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In Print: Articles of Interest

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eloy
Jun 12, 2019 at 03:57 PM
https://cyclingtips.com/2019/06/the-weekly-spin-kate-courtney-and-the-joy-of-wearing-rainbow-stripes/

Joyful. That’s the word Kate Courtney chooses to describe her experience thus far wearing the rainbow jersey of world champion.
It helps, of course, that she’s been winning while wearing the rainbow jersey.


JohnMalcolmson
Jun 13, 2019 at 01:20 AM
Dauphine:
- Van Aert gets second in sprint stage then follows it up by winning TT by over 30 seconds. Monstrous! 
- Love or hate Brailsford, damn he's a good at his job. 
mugwump
Jun 13, 2019 at 05:09 PM
Manhattan's Community Board 7 seems to be one of the most pro-bike CB's in Manhattan.  The proposed a two-way protected bike lane for the length of Central Park West.  

The DOT came back with a one-way northbound protected bike lane.  All things considered, the proposal looks pretty good

https://gothamist.com/2019/06/12/cpw_bike_lane_uws.php
JohnMalcolmson
Jun 13, 2019 at 07:37 PM
^ Love this, even if it means parking in the UWS will be even more of a bloody nightmare.
eloy
Jun 13, 2019 at 08:50 PM
JohnOlsson
Jun 13, 2019 at 10:00 PM
Spoke to my friend that works for DOT, the interim condition before completion (fully protected) will be a wide painted buffer and flexible bollards for a relatively quick install. In the future they may add concrete islands, like on 2nd Ave to further protect it.
Jules
Jun 14, 2019 at 03:48 PM
Fascinating

https://cyclingtips.com/2019/06/what-happened-to-speedx/
mugwump
Jun 14, 2019 at 04:46 PM
https://www.velonews.com/2019/06/news/cobo-cited-for-biological-passport-violation-froome-could-be-named-winner-of-2011-vuelta_495044

I have a hard time believing it took this long.
RobertMullen
Jun 14, 2019 at 05:21 PM
Dang, even with a broken hip Froome wins a GT this year. 
Jules
Jun 14, 2019 at 06:47 PM
RobertMullen said:
Dang, even with a broken hip Froome wins a GT this year. 
ROFL
mugwump
Jun 14, 2019 at 07:34 PM
Ex-Kissena member Rob Spillman is stepping away from the literary mag he's run for 20 years.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/books/tin-house-last-issue.html
eloy
Jun 15, 2019 at 10:52 AM
Jules said:
mugwump said:
Jules said:
4:30 "off the couch" is no joke.
 dialed fit on a world class bike,  great aero gear, and a track coach.  

And I'm sure he had done several track sessions and at least a few test runs, no matter what he says.  


They both fessed up to the fact it was a five year old bike fit they set him up with. As for the pre-ride; I'm not sure where the line is. Obv. they didn't start the efforts without ever having ridden the bike - but was it that day, or a couple of trips with some test efforts? I think it's fair to believe those were his first efforts at significant distance.
so... bikes...

Jules
Jun 15, 2019 at 10:59 AM
Shiiiit!
eloy
Jun 17, 2019 at 08:50 PM
"but you know..., everybody got a neighborhood full of kids that love to ride bikes"
  EVERYTHING AWESOME.
Matt Budofsky
Jun 19, 2019 at 01:47 PM
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/marcel-kittel-offered-path-back-to-cycling-by-jumbo-visma/

Kittel possibly (that’s a big possibly) making a return next year 
Mark Taylor
Jun 20, 2019 at 05:08 PM

Rapha launches the Crit collection featuring transparent pockets

Designed for criterium racing, Rapha’s new Crit collection consists of an aero skinsuit, jerseys (men’s and women’s), and bib shorts. The reflective logos and silver fabric dye that resemble an oil slick are cool and all, but it’s the jersey pockets that stood out to us.

Made of a thin mesh, the see-through pockets are designed to hold race numbers and save you from having to fiddle with safety pins and ruined jerseys minutes before call up. It’s a feature we could see becoming quite popular (and copied) among club-level criterium and cyclocross racers

Matt Budofsky
Jun 22, 2019 at 09:56 PM
I had wanted to read a book about Major Taylor for a while and finally started one on the internet’s recommendation. 10/10 I can’t recommend The World’s Fastest Man by Michael Kranish enough if you’re in need of a book to read- very well sourced, highly detailed and paints a very wholistic picture of Major’s life within the history of his day
Mark Taylor
Jun 26, 2019 at 05:10 PM
Amazing
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/26/people-think-were-from-another-planet-meet-karachis-female-cyclists
Phil Maronilla
Jun 26, 2019 at 06:47 PM
Sure is a far cry from our cycling problems here in NYC...
Nathaniel Picard Busky
Jun 27, 2019 at 02:11 AM
Interesting article about the state of Strava that @Phil Maronilla discussed during some CP laps this evening:

https://www.outsideonline.com/2395489/strava-james-quarles
Phil Maronilla
Jun 27, 2019 at 02:33 AM
It'll be hard for Strava to make money without ads or changing it's subscription model. Although the data they have collected is valuable to a third party who could buy them for that information.
Nathaniel Miller
Jul 02, 2019 at 09:02 AM
I've recently discovered a website, and am enjoying reading the stories. A nice alternative to the race reports I typically waste time on. https://www.develo.cc
Jules
Jul 04, 2019 at 02:31 PM
Anyone with PhD who calls themselves "doctor" is very suspect.

