One of my live-in soigneurs was recently charged with creating a Bucket List for school. In the interest of good “team building” I feigned interest and read over his list, which included things like driving a submarine, getting a Shelby…
Ok, ok. I promised myself I wasn’t going to post anything about Lance Armstrong ever again. Ever. But I certainly wasn’t the only one who noticed this photo that Lancypants posted on Twitter shortly after the UCI stripped him of…
As you may have heard, the annual awards banquet for the Manitoba Cycling Association is happening next Saturday, November 24 at the Rossmere Golf and Country Club. In a brief moment of insanity, The Establishment asked if I would like…
If you think it takes a little extra dose of crazy to commute by bike in the winter, you’re right. As if the challenges of fair-weather commuting aren’t bad enough, winter adds a whole new level of danger that can…
Winnipeg had just been slammed with the season’s first snowstorm, complete with about 25 centimetres of snowfall – which seemed as good a reason as any for the Fort Garry Bike Club to stage the first race of NordicCross –…
I take a lot of flack for not hating indoor training. Not to be confused with Masterbiking or indoor group training, solo indoor bike training is perhaps the most hated and heinous activity in all of Cycledom. To be clear,…
When work and passion intersect, it is a beautiful thing. It all started two years ago when Blake Wood ran over my head in a criterium. To be fair, the whole thing was my fault, and he was a real…
A bike nerd was walking down the sidewalk one day when his friend, another bike nerd, rode up on an incredible shiny new bicycle. The first nerd was stunned by his friend’s sweet ride and asked, “WOW! Where did you…
If that’s not enough to convince you, perhaps you should check your pulse. This Sunday. Be there. Details are here. Photo by Stefan. Natch.
Lying on the grass looking up at the clear blue sky above the charming Mennonite hamlet of Altona, I am praying that I don’t vomit. People die like that, lying on their backs – happens all the time to rockstars…