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Shake-Down Time In Amateur Land!
It’s early in the year, but Texas weather is already so much hotter than, say, April in Chicago, or June in Minnesota (when winter officially ends there, by the way). So shop rides are back in swing and I’m already getting thrashed or shelled — pick whichever verb you prefer. Or schelacked. Or pooped out [...]
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- Amateur Road Racing Season Now Officially Underway
January 24th, 2010Saturday unfolded a balmy sixty degrees, shockingly sunny, and with just the mildest of breeze from some direction or another. That’s what left a few of us worryingly overdressed for what was arguably the first road race of the new decade in Texas.
Aside from the technical glitch that 2010 might be more like the last [...] - Living For Cycling? Why?
October 19th, 2009Now, There’s A Question.
Saturday morning I took a step that was far from monumental, but certainly not a trivial one on life’s forced march. To be specific, I showed up for the Saturday morning shop ride in my new town, not knowing a soul.
For the record, I’m not a particularly shy person. Okay, I’m not [...] - Lance vs. Alberto 2010
October 18th, 2009What A Difference A Year Makes
The 2010 TdF route was announced last week and, ou est la! It largely involves a long, hard bike ride around France. Yes it has different features and towns and mountain passes, and yes it lacks a Team Time Trial and Mont Ventoux and so on, but if you step [...] - HARDER’N HELL 100
August 30th, 2009BEST ULTRA RACE IN THE COUNTRY?
Parts of me just returned from the best day of road racing ever. Arguably not my best day, but more about that later. However, for several hundred USACycling licensed athletes, it was a day that almost defies description. So let me describe it for you as best I can.
Every year [...] - CAT UP AND QUIT RIDING…HOW TO PREP FOR THE BIG RACE?
August 14th, 2009PLEASE DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME…WITHOUT A CYCLOPS
I haven’t ridden either of my Cannondales a single mile since before the 4th of July, and now it’s mid-August, but nevertheless I just requested – and was promptly approved – to upgrade from Cat 5 to 4 just so I can race the Hotter’n Hell 100-miler in [...] - HOTTER’N HELL HUNDRED, COMING UP!
August 7th, 2009This year I moved to North Texas and what perfect timing — August 28th brings a 3-day cycling fest up in Wichita Falls called the Hotter’n Hell Hundred, or HHH by the locals.
The reason for the name is obvious — north Texas in late August is a place even the Devil can’t tolerate. Heat and [...] - NO “I” IN TEAM, By Lance Armstrong
July 28th, 2009So now that the battle on the bikes has ended, the war of words seems to be fully underway. To whit, Alberto Contador remarks to the spanish press that there was palpable tension between himself and Lance Armstrong during the Tour.
And we’re all shocked, of course.
To whit, in return, LA “Twitters” a response. Now, before we [...] - LANCE STRUGGLES WITH SUPPORT ROLE
July 4th, 2009Lance Armstrong took the bold but unenviable step of leading out his team’s squad in the Individual Time Trial in Monaco. Perhaps he thought getting out so early he would likely snag – albeit possibly temporarily – the top spot on the leader board. And he did. For several minutes the lead was his, and [...]
- 24 Hours Of Pure Motivation
June 17th, 2009Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Before we can tell you about the book we just finished reading, its probably best to let you know that: a) we do NOT know the author, and have NO financial interest in him or his book; and b) we’re [...] - LANCE TO ARM-WRESTLE CONTADOR!
June 6th, 2009READ ALL ABOUT IT!
That’s right, Lance is smiling himself silly these days contemplating an opportunity to one-up the skinny spaniard by shifting fields of play at the last moment. Instead of a little intra-familial cycling showdown at the Tour next month, Lance is challenging Alberto to belly up to the table and clasp hands.
Bookmakers in [...] - Out Of Time, Money, And Good Ideas – The Astana Story
May 27th, 2009…Or, “What I Learned This Summer At The Giro D’italia”
Cutting to the chase, it’s been a lousy month for the squad whose paychecks are mailed from Kazahkstan.
First, they packed wrong for their Italian holiday; namely, they failed to bring along Alberto Contador in case they encountered a serious bike race in their travels. Instead, they [...] - IT’S NOT WHAT’S IN YOUR LEGS…part duex
May 17th, 2009First, this is Part 2, as the title suggests. So if you haven’t read Part 1, trust me when I say that what follows will have essentially no meaning unless you take the time to do so. To make it easier – which is always the central desire of our collective hearts here at Bicycle.net [...]
