Just when we thought that HWMNBN was over the bile that caused him to chase down that minor irritant Simeoni and make him his bitch for the day, word comes that the bile is rising anew and this time it's name is Linus.

It all stems from Gerdemann's statements regarding HWMNBN return to the peloton- "This is not positive for the credibility of cycling," said Gerdemann, "But there's nothing anyone can do about it."

In response, the Team Astana has gone after the German "Great White Hope" with abandon.

HWMNBN's German disciple, Andreas Kloden, was most direct when he said that his 26 year-old countryman has "a small profile neurosis" which makes him force his way into the media, presenting himself as "Mr. Clean and the saviour of German cycling," while not showing enough respect to Armstrong."

He continued, "Linus will do all he can to get press. I don't have to go up to every camera and present myself as the saviour of cycling. Linus should keep calm and show respect" for Armstrong. 

HWMNBN was quoted as saying "He's right, I am older. I raced with Sean Kelly, Stephen Roche, Miguel Indurain and Greg Lemond of all people. I have been around a long time and I don't know who the hell Linus Gerdemann is, but I know that when I rolled up in 1992, I started winning races. And when I roll up in 2009, I am gonna be winning races. He better hope he doesn't get in a breakaway with me because I can still ride hard," said the Texan.

Klöden reminded the young German that he would need "friends in the peloton," and that Armstrong would not be one of them;

"Lance was angry."

Will someone make sure that nice young lad gets sent to the Giro?

I've always wondered what it looked like to have a giant snake swallow a man alive!!!

Blacknell and Megabeth for manning the Chicago Pizzeria Uno checkpoint!

A total of 35 racers showed up and the event went without a hitch or injury!!!

1st Place- Skander- winner of the Seagull Champions Obama Bag!

2nd Place- Zak- winner of the R.E.Load Obama Bag, which was supposed to go to Top Outta-Towner, but nobody came from out of town, (except for Diablo and his wife, but he didn't race this time around! Good to see you Bro!

3rd Place- Bega!- winner of the Crumpler courier backpack! Good to see you still kickin' ass old timer!

The only bit of controversy was that four of the top six racers (Soda, Bruuuce, Nick plus one more) were disqualified because their manifests were not completed correctly. The rules are the rules. But even then they kicked ass!!! They were FLYING!!!

Anyhow, thanks to the 35 people who did come race. It was the PERFECT day!!!

Thanks to Caleb for the party location. Thanks for the open offer for next time!

Many thanks to all the volunteers who manned the 10 checkpoints flawlessly and got people through the race!!!

And last, but not least, to all the sponsors who were so generous with the prizes!!! R.E.Load, Seagull, Crumpler, Evomo, Fabric Horse, Flirtees and Kryptonite- you guys rock and we HEART you!!!!!!

Until 2009 and the Tour de LeMond Pt. Deux!!! Two-man team alleycat and TTT!!!

To see a video of the race, check out:

http://www.gwhatchet.com/

Scroll down a bit and click on the player

Racing for Victory and free beer!!!

John
LesDemonCats.blogspot.com 

On Saturday, November 1st,, the DemonCats are putting on the Obamalleycat.

I invite all to race, but if you doin't want to race, you can also volunteer at a checkpoint.

There will be ten checkpoints, scattered through D.C. As a checkpoint person/s (two at a checkpoint is preferable), you will give messengers arriving at your checkpoint the address to the next checkpoint. Simple as that.

After all the racers have passed through your checkpoint, proceed to the finish line to participate in the festivities and party and raffle and free beer!

Check out www.obamalleycat.blopgspot.com for details.

Hope to see some of you there!

of getting you bike stolen.

Yes. It happened to me. Last night in Shaw-Petworth.

Ordering Chinese food, after an alleycat, on my way to the Metro.

I just took my off of it for 30 seconds. It's all it takes.

Should of known better. I do know better.

Fracking DUMB-ASS!!!

