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This installment of the podcast is full of Tour of Georgia talk, local racing that wasn’t, Rasta chimes in, a non-plussed girlfriend, how to train when you have other things going on- including getting older and much, much more. Its a long one- you’ll need a long car ride, bike ride or lots of laundry to fold to get through it.

The search for quality can take you to strange places, like this jersey. This may be the best jersey ever- and it may be the worst jersey ever- simultaneously.

I will attempt to explain. A component of quality is authenticity, and within authenticity there is truth. This kit is so unconsciously and unapologetically ugly it has claimed its own right to use every primary color, fade them into each other in random regions of the jersey then top it off with a pac-man inspired font.

Forget Aqua & Sapone’s zebra stripes, Polti’s ‘frog in a blender’ & Rock Racing’s Oakland Raiders meet various colors of slime- this jersey is badder than them all. The authenticity and truth of this kit is that it has no air about it.

If the cyclist who responded to the master when asked why he rode by saying, “I ride my bicycle to ride my bicycle’, if that cyclist were a kit, this would be it. This jersey makes no apologies for itself, it just is.

By the way- the Twojohnspodcast can again be seen on a jersey.

Like dandelions in spring time and criteriums in summer time, the podcast is back. This exciting installment we talk about John’s hunch for Flanders, Friere and his sprint, The Bank makes deposit after banking hours and more listener feedback- where we hear from the Rasta Roadie spreading pos-i-tive vibrations- among others.

Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with strings, and rain caps like the one below are a few of my favorite things.  The rain cap on the right, an indispensible but often overlooked piece of kit, especially valuable during this time of year out shines its cotton counterpart on the left in the times it is needed most, 45-55 and rainy.  

The podcast is back to keep you company on those cold rainy days.  Feedback rich, we discuss top american riders of all time, conclusive data linking abstinence (stopping short) being the equivalent to training in the high alps with EPO, a wife wants in on the action, one year, brake pads, ball bearings… it goes on and on in this mostly feedback podcast. 

 We talk Milan-San Remo, getting over colds, Joe Friel & Echappe Online interview and slim pickens in listener feedback.

Like a good dog, the podcast comes home after 2 weeks away.  We talk about some International stuff, local racing, and go through 14 emails which include various and sundry topics like:  a Special Relationship with our British cycling brethren, a lonely Ohio bike racer looking for his cycling soulmate, roller derby-style blocking in a Georgia bike race, the symptoms of over training, how to find citizen bike races,  brake routing solutions for cx bikes, the www.dicklanevelodrome.com in Atlanta, buying used vs. new bikes, data for our study, don’t let levi ride.com and rumors about Johan, license plates, why or why not race - a list, selecting a nanny, shaving, and numb feet.  Both Johns are a little cranky, tired, and sick.  That makes for great podcast.

The Desert Dog surveys his dog domain.

Thanks, as always, goes to to DeFeet for their contribution to the Listener Feedback of the Week award. 

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