This is a guest post by Veloforma teammate (and general ass-kicker) Stephanie Chase. Thanks, Stephanie – this is brilliant. Thanks also for the photo by Jose Sandoval. (There are many more sweet photographs of the day if you follow that link.) PS: Veloforma team website and blog is getting a big, fat facelift in the coming [...]

Yep, that’s right. It’s cross season and all the little cycling boys and girls are getting ready to make mud pies and sprint up little hills while bicycle-toting. Besides the fact that I L-O-V-E the rain (you can throw punches at me next time you see me for saying that, but it’s true), I also love [...]

File this under “more cool stuff I’m going to miss”. I am in San Jose at Anti-Training Camp, gorging on carbs and fat, not a bicycle in site. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, XTerra Portland is set for August 15th out at Hagg Lake. Hagg Lake holds a lukewarm spot in the heart of every roadie who’s [...]

Holy smokes. It’s hot in Bend. I’m at the Cascade Cycling Classic doing some race coverage and this shindig is going off. The mens field is stacked. (STACKED) The women’s field is stacked. And the pace so far has been pretty off the charts. (The men rode today’s race 30 minutes faster than last year) Stage winner [...]

I guess now I know what soap-addicted housewives feel like when they’re denied the latest episode of their favorite daytime drama.  I mean – if someone took my tour away this year, I think I’d seriously lose my mind. This shit is good.  And, up until today, it was good in the good way: exciting breaks, [...]

My schedule finally caught up me and knocked me flat on my ass with illness. But, if I wasn’t over here sleeping like a zombie, I’d be at the Alpenrose Velodrome, cheering like a maniac. The AVC is going to be the big show in town tonight: the weather is ridiculously perfect and the stage is [...]