Monday, July 31, 2023
Rudy….gee Tripper..is it weird of me to not want to look at my Strava on Sunday night?
Tripper…that’s a weird question…why do you ask that..?
Rudy…because everyone has seemed to always have these epic rides on the weekend, bike packing, clicking off 100 milers like it’s a commute to Tasty Freeze..gravel races..and I do what seems like the same shit..
Tripper..I think we talked about this..but if we didn’t I want you to think differently about how, and why you ride. Even Strava social media has a way of making us want to compare ourselves with the next guy. Bigger isn’t always better, and longer doesn’t always make you stronger, sure it’s impressive to ramble about big accomplishments, there is something pretty rad about kicking it freestyle..take a look back on the entire week, not just those big weekend warrior rides…
let’s talk more about this later…
Sunday, July 30, 2023
Kimera EVO37 "Martini 7," 2023. Kimera Automobili have revealed a new limited-run version of their Lancia 037 replica that pays tribute to Martini Racing’s iconic Group B racer. Production will be limited to 37 cars which are built from scratch using a monocoque chassis fabricated from tube steel covered with carbon fibre panels. There's also a new carbon fibre aerodynamics package. The engine references the Lancia original, with a 2.1-litre 4-cylinder DOHC motor that is both turbo and supercharged to produce 543bhp. Development has been overseen by one of Lancia’s original powertrain engineers, Claudio Lombardi
Saturday, July 29, 2023
Friday, July 28, 2023
Morrissey on Sinead
She had only so much ‘self’ to give. She was dropped by her label after selling 7 million albums for them. She became crazed, yes, but uninteresting, never. She had done nothing wrong. She had proud vulnerability … and there is a certain music industry hatred for singers who don’t ‘fit in’ (this I know only too well), and they are never praised until death - when, finally, they can’t answer back. The cruel playpen of fame gushes with praise for Sinead today … with the usual moronic labels of “icon” and “legend”. You praise her now ONLY because it is too late. You hadn’t the guts to support her when she was alive and she was looking for you. The press will label artists as pests because of what they withhold … and they would call Sinead sad, fat, shocking, insane … oh but not today! Music CEOs who had put on their most charming smile as they refused her for their roster are queuing-up to call her a “feminist icon”, and 15 minute celebrities and goblins from hell and record labels of artificially aroused diversity are squeezing onto Twitter to twitter their jibber-jabber … when it was YOU who talked Sinead into giving up … because she refused to be labelled, and she was degraded, as those few who move the world are always degraded. Why is ANYBODY surprised that Sinead O’Connor is dead? Who cared enough to save Judy Garland, Whitney Houston, Amy Winehouse, Marilyn Monroe, Billie Holiday? Where do you go when death can be the best outcome? Was this music madness worth Sinead’s life? No, it wasn’t. She was a challenge, and she couldn’t be boxed-up, and she had the courage to speak when everyone else stayed safely silent. She was harassed simply for being herself. Her eyes finally closed in search of a soul she could call her own. As always, the lamestreamers miss the ringing point, and with locked jaws they return to the insultingly stupid “icon” and “legend” when last week words far more cruel and dismissive would have done. Tomorrow the fawning fops flip back to their online shitposts and their cosy Cancer Culture and their moral superiority and their obituaries of parroted vomit … all of which will catch you lying on days like today … when Sinead doesn’t need your sterile slop.”
MORRISSEY
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“The glory I think will stay;
I’ve got nothing to prove any more. What I did is done and that’s good. It’s also a very nice period of my life – all the things I did in road cycling. But everyone has to finish at some point. I’ve done my job. Now I want to concentrate on myself and my family, and also to have some fun in mountain biking.
I have one more year of mountain biking and, I still don’t know, if I do well, maybe I can continue mountain biking,. If not, I’ll stop after one year. There’s a lot of question marks."
- Peter Sagan
1. Jack Russell terriers, never met one that wasn’t yappy nippy asshole
2.Ankle Sox while riding…looks awful just commit to yes or no…
3. Goatees, mid life crisis..or 90s through back..take your pick
4. Aero Helmets, on 85 degree days…enjoy that shitty feeling and sweat pouring into your eyes
5. Full finger gloves …see above
6. Twitter …it’s dead.
7. Tolerating a half wheeler stand up for yourself for god sake!
8. Women who never take there sunglasses off in a retail environment…trouble from the start
9. Men who never take there sunglasses off in a retail environment…shady or incredibly high..
10. Getting married twice, dumber than a second coat of paint
11. Drop bars on any old rim brake mountain bike, look cool..ride like poop
12. Any pair of men shorts with more than 3 pockets, and a length that nearly touch your knee caps, annoying, and why would you need more than three pockets?
13. Michigan cyclocross schedule, I love CX …..but ouch that schedule is weaker than my threshold wattage.
14. Long beards, don’t tell me it’s not uncomfortable, and not gross..yuck..
15. Eddy Merckx style time trials..awe come on promoters, stick to the original concept..fuck..most dudes on aero bikes, and deep ass carbon wheels are faster than half the poorly fitted folks on jacked up TT rigs
16. Dropper seat posts for most lower peninsula trails…kinda dumb
17. This blog…I swear every day is the last day…..Mthrfckr
Thursday, July 27, 2023
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