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Tubular Fail: Pictures of Gary’s Wheelworks Tubular Gluing Debacle.

I just found these on my camera. When Gary was going through his ongoing ordeal with Wheelworks (Part 1, 2 and 3), he asked me to corraborate his assessment of the shoddiness of the glue jobs that Wheelworks claimed were solid.Though delayed, here is the photographic evidence:I wouldn’t ride these, let alone race them, you?

Race Report: 17th West Hill Shop Mountain Bike Race–Root 66–2009

My first impression of the course, as shown by Cary:

Cycling Videos on CyclingDirt

I learned a few things this weekend. First and foremost, racing mountain bikes involves far more suffering than criterium racing. Saturday I raced the Twilight Criterium and was able to pull a couple of breaks back, get in a few breaks, bridge to and then sit in a break or two and then give the initial

The Internet: Cyclingnews.com is Ruined

I just wanted to comment on how terrible cyclingnews.com’s new format is. Its jumbled, you can’t find a damn thing…Check out this jumbled mess on the "Fitness" section. Sure, you can figure out what is going on if you take a few minutes, but seriously? The old website was no great shakes, but at least you could navigate it. I sense a spike in web traffic at Velonews.com and

Photos of an Attack

Croth captured this series of photos at the track last week. The photos illustrate some of the great features of bicycle racing: an attack, a counter attack, a chase group, sitting in on a chase, and the results (the finish line is just outside of the frame in the last photo). One of the great things about track racing is that the strageties and patterns that take hours to play out in a road

Cyclocross in August?

The Accelerated Cure Series has posted thier dates for the 2009 season. The series has expanded to 4 races, 2 of them in August. You may remember the first race in this series last year was in August, Blunt Park. I raced Blunt Park last year and enjoyed it. My 5th place result, combined with my OK results at the other 2 races in the series allowed me to place 3rd in the series, yeilding

Boston Velodrome: Fill Out the Survey Please.

Perhaps you have already filled out the survey, if so, you can move on to the next blog.  If not, below is a link to a survey that is part of a feasibility study concerning the construction of a national level indoor velodrome and full service cycling center in the Boston area.  Even if you don’t race track and don’t plan to, this would be a great asset to the competitive cycling community.  All

Race Report: Connecticut Stage Race 2009

Our Cat 3 squad decided to represent at the first annual CT Stage Race.  The stages were, 1st a 8 mile ITT on Saturday morning, 2nd a 24  mile circuit race later Saturday afternoon and a 91 mile Road Race on Sunday.  The race was scored based on accumulated time and there were no time bonuses for sprints or stage wins.  We came deep:  Kyler, Spaits, Jordan, Cary, Jackson, The Filthy Rosenberg