Ludo Dierckxens knew only one way to ride. Image source: http://www.pezcyclingnews.com/?pg=fullstory&id=5809. Interview with Dierckxens here: http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=5738.

I first met Taylor last summer when he started working at the shop. Initially dismissed as the new shop grom, I eventually found myself having more and more in-depth conversations with him about 24 hour races and long off road tours. Come to find out, in 2009, the he was the under 25 World Champion for  solo 24 hour racing. [...]

This kid. Right here. He’s from Arizona. A lot of us here at DC have known him for years. And, yes, we are all up in his business. This photo is from the 2010 Tour de Romandie. Yeah, that’s a Green Jersey on my man right there! (You know you’re baller when you’ve got a [...]

2011 Giro d’Italia, Stage 14. Yes, it was yesterday. I’ve been busy. And, I haven’t seen a video of today’s action online yet. I’m sure it will be available a mere 10 minutes after I type this. We’re a day late and a dollar short around these parts. The 28-year-old Basque climber rode up the [...]

The heartbreak. The triumph. The anguish. The glory. The Spring Classics. I needed some stoke this morning. And this worked out just fine. Get some.

Baller. These dudes were thud squad.

News like this makes the race results rather insignificant. Leopard-Trek’s Wouter Weylandt was fatally injured today in a crash on the third stage of the Giro d’Italia. The 26-year-old went down on the Passo del Bocco and was unconscious at the scene. Paramedics worked to revive the Belgian, doing CPR for an extended period of [...]

The alarm went off at 4:30am yesterday and I fumbled my way to the tea kettle to press myself a nice strong cup of coffee. I wasn’t up this early go to work, or even to ride. I was branching out and heading down to the town lake to watch some friends compete in a triathlon. [...]

Arizona native Chad Beyer is toeing the line at the Giro this year. A lot of us in the DC family knew this guy when he was a kid. Literally. I met him when he was twelve. We’ve been hyping a bit over the years as his pro career progressed. He took the Green Jersey [...]

Oh hell yeah. I’ve got a Hampsten poster on the wall, signed and framed. One of the biggest days in the history of American cycling. These are different images from the same day: 1988 Giro d’ Italia, Stage 14. Andy Hampsten remains the only American to have won the Giro. Good article available at http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2008/giro08/?id=/riders/2008/interviews/giro_hampsten08. [...]

Johan Museeuw took the Ronde van Vlaanderen three times in his career; 1993, 1995, and 1998. Doing it once is the stuff of legend. Three is the mark of a very hard man indeed. 1998 – Tour of Flanders Dude was a Baller.

It is a glorious morning here in Prescott, Az and the Whiskey offroad “50 Proof” just went off with a shotgun blast. Normally I like my whiskey a little higher proof but we ain’t taling about drinking. Yet. Best of luck to all of the 550 riders that just set out for 50 miles of [...]