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Hillsboro-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 [...]

Following 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 [...]

Following 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, [...]

Following 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 [...]

Following 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 [...]

Following 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.  [...]

Hope 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 [...]

Cyclops 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 [...]

Following 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 [...]

Following 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 [...]

If 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 [...]

Following 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 [...]

Following 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 [...]

Following 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 [...]

Following 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. [...]

New 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 [...]

From 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 [...]

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Welcome 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 [...]