You can’t really know what it’s like to be stranded in a jury room while the team is on campaign, but you can read about it because I hand-typed it. So I was there with 11 or 12 others - not really counting, but rather, thinking, imagining. We were supposed to be talking about her, and if she did it, or if he did, or if his lover did. Rain streamed down the windows, obscuring the view of the adjacent building. A fluorescent light ballast whined. … [Read more...]
The Plan
It was early when I swept the Bourbonneur from his front curb. Fishing-with-Pépé early. The range was extended for the morning, which required an abnormally early sequence initiation. Items were neatly crammed into satchels of various sizes: foil-wrapped sandwiches, cremes of questionable purpose, an assortment of wearable status indicators—stretchy, wind-blocking, synthetic, natural, tight, manly, elite—multiple helmets, shoes, duct tape, spare … [Read more...]
The Sock I Loved, Then Lost.
It took no raindrops for your absence to hurt me, but when they fell, the pain was nourished. Your gentle compression was the hallmark of our relationship. Compression. Compassion. Your surface enveloped my toes in an embrace. You pulled the moisture from them with all your heart. The medial toes grew jealous of big toe and pinky, for by design—and without any chance for change—you afforded them less contact. We all embraced the passion of … [Read more...]
Things I Learned from Him: ’90-’94
It was a pretty standard, which is to say excellent, tutelage I was under as the young me, and at a great time: I was between jobs (I quit my paper route and couldn't yet convince my local shop to hire me), school was under control (I was fine with Cs), and my social life was on cruise control (nobody understood me so who needs friends anyways plus you just don't understand me). Enter Him. He was a family man, which is to say, he was a guy who … [Read more...]
Choose The Latter
Country roads were consumed. Canvas pants and denim vest took the place of less organic/more efficient sport garments. Skids were executed needlessly. Cheeks were cold, things were bunny hopped. Winter component modifications were tested and evaluated. Sweat was produced, but muscles never loosened. It was less an act of folly than one of insistence. Nonetheless, i'm still trying to evaluate whether or not the value was positive or negative. … [Read more...]
Now Hiring Technici Profezzionale!
We’re Totally Hiring Tech Professionals! Req'd Education: 2 year Technical Degree or equivalent work experience PLUS 10 - 15 years of bici-shoppe experiencia PLUS no children or wife or complainings. Travel: Totally All-Times/ Most Days. Relocation: Please relocate if you are not currently staying around here. Job Description Major Hand-typed Bicycle-specific Website Corporation World-Tour team is … [Read more...]
Remembering Marco Pantani: Pirates and Absence and Sadness
We have grown up while Marco Pantani has rested in peace. We have learned a lot. Ten years ago, it was easy to mourn the passing of the once great cyclist, but then the truth emerged over the past decade, and the innocence that tears fell from, become resolve for villains and victors. Remembering Marco Pantani now isn't so ideal for these purposes, yet for some of us, he is an innocent competitor and he holds a quiet place in our hearts. He took … [Read more...]
Bonus Hour Cycling Club
There's but one day a year when you get a free hour. We shift our clocks, but something more magical than that, something more marketable happens. Two men of sub-phenomenal fitness levels have consumed pressed pots of sacred oily beans, dressed themselves in copious layers of status-indicating wicking fibres, and met at an hour grand. The Bonus Hour. Thanks to the genius of western world timekeeping magic, this two hour journey may … [Read more...]
Belgo-Californian Trail Mixxe
It was not so long ago that I had a hot pencil about this trip and this new friendset. Now, you see that it has been a long time, because that was Vuelta, and now it is CX, but here is what happened: I was thinking when I got to LA, "Great. I have worked so hard for the vacation. I will make some time for things I love. Hot Planks©, Quinoa 3 ways, Ice Yoga™, and a bike riding time. And of course, the Accu-tennis®. So how good is it that … [Read more...]
Ape.X Produtti Naturale
We cañot have a moment of no winning. We thank this is a very large importance, and the equipment for victoire is here now, for most of a man's kind. Look. Take this technicologie to the level of champion by looking back in the time to our ancestor-mans. Did this mans hunt a bear to the dirt for a lady? OUI. Did this mans make wolf love under a sky of macho? OUI. Did this mans wear a wicking sport fancy shirt when he knock le faque out of … [Read more...]
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