Posted: Sat, May 19th
The Foaming Rant: Foul play“Everybody cheats. I just didn’t know.” — Dennis Christopher as Dave Stoller in “Breaking Away”
Remember the scene in “Breaking Away” when the evil Team Cinzano rider stuffs a pump into goofy Italophile Dave Stoller’s spokes and shows him what big-time bike ...
Posted: Tue, May 8th
Tuesday's Special-Edition Rant: Basso not so profundo"I experimented with marijuana a time or two. And I didn't like it, and didn't inhale, and never tried it again." — Bill Clinton, The New York Times, March 31, 1992
Anyone expecting great things following Ivan Basso’s solemn confession that he was the “Birillo” ...
Posted: Fri, Apr 13th
Friday's Foaming Rant: 'Stoned again“(N)o one wants to look like wimps on national television."—Health Net-Maxxis team director Jeff Corbett while discussing whether the inaugural U.S. Open Cycling Championships should be run as scheduled despite wintry weather
With all due respect to everyone who took a ...
Posted: Mon, Apr 9th
Monday's Bonus Rant: Bloody 'ellThe driver pretended not to see the red light nor hear the honking black and white which followed him for a block until Calvin angrily blasted him to the curb with the siren. “Watch him say ‘who me?’” said Calvin as he got out of the car and approached from the ...
Posted: Sun, Apr 1st
USA Cycling outsourcing story was an April Fools jokeDear readers,We have received a number of letters from readers complaining about USA Cycling’s plans to “outsource” its membership services to a contractor in India named “HelloDehli.” The story, which appeared on this website on Sunday April 1st, was an example of a ...
Posted: Fri, Mar 2nd
Friday’s Foaming Rant: Percentage players die broke, too"Races are like films. You need actors to make them happen. The teams have all the actors, and without us there are no races." — pro-teams president Patrick Lefevere
The drudgery of a daily newspaper job is starting to look pretty good these days, and not just because the ...
Posted: Mon, Feb 26th
Monday's Bonus Rant: Ullrich hangs up his tar-speckled jersey"Unlike [Lance] Armstrong, [Jan] Ullrich doesn't have the killer instinct. He's not obsessed. It's too bad. Because if you mixed the professionalism of an Erik Zabel with the talent of a Jan Ullrich, you'd have an Eddy Merckx." — T-Mobile team manager Walter ...
Posted: Fri, Jan 19th
Friday’s Foaming Rant: Stedenko and Clouseau, together at lastBorder guard: Your papers, please!Hippie: Sorry, man, all I got is a pipe.—A Child’s Garden of Grass
I’ve heard it said that the French love Jerry Lewis movies. But anti-doping chief Pierre Bordry must be a Cheech and Chong fan, because he seems to be modeling his pursuit ...
Posted: Fri, Dec 29th
Friday's Foaming Rant: Holiday on ice!Change in the weatherChange in the weatherSomethin’s happening here. — "Change in the Weather," by John Fogerty
Like everyone else, we had plans for the holidays. But ours got put on ice.
Seriously. Colorado got a stone-cold one-two punch this year — a solid, snowy smack ...
Posted: Fri, Dec 22nd
Friday's Foaming Rant: The 2006 O'Grady AwardsThese days, the alleged humorist Patrick O’Grady is generally confined to soiling the virtual sandbox here at VeloNews.com, where subscriptions are not at risk. His "contribution" to VeloNews the magazine normally consists of an editorial cartoon so severely downsized over the ...
Posted: Fri, Dec 1st
Friday's Foaming Rant: Spinal rapSo I had to go see a chiropractor in New York, and they're different to osteopaths, chiropractors, because of the spelling. And they crack your bones, that's what they do, they crack your bones! And they take X-rays, but it’s pointless, because whatever is wrong with ...
Posted: Mon, Nov 6th
Notes of a Dirty Old Man: Regarding reach and graspThe world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There’s far less competition.— Dwight Morrow, 1873-1931, in a letter to his son
I caught a glimpse of the Vomit Comet on Sunday while driving out of ...
