Saturday last (not yesterday, yo) was the annual Pines to the Mines ride, as alluded to by Jonny. i was there. weather was beautiful. blah blah.
Jonny was right. JR won with a worthy ride. i’ve seen roadies ride mtb’s hard. never have i seen a roadie ride a borrowed bike a handful of times, then [...]

I hope the kid puts people in the hurt locker next year. I believe he is more than capable of doing so. I hope he believes it too.
Recently crowned world champion Cadel Evans promises to honor the rainbow jersey with aggressive racing for the remainder of the 2009 season.
. . . Reflecting [...]

From: Chris
just saw a pic of myself representin’ DC over on bikesnob
bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com
how many hipster points does that score me?

Combined with the fact that you’re drinking beer in that pic, I think you just maxed the DC hipster meter. And I didn’t even know we had one of those things. Gnome must’ve [...]

Man, I did not see this one coming. Not by a long shot.
“This is for all the critics I’ve had this season,” Evans said. “I have seven worlds medals from mountain biking at home, but none of them are gold. People say I never win, but today I won something pretty big.”
velonews.com.

Gallery of pics [...]

The first SSWC report I have the pleasure of posting is as follows:
Cameron M.
Subject: SSWC09
Hey drunkcyclists,
Thought I’d write in about an event that combines drinking and bikes quite nicely: the Single Speed World Champs that just went down in Durango. So here’ my little report:
Rolled into town Friday night, parties going down everywhere. [...]

All things considered, this place was once of a cycling nature. At some point again, it will return to that. As it is, thankfully, we have representatives in the field such as Thad to keep us on the informative rail. Yes kids, profHessianal(sic) cycling is still alive and well in various parts of the world…

All [...]

Straight out of Whitefish, Montana:

Thanks to RR AIRIC for the find & skiwhitefish.com. That’s some tasty race footage.

Here it is:
It’s pretty dry and long but a report.
Leadville 100 MTB—-The hardest race I’ve ever done.
That’s right. August 15th, 2009 was my hardest longest day on the bike. I’ve done a lot of races from as far north as Montreal and as far south as Mexico City. I’ve raced everything from BMX to [...]

OK, the 2009 Leadville Trail 100 Mountain Bike Race is in the books and Jonny has been asking me to write a little report on the event. It is always interesting to read other people’s perspectives on things like this. Things like this are hard for everyone, it’s just a long day on [...]

LT 100 MTB
Big Jonny has been wanting a race report so here are some general thoughts that I had on the LT this year. It doesn’t matter that Lance won. What did you think was going to happen? It didn’t matter if he brought a thug squad or not. Wiens had [...]

This what I heard over the phone about twenty minutes ago: Lance Armstrong is 12 minutes ahead of Weins @ 60 miles. Records may fall, records may not. We may have race reports, we may not.
I can’t wait to hear about this one. Packed with talent. Shit is [...]

Tomorrow is Mont Ventoux. Pretenders need not apply. I’ll be on my sofa in my underwear hollering something fierce come morning. After I do much the same all night. Because it’s Friday and I’m struggling with my midlife crisis. And by “midlife crisis” I mean “thought I’d try law school”. [...]

Of course, le Tour is going on. Everyone on here no doubt knows this, and if you don’t, pull your head out of your ass, and start watching. It’s been, eh, not too bad so far. I’m watching it as I write this now. I was in California last weekend for a wedding, and there [...]

First off this photo was hi-jacked from www.pezcyclingnews.com
Lately I have been jaded towards the sport that I absolutely love. The cheating, doping, who said what bullshit, dumb ass victory salutes, all that shit. It takes away from the sport. Bottom line. Lately I have not wanted to ride. Just some [...]

Kent Peterson may not know what is wrong with him, or even what that something is. Just that he is different. Different is as different does. He’s signing on for the Tour Divide in 2010.
I first read about him, in his own words and in other’s, when he rode in 2005. [...]

Andrew 40 Hands lives another day. With trophy. Story in his own words below:
From: Andrew
The 24 Hours of Rapelje might be the most laid back 24-hour mountain bike race that exists. For the past nine years, the community of Rapelje, Montana opens their doors and lets a group of random mountain [...]

First up, support your local bike shop such as this one in Fremont that offers bike repair lessons as well as prime parade-front realestate should you be one of those recluse parade fiends. 

Spectated hard (the only way I know how) at the inaugural Barn Burner 100 yesterday. That was a very well put together event. I think this one is going to get very positive reviews from this years participants and its going to be very popular next year. Think about finding some room [...]

here is my view after sucking down a coupla pbr 24’s. damage mcgehee’s impossibly ugly feet on the hotel bed the night before he tries to do 643.738 laps in less than 3:47:26 That would be an average of 24.36 mph. Which incidentally would be a new world record. [...]

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I’ve been meaning to mention – between my daily fluctuation – that the guy’s over at cantitoeroad.com sent in a sample of Caffelatex Tubeless Tire Sealant – an alternative to Stan’s – about 8 weeks ago, and now it’s happening. Thus far, I’ve been “testing” it [...]