Posted in Road Racing, tagged 2009 giro, cycling, Di Luca, lance armstrong, menchov on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Boy, this stage looked a lot easier on paper than it was. Granted I wasn’t riding it, but it sure looked tough to me. If you don’t believe me, look at Lance’s face:
As great as Di Luca looks, Menchov even looks better, to me anyway. If I were to make animal analogies, I’d say Di [...]
Posted in City of Santa Clarita, tagged bicycle, city council, commuter, cycling, santa clarita on May 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I think it was about a year ago that I got a huge laugh when I read that the City of Santa Clarita won an award for being bicycle friendly by some national bicycle coalition or something. I laughed because I know it couldn’t be further from the truth. While Santa Clarita has some nice [...]
Posted in Bikes & Gear, tagged cycling, hudz, montefalco, torelli on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just did my first ride with my new Hudz, and so far they are very nice. The fit is good, and they are very comfortable. Not quite as comfortable as the Campy covers, but nice nonetheless. Maybe I should have gone with yellow, but I like the green.
Posted in City of Santa Clarita, tagged cars and bikes, cycling, santa clarita on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To the dumbass driving the white Chevy Tahoe (or similiar) on Placerita Canyon this morning, maybe next time you could wait 5-10 seconds to pass me going 60mph on a tight turn with no shoulder (littered with gravel no less). I know you were probably in a huge hurry to get somewhere (like school?), but [...]
Posted in Road Racing, tagged cycling, Di Luca, lance armstrong, swobo on May 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I was was very bummed to hear that Chris Horner was out of the Giro as of this morning as a result of a crash yesterday. He just can’t seem to catch a break. Here he is coming off of a previous injury, showing great form at the Giro, and a crash sidelines him again. [...]
Posted in Road Racing, tagged 2009 giro, bertolini, cycling on May 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Alessandro Bertolini, the oldest rider in the 2009 Giro.
Posted in Road Racing, tagged 2009 giro, cycling, danilo di luca, lance armstrong, Levi Leipheimer on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My thoughts on Stage 5:
Liquigas showed that at least for now, they can shred the field on the climbs
Basso made it look pretty easy today. Was he really smiling, or was he doing his Chris Horner impression?
Levi, while maybe lacking some “punch” in his climbing ability, looked as cool as the other side of the [...]
Posted in Road Racing, tagged cycling, drugs, tom boonen on May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I know that illegal drug use is not a joke, and that we want to keep the kids off of dope and everything. However, for some reason this quote from Tom Boonen following his latest positive test for cocaine use really cracks (pun intended) me up.
“It [cocaine] is everywhere, really everywhere,” said Boonen, explaining why it [...]
Posted in Road Racing, tagged 2009 giro, cycling, Di Luca on May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I would guess that most people, when looking at this photo, would first notice Garzelli, Lovkvist and probably Basso in the final kilomters of Stage 4 of the 2009 Giro. Or maybe Michael Rogers checking out his power meter. However the first thing I noticed was Danilo Di Luca looking like he is going to [...]
Posted in Road Racing, tagged 2009 giro, cycling, universal sports on May 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you had told me that Petacchi would beat Cavendish in the first two sprints of the Giro, I probably would have told you to lay off the dope. Granted the Stage 3 win today was aided by the fact that Cavendish was caught behind a crash with approximately 10k to go. But regardless, Petacchi [...]
