Life of db
The little quips and musings that occur in the Life of Dylan Blanchard.
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Photo reblogged from yay cycling!
Mental note: complain no more about potholes on canadian roads.1984 Tour of Flanders.
Tour of Flanders this Sunday. It’s the big one.
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Video reblogged from Bicycles Are Porn
This video was made by Fredrik Clement. You should check out his tumblr and his website (check out the pics he made for Saxobank).
Fuuckkk youuuu, cycling.
Why must you pull at my heart. And fuck you for sick cinematography.
That doesn’t make it any easier.Biking season is officially soon to start.
To the City of Ottawa: Clear the streets, this kid’s hitting you hard. -
What do women want, after all?
Casual FYI to a pretty girl whom I may be dating… July is meant to be spent in front of a tv/computer watching men climb the Alps and summit the Pyrenees on two wheels.
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Photo reblogged from Kemetically Ankhtified
casual FYI, New York… Get this out of here. And don’t come to Canada, either.State Law Would Require Bicycle Licenses for All New Yorkers:
DenDekker (D-Queens) has introduced legislation in the state assembly that would require every bicycle in New York State to have a license plate. One bill would require “the annual registration of personal bicycles and provides for a license plate fee of twenty-five dollars for the first year and…
learn more:
http://gothamist.com/2011/02/28/state_law_would_require_bicycle_lic.php
(Source: kemetically-ankhtified)
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Best roommate award nominee: Shortbus.
And with that, this vacation (read: bike-ation) begins.
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Trek’s President, John Burke, on Lance’s Retirement 2.0
#4 on his favorite memories:
The Fall. It’s the 2003 Tour De France and Lance is leading the race. But not by much. It is a mountain stage in the Pyrenees and I am in a conference room at Trek watching with 20 people when he gets tangled up with a musette bag and hits the pavement. As he got up and tried to get back on the bike everyone in the room was out of their seats. I will never forget this. I said “Sit down and watch the legend grow.” Sure enough he gets back on the bike and catches up to the pack and then just buries the group. What most people don’t know is that during the crash he cracked the rear chainstay on the bike and didn’t notice. He kept the bike in the same gear for the rest of the climb. That bike is hanging in the lobby at Trek and I smile every time I walk by it.
Sick momento. Sick crash (video of the actual crash). Sick recovery.
There is no greater champion than Lance. Call it Retirement 2.0, or whatever you will, but he isn’t so much retired as he is switching careers from cycling to full time cancer fighting. Livestrong, kids.
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Today, the Directeur Sportif of Team Radioshack, Johann Bruyneel, begins his 2 month suspension that was handed out to him because of Team Radioshack’s decision to don the jerseys depicted above, in honor of the 28 million people worldwide fighting cancer.
The UCI, the governing body of international cycling decided that switching uniforms during the Tour de France is a huge no-no.
It’s ok though, isn’t it? The coverage they got was magnified way beyond what they would have received had they been able to wear the jerseys. There’s opportunities in unopportunistic happenings.
And thanks to Johann, and all of Team Radioshack, for standing behind a true cause.
Side note: It’s the 10 year anniversary of the formation of Livestrong. Rejoice, yo. -
Shit’s going down.
Someone cheated.
Someone got caught.