- IT’S NOT WHAT’S IN YOUR LEGS — IT’S WHAT’S IN YOUR HEAD
May 16th, 2009PSYCH 101 – You’re Only As Good As They Think You Are!
You train hard through the winter. Spring comes and you ride better. You’re no longer a follower, and you’re not having to suck wheels so much any more. You’re not getting dropped on the hills — you’re actually doing some dropping. And you’re not [...] - CANNONDALE HEADED WEST — TO FAR EAST
April 5th, 2009Cannondale Shifts Manufacturing from Bedford, PA to Taiwan
SportsOneSource Media Posted: 4/2/2009
Cycling Sports Group (formerly the Cannondale Sports Group) plans to consolidate all North American product development, marketing and business management functions for the four cycling brands Cannondale, Schwinn, GT and Mongoose to Bethel, CT, said Dorel Industries in a press release this week. Bike [...] - Diary of a Cat 5 – First Race Of The Season
February 24th, 2009Saturday night I checked the weather forecast for the fifth time, noting the forecasted high temp on Sunday would be a whopping 30 degrees with a wind chill of 18. Winds were to be a steady 10 mph from the NNW. None of this was good news. That it would be dry and sunny out [...]
- Diary of a Cat 5er, Part II — Winter In The Dungeon
February 4th, 2009It’s been a long, cold winter here in middle America, our windy days coming with a particular “bite” that makes cycling outdoors a sport for the bold or the sick-of-mind, but not for you or me. We own the basements and gyms and YMCAs that provide the chance for a good comfortable workout, provided one [...]
- Cycling Stories: Taste bad, or Less Filling?
January 25th, 2009Last night I got up from my computer, at which I’d been surfing Cyclingnews.com and Velonews.com and so on, went in another room and sat down with a stack of monthly cycling mags I’d been accumulating. Yes, sadly, this is how my Saturday nights often unfold. After thirty minutes I’d flicked through three competing mags, [...]
- The Three Legged Power Station
January 17th, 2009The first time I viewed a set of SRM power cranks in action was in 2001. I had read about the training tool in the media, where sensitive sensors were built into the chain ring design, to measure the rider’s actual power output in Watts. Relate this to a 40-watt bulb being dim and a [...]
- TOUR DOWN UNDER – Presented by ASTANA
January 13th, 2009WILL A TEPID STAGE RACE ACROSS PAN-FLAT AUSTRALIA BE THE MOST IMPORTANT PRO EVENT OF 2009?
Next week we will all find out how dominant the Astana/Lance combo can be, and we think The Man protest-eth too much, as they say.
Lance says he’s “in shape” and “ahead of previous Januaries” in terms of fitness and weight. [...] - Diary of a Cat 5er – Part I
December 21st, 2008Winter Training
On pretty much any cycling site you can find “diaries” of professional cyclists, in which you can read about things in their world. Some of these are well-written and interesting, but many have their last entry three seasons ago and not a morsel of worthwhile reading since.
Meanwhile, there are thousands of us avid-amateurs out [...] - LANCE RETURNS — LONG LIVE KING LANCE?
October 30th, 2008I’m absolutely frustrated with the negative jawboning going on within the sport of cycling about the imminent return to competition of the most influential rider – and one of the most high-profile athletes – in modern sports history.
The undisputable facts are that he’s exciting, he’ll bring new fans and greater press coverage to the sport, [...] - Winter Training & Watching Your Weight
October 7th, 2008I’ve spent the entire season riding more & faster than ever before and, according to my handy-dandy Garmin 705 calorie-counter and multi-tool, I’ve burned off enough energy to shed one or two of me this season. But I’m still here, trust me.
In fact, all year my weight has remained in the same 175 +/-5 [...] - Gain Weight Off-Season? You’ve Got Company.
September 30th, 2008“Normally I would start the season at about 178 pounds,” Lance Armstrong stated in a recent interview.
When I saw the statement, I was more than a little surprised. I would have guessed his off-season weight was closer to 170, and his Tour-weight maybe down to 160.
That Lance drifts up to a natural-weight closer [...] - Say It Ain’t So: Frank Schleck Investigated For Doping
September 27th, 2008€7000 in Payments To Dr. Fuentes Confirmed
Early indications are that another high-profile rider may have been caught-up in the performance-doping, the culprit this time being Frank Schleck, who co-captained team CSC’s Tour de France squad this year with teammate and eventual Tour winner, Carlos Sastre.
