Hot off the wire, Kelly McGarry is one of the finalists at Crankworx this weekend.
If the weather is crap in your part of the country (it is in mine) then here’s the live feed to keep you entertained. http://www.crankworx.com/webcast/
Results here: http://www.crankworx.com/whistler/images/stories/result_slopestyle%20qualifications.pdf
I know road cycling isn’t necessarily everyone’s thing here, but has anyone been watching Le Tour this month? There’s been so much argy-bargy, one guy got so worked up he attacked someone with his front wheel!
Just in case the guys and girls at the water cooler forget about the rugby and want to talk about that cycling thing they saw on the tv-thing instead, here’s a quick summary…
I’ve spent a dreary Dunedin weekend playing with my new laptop and converting a lot of my old VHS to digital format. In the middle of it all I came across the first ever mountain bike film I bought. Chainsmoke. The production by today’s standards is pretty average, but for a young grommie living in pre-internet rural Otago it was fifty bucks well spent.
Check it.
What, Le Tour coverage on Spoke? While dressing up in Lycra and riding ultra-skinny tyres on the blacktop isn’t everyone’s number one way to spend a day riding, you’ve got to remember it IS the world’s biggest bike race.
The big story so far has been Mark Cavendish; when it comes down to a sprint no-one seems to be able to get near him. What makes this even more confusing is that despite the fact he’s been dominating in the last couple of stages he’s waaaay down at #142 in general classification because he had an average day on the first stage.
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If you have been following the XC World Cup recently, you’d be wondering where Kashi has been in the results. In what looks to be a major bummer for Kashi and all involved, the Felt team is goneburger. READ MORE
