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Racing
Sep
18
I may be getting worse at covering bike races. What’s truly sad about this is that I only manage to shoot a maximum of 3 races per year. Actually, let me reiterate—I’m getting worse at covering the actual racing. I think it’s a combination of not giving a single fux about covering it and also because I’m not carrying multiple hand cannons to capture all that sweet race action. What I like to cover is the event itself.
Regardless, Cross Vegas proved to be yet another amazing night. Don’t think I’ll ever tire of seeing old internet friends again and meeting a whole bunch of new ones. Twitter cycling is truly an amazing community. The interactions are awkward, exhilarating, and familiar all at the same time.
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Jun
11
This year I decided to shoot the race with The Bug in tow. I originally wanted her to see the ladies race for a dose of inspiration. But alas, after an extra late night kicking it at the playground (#dadlife) the evening before plus the distinct possibility of excess chocolate consumption meant we had to sleep our hard night off—no alarms necessary. We finally made it to the mens race just as they sang the National Anthem and sent the field off for a 100 or so laps of Clarendon Cup pain.
Note: I originally planned to caption all of these, but you wouldn’t have seen the post for another week. So, photo essay it is. Wait, did I just use originally 2x in consecutive paragraphs?!
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Jun
6
In short, Manual For Speed’s coverage of the Natty Champs.
I’ll use this moment to declare my ability to create a cycling post thing has been irreparably altered for better or worse, by MFS. As original as I can and aim to be, I cannot unsee/unread what I’ve seen/read. Honestly, this is the way I’ve always thought, now it just seems totes cool to take shots of all the bridges and overpasses on your ride (interesting or not) in order to do a post titled, “A Typology of All the Shit You Ride under While Doing the Arlington Loop.”
But I digress.
Apr
8
Despite the horrific Muur-ectomy, de Ronde van Vlaanderen somehow manages to produce a race. I guess monuments have a way of bringing out the best of those racing. As much as I hate the “riders make the race” saying, it definitely was the case in this edition. However, compared to the awesome might and spectacle of the de Muur-Kapelmuur, the current parcours is more a limp handshake than an angry Leeuw van Vlaanderen met raised clenched fist met lightning symbols shooting out of it.
Speaking of awesome might and spectacle, IT’S TIME VOOR GIFS.
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Dec
30
UCI Cyclocross World Cup #5: Heusden-Zolder
Soul-sucking power course with vicious runups, leg-breaking hills, and white-knuckle bombing runs. Zolder looked greasy enough to make you think the entire course with some of the sloppy to remind you what sport this is.
Dec
24
BPost Bank Trofee – Cyclocross Essen
Essen, Belgium was a delicious, sloppy mess. Lots of 180s, some barriers, hills, stairs, flyovers, and some complex, undulating terrain made this a spectacle. And by spectacle I mean awesome.
Post Notes
Be gentle—this is my first time GIFing this haard. Still playing with the frame rates and color dithering. Most of these are sped up by a few frames to decrease size. Plus, the Benny Hill effect is hilarious in some of these clips. Also, this post was supposed to include Namur. Lastly, captions are completely ignoring the laws of CSS. No time to fix…
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Oct
23
Having been at peak physical perfection voor most of 2013 w/out a cold my luck and resistance finally succumbed, just in time voor DCCX 2013. Various trivial/not trivial reasons prevent me from attending all races except voor DCCX so the cold suckage scores high on amplitude when the two collide.
Regardless, I loaded up my All-City Low-Profile pack with the essentials v0or the cross town voyage and subsequent documentation and headed out, coughing then entire way.
I arrived, throat raw from breathing dry, gritty city air, my cold-fatigued legs shaking after the 14 mile journey through sections of DC where, not more than 10 years ago, I once would’ve been relieved of my possessions. Apres hacking up one laatste lung-ball, I headed instantly to the Staples Corner Liquors beer tent in order to sort out my painfully crippling introversion as well as my painfully crippling throat. Then it was straight over to the Crosshairs Cycling tent to meet up with the inimitable @WTFKits himself.
Oct
15
Bpost Bank Trofee – GP Mario De Clerq kicked the fo’ realz Euro CX season off in Ronse on Sunday. And by kicked off I mean, EPIC MUDFIESTA. The rain and wind turned what was essentially a grass crit laatste jaar into an adult slip-n-slide with epic mudbutt as the consolation prize.
The U23 CX wereld shuddered and the Juniors breathed a sigh of relief as wunderkind, Mathieu Van Der Poel, upgraded and subsequently crushed the U23 field. Good luck with that, dudes.
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Oct
5
Stoked to see the MfS crew is teaming up with <deep breath> Cannondale p/b Cyclocrossworld.com Team in order to continue documenting the Pursuit of Speed.
Check out the rest of their intro post shots on INTRODUCTION: CYCLOCROSS.
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Oct
2
Stupefacente! CX season is in full-swing and this Giro d’Italia promo video gave me fuggin’ chills! Everything displayed in this video is why we love pro cycling. So many emotions packed into 3 three weeks and it’s condensed here in less than 3 minutes. I’ve already watched it a few times. I will admit that the voiceover is a bit, shall we say, all “IN A WORLD.” But, whatevs—IL GIRO!!
