Tis’ the end of the week! Huzzah! We hope you have extricated yourself from the week-long toil Dame Fortune has chosen to manacle yourself to for the foreseeable future. Whether it’s goose-throttler or bundle-hurler, widow-napper or carriage polisher, your gainful employment and the small pittance you earn and take to your local cyclery for the [...]
Archive for July, 2009
(CLTH6711)The Blog has girded its feet in many a lightweight, “breathable” sock for the oppressive summer morning commutes this season. As quality laundry time has been at a premium, The Blog was scraping the bottom of the barrel of the sock drawer this morning until gold was struck in the form of a forgotten pair [...]
Interesting, from Bradley Wiggins. By the way, “Wiggin’ Out” would be a great name for his blog. Is that term even used in the UK? : Interesting tweet from Shaq concerning Marbury’s vaseline-eating meltdown (feel free to google it). Pretty sure you would never see Tom Danielson eating a handful of chamois butter, but then [...]
A few random shots courtesy of Kelly Smith. First up, Rich Dillen railing a switchback on his Moots in a jazzy BLACK AND WHITE Moots kit! Look at those white Stan’s hoops! 8 inch front rotor! Women’s Open class winner Carey Lowery shows good form on the downhill. She won by a “country mile” and [...]
Post-TDF Twitters From American Cycling Glitterati
Posted: 28th July 2009 by admin in Daily RamblingsFirst, sad news from Big George Hincapie…Second, vacation news from Lance Armstrong…And third, a stun gun capable of shocking three people before reloading, courtesy of DZ….
This Sunday saw Jeremy attempt his first ORAMM. This morning, Dr. J referred to it as a “character builder”. Not sure what he meant by that, but he had a good time and didn’t kill himself on Kitsuma or Heartbreak! It was good seeing all sorts of kind folk from the blogosphere. Even Dicky rolled [...]
Click on the link and prepare to have your collective minds (hive-mind, if you insist) blown!!! (courtesy of Eric Creek)
Is that a Principal Skinner quote? Can’t remember, brain cortex packed…full…of Zaxby’s…difficult…to type. Ugh. Anyhoo, some of us Hawley folk are doing the ORAMM thing this weekend while at least one of us (Jeremy) is actually racing. Pretty sure the lanky leprechaun, the freckled freak, the Southern Dandy, the Origami-Mommy is coming into late season [...]
He’s leaving his team at the end of the season so maybe he’d like to leave The Tour with a bang, or something gross in the toilet at the team hotel? What does that have to do with inflatable toast or Unicorn vengeance? More than you know, more than you know…