other headlines that day:
"UCI bans disc brakes in race caravan"
"Alberto Contador lands new personal sponsorship: Eat Mor Chikin"
"Product Recall: Rapha recalls chamois cream"

The byline, too, is a bit of a clue.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/20/nyregion/40-million-pledged-for-brooklyn-bridge-park.html

A little-known philanthropist who is passionate about competitive indoor cycling pledged on Thursday the largest single gift in the history of New York City's parks system: $40 million for a new field house in Brooklyn Bridge Park... The field house is to be giant: 115,000 square feet near Pier 5, with a 200-meter inclined cycling track, 2,500 seats and a 22,000-square-foot infield that could accommodate a range of other sports, including basketball, tennis, volleyball and gymnastics.

i just read that! i used to be a community organizer on the brooklyn bridge park project, when it was still in the planning stages. that location would be amazing - i've been inside those piers, and they are huge. the last i heard the facility won't be indoor, exactly, but an outdoor space with permanent roof created by recycling the existing pier shed infrastructure. Although, keeping some walls up would actually be a good thing if they are planning a cycling track - the winds out there in the E. River might rival those at Floyd.

This is like Cycling Mana from Heaven day!

oh, hello francesco moser.

http://spasport.com/moser_to_race_lucarelli_&_castaldi_cup.htm

Confirmed at bikereg.com.

Only about 5 spots left in the 1/2/3 race.

Awesome.

That is awesome! A huge tip of the cap to all who wrangled this one.

holy crap. wish I could race. maybe I should call in sick. please tell me he's going to wear a kissena kit. Is this press release going to the city papers?

Nice Jules! I love this quote:

When asked what he thought his chances are in the race Moser said "I can hold anyone's wheel for 44 miles."

Lovely! Nice work Jules!

BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE.

Sadly he's not racing in Kissena kit (next year!) but I trust he will be protected by a phalanx of Kissena bodyguards before he starts systematically smashing dreams.

Not Moser related, but have you guys seen this? New velodrome in BK? http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/20/nyregion/40-million-pledged-for-brooklyn-bridge-park.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss

that's great news!

Do we have a consensus re: the identity of the Kissena in May 2012 issue of Bicycling magazine?
They're asking.

John M for sure.

Yikes
http://discovermagazine.com/2012/mar/08-juicers-trippers-crocodiles-dangerous-underground-chemistry/article_view?b_start:int=0&-C=

i need some of that stuff to make those legs of mine slightly larger...and my testicles slightly smaller. maybe i'll take a graduate level chemistry course.

I was wondering how long this would take:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/gallery-francesco-moser-jumps-in-new-york-race

@ Jules & Aly,

I believe there is a Homenbrew thread here that this can go into. Ale, Lager, Mead, Synthetic hormones. It is all within the same continuum.

So cool:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/magazine/how-exercise-could-lead-to-a-better-brain.html?src=me&ref=general

“Only one thing had mattered,” Rhodes says, “and that’s whether they had a running wheel.” Animals that exercised, whether or not they had any other enrichments in their cages, had healthier brains and performed significantly better on cognitive tests than the other mice. Animals that didn’t run, no matter how enriched their world was otherwise, did not improve their brainpower in the complex, lasting ways that Rhodes’s team was studying. “They loved the toys,” Rhodes says, and the mice rarely ventured into the empty, quieter portions of their cages. But unless they also exercised, they did not become smarter.

Posted By: mperlbergAnimals that exercised, whether or not they had any other enrichments in their cages, had healthier brains and performed significantly better on cognitive tests than the other mice. Animals that didn’t run, no matter how enriched their world was otherwise, did not improve their brainpower in the complex, lasting ways that Rhodes’s team was studying. “They loved the toys,” Rhodes says, and the mice rarely ventured into the empty, quieter portions of their cages. But unless they also exercised, they did not become smarter.

I don't believe it, maybe for mice, but for cat 4s, there seems to be a serious deficit in brain power in many of them, no matter how much they exercise. What gives?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/post/penguin-bites-newt-gingrich/2012/04/17/gIQA9YuhOT_blog.html

"Penguin bites Newt Gingrich"

http://velociosports.com/claras-blog-scared-shitless-in-belgium-winning-fleche-wallonne-as-a-team/

Great race report

superb

Tour de Romandie Stage 1 Finish

http://www.steephill.tv/players/youtube3/?title=Stage+1+On-Demand&dashboard=tour-de-romandie&id=GFz1GCIog5E&yr=2012

That would be me... just after I keyed Iris Weinshall's car.

Fame!
You're gonna live forevah...