This post has nothing to do with cycling and everything to do with respect. Read on if yinz wish, if you don’t… well, I really don’t care.
Archive | February, 2014
Loss For Words (So There’s Pics)
Lately, blogging has been pretty easy and my mind has been pretty generous with topics. Sadly, that ended today. Feel free to read on but I can’t promise much (except a bunch of photos and that the blog is even more lackluster than usual)….
The Pass
Vintage Milano-San Remo
I was poking around the web yesterday and discovered some pretty sweet video from the 1922 Milano-San Remo race (or Milan-San Remo if you have something against the letter o and prefer the English pronunciation). The 1922 edition of Milano-San Remo was 286.5 km long and won by Giovanni Brunero (Legnano-Pirelli) in a time of 10:14:31. Brunero was also a three-time winner of the Giro d’Italia, taking overall victories in 1921, 1922 and 1926.
The video below is a great look at the 15th edition of one of cycling’s classic races.
Shamed Into The Cold
A well used ceramic space heater sat humming at my feet as I sat sipping my third cup of coffee and staring blankly into my computer monitor. I had long given up on it producing anything worth while and now aimlessly clicked through dead-end after dead-end on Monster.com, hyperbolic football gossip on The Daily Mail and finally full circle back to weather.com where I had started my morning off three hours earlier. I was pleased to see that it was warming up, however I was disappointed to see that all that meant was that it was now 4˚ and not -4˚. Thoughts of climbing on the trainer in my basement now entered my head as I took a big sip of my now ice-cold coffee. Fuck.
Bresset’s Tifosi
2012 Olympic XC Gold Medal winner and 2012 and 2013 XCO World Champion Julie Bresset (Team BH Suntour KMC) of France enjoys the attention of her fans at the 2013 XCO race in Vallnord, Andorra… Another example of the MTB Tifosi in action.
Photo: Union Cycliste Internationale (www.uci.ch)
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Random photo from the snowless 2013 Farmer’s Fat Bike race I used for the contents page of XXC Magazine No. 18 (the final issue).
Exchanging Miseries
I have been off the bike and out of the gym for…um…. ah…. Hell, I don’t even know how long anymore. I was on a scheduled family vacation for a few days and despite making it to the gym today, I feel exactly like a big fat swollen blubbery miserable gorilla turd.
Hiatus
I will be on hiatus from the ice, snow and this digital fish wrap I call a blog for the next 5 days or so whilst taking part in some scheduled family activities. I am almost positive that I will bring down any possibility of fun or relaxation for my family just by being there, but it’s worth a shot… I guess… maybe…
Jolanda Neffness
You know.. just Jolanda Neff (Giant Pro XC Team), hangin’ out, in a dress, showing off her tan lines, epic hair and badass Jolanda Neffness.
Photo: by Susanne Litscher
Source: Jolanda Neff’s, Facebook page.
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