The Giro’s been glorious to watch this year, and I’m glad these guys have a rest day today because they are starting to look like god damn pygmy tarsiers. Image source: http://www.steephill.tv/2012/giro-d-italia/photos/stage-15/ Bloodshot eyes, shattered faces…it’s like they came straight off the battlefield. Shell-shocked. Stages 14 and 15 exhibited true grit and classic finishes. Andrey Amador, a name Read the full article…

What better way to start the weekly DC Facebook Roundup than on the day a once homeless graffiti artist becomes worth a half a billion? Yup, today Facebook goes for sale for $104 billion. That’s equal to like 5 of my cupcakes. Chump change for us here at DC. See, for us here at DC, we don’t measure our wealth Read the full article…

I don’t understand a word of any of this aside from the names of the cyclists and the climbs. But I could not take my eyes off it just the same. Pantani meant a lot to us here at Drunkcyclist. The graphic our very own Snakehawk made at the top right of the page is Read the full article…

The year was 1998. I was 29 years old, a handful of years out of college, and working in a bike shop as a mechanic. The woman who was to become my wife and I lived with our two dogs in a nice little three bedroom ranch house we bought in Tempe, Arizona. I was Read the full article…

This Saturday is Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for a “fifth of mayonnaise”). Not only is it everybody’s favorite commercialized Mexican holiday, it’s also the start of the Giro de Italia. With seven mountain top finishes, no clear favorite for the overall, and a peloton packed with great sprinters it is looking to be a pretty interesting race. It also looks like it is Read the full article…

More information on the Whiskey Off-Road dropped in just under an hour ago. Lucky for me, I have the time this morning to actually post it. Yeah, we’re not always so timely around here. And by “we” I pretty much mean me. Saturday of the 9th Annual Whiskey Off-Road event weekend brought blue skies and Read the full article…

Stuck in a shop, it’s no way to roll, good thing Todd at Epic Rides is flowing vicarious vids…

Maxim Iglinskiy (Astana) attacked out of a small chasing group to catch Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas-Cannondale) within sight of the flamme rouge and take the win in the 2012 Liege-Bastogne-Liege. Nibali had jumped from the field on the penultimate climb and tried to solo in the last 20km, but the Kazakh gave chase to claim his Read the full article…

pre·tense/ prê•tens/ 1. An attempt to make something that is not the case appear true. 2. An attempt to make mountain biking appeal to RISD, OTIS, and SCAD students as well as board-certified triathaletes. okay.  i’m bitter.  also skeptic, but virtuously.  skepticism is what has constructed the stoic pillar of design critique upon which i Read the full article…

Flèche Wallonne popped off yesterday. It was also my birthday, and I unfortunately paid little attention to the race. Not that the race wasn’t awesome and worth following, rather my priorities lay elsewhere. A mistake on my part, as the closing kilometers were a nail biter. Could Gilbert repeat? Who was one form? Who was Read the full article…

This one in from our man Art, the AZ Cutter. Yes, he rode to glory in the Little 5 (See Breaking Away (1979), http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078902/; http://iusf.indiana.edu/little500/). Return of the Flying Scotsman Remember this guy?  He was not your average pro roadie even when he was winning world pursuit championships and breaking Moser’s hour record!  Graeme Obree Read the full article…

Watching Tom Bidon Steels bite his nails at the end of this is worth the price of admission alone. Wilfried Peeters keeps it real. I posted the vid on the DC dummmblr earlier page today. Hat tip to BIG RING RIDING.