I've got the yearly sub, going on year two, and despite the occasional technical glitch, I've been pretty happy with it: I now watch SO MUCH more cycling than ever before --- most of it as it happens!

However, something rankles about kicking down an additional US$30 just for the Giro...

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[editor's note, by chris] I'm catching up on reading diaries. This one is even more timely today.

Okay, Worst Kit Ever? True.

However --- and I for one don't mean to turn this into a High Road fan page --- is it just me, or is High Road having a mother-effing great 2008 season? Or has it just been the last week has been good to them?

Chapeau, Stapleton.

It's 45 and rainy/drizzly almost every frickin' day here --- to be fair, I was well-warned about the Pacific Northwest.

Fortunately, for the most part the bikies here are insane enough to ride all year, so I've been (mostly) keeping up the miles. Misery loves company, etc, etc.

However, I could do with other riders' tips, tricks and hacks for the cold weather and rain.

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Quick update

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In light of all the doping chatter, sometimes it's nice to get back to why we pay attention to cycling in the first place: it's the bike, dummy ... I just listened to the interview with Andy Hampsten, and I gotta say, everyone should check it out now --- it is so inspiring!

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...After Stallone Caught With Performance-Enhancing Drugs

PHILADELPHIA--In the wake of last month's shocking revelation that actor Sylvester Stallone had been caught with the illegal human growth hormone Jintropin at an Australian airport, the World Boxing Association, in a joint decision with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Screen Actors Guild, has overturned the uplifting, feel-good endings of Rocky II, III, and IV, sources said Monday.

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[editor's note, by chris] OK, one last doping post, since it's well done, before we switch the focus back to the road.

I'll come clean and confess that Ivan Basso is one of my favorite cyclists. I love to watch him turn over those pedals, especially when the road goes up.

So is it time we finally gave up?

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I went under the knife last Wednesday for knee arthroscopy --- turns out I had two meniscus tears on my knee, so they shaved 'em down.

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Hey, I know there's tons o' cycling now that the ToC has kicked off and we prepare to head into the spring classics, but what the heck --- I crunched the final 30 minutes of last year's Paris-Roubaix and posted it on YouTube.

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I got this e-mail from my buddy exactly 2 weeks ago, and I don't think he'd mind if I shared it (it is anonymous, after all) with the PCers, not least because I thought it was a realy damn cool story. He lives in Los Angeles.

Although if it's too weird, personal, or invades anyone's privacy (i.e. Lance's), please take it down. I just got very geeked out on hearing the story.

Keep in mind my buddy has legs, i.e. rode a fixie around San Francisco(!) for years.

The text is below.

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Here're the first 10 minutes of "Overcoming," the doc that followed CSC during the '04 season.

The intro is pretty damn exciting. I'd like to write a mini-review of the film at some point, and discuss it with "Hell on Wheels," the brilliant German doc on T-Mob's efforts during the '03 Tour de France. (The obvious and immediate difference: film versus video.)

Anyways, I hope everyone enjoys.

I just posted the last 5 km of the 2006 Paris-Tours race on YouTube.

I know the idea is to post your favorite races --- this is not one of mine --- and I also think someone just put this race on blast as "unessential," but I figure that as we're heading in to winter, I'll take what I can get.

A, er, "friend" just downloaded it on Bittorrent, and be warned: it's off Italian TV!