I’m walking to work the other morning, I’m late, the sickness is just kicking in. Going back to bed seems like an excellent idea. At least it’s sunny. On the other side of the street I see this dude in a black sweatshirt leaning over his bike and digging through a cardboard box. I’m getting [...]

I’ve ridden a mountain bike a total three time in the last two weekends. That is pretty much the new record for the last 18 months of my life. I’m not particularly proud of it or anything, that’s just the way it is. And it is a record I hope to improve upon. The snow [...]

Haven’t touched a bike all week. Hope to break the chain ’round about Saturday morning. And that would be tomorrow. Wish me luck. I’m going to need it. Believe me. First up: From: twolf1 Subject: cyclist = terroris Bicyclist sought in Times Square bombing www.cnn.com Yeah, what the fuck is up with that? Who’s this [...]

Just for that cocksucker Pineapple aka Buck Fifty Four aka Iron Mike aka Malibu aka Leche I’ll try to get this one rolling in the a.m. I do hate to disappoint him so… After ordering 3 McChickens and a Big Mac I found a quiet corner of the restaurant and sat down and began dissecting [...]

Got in what really might have been my second mountain bike ride of 2008 with my boy McClane yesterday. Fucking kid is crazy. Him and his little under-roo running around in girl pants. Two hours of prime time Sedona single track and sunshine was all right with me. In fact, I may be doing more [...]

Tomorrow brings Omloop Het Volk. Sunday is Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne. I’m about to go full blown drunk classics crazy up in this piece. And that means fries, mayonnaise and beer. But not necessarily in that order. Is Leadville about to go bye-bye? More than 1 billion gallons of water – enough to fill 1,500 Olympic-sized swimming pools [...]

When keeping it real goes wrong: Woman bicycling with shotgun strapped to back is arrested It was a sight that would catch anyone’s attention — a woman riding a bicycle around St. Cloud, Minn., late at night in the bitter cold. Turns out there was another reason a citizen took notice: The cyclist was carrying [...]

As I watched last night’s debate with my family, I kept turning to either my wife on my left or my father on my right and saying, “I don’t think that question was fair.” Tim Russert was seemingly confused about who was the moderator and who was the debate participant. He’s sure seems to be [...]

I’m not ashamed to admit it, I had a photo of Bjarne Riis I cut out of some cycling magazine on the front door of my fridge back in ’96. My hero was a junkie. Oh well. At least he hasn’t killed anyone. From: Hurlkowski Subject: Poetry in Motion Yo Jonny, Seen on a sticker [...]

Made it to Tucson last night. Raining like all hell out there at the moment. Race starts tomorrow at noon. Looks like I’m going to get wet. From: Loren Subject: Shit going down in Portland Hey man, I haven’t seen this story on your blog, so here you go. bikeportland.org/police-victim-on-lookout-for-road-rage-attacker bikeportland.org/police-question-hummer-driver-in-road-rage-attack Get em smoky. What [...]

K-BILLY’s Super Sounds Of The Seventies Weekend just keeps on coming with this little ditty… President Bush continues to dispute all the predictions that his presidency will go down in history as a miserable failure. Or, as he put it in an interview with Chris Wallace of Fox News over the weekend: “It’s very hard [...]

The Mittster packed it in, and the whole world cried. Jon Stewart offers a touching eulogy for the late Mitt Romney. See it here: crooksandliars.com And then, of course, even on t-shirts Idaho gets no love. If Mitt Romney was a state, he’d be Idaho. Its been with great infrequency that I use The Bummer [...]