Tour de France starts tomorrow.  Solidarity Time: Ride Everyday of the Tour; Feel the Suffer. Click here to see 25 photos from Time magazine’s archives of the 1953 TDF. Solidarity 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 = [...]

The official London 2012 Olympic Games Team GB kit, designed by Stella McCartney and mfg’d by Adidas.  Above: Chris Hoy. Tabula Rasa: Getting rid of excessive jack’anxieted, overdone, overwrought, overzealous, overtly self-aware, obnoxious sponsor graphics, each element competing to suck-ravage your attention in its attempt to create product consumptuousness in your brain, brings a serene [...]

Cyclists spend a lot of time in the sun and we’re gonna look like latter day Bridget Bardots if we don’t block out some of those solar rays. You don’t want the peloton wondering: “What’s all that pasty white shit all over your face?”  “Ohhhhh!  Sunscreen.  You look like a dork.” Found some SPF 50 [...]

Yesterday: BTBR (Bob the Bike Rider) destroyed his vintage Medici in a jack’d-out instant of forgetfulness.  His steel pony was tethered to the roof rack and he drove dick into the garage.   Que LastiMa TonTo AniMauX! window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({appId: “364015433630063″, status: true, cookie: true, xfbml: true}); }; (function() { var e = [...]

The  Chicken-Man-Boy is a mere 24 years and trains to race.  He comes out and rides with the Viejo-Pack occasionally and, time to time, shows up for Thursday morning speed workouts at El Dorado Park (every Thursday 6:15am northern section of the park).  He’s yet to finish the workout ahead of the “old” men jack- [...]

The Ritte Boys are jacking the ad blasts: [more at Ritte ...]  Looks like Mr. Bubbles riding the Rex. 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); }());

Mr. BTBR was in town today.  In the 80s, Bob the Bike Rider was a fixture in the So. Cal cycling scene; well connected in the greater community of Freddies; sidekick to Mr. Bede Edwards, the man given credit for getting the UberFred into cycling.  Mr. Bede Edwards and others in his circle of cohorts [...]

For Sale: Specialized SL3 56cm Road bike (racing Red) Carbon frame, never crashed, ridden easy on the weekend to the Bahia YC Bar $350.00 obo (MSRP $5500) Contact Scott @ (714) 448-1851 In the Peloton the Freddies come and go Talking of Molteni’s Angelo. The muttering retreats Of restless nights in preparation for a field [...]

Lub’n it Up puts a smooth glide in the Joint. 11 years, 75+thousand miles has worn out the perfection of engineered tolerances and has  jacked a rattle into the jimmy.  All the pivot points in my Campy Record Ergo levers have gotten sloppy in their old age and vibrate like hell with an annoying rattle.  [...]

700 x 23 has always been the Mexican Standard.  Recently I pulled two Vittoria Open Corsa Evo CX, 320tpi, tires {my favorites} off the shelf without looking at the profile; turned out they were 25s. Sunday I took a ride that meandered the mean streets in the City of Angels (L.A.) and as I was [...]