The German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung has reported that investigators have evidence [...] - DINNER WITH MR. HINCAPIE
September 18th, 2008What a coup! The Tour of Missouri ends and our hearty bike troupe has the good fortune – courtesy of our shop’s relationship with Hincapie Apparel – to have the company reps come by and have dinner with us at an Irish pub/restaurant in St. Louis’ ever-trendy Central West End.
Oh yeah, and we’re told in [...] - Sunday’s News Today: Vande Velde Wins Tour of Missouri!
September 10th, 2008What year-long coming out party it has been for the former hyper-domestique Christian Vande Velde, who – now keep this a secret, please – just WON the Tour of Missouri by CRUSHING the individual time trial.
Being a real-time or sooner news service, we felt it unnecessary to wait until they make this all official on [...] - Armstrong Back, Landis Back..Now You’re Talking!
September 10th, 2008If you’re reading this, you’re really into cycling. You probably go out of your way to keep up about the sport at all levels. You can recognize the names of many of today’s top pros and their teams, and you probably attend professional cycle races from time to time. You might even [...]
- Exclusive Conversation With Ricardo Ricco, Former Star Of Former Pro Cycling Team Saunier Duval
August 1st, 2008Bicycle.net, clearly well-regarded among influential persons throughout the sport of cycling, was able to get exclusing and unprecedented access to the 24 year old climbing specialist who just today confessed to using EPO during this year’s Tour de France. Not to dwell, below is the text of our conversation with the young man:
Bicycle.net (BN): “So [...] - Lance Was Wrong, We Were Right. It Happens.
July 28th, 2008Why Cadel Didn’t Win The Tour de France
On July 12th, we published an article (see link below) laying out the reasons why Cadel Evans would lose the Tour de France. Over following days, we had reason to sweat having gone out on a limb with such a prediction, because Cadel appeared awfully calm and under [...] - The Anti-Tour: The Lighter Side Of Cycling
July 21st, 2008Okay, so we have some degree of drama in the Tour (finally) as Cadel Evans struggles to hang on to his presumed superiority in the race, and yes, we’ve had the obligatory doping arrests which have, thankfully, become mostly non-news. So far, so good.
Beginning tomorrow and following on Wednesday we can expect some continued [...] - Stage 5 Recap — And How To Bet Tomorrow’s Stage 6
July 9th, 2008By now you’re wondering if we have some kind of inside connection to the Tour, because pretty much what we have been saying is going to happen — happens.
Yesterday, was a good example.
Refreshing your memory, we said a lot of things, all of them very sage and insightful, and then offered the prediction that Stage [...] - Tour de France Through Stage 4 — All You Really Need To Know
July 8th, 2008There’s little exciting about a time trial unless you’re the guy on the bike. For fans, it’s just “there goes one, there goes another.”
But we all know the Tour actually started today. Everything before has been about pageantry and trying not to fall off the bike or otherwise embarrass yourself with stinkin’ thinkin’ (ahem, Menchov).
Not to [...] - Tour de France Stage 3 For Dummies
July 7th, 2008Ok, you’re back. Good. You saw what we wrote yesterday, you made a TON of money with your bookie based on our recommendations, and now you want more. Naturally. We’ll, we won’t disappoint. We never do. So let’s get started.
Yesterday, we said Stage 3 would be a major BORE-FEST. In fact, if we underestimated anything [...] - What You Need To Know About The Tour After First 2 Stages
July 6th, 2008Your Talking Points, Mon Ami…
Alright, you’re headed for the shop, or the office, or the neighborhood party, or whatever, and, as a fully-outed cycling nut, you know you’re going to get questions about how the Tour’s going.
Sure, you could snap off a quick “Valverde, a Spanish guy, is leading so far.” Of course [...] - If Soler Is Out, A More Civilized (Boring) Tour Of Mountains?
July 5th, 2008Last year, the mountain stages at the Tour de France were all about three guys: Rasmussen, Contador, and Soler. Everybody else, including riders and audience alike, were left to hold on for dear life as these three attacked, trumped, and attacked again. The fallout of their energetic bout of one-upsmanship was that [...]
- GARMIN 705 PRODUCT REVIEW — Surprising Features In A Little Black Box
July 5th, 2008I’ve been riding for the past couple of months with the Garmin 705 and I’m blown away by all the info I now have at my fingertips.
When I purchased it, I expected all the normal features: speed, cadence, grade, heartrate, power, calories, time, lap info, and so on. Garmin has taken each of [...] - THERE SHOULD BE A LAW OR SOMETHING!
