Over the holiday break I caught up on some TV which included watching the Tour du Faso.  Not exactly a Grand Tour by any stretch and yet the Tour du Faso seems to be cycling in as simple a form as you can have at the professional level – “You have...

A very quick Bell Lap today and also a note that I’ll be taking off until after Thanksgiving. My Trainer For such a useful piece of equipment, dear trainer, you suck.  A lot.  I despise you and everything about you.  The very thought of pulling...

Sunday morning was the ride from hell.  Well, it could have been, if I had actually gotten anywhere.  It had rained the night before and the ground was still wet and slick with grime, so you knew there would be a flat or two along the way.  I just...

Not so long ago, doing laps around the park, we came upon some guy from a new team consisting primarily of Cat IVs (the team was advertised as such which is why we knew.)  The jersey was decked out with sponsor logos.  Someone questioned how the heck...

Today’s post has only tangential ties to cycling and is a bit all over the place, so be forewarned.  Sure I went out and rode my training rides over the weekend and early this week, although I’d be hard press to tell you a single detail about any...