years ago, after a picturesque but particularly tough ride in the French Alps, the soon-to-be seven-time winner of the Tour de France declared that Alejandro Valverde had all the makings of cycling’s Next Big Thing. . . . In fact, [...]

Volunteer park had a criterium today, and I was there for a good chunk of it. The masters race was awesome. I wish I had pictures to show. I saw some good racing, lots of trainers being ‘ridden’ on the sides – and good family fun. Didn’t get offered a beer though. In total I [...]

Oh hell. You can write me off for the balance of Sunday. I will take no calls, I will answer no emails, I will read no cases, I will read no commercial outlines, I will not work on the second draft of my advanced writing requirement. I will do little else aside from spraying beer [...]

Or, “did EN ever stand for anything?” Shit. Back before blogging, when I kicked this site off, people would categorize everything in their daily existence. There is some need to categorize in us human beings. There has always been a need to categorize. I’ve no idea why, really. But, it happens all the time and [...]

Ever since Dominic found that Steve Mulder video he’s been all about riding flatland again. He took his Hoffman apart, re-painted it in a weekend, and is now doing tricks in our livingroom. This is called a “decade”. Pretty cool. I raced last weekend and loved every second of it. I placed shitty but had [...]

Fabian Cancellara is the man. zMud put a link up in the comment section earlier to the move of the day. It may be part of the same footage in the embedding video above. I can’t understand a word of what they are saying. I don’t have any idea what language they are speaking. But, [...]

This just in: From: zMud Subject: Flanders Recon Photos here: cyclingfans.com/tour_of_flanders_photos Live tomorrow here: cyclingfans.com/ Enjoy! zMud Enjoy I will. I’m at the library right now trying to get as much done as I can in as little time as possible. Between Easter kicking off with the fam all morning and the Tour of Flanders [...]

There are those that doubt. There are those that know. From: J. just saying moto pacing must be working for someone The email came with two pics. Pretty straightforward stuff. Ride behind car, win races. What did the Italians do to prepare for the 2009 Worlds? They rode the course at race speed, in the [...]

My man Leg’s wrote me an email. He didn’t say much. He didn’t have to. From: Legs Hard man’s bike, right up your alley. pezcyclingnews.com/cgi/gallerypicget.asp… God damn. Couldn’t find anything about it on Pez. Go figure. I’m an idiot. I typed out the caption below, because it’s worth reading. Omega-Pharma leader Philippe Gilbert will race [...]

YES! 70 degree weather hit yesterday and with it came the first sunburn of the year. Praisejesus March is fucking OVER! One more month on my road bike and then mountain bike season will be here! WOOOOT! I think I am tossing out the Tour of Red River Gorge for Mohican 100. Got some good [...]

If you have ever raced a bike you know how good a cold fizzy one tastes… regardless of what’s in the can, you know what I mean. Snake enjoys a coke at Redlands at the crit yesterday. As I type these words from my comfy armchair this afternoon, he and the rest of the guys [...]