July 5th, 2008…About Cat 5s Racing On $5000+ Bikes
I mean, last year when I put down $5G+ for a swe-e-e-e-t SystemSix at a local bike shop, nobody even carded me! I rolled out of there happier than a teenager who’d just copped a twelve-pack of Bud from QuikStop!
And I don’t need to tell you, but therein lies [...] - Cyclists’ “Woodstock” Weeks Away
July 3rd, 2008Going to RAGBRAI again, God Bless!
The cyclist’s version of Woodstock is once again, gratefully, at hand, and I’m positively stewing in anticipation of the chance to get together with a couple tens of thousands of cyclists and a five-hundred miles of nearly constant SAG support.
For those of you who haven’t heard of it, the acronym [...] - What To Do When You Can’t Do The Bike…
July 3rd, 2008Going into 2008 I had put in a lot of hours on the spin bike doing hard intervals in the basement to the point that the sump pump kicked on to vacate the sweat. Then the club rides began and it seemed everybody had improved a notch or two and had ambitions on strong racing results. As [...]
- YOUR FAVORITE SPORTS DRINK — 85% OFF! GET IT, NOW!
June 24th, 2008First, this isn’t an advertisement. It’s just math. Second, relax — YOU don’t even have to do the math.
Cutting to the chase, you can go to your local market right now, if it’s open, and buy Gatorade, for example, for a couple bucks a bottle, or get the exact same Gatorade for less than [...] - TEACH YOUR CHILD TO RIDE IN ONE HOUR OR LESS!
May 22nd, 2008With No More Tears, No More Fears
First, a moment of gratuitous, self-indulgent bragging: I’m certainly not Superdad, but I tell myself I’ve got redeeming qualities. Like, I’m the parent kids come to when they need a splinter removed. I know how to do it with minimal pain. And I’m the one they come to when [...] - Amateur Racing Update From America’s Breadbasket
May 21st, 2008Okay, so this year it seems the common thread of logic, is that to attract good money-paying racers one has to claim they’ve got the GOD AWFUL HARDEST race course e-e-e-ever.
In our case, it’s called Hellbender – but not for reasons you would think – and it proclaims it is BAR NONE the hardest [...] - US ENERGY CRISIS UPDATE
May 21st, 2008Gas prices are too high, right? Absolutely unbelievable — somebody should do something about this, shouldn’t they? How can we get by paying $4 a gallon? Who’s getting rich off this? Why doesn’t the government step in?
Those thoughts – headlines – rants – often go through my mind as I ride. Sitting on a bike [...] - Local Racing Season Is On….Finally!
April 22nd, 2008After a long, cold, wet, gray winter of Dickensian proportions, followed by those too-early-in-the-year “training races” with names like “Froze Toes” for good reason, the temps have finally surpassed the 70 degree mark across the U.S. Midwest and the race calendar is suddenly chockablock.
Now this is what we live for, isn’t it?
So we’re all finding [...] - Ever read Ten Points, by Bill Strickland?
March 30th, 2008Hillsboro-Roubaix; Got Bombed Yesterday
Bicycling magazine editor Bill Strickland spilled out the deepest, most painful secrets of his troubled life in a small but incredible book that contrast these horrific twists and turns, and his process of working through them, against his challenge of winning ten points in the local Crit series in one year.
To [...] - Rolling thunder, A CYCLING TALE, “finis”
March 30th, 2008Following is the end of “rolling thunder” — a cycling novel
Subject to copyright.
ROLLING THUNDER (cont’d)
Chapter 25
Raleigh Spriggs was the seventy six year old Chairman of the Board of Continental Tire, which was a fifty four year old company with annual revenues of over twenty billion Euros. When Shamus scanned further articles Google suggested best [...] - Rolling thunder, A CYCLING TALE, part onze
March 25th, 2008Following is Part 11 of “rolling thunder”
Subject to copyright. Friends don’t let friends edit-copy-edit-paste.
ROLLING THUNDER (cont’d)
Chapter 23
Saturday rolled around, and the already star-crossed Tour got underway.
In the rider’s village, an area carved out by plastic tape signified that the public need come no closer, riders’ strained faces seemed to relax. After months of build-up, [...] - Rolling thunder, A CYCLING TALE, part dice
March 15th, 2008Following is Part 10 of “rolling thunder”
Subject to copyright. Please enjoy responsibly.
