Just when you think we are making progress towards all getting along on the streets, radio boneheads like ESPN’s Washington DC host Tony Kornheiser make stupid “jokes” like this to run down cyclists who get in your way: Within hours of this broadcast, Lance Armstrong created a Twitter storm that resulted in a big mea [...]
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Friday Film Fun: Road Racing season begins
Earlier this week, Versus, the cable channel that covers the Tour de France, released its coverage schedule for the 2010 pro racing season under the hyperbolic name “Epic Cycle”. In addition to the TdF, we’ll be getting classics such as Paris-Roubaix and Liege-Bastogne-Liege in addition to some not so classics like the Tour of Oman. [...]
Team Radio Shack release design on new jersey
The pro cycling team of Austin’s most famous cyclist released the design of their 2010 season jersey today via Twitter modeled by Big Tex himself. I have to say I’m underwhelmed with the design but wonder how cool Radio Shack can be made. Your thoughts? Is this new kit a hit or a miss?
Movie Review: Race Across the Sky, Leadville Trail 100
Race Across the Sky, Leadville Trail 100 Citizen Pictures A one night national showing on October 22, 2009 with encore showing scheduled for November 12, 2009. Overall impression: 6/10 On the weekend of the Texas Custom Bicycle Show, I joined fellow builder Brad Cason of KirkLee Bikes for a viewing of Race Across the Sky. [...]
Armstrong to move to new Team Radio Shack
Yesterday, we reviewed some of the off road drama going on at the Tour de France regarding post race sponsorships and what will happen to the currently dominant Team Astana. Today, a website featuring Armstong under the name Team RadioShack was launched and with more announcement expected today and in the next week. Team RadioShack? [...]
Armstrong rumored to be jumping the Astana ship
As the Tour de France heats up in the Alps, the rumor mills are swirling around who will be riding for who in the current Astana powerhouse. VeloNews is reporting that Johan Bruyneel, the director of Astana and for Lance Armstrong during all his Tour winning years, will be leaving as the head of Team [...]
Mellow Johnny’s Tour de France Launch Party Today 6-11pm
From our Weekly Events Calendar: Mellow Johnny’s Tour de France Launch Party Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop, 400 Nueces St. 6pm-11pm, Sunday July 5 This event will celebrate the start of the 96th Tour in our parking lot with family activities, contests, raffles, and a viewing of Stage 1 on the big screen provided by Alamo [...]
Shepard Fairey designs bikes for Lance Armstrong
These pictures are posted here via Lance Armstrong’s twitter feed, so if you’re following him you’ve already seen these. The bikes look great, though, so I wanted to get them all together in one place for people who might have missed this over the weekend. Shepard Fairey, he of the Obama Poster and ‘Giant’ poster [...]
Mellow Johnny’s movie night TONIGHT!
This was passed along by the fabulous Eileen at Mellow Johnny’s. Looks like they’re trying to start a series of movies over at the store. I love these kinds of events that bring people in the bike community together for events that don’t necessarily include getting drunk or racing in spandex (or yelling at elected [...]
Book Review: We Might as Well Win by Johan Bruyneel
Summary: Johan Bruyneel, the team manager for all 7 of Lance Armstrong’s Tour de France victories and this year’s comeback season, has developed a record as one of the winning-est managers in cycling history with a record eleven grand tour titles to his resume. Bruyneel’s book about his career and how he wins is only average [...]
