Podcast 5/27/2008: “Second Best Podcast Ever”
new podcast May 27th, 2008
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In this latest podcast we talk about possibly the best bike race of the year, John’s cabin fever, we read emails in no particular order and the winner is a grown man intimidated by other cyclists further up the food chain. As usual, the winner will receive a pair of socks & slipstreams compliments of our good friends at Defeet!
May 28th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
You guys are the freds of BMX. read up a little and see what is going on…. it is all street now… no one races track any more!
May 28th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Hey Guys - thanks for the sound advice on getting into the club riding/racing scene. I’ve already been doing what you suggested for awhile now so it is nice to have you support my ideas. Looking forward to the killer swag!
Ps. BMX Track racing is alive and well in Texas.
May 28th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
In reference to small run jerseys; check these guys out:
http://www.pactimo.com/
May 29th, 2008 at 3:33 am
Welshsuperfan,
When I won the lovely swag-stuff a few months ago the ever esteemed North Dakota Mountain Man sent me an extra pair of defeet socks. They are white with red lettering. I haven’t used them, my team kit is blue. Would you like them?
May 29th, 2008 at 4:43 am
They sound nice and would fit my team kit problem is they wouldnt fit me as I wear 48 size shoes. Thank you for the offer. Which team do you ride for and which part of the UK are you? Im off racing later in a crit and frankly im not looking forward to it at all.
May 29th, 2008 at 7:15 am
Hey I’m in Austin and can give a bit of advice (or at least my thoughts) on the local teams for TX Soul Rider. From the start, though, I can tell you that Velossimo is pretty solid and has both a club team and a race team (I’m not on it, I’m not just here talking about how sweet my team is).
If you want to email me, you can get me at litch at clm.utexas.edu.
May 29th, 2008 at 8:49 am
British David….Hope you see this. I just got a mangled package back at my house yesterday with the shoes I sent you inside. I don’t know if it was british post or uspost but I sent them a long time ago. Where have they been all this time. I figured you were wearing them already. I lost your e-mail, so send me one if you see this. I am going to try a different mail carrier.
May 29th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
British David are they the overshoes in white if so I could do you a swap for some Assos socks I won tonight.
May 29th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
NIMM & British David- I am thoroughly confused. My review of things: British David wins feedback of the week, NIMM volunteers to send shoes to British David, in appreciation I send NIMM two sets of white socks and slipstreams (compliments of defeet)- one set for NIMM and one set to be sent with British David’s shoes. How would British David get the socks to give to Welshsuperfan if the shoes were returned to NIMM in a banged up box? Huh?
JK in NC
May 29th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
JK, JG is going to win the bet concerning Astana’s ride in the TDF this year. No way will ASO back down. You might as well pay up now. You’re reasoning and this is politics and pride. Will be fitting if Astana bookends the TDF with victories in the Giro and Vuelta.
May 30th, 2008 at 8:35 am
Today’s stage: That is bike racing!
May 30th, 2008 at 9:39 am
Thanks god there’s no Disco/Astana meat grinder… yet. There’s still another day in the mountains. GC guys are riding make or break attacks. The riders actually look human (vs. Basso in 2006). The racing, the product, is exciting. The Giro is cookin!
Many alleged doping convicted or suspected riders going continental teams due to Pro Tour team bans. Looks like the top tier of pro tour teams now on par with the continental teams. The LPR Brakes and Serramenti teams are having amazing rides. Does this validate the grand tour organaizer’s position that having a rigid Pro Tour system is bad for racing (being forced to invite teams that have little interest being there)? Or have many of the Pro Tour teams fielded the ‘b’ team for the Giro?
Any thoughts?
May 30th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
I’ve gotta give it up to Kloden. For almost ten years, we’ve been watching this guy haul some “superstar” team mate up a climb. He did it for Ullrich, Vino, and now Contador. I think he’s a great rider and I hope that Romandie was only the start of a great season for him.
Also a friend pointed me to a cycling site that I’d never heard of before: cycleto.com. They’ve got some real cool and unique behind-the-scenes video of the giro. Check it out.
May 30th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Oh! So much explaining to do.
NIMM (this acronym business is difficult for a start) is so nice that he forwarded the socks early because the shoes were on back order. He sent his swag too, as he says that he didn’t need oversocks. (What is the climate like in North Dakota?)
My team kit is a lovely shade of blue, rock on Dulwich Paragon, so I have yet to use the extra socks. In spate of rasta ‘paying-it-forward’-ness, I heard of Welshsuperfan’s plight and offered him some socks.
I never received the shoes, but assumed that the postal system had messed up. In case they hadn’t, i didn’t try to make any contact in case I seemed impatient or rude. What can I say? I’m british. The post around here is renowned for being terrible. I really want to thank NIMM again for his generosity. In the mean time, I used a glue gun to fix the sole of my shagged show, but that snapped pretty quickly. I then re-inforced it with an extra wedge of plastic. Its not cool.
So that is the story.
PS Welshsuperfan, email me at sixeasypieces@gmail.com
PPS NIMM, I’m willing to pay for the postage with a different carrier, thank you again for helping me out so much.
May 30th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
What size shoes are you British David ill see what I can do if you are close to my size as I have a couple of different sizes when trying different makes. I see you are in the south east region I might be down that way for work in a month or 2 so we can maybe meet up and I can give you some stuff I dont need anymore as you a poor student. I will email you.
May 31st, 2008 at 12:47 am
Trebles all round!!
June 1st, 2008 at 8:52 am
wow, what a Giro.
For the first time ever, I’m looking forward to the Vuelta!
June 2nd, 2008 at 7:24 am
Emanuele Selle road the Giro out of his mind. He was in two breakaways, winning consecutive mountain stages. In the very next stage, he came within 6 seconds of winning the mountain TT. In the two alpine stages, he finished with the GC contenders and won the second. Not bad for a week at the office.
June 4th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
I just discovered your podcast and listened to a recent one this morning. My ears pricked up a bit when you mentioned the guy scootering with four huskies. I also am a participant in that other fringe sport.
I am an old bike racer from the George Mount and John Howard years when road racing was also a fringe sport. I was waning when LeMond was a rising star.
Now I run dogs to vicariously experience youth again. I have retired my huskies and gone over to using German Shorthairs. I just started a new blog about it at http://www.skijorbikejorcanicross.blogspot.com
I like your podcast. Your jokes about the recumbent riders and the bibs over jersey guy make me chuckle. Keep it up.
Mikie Callahan aka Hammerdoggie
Lake Tahoe CA