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Gone With The Wind Above Hollywood
For Mathias Frank, the training ride on Thursday into the Malibu Hills ended unexpectedly painfully.
A little past the half way mark on the five hour ride the young Swiss rider crashed and suffered a severe case of road rash on both legs, his right hand and a laceration on his left elbow. “I [...]
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- My Husband Has Begun To Drool – Here Comes the Amgen Tour of California
February 22nd, 2008Originally, I thought the Tour of California sounded like a lovely family-friendly vacation involving, perhaps, an RV and the Redwoods while my children were galloping through fields of poppies.
There must be a big bicycle race coming to California. I can tell with almost complete accuracy when there are exciting happenings in the cycling world. [...] - Do These Bike Shorts Make My Butt Look Big?
August 3rd, 2007Lycra, anyone?
“I bought you something,” said my husband, as he went through the mail after work. These are words a wife enjoys hearing. Not because of the item, mind you, but because it’s nice to know they’ve been thinking of us. He tears open a package and hands me something in a [...] - Accidents Happen – Version 2 by VeloWife
June 25th, 2007My husband called around 4:45 pm from his bike ride. There was noise in the background and I couldn’t hear him clearly. Something about being hit by a car. I thought he was telling me that someone he was riding with got hit and he was going with him to the hospital. [...]
- VeloWife: The Real Race
April 27th, 2007Imagine this. It is 4:30 am on the morning of your bike race. You, the friendly neighborhood cyclist, are fast asleep. You spent an hour or so the night before setting out all of your gear, maybe a little longer making sure that your bike was perfect and that you printed out [...]
BMC Working Well