Comments on: Podcast 7/7/2009

By: Glenn Quagmire

Glenn Quagmire — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:59:22 +0000

Here is something for the conspiracy theorists. Look at the Universal Sports video of Chris Carmichael commenting on stage 7:

http://www.universalsports.com/mediaPlayer/media.dbml?DB_LANG=C&SPSID=105625&SPID=13044&DB_OEM_ID=23000&id=433266&sid=13044

Notice he says that the Contador attack in Andorra WAS planned. He talked about having a conversation with Lance after the stage. Lance said it was planned. Oops! All the boys at the TdeF are saying it wasn’t planned, but we will work it out with the team. I smell a rat. After today’s stage to Verbier it was pretty obvious Contador was killing it. Just think about it.

By: Le Gimpe

Le Gimpe — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:56:19 +0000

Anyone know why Missing Saddle is reposting Velonews’ stuff. MS needs a separate feed for that stuff because anyone who uses RSS and is into cycling is going to be subscribed to Velonews. I like MS’s (original) stuff but I don’t want to have to wade through a bunch of repeats.

I think it threatens to undermine the credibility MS has accumulated through their execellent coverage of the recumulator scene.

Anyhoo, I know Curtis checks this out and I did’n't find a contact link at MS, so I’m just sayin…

By: Dynomite!

Dynomite! — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:26:18 +0000

Thought so. Maybe I should just buy a new road bike rather than a cross.

By: Otterfodder

Otterfodder — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:32:49 +0000

Ludicrous!!

By: Dynomite!

Dynomite! — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:21:28 +0000

Random question…I am thinking of buying a cross bike, the one I am looking at is a good deal and has better components than my road bike. Would it be possible to swap the components?
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Short answer- some of the components are usable. You will need brakes, maybe crank (depending on what you have), maybe different gearing… the rest of the bits could likely be moved over, but there are also concerns of seat tube diameter for front derailleur mounting, seat post diameter… I did just move all my Shimano bits off my cx bike to sell on another road bike and put some of my campy stuff on the cx bike.
JK