Friday, October 2, 2009
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Trek Werld: Part Deux
Five things I saw today that were so taco:
5) 50 laps of the Vortex of Terror
4) Opening the day with Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks"
3) The ice cream girls
2) The Kenny Souza lookalike in the Master of Puppets kit
1) The dude that rode for 30 feet as he got his leg caught up on the saddle as he was dismounting, steering with one hand while spilling his open water bottle all over with the other, stopped just as he was about to knock over a table, wobbled, fell over, planted his foot at the last moment, caught himself, dismounted, took a big swig from his bottle ala Napoleon Dynamite, and then ambled away to trade his ride for a smaller one.
5) 50 laps of the Vortex of Terror
4) Opening the day with Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks"
3) The ice cream girls
2) The Kenny Souza lookalike in the Master of Puppets kit
1) The dude that rode for 30 feet as he got his leg caught up on the saddle as he was dismounting, steering with one hand while spilling his open water bottle all over with the other, stopped just as he was about to knock over a table, wobbled, fell over, planted his foot at the last moment, caught himself, dismounted, took a big swig from his bottle ala Napoleon Dynamite, and then ambled away to trade his ride for a smaller one.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Trek Werld I
Bullshittiest excuse: "It's hard to get used to." - Referring to Doubletap shifters. Really? Are you retarded all day, or only when you ride a bike?
Lamest trend: Wheelies in the parking lot. Riding a wheelie in a parking lot full of other bike riders is not mountain biking, it's obnoxious.
Best overheard conversation: "She did Bob Roll."
More later, I'm sure.
Lamest trend: Wheelies in the parking lot. Riding a wheelie in a parking lot full of other bike riders is not mountain biking, it's obnoxious.
Best overheard conversation: "She did Bob Roll."
More later, I'm sure.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Why I Love Bernard Hinault: Reason #86
“I am against them. It is just a ‘Game Boy’ that has a gigolo attached at the end telling the racer when to take a piss."
- B. Hinault on race radios
I know it's old news in this computer age, but that quote sums the man up better than Wikipedia, VeloPress, or some stodgy historian.
- B. Hinault on race radios
I know it's old news in this computer age, but that quote sums the man up better than Wikipedia, VeloPress, or some stodgy historian.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
East is East, West is West
I'm back and feeling the Chi-town love after an extended stay on the eastern shores. So, what's happened while I was away?
-The mysterious large dog with a dipshit owner has continued to pinch large loaves on my lawn.
-USPS continues to deliver on their 80/20 junkmail to bill ratio.
-More weeds than grass grew.
-Not much food in the house.
-Sugoku jetlag.
-Oh, and some race in France up and ran out of stages to showcase.
-It appears Chance Legstrong and El Pistolero didn't disappoint in the drama department. Though I wish the thespian shit came before Chance was the second loser. It's much more theatrical and European, or, as the jocks on ESPN (whom musical geniuses, Devo, might refer to as Jocko-Homos) might imply, "gay" in that way. The Lemond-Hinault production was much better. And Frencher.
-I also caught this while I was out. It's quite charming and cute and doesn't end in Y, which is apparently all it takes to make something rather drab and ordinary into something cute and super excellent fun with high excitement in Japan.
-The mysterious large dog with a dipshit owner has continued to pinch large loaves on my lawn.
-USPS continues to deliver on their 80/20 junkmail to bill ratio.
-More weeds than grass grew.
-Not much food in the house.
-Sugoku jetlag.
-Oh, and some race in France up and ran out of stages to showcase.
-It appears Chance Legstrong and El Pistolero didn't disappoint in the drama department. Though I wish the thespian shit came before Chance was the second loser. It's much more theatrical and European, or, as the jocks on ESPN (whom musical geniuses, Devo, might refer to as Jocko-Homos) might imply, "gay" in that way. The Lemond-Hinault production was much better. And Frencher.
-I also caught this while I was out. It's quite charming and cute and doesn't end in Y, which is apparently all it takes to make something rather drab and ordinary into something cute and super excellent fun with high excitement in Japan.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Movin' Up Avenues With Power Moves
“I have tried to stay out a little bit of the debate about who is the leader?” Armstrong said. “I have won the Tour seven times, so I think I deserve a bit of credit.”
I wonder if Contador is wishing he had taken Garmin up on their offer to ride for them prior to the Tour. Whether you agree or disagree with the tactics Armstrong and Co. employed in the latter part of stage 3 (Contador says “I’m not going to evaluate the team strategy because everyone will draw their own conclusions anyway.”), we may be witnessing a rift between the Armstrong/Bruyneel and Contador camps, fed part and parcel by a salivating media, that proves quite interesting when all the sordid details finally make it to light.
That said, when the mountains hit, I think those 38 year old bones of Lance will crumble like feta when Alberto decides he wants to go fast. Ullrich will let go a reflective sigh as he downs another brew with his mates, and Simeoni will laugh his ass off.
Aaah...the Tour. I love this time of year.
I wonder if Contador is wishing he had taken Garmin up on their offer to ride for them prior to the Tour. Whether you agree or disagree with the tactics Armstrong and Co. employed in the latter part of stage 3 (Contador says “I’m not going to evaluate the team strategy because everyone will draw their own conclusions anyway.”), we may be witnessing a rift between the Armstrong/Bruyneel and Contador camps, fed part and parcel by a salivating media, that proves quite interesting when all the sordid details finally make it to light.
That said, when the mountains hit, I think those 38 year old bones of Lance will crumble like feta when Alberto decides he wants to go fast. Ullrich will let go a reflective sigh as he downs another brew with his mates, and Simeoni will laugh his ass off.
Aaah...the Tour. I love this time of year.
1916-2009
"My sense of the war gradually shifted from concern to skepticism to frustration to anguish, I had always been confident that every problem could be solved, but now I found myself confronting one -- involving national pride and human life -- that could not." -Robert S. McNamara
RIP.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Abdu
Was there ever a more feared sprinter than Djamoulidin Abdoujaparov? He looks more like a Cold War era hitman than a pro bike racer in the photo above. The "Terror of Tashkent" was known for his terrific speed, but, in my book, it was his absolute fearlessness that made him what he was- One of the greatest sprinters of all time.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Bummer
Lousy news here.
It doesn't sound good for him, but I wish "The Professor" well and a quick, complete recovery.
On an aside, I've been without home based internet access for the past two weeks with the move. I get jacked in again on Saturday. The somewhat regular posts will commence somewhere around then.
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