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Yesterday I did the North Shore Cyclists Blazing Saddles Century. You couldn’t ask for a nicer day. Crystal blue skies, dead calm winds, warm bordering on hot. Perfect.

An interesting read. I can’t say I agree with all of it, but it is interesting.
The Globe and Mail: Say it ain’t so, Lance

Armstrong accuses L’Equipe of “slimy journalism”
I don’t get CNN, but I would have like to see this interview.
Cycling News, as always, has the best coverage.

I heard my head hit the pavement in the crash, but the helmet looks to be only cosmetically damaged. However, it’s been drilled into me that helmets are good for only a single use.

Much less than it could be. Much, much less.

Went out for a ride this afternoon as it was a nice day. I took the southwest route through Dover and Wellesley and was returning via the Esplanade, when some idiot kid jogger wearing and ipod and not paying any attention to what he was doing ran right off the Mass Ave bridge, across [...]

Tyler’s back in the news in a good way by winning the Tin Mountain hill climb. He used to hold the record, before it was shattered by Tom Danielson.
Hamilton conquers mountain - The Boston Globe
Ned Overend gets 4th.

This is good. This trail really is in very rough shape. I just wonder how long it’s really going to take and whether it will be done by next year’s Outrider’s ride.
Repairs will limit use of Cape bike trail
I find it interesting that the police are now pushing this as a good thing when the [...]

Phonak’s Guidi suspended for positive dope test
That’s four Phonaks in one year. Landis should leave now before the team is completely either disbanded or kicked out of the pro tour. They’ve already had one purge, maybe that one didn’t take.

BostonHerald.com: Bicycle program left spinning its wheels

A 20 mile jaunt to Waltham made 2000 miles, exactly so far this year.
I was told the bike path btw Watertown and Waltham was finally finished, so I went to check. It’s not. I think the person that told me was thinking of the path that’s been there forever and is overgrown, badly in places. [...]

YesterdayI went to the bike show at Larz Anderson Park in JP. That’s one big ass hill getting into that place. It was hot. Hot, hot, hot. By the time I got there I was literally dripping in sweat, and stayed that way for the rest of the day (so was most everyone else). It [...]

As predicted, carbon-fibre shortage impacts on bike trade

I need to write a paper about why cycling is so important to me. All I need is a week.
Hahahahahahahahahahah.

I’m reading Bicycling Science, and it’s quite a good book although a bit thick in places. It’s definitely a text book, but interesting in any case.
A quote from page 153, from a paragraph labeled Energy consumption as a function of distance, in a chapter entitled Power and speed:
We can see from figure 4.12 that [...]

This is from a newsletter sent out by the “Boston Bicycle Planning Initiative”, an office in city hall. It’s interesting that one government agency complains about another, but less so when you consider one (bikes) are the city and the other (big dig) is the state. Still, WalkBoston is a formidable organization.
It’s the same old [...]

Man, oh, man do I have to get the saddle changed on the MTB. The 60 miler today convinced me I will not ride again until I have a different one. Fortunately, I have a different one. But it’s in storage. Guess I have a task for tomorrow.

Pedal power: Bike paths all the rage with lawmakers - Boston.com
And in spite of Jeff Sessions trying to kill it.
I imagine Howie Carr will be apoplectic.

Quarterly doctor visit this morning.

I’m thinking of restructuring the site. It’s really hard to integrate non-Word Press pages with Word Press pages, so I’m thinking of maybe making Word Press (the blog stuff) as the central part, and the other pages as “pages” linked off the main Word Press page (if that makes any sense).
Opinions welcome