Campagnolo: 75 Years of Cycling Passion List $39.95.  You can’t afford not to have this book in your reference library [right next to your Helmut Newton collection]. It’s  a cool coffee table book that surveys the evolution & development of componentry, the cycling industry and racing:  the quick release, the Simplex lever, the dual-rod gear [...]

In the mid-80s, after the Los Angeles Olympics and with the new velodrome at Dominguez Hills College, Southern California was abuzz with Velo-Fever. At the time, Deborah Shumway was at the center of a lot of cycling talent that came through Long Beach.  One year, some of her team-mates came to town for a few [...]

Mr. Bubbles Clears the Air. [the dialogue in this video is reproduced from an email sent to Los Freddies] B’Animaux! window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({appId: “364015433630063″, status: true, cookie: true, xfbml: true}); }; (function() { var e = document.createElement(“script”); e.async = true; e.src = document.location.protocol + “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js”; document.getElementById(“fb-root”).appendChild(e); }());

Oh yea! We love to ride the bike. But really, we just wanna be fit. Love to be fit. Need to be fit. Can never get fit {enough}. We wanna be above the 99%. Walk into a room and silence the 99. Disdain the 99. Eat the 99. Bust the 99. Intimidate the 99. Loath [...]

Saturday [10-29-2011] 6am 48°F When do you wear leg warmers? Since school girls wear short skirts with bare legs in the freezing cold, cyclists believe it must be ok to ride with bare legs in the freezing cold too; after all, cyclists are tougher than cute school grrrlz.  N’est-ce pas? According to [Fr]Eddie B, if [...]

Today [Thursday 10-27-11] the thermometer read [red] 51° at 6:00am. Time to get your head gear all pimped out. In general, heat loss through your scalp accounts for about 7%. Apparently though, before you start sweating, heat loss through the scalp can account for as much as 50%.  Therefore, when you’re just getting started on [...]

Cold weather season is approaching.  Granted, this is Southern California, land of weather wimps, but nonetheless, it’s our weather and we gotta dress for it. It’s always best to wear two layers regardless of the weather; a base layer and a jersey.  A good base layer keeps you warm when it’s cool [adds insulation] and [...]

They’re reporting weight in the video in kgs ( 1 kg=2.2 lb /  375 kg = 826.5lb ). ee’z squat season ma chiw’ren. Get mOvIn: B’Animaux. window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({appId: “364015433630063″, status: true, cookie: true, xfbml: true}); }; (function() { var e = document.createElement(“script”); e.async = true; e.src = document.location.protocol + “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js”; document.getElementById(“fb-root”).appendChild(e); }());

My Memorial Day: I often attribute 1975 as the year I became a cyclist but actually it was Memorial Day 1968 that kindled the fire in the furnace of my love for cycling. I remember it clearly; we had the day off from school since the holiday fell on a Thursday and was actually celebrated [...]

Il Duce! Ay que tonto! Ok! Are you paying attention!  Look over here! Oops! [Saturday] While riding to meet another Freddie, looking down to put his water-bottle back in the cage, Il Duce hits a pothole and goes down hard [Blammo!] {Over the handle-bars}.  3 broken ribs.  [It was dark out, although that's standard m.o. [...]