Archive for February, 2006

Chewed Up Trainer Tires?

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

Recently got this question from one of those poor souls who lives on the East coast and is looking at spending countless hours on the indoor trainer:
“I recently got a used (new to me ) trainer (my 1st) and maybe I am setting it up wrong, but it has chewed through 2 of […]

What Drives You?

Saturday, February 25th, 2006

Dave Zabriskie hasn’t posted on his site in a long time, but awhile back he was doing these hilarious “one question interviews” while in the peloton. He asked Tom Danielson, “if I could hook a stick to your helmet and hang something in front of you to make you chase for it, what would […]

True Grit

Friday, February 24th, 2006

I thought today it would be fun for you to get to read something that my friend Brian sent me the other day. Brian has been racing solo 24 hour races for a lot of years now, and has always done really well. Some of his palmares include 4th place at the 24 […]

Momentary Lapses

Monday, February 20th, 2006

I joined the infamous Shootout for the first time last Saturday. The Shootout is the weekend Worlds in Tucson, somewhat equivalent to the BOS ride I did last week. Usually it is the hardest ride in the state, but this was a good weekend for me to do it because there were 3 […]

RacerX

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

The much anticipated review of my new Racer X is here! I got on it for the first time on Tuesday and the second time today. Nothing like a new bike to make you want to go and ride.
I can truly say that the Racer X lives up to its hype. On […]

Off the Back

Monday, February 13th, 2006

This is not exactly a race report, because the BOS ride isn’t exactly a “race” but it is funny at my expense, so here is the blow by blow. For those of you who are unfamiliar, the BOS ride is a group road ride in north Scottsdale. There are options along the way […]