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This article in The Atlantic, is fascinating,

"Americans Shouldn’t Have to Drive, but the Law Insists on It

The automobile took over because the legal system helped squeeze out the alternatives."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/car-crashes-arent-always-unavoidable/592447/

Longo Borghini calls Van Vleuten's Passo Fraele attack 'alien'

'The alien is gone and now the race for human beings begins' says Italian

Does this mean what it used to mean?

Pulls 3 minutes clear of a 20 rider chase group. Ouch. Speaking of ouch: http://www.cyclingfans.com/node/40471


Longo Borghini calls Van Vleuten's Passo Fraele attack 'alien'

'The alien is gone and now the race for human beings begins' says Italian

Does this mean what it used to mean?

I like Annemiek quite a bit, and Spratt, and omg stage 3 Lucy Kennedy, zabelled heartbreak! all Mitchelton teammates, but yes, it means exactly you think and what it has always meant in this context.

There's no sugar coating it.

I'll add one comment, even before this stage, I've found that the kind of pressure Longo Borghini is placed under, as the top italian in the top italian race, a bit unfair. 

One of the many awful consequences of doping culture is that it makes impossible to believe in the dream. Today's attack, Froome's giro attack, and oh so many others, imagine a world where we had no doubt these performances were clean. It would be so awesome.
One of the things I’m left pondering is an anecdote from Phil G’s book; he lines up at a big American crit where Rahsaan B gives him some grief about “stick to climbing” but after a season of world tour racing (and training) Phil rides away from everyone and then laps the field.

I just don’t have a sense of the difference crazy training makes relative to “alien” methods. Both seem to leave their peers in the dust.
here's the actual comment, direct from Elisa.

interesting take is that Annemiek retweeted Elisa's comments


Jules said:
One of the things I’m left pondering is an anecdote from Phil G’s book; he lines up at a big American crit where Rahsaan B gives him some grief about “stick to climbing” but after a season of world tour racing (and training) Phil rides away from everyone and then laps the field.

I just don’t have a sense of the difference crazy training makes relative to “alien” methods. Both seem to leave their peers in the dust.
Basically we don't know. The alien reference is terrible. But then again, AVV social media made no secret that she was preparing and training at altitude hardcore. So you could be right. A difference of note about the big American crit, the Giro Rosa is the biggest most important women's race. But it may or not be everyone's A race, Anna van der Breggen famously skipped it last year, and then beat AVV at the Tour's women's stage race.
Of course; completely different scenario. My instinct is always doping before “hard work and marginal gains” especially at wt level. Shame aliens are still pinning on numbers. #basso
AVV and the NED press going deep into the alien comment, as a good, cutesy nickname

Here here!

RuPaul, the unlikely active travel advocate

You’re not stuck in traffic, you are the traffic. pic.twitter.com/nXQlBPImEy(link is external)

— RuPaul (@RuPaul)July 9, 2019

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 watched these Beyond limits videos yesterday , Maybe TJ  was supposed to use the E bike today at the tour :o
https://www.relive.cc/strava
cool story on French roundabouts

http://inrng.com/2019/07/in-a-roundabout-way/

Jumbo Visma is looking mighty beefy next year if this is true.

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/tom-dumoulin-join-jumbo-visma-sunweb-2020-say-sources-432325

Ex-local Andrew Bernstein was seriously injured in a hit-and-run crash outside of Boulder, CO

https://www.dailycamera.com/2019/07/24/boulder-cyclist-injured-hit-and-run/
I saw that but couldn’t figure out how/if I knew him.

NYC mayor to announce $58m to cycling after fifth cyclist killed in a month

Mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio is reportedly set to announce funding of $58.4 million for cycle safety initiatives including adding 30 miles of segregated bike lanes, with a focus on 10 “bike priority districts” and early start traffic lights, after five cyclists lost their lives in the city this month, bringing the total this year to 17.

Earlier this year, the mayor came under intense criticism from cycling advocates due to the New York Police Department’s policy of responding to cyclist fatalities – often in hit-and-run incidents – by fining cyclists in streets near the scenes of fatal crashes in the days that followed.

That policy was reversed earlier this month, and the NYPD has said that from now on, such operations following the death of a cyclist will focus on motorists.

More here (link is external)on 6sqft.com

This came & went without my noticing, this past fall. Definitely the end of an era.

http://nyvelocity.com/articles/schmalz-the-eulogy/#comment-262131
Tragic
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/aug/05/bjorn-lambrecht-dies-aged-22-crash-tour-of-poland-cycling
NY Times Columnist Tries To Be Reasonable, gets lots of hate for the effort

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/02/nyregion/weve-blamed-traffic-deaths-on-bicyclists-since-1880-what-about-drivers.html
Pro tip: Getting hit by a u-turning Range Rover is your problem (if the driver of the Range Rover is a cop)

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/04/22/one-cyclists-story-how-a-placard-wielding-driver-got-away-with-a-crime/



mugwump said:
ALso
how do you afford a $90,000 car on police salary ?
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/aug/19/dutch-take-cycling-to-a-new-level-with-worlds-biggest-bike-park

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/floyd-landis-tour-of-utah-demand-that-team-change-name-was-personal/
Jules said:
Hard to blame someone for being pissed off about being lied to about doping.  People involved in cycling make lots of dumb decisions, but I don't put this one in the dumb category.

If there was a dumb decision, it would be letting Floyd's team in with the name change.  
This story is super interesting, because it has oh so many layers to it, including later day saints and mennonites. The note about even Floyd not wanting to use part of the marketing budget is so telling. There's so much in there. 

At some point we have to wonder a path forward, it feels like road cycling is in this constant fight against the flow. Dopers suck.

Parts remind me when Amgen was announced as the title sponsor of the Tour of California, USA's main cycling event. Amgen core business, of course, is making and selling EPO. 
@eloy

good point about the marketing angle.  

Are you chatting about this dude???
Agreed about the layers. My fist instinct was “get a load of this bullshit” the. I thought about the principle of never doing Buisness with someone who lies to you, the I thought about the pro lance angle, then Amgen/epo then the Oroborous that is the economics of pro road cycling.

I still feel that somehow Floyd has emerged (unpredictably) as the most candid and weirdly honest dealer in this whole dirty charade.

Even Vaughters and his “clean team or I fold unless Danielson dopes and I decide not to fold” looks like an ass in comparison.