Winter riding in the mountains. Thoughts, workarounds.
For thirty years I’ve been extremely fortunate to live in the San Francisco Bay Area where, thanks to the mild weather, I could bike year round. That ended, like almost everything in this currently crazy world, in 2020. I’m now a full time resident of Truckee, up in the Sierra mountains of Northern California. It was a fabulous Summer of [...]
Chris Froome, Tour de France underdog?
Should Chris Froome, a man who has won four Tour de France and two Vuelta a Espana titles and one Giro d’Italia, be considered an underdog? That’s the curious assessment made by Kjell Carlström, who is the general manager of Froome’s new squad Israel Startup Nation. “We're underdogs and that's fine,” he said during an interview with the Cyclingnews podcast. [...]
Is it Patrick Lefevere or Patrick LeFever?
Deceuninck-Quickstep manager Patrick Lefevere is many things. He’s bombastic, loud, indignant, provocative, outraged, dismissive, hot-headed, funny — and always good for a quotable nugget. In short, we propose a new nickname for Lefevere that captures his social media persona: Patrick LeFever. You know when LeFever’s fingers tap open the twitter app on his phone, that sparks are going to fly. [...]
The sad case of Fabio Aru.
Poor, poor Fabio Aru. It was sad news to read that a rider who won the 2015 Vuelta a Espana and scored two podiums in the Giro d’Italia is now desperately scrounging for a ride next season. A few years ago Aru seemed poised for a long run of grant tour victories. He was the Next Nibali, the future of Italian [...]
Remco Evenepoel’s one-man training camp.
Word out of Deceuninck-Quick-Step is that Remco Evenepoel will do a one-man training camp this month on Spain’s Costa Blanca. However, that’s an overstatement. There will be a few team staff members with the 20 year old Belgian star helping him with this and that, sport-wise. We say if he wants to truly recover from injuries and set himself up [...]
SHOP: A colorful and stylish fall long sleeve jersey
There’s nothing wrong with basic black cycling apparel. I have plenty of black kit from jerseys and bibs to jacket and vest. Black is no-nonsense, hardcore and bad-ass. Except once in a while you want to kill the monotony. That put me on the hunt for a stylish Fall/Autumn long sleeve jersey with character. A little style, a bit of [...]