El Gringo Rides Again

You never know who you’ll end up riding with on the way out to a race at Prospect Park.  Sayid and I have a standing date to meet on the Hudson River bike path, but it’s a rolling date, so it’s hit or miss.  And truth be told, I often enjoy a ride out by [...]

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Friday’s Bell Lap

Bicycle Harassment Passed
This week the City Council in Columbia, MO passed a Bicycle Harassment ordinance which makes, as you might expect from the ordinance’s name, harassing cyclists a misdemeanor.   According to the Missourian, the ordinance makes throwing an object at or in the direction of a cyclist, threatening a cyclist to frighten or disturb the [...]

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The Unemployed Cyclist Paradox

What’s all the fuss about being unemployed? Does anyone really want to work unless they must? I’ve heard it described as the worst thing ever and a fate worse than death. My experience has been different. I’ve found it enjoyable and invigorating, although it has had one significant drawback. It’s destroyed my season.
A perfect storm [...]

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The Beauty Of The Second Breakfast

About the last thing you want to do at 4:30 is eat, but eat you must on race day.  The term shoveling must have been coined by some poor cyclist during the first days of the bike as he prepped for a race.  As bad as the morning chow down is, you can be content [...]

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Friday’s Bell Lap

Collapsible Wheel Redux 
If you’ve been following the story VeloNews.com ran about editor/race Ben Delaney’s crash following a Mavic R-SYS front wheel failure, you know that Mavic responded by saying that while no determination had been made, Mavic believes there are “several key facts which indicate that the cause of the accident was not failure of [...]

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