[Cyclelicious] 8/28/2006 11:50:25 AM

After I posted about this thing in Asheville, I wondered how much the "reporting" was exaggerated in the alternative news outlet I found this at; and from an anonymous source to boot.

--
Posted by Fritz to Cyclelicious at 8/28/2006 11:50:25 AM

[Cyclelicious] 8/20/2006 08:22:35 AM

I think the "strategy of pedaling really fast" was my favorite one too.

--
Posted by Michael to Cyclelicious at 8/20/2006 08:22:35 AM

[Cyclelicious] 8/20/2006 05:19:50 AM

I love this! Hilarious!

--
Posted by Tom Stormcrowe to Cyclelicious at 8/20/2006 05:19:50 AM

[Cyclelicious] 8/19/2006 09:29:36 PM

". . . strategy of pedaling really fast."

ROFL!!!

--
Posted by Eric to Cyclelicious at 8/19/2006 09:29:36 PM

[Cyclelicious] 8/18/2006 03:14:21 PM

There's a difference?

--
Posted by Fritz to Cyclelicious at 8/18/2006 03:14:21 PM

[Cyclelicious] 8/16/2006 10:40:09 AM

Thank you Anonymous. I verified by looking at his website. I don't remember where I got "Toronto" from -- that's gotta be about a thousand miles (1600 km) from Thunder Bay.

--
Posted by Fritz to Cyclelicious at 8/16/2006 10:40:09 AM

[Cyclelicious] 8/15/2006 11:52:24 AM

There's a whole bunch of them over at Cold Fury! (Blogging Lawyers, right wing variety!)

Drop by and check out my weekend!

--
Posted by Tom Stormcrowe to Cyclelicious at 8/15/2006 11:52:24 AM

[Cyclelicious] 8/14/2006 12:02:38 PM

I bonked pretty badly just about three weeks ago. The next day I felt pretty good, though I still wasn't in top form. But then I wasn't fully recovered from the factors that led to bonking in the first place (didn't eat breakfast, not adequately hydrated).

--
Posted by Fritz to Cyclelicious at 8/14/2006 12:02:38 PM

[Cyclelicious] 8/14/2006 10:20:46 AM

Probably deepends on just how "deeply" you bonk (um, using the "depleting glycogen" meaning, not the UK/Aussie one).
If you're just running on low sugars, that shouldn't be so hard to recover from. If it takes days to recover, sounds like heat exhaustion or other depletions were happening. (I haven't bonked in a dozen years or so but I am pretty sure I was back adn rolling fine the next day.)

--
Posted by SueJ to Cyclelicious at 8/14/2006 10:20:46 AM

The Real Blog is @ Cycle Licious

Just a periodic note that this is used to help manage comments over at my cycling blog.

[Cyclelicious] 8/12/2006 06:19:35 AM

Surely you didn't mean this:

bonk v. In the UK, bonking is, well, the act of reproducing. Well, unless you're using some sort of contraceptive device I suppose. It's the act of practising reproduction, maybe. Oh, hell, you know what I mean. We do also share the US definition (a clunk/bash).

http://english2american.com/dictionary/b.html

It makes reading the post a little funnier, though!

--
Posted by Ed W to Cyclelicious at 8/12/2006 06:19:35 AM

[Cyclelicious] 8/11/2006 11:06:42 AM

Hi Phil, I agree but I think what Norton wrote (linked to in the blog post) makes sense regarding motivation:

"Consider a typical pro cyclist (in Europe or America) -- he dominates at all levels, as a junior, as a U23, in the lower categories and eventually as a talented Cat 1. Eventually he's signed to a pro contract with a domestic or continental squad. He keeps on winning. Ultimately he's signed to a ProTour contract and enters his first Spring classic or stage race. Poof. Suddenly he finds himself surrounded by riders equal or better than he is. He finishes mid-pack or even off the back. The riders in the European pro peloton are many times stronger and faster than the riders at a level just below. He's like the arrogant college freshman who enters MIT only to find that everyone else was the valedictorian in their high school too. It's sobering and defeating."