ROLLING THUNDER (cont’d)
Chapter 20
Shamus lost focus on assisting the investigation once the Classics kicked off. It wasn’t possible to race well with your mind on other things. He felt he was losing ground with Eve, as well, since she was completely engulfed in [...] - Rolling thunder, A CYCLING TALE, part neuf
March 6th, 2008Following is Part 9 of “rolling thunder”
Amazingly still subject to copyright. Some things never change. Please enjoy responsibly.
ROLLING THUNDER (cont’d)
Chapter 17
Petre Patrovski rumbled about the luxurious hotel suite he often called home atop the Kempinski Vier Jahren, or Four Seasons, on Westendstrasse in downtown Munich, surrounded by boxes and envelopes he used to package [...] - Rolling thunder, A CYCLING TALE, part huit
February 29th, 2008Following is Part 8 of “rolling thunder.”
Blah, blah, blah, this story is copyrighted. Comprend? By the way, thank you for leaving your thoughtful comments along the way…we live on that stuff!
ROLLING THUNDER (cont’d)
Chapter 15
“Go ahead and tell me then.”
He’d been lying in bed when she’d called, so there was no need to sit down. [...] - Rolling thunder, A CYCLING TALE, part sept
February 25th, 2008Hope you had a great weekend.
Following is Part 7 of “rolling thunder.”
In case it hasn’t crossed your mind, this story was written by someone for their therapy and for your enjoyment, but not likely for their enrichment and certainly not for yours. If you’re scheming about how to make a buck off this story, be [...] - Heaven came hard today…
February 20th, 2008Cyclops rules nice job hills flats distance you handled it good ride.
Not exactly scribed from the pen of Hemingway, but no sweeter words have come to me — at least as far as cycling life is concerned.
It’s been a particularly long, cold, wet winter around here. Not just my opinion, but also that of [...] - Rolling thunder, A CYCLING TALE, part six
February 20th, 2008Following is Part 6 of “rolling thunder.” Thanks for being patient.
As we may have mentioned ad nauseum, this story is subject to copyright by the author. Not that we think you want your name on it, but someone may stoop that low. You never know. Anyway, please don’t use it other than as a pleasant [...] - Heaven came hard today…
February 17th, 2008Cyclops rules nice job hills flats distance you handled it good
ride.
Not exactly scribed from the pen of Hemingway, but no sweeter words have come to me — at least as far as cycling life is concerned.
It’s been a particularly long, cold, wet winter around here. Not just my opinion, but also that of [...] - Rolling thunder, A CYCLING TALE, part cinq
February 17th, 2008Following is Part 5 of a manuscript titled “rolling thunder.” Coincidentally, it picks up amid the Tour of California and it’s being posted on the eve of the start of its 2008 launch. It’s like we planned it that way.
As a note to those persevering the saga, we’ll be traveling for a couple of days [...] - Las Cruces – A novel (yeah, there’s cycling in there too)
February 14th, 2008If you’re enjoying the preview of Rolling Thunder in its pre-edit version, you might want to take a look at an earlier novel by the same author
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Set against the modern day underworld of drugs and drug money, the story moves from staggeringly beautiful Southern California of decades past [...] - rolling thunder, a cycling tale, part quatre
February 13th, 2008Following is Part 4 of an excerpt from a manuscript titled “rolling thunder.”
Parts 1-3 of the story are also posted at bicycle.net in the “Hub” under the page for System6. Altogether, parts 1-4 comprise about one third of the total story, so there is still a long way to the end of the road.
Coincidentally, there [...] - rolling thunder, a cycling tale, part trois
February 9th, 2008Following is Part 3 of an excerpt from a manuscript titled “rolling thunder.”
Earlier parts to the story are also posted at bicycle.net in the “Hub” under the page for System6.
We’re posting this saga to get feedback from readers/cycling enthusiasts about whether they like it or not. To the extent we keep getting hits [...]
- rolling thunder, a cycling tale, part du
February 7th, 2008Following is Part 2 of an excerpt from a manuscript tentatively titled “rolling thunder.” If you haven’t read Part 1 yet, you might want to. The story flows better in that order. Otherwise, feel free to consider Part 2 the start of the story, as far as you’re concerned, and Part 1 a [...]
- rolling thunder, a cycling tale, part 1
February 5th, 2008Following is an excerpt from a manuscript tentatively titled “rolling thunder.” The aspect about rolling becomes obvious within the first moments of the story in the unlikely event you haven’t already guessed it. Thunder makes sense because while it is unseen, you know it’s there and represents something powerful and potentially very dangerous. [...]
