Apr
29
Oh yeah!
April 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Check out this article!
Headline on the NyTimes. Okay, it’s the online version. And it is Saturday night at midnight. Which makes me very lame.
As for the article’s content, let the debates begin.
Apr
27
Discovery’s Puerto riders
April 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I was just reading the endless reporting on cycling’s doping scandals when I noticed an interesting fact. The Discovery Channel team managed to hire four – four! – out of the nine riders ejected from the Tour de France last year due to their implication in the Operacion Puerto affair. So far, one of them [...]
Apr
26
Cassettes and stuff
April 26, 2007 | 1 Comment
Thanks for the nice comments from GeWilli. Mr. G, you might get the award for being my most regular reader. And yet we still haven’t met! I won’t make it to the races this weekend, regretfully – interruptions from the non-bike world take precedence, so we have to put our human encounter off a little [...]
Apr
25
The Floyd Files
April 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Let’s take a moment and invoke that delightful television show from the 90s, “The X Files.” Believe me, I want to believe. I want to believe that Landis is innocent, that the tests are wrong, that someone or something is out to get him and faked the results, that he managed to win the 2006 [...]
Apr
25
Idiot Landis’s urine
April 25, 2007 | 5 Comments
So they tested some more of Floyd Landis’s urine from the 2006 Tour de France and found it to also have tested positive for the presence of synthetic testosterone. “Oh no,” he says, “You can’t test it without one of my representatives there! The testing has been compromised!”
Methinks he protests too much. The results are [...]
Apr
22
Dopers galore!
April 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Two little dopers lined up at a start line – and one of them admitted the truth!
Apr
21
Once around at Turtle Pond
April 21, 2007 | 1 Comment
I’m really having a lot of luck starting out this bike racing thing. This week’s madcap challenge: intestinal distress and/or food poisoning. I ate something on Wednesday night that immediately didn’t agree with me. I spent half the night rolling around in bed and groaning, and slept all day Thursday. Friday didn’t go much better, [...]
Apr
19
It’s my own fault for reading MSNBC message boards about the Virginia Tech shooting. The comment above came from one brilliant author who mentioned that gun ownership shouldn’t be more controlled because most owners are law-abiding and tax-paying.
“I really could care less what other countries do because I am quite happy here and intend to [...]
Apr
19
Ouch!
April 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment
My eyes hurt! There’s so much light! Where is the usual gloom and rainfall? What is this yellow orb in the sky?
Finally some sun, but I slept so poorly because of something bad I ate last night that I have to go back to bed before I can go enjoy the weather outside. Fouey! Why [...]
Apr
17
The Obree movie
April 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment
This evening I was able to attend a preview of “Flying Scotsman,” the biographical film about Graeme Obree, Scottish cyclist and hour record breaker, based on his own autobiography. Having read his book a few years earlier, I was excited to see what would happen in translation to the big screen, and besides, a cycling [...]
