I’ll confess, I love clothes. In my time I’ve filled and emptied countless closets as I played one character or another in real life. In my twenties it was Zegna wool trousers, blazers and dress shirts. In my thirties running my own design studio it was an unbroken line of designer black. Crossing forty, comfort [...]

Last year it was coat hangers. Five of them distributed across the bike lane in the middle of an awkward 3-way intersection. Perhaps they were laid there by some disgruntled dry cleaner or the person who jettisoned an assortment of blue children’s bathing suits a mile or two up the road. The hangers sat there [...]

Latest Press Release from the Armstrong Camp.

The route of the 2009 Tour de France strikes me as innovative and very interesting. From its start in Monte Carlo with a 15k time trial, to the reinstatement of the team time trial, to stages in my old hometown of Girona all the way to another visit to [...]

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Background. Every cyclist and every driver in the U.S. should be required to spend time in Portland. At 5pm Friday I stepped out of the Oregon Manifest show onto N. Weidler Street on my way back across the river to the aptly-named Hotel Deluxe. I don’t think I moved for the [...]

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The final words in David Lean’s epic, The Bridge on the River Kwai seem an appropriate way to sum up the maniacal spectacle of Saturday night’s Rapha RollerCross. The Leftbank building wasn’t destroyed in the process, but for a while there it looked possible.

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I didn’t use the term invasion lightly. When 1200 riders plus supporting family and ‘infantry’ disembark from landing craft and establish a beach head for a cross race, what else would you call it. Sunday I joined the legions christening a hilly Villebois circuit for race two of the ORBA Cross Crusade Series. Slate [...]

You know that ache you feel when you’ve earned your sleep, that’s how I felt last night and still feel this morning (which doesn’t bode well for work productivity today). I’ll have lots to say and plenty of imagery up this week on the Velodramatic weekend in Portland. The Oregon Manifest show, Rapha’s full-contact RollerCross [...]

Australia’s Knogs are a quirky, hip, indisputably batty, and seemingly brilliant lot. Their latest catalog “12½ Stories,” for lack of a suitable description, is part fantasy, part instruction manual, part ransom note (We have your attention and we’re not giving it back until you buy some Knog gear). It’s so engrossing it will leave you [...]

Flashback. Eight-thirty a.m. and the blue-haired seniors are chain-smoking their way through another tub of quarters at the Venetian slots. Dealers shuffle from foot to foot at their empty tables waiting for the action to pick up, or the world to end. In their ruddy brown uniforms they look sad, empty and in need of [...]

I just received a press release from Lance Armstrong’s Manager Mark Higgins concerning Pierre Bodry’s proposal to retest samples from the 1999 Tour de France. While conspiracy theorists on either side of the issue will have a field day whatever the results, Lance issued the following statement today.

Today, Mr. Pierre Bodry, the new head of [...]