Bicycling

Wow, Tinker Juarez training for RAAM. I guess Lance has raced mountain bikes… MTB news and notes: Downhill; the Next Generation; Tinker keeps on tickin’ Tinker hits the road With the disintegration of the Siemens/Cannondale professional mountain bike team at the end of 2005, 44-year old American mountain bike legend David “Tinker” Juarez will continue … Continue reading »

EPO maker to back California Tour I’m thinking of a witty quip for this, but EPO has done a lot of good for patients who need to increase their red blood cell count. It appears Amgen is aware that EPO has been abused in endurance sports like cycling, and in some weird sort of way, … Continue reading »

Gimme a brake: Brake options for ‘cross A good primer on brakes for cyclocross. I always wondered why cross bikes still have those old school cantilever brakes. The UCI should just allow disc brakes since they would be the best solution for the muddy conditions on some cross races.

On Sunday evening, when I was coming home from San Franciso on BART, the inside part of my right arm started getting very itchy. I noticed it was all red, and I was concerned it was the effects of brushing against some poison oak on my Saturday morning ride which involved a downhill section through … Continue reading »

I used some rough sandpaper to take off the glazed surface on the Koolstop brakepads on the front brakes of my Bianchi Axis, and the brakes stopped squealing.

Is Lance going to be back for Number 8? Lance is like the Hulk – don’t make him angry or you’ll suffer the consequences. Armstrong to train with team this winter

My parents are visiting over the Labor Day Weekend, and I showed my dad the carbon fiber soles of my Shimano SH-R215 shoes before I went out on a morning ride. He mentioned they must be pretty light, and I said they were stiff too. My dad’s a rocket scientist (he works for Thiokol which … Continue reading »

Two things after watching the Larry King Show with Lance Armstrong regarding the recent allegations of 1999 urine samples testing positive for EPO. If Lance is lying, he should go into politics. He put on a pretty convincing performance regarding his innocence on Larry King. Too bad we don’t have Deckard around to give Lance … Continue reading »

After riding to the top of Mount Hamilton on Saturday and running the Stanford Dish on Monday, I still felt sore when I woke up this morning. I think I need to give my aging body another day of rest. Yesterday, my left arch hurt the whole day, and this morning, my shoulders were sore.

I rode 15 miles yesterday with my new Shimano 7800 pedals and SH-R215 shoes, and where this pedal/shoe combination really shines is on the steeper hills where I’m out of my saddle. I feel a lot more power being transmitted to the drivetrain, and I’m in one higher gear than normal on the steep sections. … Continue reading »