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 All right, it's been an intriguing and often beguiling start to this year's Vuelta, with everyone damn near sobbing with joy over--...

Okay, we got the course down, but who's here to contest the race? Well, Nairo Quintana's sure not, via late announcement after first...

 Holy crap, it's like T - 2 to the Vuelta! And this ain't no sprinters' party (though the Tour de France wasn't so much as u...

 Yes folks, the Tour Hommes is rather long gone, but the Tour de France Femmes Avec Swift has just wrapped up, so, thanks to the women *fina...

 All right, between work, women being reduced to livestock in my country, Covid-cautious family visits, and general tomfoolery, I'll adm...

Yes, another hot-pink extravaganza has wrapped, and let's be frank--it was a bit of a weird one, amirite?  But it's still the fabulo...

 Okay, it's still a little weird that it's actually the second rest day already after just Stage 9, but Giro's gotta make money ...

 We got the course, we got the GC contenders--but who's gonna be out there hunting for less grandiose but still eternal glory?  Yes, the...

 Yes, the team presentation's been held, the inexplicable yet compelling modern dance routines are still digesting, we love Bauke Mollem...

 Okay, both my faithful readers: I've been slacking off on the blog for a while due to my regrettable lack of an inherited fortune and t...

 All righty, Cycling Year 2021 is now just a fond-ish, if also deeply weird, memory, and it's time for a fresh start to the year!  So, w...

 Okay, cycling.  You know what you did.  And you oughta be ashamed of yourselves! But even if you're not, what better way to start off t...

 Well, cycling fans, it's been another glorious, weird, and frankly intermittently shameful year in our beloved peloton, and with the en...

Chesnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at yer--*what*, we're *still* in this Dystopian Lockdown Craphole Planet for *anot...

 Yes, it's almost Thanksgiving in America, that deeply troubling holiday whose contradictory ideas of gratitude and shameful atrocity we...

Patrick Lefevere: Good morning.  I've called you all here today to address totally unfounded rumors of bad morale, erratic management, a...

Feeling a burning desire to sit out on a scorching barren mountainside all day waiting for 2 minutes of GC action to come by? Wondering what...