July 31, 2010
By Molly
The last couple of weeks have been insane for me! Work, sleep, work, sleep. FML means: fuckmylife. Yeah, there are reasons I wake up and don't want to get out of bed, holy crap I am slammed! In a beautiful yet, time consuming way. The Portland Bicycle Studio is busy, the Veloshop is jamming and cx season is ready to explode upon the world. Good times.
I found these images and sounds inspiring. If you have 30 minutes to kill, enjoy ...
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July 19, 2010
By Molly
It is about respect.
Respect for your competitors and particularly your rivals. Respecting them with your actions to say: "I know you have prepared as long and hard for this as I have, I'm not going to take this cheap advantage of you. I want to beat you fairly." ...unless you enjoy playing the role of foil. Then by all means, race dirty!
Sure, it is bike racing. There are written rules and while you can't push your rival off their bike, ...
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July 12, 2010
By Molly
This is a pretty sweet little story.
I'm in love with this saddle. For me, Fizik attained Chris King like "covet" status when I discovered their saddles in the late nineties. They were fresh and appeared to be doing something different than the other "selle" brands.
I'm still in love with the Arione and Antares saddles. As a matter of fact, I'll be running these again this cyclocross season.
Is this the year the pink and black makes a comeback? FMB has a ...
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July 2, 2010
By Molly
(been a crazy few weeks. getting back on the bike in a real way and work is keeping me too busy as usual. meant to write this weeks ago and now my coach and dozens of others have weighed in too. redundant to write this, I know. But, it was already started so, I'll finish.)
My friend Joe Martin asked (in response to my snarky comment about a custom cyclocross bicycle being designed for mechanical disc brakes):
"What exactly is the problem ...
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