Last week, reader Guy Smith of the Crossniacs forwarded me a link to this article in the New York Times.  In the first paragraph, the author quotes a former coach who once told him, “Pedal until you taste blood.” I liked that. I thought about it a lot. The perfect’cross race is composed of a lot of things, [...]

Lights, cameras, beer! What a show.  We rolled with an impossibly crazy posse, crashed the VIP area (thanks, Brad!), stole flats of beer, made Flava-Flav style necklaces out of stolen objects, and heckled Mr. Armstrong. Most memorable?  Lance comes down the hill past us on a warm up lap.  Dead silence until “Little” (aka Richard)  calls out, [...]

90-something degrees and dusty as hell.  Bootleg Canyon, Nevada. Bikes, bikes, and more bikes. The Interbike Outdoor Demo – a gearheads veritable Cycling Disneyland.  Sal bounced up and down appropriately and we spent the day riding bikes that begged us to take them home. In the process I fell head-over-heels for the Wilier.  More later on our torrid [...]

No time for a long post, but we’re holed up on the 36th floor of Treasure Island getting ready for Interbike.  Today is the dirt demo and I plan to ride some sweet sleds I’ll never be able to afford and probably fall in love with one or three of them. For now, Sally and our [...]

What’s the shiniest, twinkliest, most soggy way to start the ‘cross season?  StarCrossed 2008, baby. It starts raining while we are driving up and as soon as the first drop hits the windshield, I know we are in for it.  Glory hallelujah.  Rain!  Now this is cyclocross, damnit. Share/Bookmark

Team Bobo is headed north this weekend for some good old Washington style racing.  I have wanted to race Starcrossed ever since I first read about it on Molly Cameron’s blog so long ago.  As a Seattle native, I’m proud that there is such a kick-ass rockstar race in my old stomping grounds. So what if [...]