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New For the Off-Season – Book Reviews
I find myself sur la canapé a lot lately, so have taken it upon myself to get educated about my new-found hobby. I’ve got a growing pile of cycling books on the bookshelf now and thought it might be an...
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Book Review – Bad Blood
Jeremy Whittle’s Bad Blood: The Secret Life of the Tour de France more or less picks up where yesterday’s book leaves off – near the beginning of the EPO era of pro cycling’s long doping history....
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Le Grimpeur – A Blog You Can Read
I don’t know about you, but ever since the internet took over my life a decade or so ago, I’ve stopped reading. Well I can still read, but my eyes start to glaze over after a few paragraphs (or around...
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Me and Rapha – Tragically Hip
I live in France, where it’s not what you do, but how good you look when you’re doing it. Following that philosophy, after I realized I needed a jersey for autumn riding, I went in search for something...
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Book Review – Slaying the Badger
Slaying the Badger: LeMond, Hinault and the Greatest Ever Tour de France, by cycling journalist Richard Moore, is a fascinating look at one of the most intrigue-filled Tours ever. I have to admit that...
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The Polar CS500 Training Computer – a Review
Santa came early to southern France this year and a certain coach/brother has bestowed upon me a new Polar CS500 heart rate monitor / training computer – Tour de France version, baby! I know what...
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Book Review – Off to the Races: 25 Years of Cycling Journalism
My latest foray into the vast montagne of cycling writing that exists these days has taken me to journalism, namely a guy named Samuel Abt, who wrote on cycling for decades for the International Herald...
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Book Review: The Death of Marco Pantani
I really started getting interested in pro cycling just as Marco Pantani was making his premature exit from the top ranks of the sport, then shortly after, his death in 2004. I remember him mainly as...
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Sidi Ergo 3: Not Really a Review
Well, I’ve finally done it. It all comes full circle they say and it seems like my childhood love of Disco (it was short-lived…and I was just a kid, OK?) has been rekindled, at least in my choice in...
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Sean Yates: ‘It’s All About The Bike’– A Review
Sean warned me. First, the title of his autobiography, although hardly original, is certainly truthful. Added to that was this foreshadowing of things to come in Chapter Two: “If you want to read about...
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Garmin Vector: First Ride
I went for a ride today and it was 5C. I know this because my new Garmin spits out this data, along with a brain-melting number of other numbers and graphs. You can see for yourself by clicking on the...
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Book Review: The Rider
I’ve just finished reading The Rider, by Tim Krabbé, for the 4th time and thought I should finally write something about it. This classic novel is – if reading frequency is any indication – my...
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Book Review – Bad Blood
Jeremy Whittle’s Bad Blood: The Secret Life of the Tour de France more or less picks up where yesterday’s book leaves off – near the beginning of the EPO era of pro cycling’s long doping history....
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