I wonder if he's going to tell us about how he dosed Floyd?

https://www.velonews.com/2019/07/training/beyond-limits-training-101_495700
jim_nelson
Jul 04, 2019 at 03:44 PM
Like people who design software calling themselves Architects! (apropos of nothing in the actual article, just a common bone of contention amongst licensed professionals....)
Jules
Jul 08, 2019 at 04:16 PM
I read Phil Gaimon’s Draft Animals on a long flight and I’m still thinking about it. I’ve been less than impressed with him in the past - I really didn’t like his first book - but this one may have won me over. 

Something about the more pragmatic view into modern pro cycling scratches an itch. 

There is is plenty to harsh on - the perpetual adolescence of the boys in spandex being the obvious one - this doesn’t strike me as a mans  memoir so much as a very young mans one - but I’m willing to overlook it because it makes the struggle real to me in a way that the inevitable “winner’s tale” does not.

There are also a lot of details about dopers (looking at you Chris Horner) and the doling tells that seem to get consistently overlooked in the “first layer” press of Twitter, Cyclingnews/bell eww/cycling tips etc

wump did you ever write on this?
mugwump
Jul 08, 2019 at 04:22 PM
Jules said:
Anyone with PhD who calls themselves "doctor" is very suspect.

I wonder if he's going to tell us about how he dosed Floyd?

https://www.velonews.com/2019/07/training/beyond-limits-training-101_495700
I read the partial transcript of the opening podcast, then decided to listen to it.

https://www.velonews.com/2019/07/podcast/beyond-limits-a-new-velonews-voices-podcast-with-allen-lim-phd_495701

The unintended irony is really impressive.  He starts by saying there are three stories, the first is marketing bullshit, the second is a lie, the third is the one you can barely tell yourself.

And he proceeds to spend all  his time on the first and second.

No, he doesn't bring up dosing Floyd, nor Armstrong's doping, nor how even a rider he was coaching early on was a doper (Mike Barry).  

Where I'm lost is how riders I'm pretty sure ride/rode clean are friends with him.  His business parter, Ian McGregor was one such rider.  Jason Donald, another probably clean rider, was working for Allen as well.  

Matt Budofsky
Jul 08, 2019 at 06:12 PM
Our very own JP spotted in the background of the inCycle Justin Williams interview at the Harlem Skyscraper!


eloy
Jul 08, 2019 at 08:45 PM
https://cyclingtips.com/2019/07/wahoo-acquires-the-sufferfest-training-platform/

Wahoo acquires The Sufferfest training platform

eloy
Jul 09, 2019 at 10:12 AM
mugwump said:
Jules said:
Anyone with PhD who calls themselves "doctor" is very suspect.

I wonder if he's going to tell us about how he dosed Floyd?

https://www.velonews.com/2019/07/training/beyond-limits-training-101_495700
I read the partial transcript of the opening podcast, then decided to listen to it.

Putting these here, as they are the videos related the article, and kinda awesome, regardless of Lim's involvement.

https://youtu.be/kBsd1UXsILs

https://youtu.be/l3lYhll82Gw

https://youtu.be/1EB1wkkVsbc

Interesting in the videos is that at some point Woods and TJ are ahead of the e-bikes. Ouch!

I'm somewhat vocal about Lim, generally, agree for the most part with JP. And agree that the riders that align with him today appear to be clean. Lim seems to have gotten a free pass about his involvement with past dopers. I find myself hungry for honesty from Lim, I really want to give him a pass too. Perhaps there was a process that was more private, different than the very public Armstrong or Floyd.

Yet, still, these series remind me a bit of the similar videos Chris Carmichael made with Lance Armstrong -- where Carmichael sold himself as Lance's coach, but wasn't. 

mugwump
Jul 09, 2019 at 04:35 PM
The tough irony about Lim is that he strikes a pose of someone who cuts through bullshit, yet in that first podcast, he' spewing it.  The videos reminded me that in the DVD "Blood, Sweat, and Gears" he reflects something to the effect of that doping was all around, but people weren't saying anything.  

I don't know if he came up with the idea of using the e-bikes as a training tool, but I wouldn't be surprised.  Two years ago or so, when we talked at InterBike, he was boasting that his e-bike cut something like three minutes off his 15-minute bike commute to work (he was stoked; I didn't know how to say it seemed kind of lame).  I think that using it as a pacing tool in the mountains is kind of inspired, though I don't think he needed Tim Johnson to come along for that first session.

That third video, the TTT one, seems very much like Carmichael taking credit for something he didn't do.  Doing a day of TTT efforts to determine a team's final riders for the Tour is hardly new or different or anything Lim came up with on his own.  Lim is very much tagging along for the promotional video, which benefits him, Skratch, and EF, which Skratch sponsors.