August 24th, 2007
Jason McRoy RIP
Image © and courtesy Jim McRoy
26.11.71 - 24.08.95
Who didn’t want to be Jason McRoy?
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July 26th, 2007
F-F-F-F-Fashion
Man In Black
This from Tom Boonen made me laugh…
Boonen further claimed that Vinokourov was indeed one of the so-called ‘Men in Black’ - a term used to describe professional riders training in plain colours to avoid detection. “I saw him myself, wearing black,” said Boonen.
[Cycling News, 26 July 2007]
I’m not sure the “Men […]
July 25th, 2007
Can’t Keep Up
Wow.
It’s hard to keep up with who’s still left on the Tour right now…
First this…
Rasmussen pulled out of Tour
[http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/tour07/news/?id=/news/2007/jul07/jul26news]
Then this…
Leader Rasmussen pulled from Tour
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/6916698.stm]
Say what you like, but this years Tour is anything but dull.
July 25th, 2007
The UCI Needs to Get It’s Act Together Too
While targetting the “Men in Black” Anne Gripper, director of the UCI’s anti-doping program made a statement that appeared to respect the process for dope-testing.
“we have to respect the process, the analysis of the B samples, before we can make any announcements.”
UCI goes after the “Men In Black” [cyclingnews.com, 21 June 2007]
Sadly, that all goes […]
July 24th, 2007
Disappointed But Not Surprised
My wife and I (grammer) had been commenting on how this tour resembled those of the 80s and early 90s than any after, say, 1995. A proper duel between climbers and not something that is going to be decided entirely by time trials.
Lots of riders just didn’t seem to be doing as well as they […]
July 24th, 2007
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
99% recycled materials from Worn Again
Looking for a replacement for my long dead skate shoes I was alerted to Worn Again by the Surfers Path. So I decided to try them out. I like. Using 99% recycled materials and offsetting the carbon emissions of transporting them from China to the UK makes them easy on […]
July 20th, 2007
When Product Managers Don’t Think
The Specialized Skillet helmet comes with spare Specialized S stickers in the box. If I write that as “spare Ss” then you might start to have an inkling of why this is rather unfortunate.
July 13th, 2007
History Repeating Itself
Forward entry horizontal dropouts are the new old kid on the block.
It ain’t so long ago that these were the standard racing end. Or did you want mudguard eyes too?
This would be funny if some folk old enough to know better weren’t genuinely treating them as some new wonderful design.
July 12th, 2007
Urban Velo #2
I’m aware that this came out while we were away from the ‘pooter so here’s a belated pointer to Urban Velo Issue #2 to anyone else that’s been taking some R & R away from the clutter of Modern Life.
Now with Added Dan™.
June 30th, 2007
Russ Appeal Prints
Mountain Mayhem 10 Limited Edition PrintImage courtesy Joolze Dymond
A special print in aid of the Russ Appeal. Drawn by Jo Burt and available from Joolze Dymond.
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