LOL when I watched the preview of the last 1km I did not want to jinx the riders but thought that is going to be a shitshow. Sometimes bike racing is like Hunger Games. That finale was like let's end a football match with a shootout but let's pour flaming oil on the pitch right as they shoot.

Just to be clear, I don't hate grand tours but on certain days they remind me of my former fandom of baseball, where you can have it on in the background as you do something else or spend 15 minutes wondering about something weird like the way Napolese traditions with pizza have evolved worldwide.

It's taken me 35 years of fandom to fully realize just how boring grand tours can be.

One thing I've never understood, why English speaking people just don't call cities what natives call it if the wording is easy to say. What is the point of Naples and Rome when Napoli and Roma are so simple to pronounce?

Stealing content from @weratedogs.com is not cool

I had a 30-minute phone interview with an AI agent. How is your day going?

For adventurous bike folks in the Bay Area, the NPS says that tomorrow is the only bike-only day for Tioga Pass. A life list ride that I was hoping to do this year but can't with so little notice today.

Not to be repetitive but the right number of times to reply a crash in a bike race is zero times.

the sheer scale of Americans who are turned on by discrimination and oppression is a lot to digest right now.

Update 90 minutes later—I have 600 publishable words written and momentum. Emergency averted until the next emergency.

I may have written a thousand stories in my life and still staring at a blank screen in MS Word can be debilitating some days.

I really admire how the @thewaroncars.bsky.social folks have sustained a robust seven-month campaign to support a book (and movement) that is a thoughtful critique of car dependency. Even when you are supporting a very good book, the degree of difficulty and commitment required is 10/10. Impressive.

A useless war has fucked up the world economy. A huge conspiracy to protect oligarchs in a pedophilia ring. A wannabe king, impotent legislature and corrupt judicial system. Dismantling public health and environmental protection. And yet some folks winge like gender is the defining issue of our time

Big ball surgery is quite the Mother's Day present.

Everyone loves gravel and cobbles but I think it's time that bike racing in muddy forests gets its due.

I just watched the last stage of the Vuelta España Femenina. HOLY SHIT, women's cycling is entering a golden age. It gave me chills to watch the riders battle the Angliru. It's a huge deal to see such depth and talent on maybe the hardest climb in the world. Paula Blasi is an absolute revelation.

"Most hit-and-run fatalities are hard enough to process, but when a hit-and-run driver is actually tracked by eyewitnesses, apprehended but then freed without a word of explanation, you have a case that gives off rotten vibes." broadandliberty.com/2026/05/08/t...

If you're still confused who is winning the war in Iran.

Maybe I'm wrong, but this story—which blames a kid riding an e-bike 10 different ways for getting hit by a 64-year-old guy driving a Tesla—sure reads like it was written by AI. There's a byline but the whole thing feels like a vague facsimile of a reported news story. www.aol.com/lifestyle/12...

The US government isn't going to allow Chinese EVs to reshape the domestic market but the US government doesn't give a shit about bicycles and Chinese bikes are going to reshape the domestic market. In a wider price range than many people realize.

I feel a bit surly that at some point we'll have to read stories where it's like, "Oh my gosh, the guy with the Nazi tattoo is not who we thought he'd be; how could we ever have seen that coming."

I've been doing a lot of long rides lately and also trying to consume a lot more carbohydrates (with good results), but damn, it can get pricey. The margins on a $2 packet of Gu must be spectacular.

OK, everyone remember that you can't post any more of those Burger King logo memes after 4pm ET so wrap it up soonish.

Yeah, it's definitely just about sports. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

One dependably revealing thing: If I post about China supporting cheap EVs, solar power and high-speed rail, strangers will jump in to note how all these things are supported by huge subsidies. Of course they are. My whole point is to draw attention to what the US government will and won't subsidize

China's big bets: Solar power, high-speed rail, inexpensive high-quality EVs. US big bets: Bomb Iran, protect domestic car industry, dismantle wind power, the Freedom to Drive initiative. Who do you think is making the smarter bets?

Everybody knows that the administration is totally out of touch with the struggles of everyday Americans so it's really encouraging to see all the Met Gala photos to be reminded that so many celebrities are totally out of touch with the struggles of everyday Americans.

One thing I really dislike about the discourse around trans folks wanting to participate in sports is how so many people pretend it's not a proxy for the larger issue of how trans people can or cannot exist and participate in life like everyone else. This leads to a lot of disingenuous bullshit.

One driving behavior that I'll never understand or accept: Drivers inching forward at an intersection or parking lot exit as a pedestrian or bike rider approaches. This is not fucking complicated. Just stop moving until the person has passed you. Get a handle on your impatience you aggressive baby.

Can anyone think of even one time where folks who were obsessively trying to curtail the rights and freedoms of one small group of people turned out to be on the right side of history?

You're paying $8 for gas but thank god those seven trans athletes can no longer play sports and you can say "r*tard" again!

Whenever I watch the Tour of Romandie I have weird thoughts, like what would have my life been like if I had been a Swiss dairy farmer living off a giant multigenerational trust fund.

"A bicyclist was killed Tuesday night in a hit-and-run crash in Englewood, the Florida Highway Patrol said. The suspect’s van was later found in a driveway of a home with the victim’s bicycle still wedged underneath." CYCLISTS ARE ENTITLED (to get home alive) www.mysuncoast.com/2026/04/29/b...

In Seattle's Pike Place Market, vendors claimed that removing cars would cripple them. Nope. Sales actually rose. Remember: Studies show that biz owners consistently exaggerate how many customers drive and undercount those who walk, bike, or ride transit. Info: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I would like 13 minutes of my life back. Sure, Trump and his cronies are malignant, greedy, incompetent, dishonest bastards, but they only seized power again because the American electorate is packed with clueless idiots like these dipshits.

I'm obsessed with how good—and cheap—Chinese EVs are, and hope they radically transform the American market. That said, I don't think 1000hp cars that do 0-60 in less than 2 seconds should be street legal. Just imagine walking across the street in front of this car as the driver peeks at his phone.

It takes effort to install a really expensive bike rack where more than 90% of the rack is legit useless to lock a bike to but the folks in Kendall Square had done it. I presume they are painting parking spaces shaped like erlenmeyer flasks for they can post that shit on social.

"The meta-analysis, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, analyzed 2,943 transgender women who had undergone hormone therapy for one to three years. It found no evidence of any physical advantage." english.elpais.com/health/2026-...

I ride with this really cool group of people on weekends but I sometimes realize we are doing it totally differently. They have digitized the experience like 100 times more than I have. I'm wondering what that's about.

Was riding in Palos Verdes earlier and on the Switchbacks climb I passed this couple (in their 30s I'd guess) and as I rode away, the dude was like, "Hey look honey, that guy has a little pump in his pocket. How old school is that?!"

On my ride this morning, I got close-passed by a jerk in a black Escalade. This is why I need you guys to build me a ballroom.

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Bernard Hinault breathes a sigh of relief.

Remco climbed La Redoute like 600% slower than I thought he would.

Pogacar cross chain not that anyone cares

Holy shit Paul Sexias has the fairy dust, too.

I was home a bit early and frankly a little bored but my wife asked if I could run a few errands, so I just did 30 minutes of e-bike erranding and now I'm in an excellent mood.

Thankfully my Twitter days are long gone and I don't waste time arguing with strangers. But this sort of ridiculous mythology makes me laugh. I don't know how someone can say this with a straight face.