Have you ever seen a clip of the Tour de France where the riders are flying down tiny mountain roads at 50+ mph? There’s a whole pack of cars that needs to follow the with spare bikes and wheels. A company called Mavic used to do that job at races in North America with a crew of Mitsubishi wagons in the early 00s. I…

Divorced dad here. I think this list is good and most of the omissions that people are complaining about (the MC5) would never get played on classic rock radio anyway.

Divorced dad here. I think this list is good and most of the omissions that people are complaining about (the MC5) would never get played on classic rock radio anyway.

At least Doctor Bobby is a real doctor.

“Hey Steve, can you give us a hand carrying this 200lb dog?”

From the NYT article:

Yeeeeeaaaah...let’s just let the folks in Kenya enjoy this one.

Duh, should have been the first place I looked.

This guy went 2:01:39 last fall with no meteorologists, no laser beams, no one weighing his bottles, and no pacesetters for the last 10 miles. That seems like a greater physical achievement than 1:59:40 in a mobile laboratory, if you ignore the symbolic importance of the 2 hour barrier.

An Italian guy named Roberto Gaggioli raced in the US for years, won a lot of races. Like a solid college basketball player who has a long career playing pro ball overseas. He was also a pretty dirty rider (not just in a doping sense) and got into it at some random race with a guy named Johnny Sundt – not a dirty…

There’s regular pizza cut into squares, and then there’s the “grandma pie” as it’s known in the basic-ass pizza places that still exist in my corner of Bougie Brooklyn.

I read somewhere that bareknuckle boxing was actually safer (for brains, at least) for this reason. Head shots were rare because the risk of breaking your hand or wrist was so great.

Motocross is outdoors on courses that use natural terrain. Supercross is in a stadium on a man-made dirt track with sculpted jumps and berms.

Shocking win from Wout but MVDP is on another planet. So far in 2019 he’s won the world cyclocross championship, a major spring classic at Amstel Gold Race, and a MTB World Cup. 

I didn’t mind Bettiol winning either but I did mind watching the group behind race so conservatively.

What I love about that finish is that – inside 2km and 10+ seconds back – the “correct” tactic is to mark Kwiatkowski and ride for third. MVDP is too good for that.

I think it’s so considerate and adorable on Athena’s part. Also, everyone pees in the shower already. Am I the weird one?

How can you talk about overdone meat without a Trump reference? 

The “received wisdom” makes sense in theory. But if there was money to be made with spring football, college football would have switched already to a spring schedule.

I was riding the SF Muni bus years ago and a guy sat down next to me around 16th and Mission. I’ve seen people in worse shape around there, but this dude was pretty down and out. He pulled a gallon of ice cream out of his bag and started eating giant scoops with his hand. It was a (rare) hot day and there was ice…