Jersey Boys, Part Deux

Jersey Boys, Part Deux

Mon Dieu!! It is practically Tour de France Eve and I have left you all hanging on the edge of your saddles, waiting for the second half of my review of the 2011 team jerseys. Shame on me!! I have…

Ride Like a Girl?

Ride Like a Girl?

Dear Giordana I just happened across your 8 page advertising spread in the January 2011 issue of Bicycling Magazine. In the first seven pages you show, not surprisingly, riders riding. On the last page, under the headline “Ride Like a…

Air Heads

Air Heads

God I love Europeans. Nowhere else on earth will you find people so obsessed with style they can even make bike crashes sexy. In past posts I have celebrated the Italians, the Swiss and the Belgians. This particular post celebrates…

The Scent of a Woman

The Scent of a Woman

I was sent a link to a German TV commercial today that is frankly too filthy to post. And for me to say that you know it’s bad. Maybe not “government agents coming to the front door in the middle…

Sometimes it’s Hard to be a Woman

“Bike Like a Man”. Good or bad, it’s a mantra I use when I want to bike strong. I recently discovered I may have taken this mantra a bit too far when I overheard a couple of spectators at last weekend’s…

Road Kill

I love to drive my car. I love to ride my bike too. So I can say with complete neutrality that there are crazies and morons on both sides of the ongoing Battle Royale between cyclists and drivers. The other…

As seen in Vogue

Today I was recovering from a 100k morning ride the same way I’m sure most of you would – a nice soak in an epson salt bath with the September issue of Vogue. This was no easy task as the…

Viva Italia

Cyclocross date number three was a resounding success. I’d say we’re well into second or even third base now, possibly “going all the way” with a race this Saturday at Wildwood Park. Last night at the Cross Lab I learned…

Bike Shop: Part Deux

Today at the Bike Shop: CycleChick: (carrying bike wheel) Hi there. My wheel has been making an awful noise lately. I think it might have something to do with the bearings? (insert higher tone at end of sentence to imply…

Sorry, I don’t speak Asshole

This post is for the guy at the bike shop who, tonight when I asked for a specific type of road bike tire asked me “what for?” Taken aback by the silliness of the question, I told him some of…