The stone (or better yet, cobblestone) has been rolled away. We peer inside with great anticipation. The tomb is empty!? Where is he?? He has risen! Indeed, Tom Boonen is back and more bad ass than ever winning 3 majors so far and tipped to win another Paris Roubaix this weekend.
Who will be the pain in Tom's ass this weekend?
Will he come away from Roubaix looking good?
We talk Tornado Tom on this podcast then John G. recaps a recent NYC visit and brushes with its thriving cycling scene, John K. tells us about his recent exploits on the track, then we touch on our local racing action.
This is the podcast version of a gluten free Two Johns Podcast missing the listener feedback section that tends to cause inflammation of the duration. In its stead, the two Johns talk about one recent desert trip and the 24 Hours in the Old Pueblo mountain bike race experience, and winter hard training rides. We get a guest call in from China Todd and talk some technology about John’s new Quarq. Listener Feedback will return and fatten up the next full podcast.
There were gold shorts, silver skin suits, dresses, rider dressed as rabbits and some very fast and long racing on display.
Special Guest: New Belgium Brewery’s Bryan Simpson
The first podcast of the last Mayan Calendar year is a cracker! The United States Attorney closes the case, Contador decision & a potential AC fairness fund. In racing news, Boonen is back. For those Boonen fans out there, here are couple videos you may enjoy, compliments of Godot.
For those of you who REALLY like Tommeke.
For those Tommeke fans who like that, this may be just the Burger King ad you’ve been waiting for.
And for those who want a little tour fix.
Colnago Rescue Shelter, Highs & Lows, wheels, wheels, wheels, whole greater than the sum of parts?, 1 hour to train & shower, 25′s?, saggy leg warmers, burr & grinder are covered in Listener Feedback. Finishing things off are a few Best of 2011 calls, with last but certainly not least, St. Albans, Hertfordshire’s own Fun Run Robbie.
Listen in as Jason Scheirs talks about carbon technologies, processes and some of the future. You can check out his company, Enve Composites on the web.
Above: section of a carbon rim, Below: the people of Enve
That’s right, you, the listeners’ chance to be part of the podcast yet again. Beyond the email or attached photo, passed the free style outro message, light years ahead of the random call in, leave a message telling us about your favorite cycling related best moment, ride… whatever of 2011. They will become part of the next podcast. The number to call is 513.253.0180.
Powering up down under with some Power Domes
But first, it’s the impromptu Christmas Gift Podcast! We loosely go over gift ideas to show that someone special how much you care. Maybe to the well rehearsed and heavily scripted production normally associated with The Two Johns Podcast, rather a loose, freewheel’in list- We even go over a new category, the Bro gift!
Emails, emails and more emails… which category should I ride? A harrowing melodrama of the podcast’s role in an Aussie relationship, Vittoria CX too fragile for Scottish Roadie? Wheels or pit bike? The Airing of Grievances and is aluminum the new carbon? Dre reforms and now photographs his bike drive side on the camera side, will a trainer ruin my smooth pedaling technique? Shotgun gives thanks for her expanded lexicon of cycling related words among other comments and are the Johns down with 420? Answers abound in this, our best podcast of 2011.
