Velochimp: Astrochimp on Cycling

This is a good overview of how to handle yourself on the road. Some of these techniques such as divergent lanes next to a highway on-ramp are new to me. I would always wait to cross over at the right spot and stay to the side of the road.

I normally post about Top Gear on my other blog, but this episode has a good aspect on bikes. The Top Gear crew is known for doing elaborate races such as a jet plane racing a Bugatti Veyron. Here the Top Gear crew takes four different forms of transportation across London. Richard Hammond rides a [...]

I’m the promotor/co-promoter for the Syracuse Race Weekend again this year. Since last year we changed up quite a bit of the event including moving the date up one week to May 17th and 18th. I added a longer Time Trial and kept it at Song Mountain. A new Crit course is also a major [...]

Milan San Remo is Saturday which usually happens around the Feast day of St. Joseph. It’s a big holiday in Italy as my mom reminds me by frying up some nacatoli for the occasion. We have to all wish my brother Joe a happy San Giuseppe while he basks in the glory.
Podium cafe posted this [...]

Last October a new cycling Classic emerged combining some of the epic conditions of Paris-Roubaix with the golden age of Italian cycling’s history. In the 1950s when cycling was the king of sports in Italy due to the epic battles between Fausto Coppi and Gino Bartali cycling was much grittier (literally) than today’s sport. Long [...]