- Bikes Outsell Cars Again! (hint: not where we live)
February 4th, 2008New figures showed bikes outsold cars in 2007 for the eighth consecutive year. In Australia.
The nation that’s larger than our own sold a record 1.5 million bicycles in 2007, compared to 1.0 million cars.
With bikes being about 58% of the total, and cars about 42%, the Aussie government accordingly spent a whopping 1% of [...] - More reasons to continue to do what you already do (yeah, I’ve had my eye on you)…
February 4th, 2008From a recent St. Louis Post Dispatch (my local fish wrapper) the Health Facts of the Week caption on page H2 contained startling information. Checking further with the newspaper, the avatar that answered the phone automatically apologized for the oversight and in a disembodied recorded voice, explained they just get their info off the [...]
- Cycle Life, A nicer community to (really) live in…
February 1st, 2008Cycle Life, A nicer community to (really) live in…
Support your local Cycling Writer
Have you heard of Second Life (www.secondlife.com)?
According to Wikipedia (my favorite place to find out about stuff, by the way, like having Cliff Claven in your PC), it’s an Internet-based virtual world in which Residents interact with each other through Avatars in a [...] - Welcome To Bicycle.Net; Self-Proclaimed Center Of The Cycling Universe
January 24th, 2008Welcome To Bicycle.Net; Self-Proclaimed Center Of The Cycling Universe By: System6
There are countless places to read about our much beloved and besmirched sport on-line or in newspapers and magazines. Many of us hardcore fans hook into all of them, then go looking for more.
What there’s little shortage of is news about [...] - Good Karma Wanted…Apply Within
October 12th, 2007As cyclists, we’ve had almost as tough a run lately as your neighborhood mortgage banker or your favorite post-teen Hollywood starlette. Seems we just can get no respect.
More troubling, is that we often don’t exactly give it, either. A short and vastly incomplete list of Some Things We Don’t Like would include –
- [...] - Disco’s dead…or do thine eyes deceive?
October 2nd, 2007Months ago, Tailwind sports dropped the bomb that it couldn’t secure appropriate sponsorship to replace Discovery Channel, though LA himself said they were 90% along the way to doing so. But rather than pursue that last slice of, say $1-2m/year, it made more sense to simply, and dramatically, fold the tent and send the riders and [...]
- Design the Official 2008 Slipstream/Chipotle Jersey Contest
September 17th, 2007Contest Lets Fans Design the Official 2008 Slipstream/Chipotle Kit
by J. T. Fisher
Out with the old and in with the new…whereas our beloved Disco team did us all proud more times than we could have ever asked of them, nothing lasts forever, and now we see these powerful and talented riders scattered to the wind to seed the [...] - Tour of Missouri – Highlights (plenty), Lowlights (few)
September 16th, 2007By JT Fisher
The big question has to be, was it successful? We have a brand new US stage race, rated 2.1 nevertheless, which boils down to it being a serious enough race that top teams can and will participate — and we’ve just concluded the first running.
Of course, success can have a [...] - Tour of Missouri – Stage 3 Time Trial and Our Time With The Discovery Boys
September 14th, 2007Where to start, where to start….
Okay, first, big kudos to the citizens of Branson who were perfect hosts and set up a spectacular race venue amid gorgeous sunny weather. I had the privilege before and during the race of cycling their main roads and byways – and invariably when cars honked at us [...] - JT Fisher’s Stage 1 Recap
September 12th, 2007Stage 1 of the Tour of Missouri has completed, and seems to have exceeded expectations on a number of fronts, including:
GOOD RACING: Obviously it’s common knowledge that there were breakaway attempts early on, and then a long and doomed breakaway that got up to five minutes lead on the peloton at its peak. [...]
- Tour of Missouri Underway – First Update
September 11th, 2007On Tuesday the first running of the Tour of Missouri gets underway with 119 riders heading out for six days and almost 600 miles of racing under beautiful Midwestern fall skies where daily temps will run as low as 40F and up into the high 70s/low 80s late, with little chance of precipitation during the [...]
- Safety In Numbers by J.T. Fisher
August 20th, 2007SAFETY IN NUMBERS by J.T. Fisher
Whenever possible I complement my “weekend warrior” routine with cycling to/from the office. Some weeks I might ride in three times, other weeks not at all, correlating pretty closely with the weather and the hours of daylight — I won’t commute in the dark. These extra miles give [...]
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