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Pete Smith posted this on Twitter yesterday. Simply amazing.
There’s no course tape and it looks like they’re racing in a strip mine on Mars. There’s also something beautiful about the popping jump cuts and grittiness of home movies from the 70s.
The fans are also much more polite than the are today – I [...]
Thu, December 17 2009 » bikes » 1 Comment
Sunday was pretty great – the UVM Crit. It was the first time I had spent an entire day at a collegiate bike race as only a spectator (I was at the Beanpot road race for only a little bit). It was good fun, I got take a ton of pictures and scream [...]
Mon, April 21 2008 » bikes » 7 Comments
This weekend was Battenkill-Roubaix, which was by far the most beautiful bike race I’ve done in my entire life. Sadly, I wasn’t really able to enjoy the beauty as I spent a good portion of the race keeping my eyes on the wheel in front of me as we hit climb after climb and [...]
Mon, April 21 2008 » bikes » 1 Comment
Ordinarily, I don’t like to talk about my day-to-day riding on here. Because, at some point, it gets boring. Even racing – after a while it gets old to keep reading “Yeah, I went really hard, it hurt, I finished, I ate a Baconator.” Unless something interesting happens, I’d rather not subject [...]
Thu, April 17 2008 » bikes » 1 Comment
So my USCF license came in the mail today…even though I ordered it months ago, I was just too lazy to print out documents to sign until last week. Regardless.
And I turn it over, and what do I see? But the signature of Mr. Mark Abramson staring back at me:
(Sorry…the kit lens on [...]
Tue, April 15 2008 » bikes » 3 Comments