--
Posted by Fritz to Cyclelicious at 8/11/2006 11:06:42 AM

[Cyclelicious] 8/10/2006 06:27:17 PM

A "mere fleshwound, I've had worse".

--
Posted by Jerry to Cyclelicious at 8/10/2006 06:27:17 PM

[Cyclelicious] 8/10/2006 08:35:54 AM

Yea... "going to get away..." - and they don't stay with it? Something's wrong with this picture (which is rather consoling :-))

--
Posted by SueJ to Cyclelicious at 8/10/2006 08:35:54 AM

[Cyclelicious] 8/09/2006 10:55:07 AM

Excellent find, Michael.

Tim, would you mind explaining to the uninitiated why they stand like this in the velodrome, perhaps at your blog?

--
Posted by Fritz to Cyclelicious at 8/09/2006 10:55:07 AM

[Cyclelicious] 8/08/2006 11:09:10 AM

Handy on snow-covered hillsides in Colorado. Probably not much use in Tulsa.

--
Posted by Fritz to Cyclelicious at 8/08/2006 11:09:10 AM

[Cyclelicious] 8/08/2006 11:08:33 AM

Project Honeypot says they're working on a plugin for Blogger, but for now your own site with server-side scripting is required.

--
Posted by Fritz to Cyclelicious at 8/08/2006 11:08:33 AM

[Cyclelicious] 8/04/2006 04:34:10 PM

These are just...........Bizzarre, cool as well, but bizzarre!

--
Posted by Tom Stormcrowe to Cyclelicious at 8/04/2006 04:34:10 PM

[Cyclelicious] 8/02/2006 12:24:31 PM

Amen. (I couldn't get the sound to work on y 'puter - we're moving offices tomorrow and everything is ftummled.)
People do need to be educated - it's another argument against paths, looks like. If you have the paths, people think everybody should just get out of their way, and they never learn to get out on the roads if they're not riding like pedestrians.
Pete has a good point, though... if the peds are out in the bike lanes, they're the ones where they oughtn't be.
The other factor (and, alas, another disadvantage of bike paths, no matter how excellent) is that cars get much more hostile about cyclists on the roadway if they think there's a path the riders "should" be using.

--
Posted by SueJ to Cyclelicious at 8/02/2006 12:24:31 PM

[Cyclelicious] 8/02/2006 12:24:49 PM

(make that drivers, not cars...)

--
Posted by SueJ to Cyclelicious at 8/02/2006 12:24:49 PM

[Cyclelicious] 8/02/2006 10:38:06 AM

I don't think it's quite open season on cyclists yet. Dolkart's conviction was thrown out on a technicality, that the instructions given to the jurors were incorrect. Keep in mind she's a law professor, so it's not surprising she and her lawyer found some technicality to appeal the conviction.

Since prosecutors plan to retry her if they lose the appeal of the appeals court ruling, she's not quite out of the woods yet. If the case is retried, hopefully prosecutors will do their homework and make sure the jury instructions follow the letter of the law.

--
Posted by Roger to Cyclelicious at 8/02/2006 10:38:06 AM

[Cyclelicious] 8/01/2006 08:38:03 AM

Did anyone ever stop to consider what would happen if Floyd took estrogen? Food for thought...

--
Posted by Michael to Cyclelicious at 8/01/2006 08:38:03 AM

[Cyclelicious] 7/21/2006 10:45:07 AM

Ouch! Great agility! I think what he's hlooering needs absolutely no translation!

--
Posted by Tom Stormcrowe to Cyclelicious at 7/21/2006 10:45:07 AM

[Cyclelicious] 7/20/2006 04:07:54 PM

Landis is going to have to have a serious conversation with his team tonight. It'll go something like this: "I did my part today. Your job tomorrow is to protect me or get fired."

--
Posted by Outdoorgrrl to Cyclelicious at 7/20/2006 04:07:54 PM