Anyhoo, if you see a crackhead on a Mazda-red steel road bike with Aksium wheels, crack his fracking head open with your bike lock and leave him in the middle of the street to get run over on it!

All Bike Thieves Must Fracking DIE!!!

On my way to bike shop to get a new bike.

via www.getreligion.org

Just got back from Salisbury after doing the Seagull Century!

All I can say is hats off to Salisbury University for putting on such a well-supported event.

6,000 or so riders participated. It was awesome riding in that mass.

The hotel was crappy and the continental breakfast even crappier, but it was close to the start.

My friend Larry, who just turned to cycling after a running injury, and I had planned to ride it at 17mph and rode those ever increasing weekend training rides on the hilliest, rolling courses I could come up with and it paid off.

We got separated for 60 miles after Mile 15. But he presevered. Unfortunately, he passed the Team Demoncats Support Vehicle (Kim, Griffin and Mishima, the Akita) at Mile 50.

I had stopped at Mile 22 at the first Rest Stop and ate a banana and an orange and waited a bit to see if I could find Larry.

Then at Mile 42 Rest Stop, I had to use the Porta-Johns and fill up my bottles. The next eight miles were a misery of headwinds! Oh Lord!

At Mile 50, I stopped for a few minutes at the Support Vehicle and scarfed down two Prosciutto and Cheddar panini and a Red Bull.

At the next Rest Stop (Assateague Island), I simply rode up and carried on, being sufficiently fueled up and planning on meeting up with Kim again at Mile 80.

Around Mile 70 I came upon Larry, who was suffering a bit, but we got to the Support Vehicle. Some club soda and Ding Dongs hit the spot. Larry is encouraged to hear that the Mile 82 Rest Stop (The Pie Stop) was nearing. He had some, while I refrained, and we chilled a bit under the shade.

As we rode off for the final 18 miles, he fell off the pace, and I latched on to the tail end of a pace group and trudge on alone.

The beautiful thing about the Seagull is that is super flat flat flat and somehow manages to include quite a bit of downward inclines, allowing to draft with groups riding along at 20-21mph for some good distances. When rested up a bit, it was easy to accelarate away from the group to hop-scotch from paceline to paceline.

At the end, back at the University, I rode in and the support crew was there! YAY!!!

Off to the beer garden that had awesome three dollar beers! 16oz of Yuengling never tasted so good!!! The burger was a bit burnt, but it went down quick.

Still hungry, we got to stop at Dairy Queen on the trip back! Sooooooo good!

Oh yeah, total time for the century was a tad under six-hours, rest stops included.

My riding time, though, was 5h14m for an average of 19.2mph. Sweet!!!

I swear, next year, I'm losing some weight, cross-train a bit more and nailing it in under 5 hours!!!

Now I need to go get some beer!!!

Per CyclingNews.com news flash:

Fränk Schleck of CSC-Saxo Bank was reportedly "unmasked" Friday as a customer of Eufemiano Fuentes, the doctor whose Madrid clinic was raided by Spanish police in 2006 as part of Operación Puerto. The German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that investigators have evidence of nearly seven thousand Euro being wired to Fuentes' Swiss bank account in March 2006. The Luxembourg Attorney General Robert Belver confirmed the existence of the payment.

"Yes, there is this payment of about 7000 Euro to Mr. Fuentes. I have received copies of the bank documents from Germany," Biever told the SZ. "Several weeks ago I sent these documents concerning Schleck to the Luxembourg Anti-doping Agency."

WILL THIS SHIT EVER END!!!

[Ed: abbreviated, in accordance with bloggery custom. Go to CN for the rest.]

Next year, my VDS team will be Team Ocean Pacific and will mostly be made up of OP suspects.

Valverde, Contador, Basso!!!

Now the main question is:

Is HWMNBN worth only 1 point? Same for Basso?

Chris, pray tell!!!

I read somewhere that they believed that Armstrong would be riding the 2009 Tour under a Team LiveStrong- he has an announcement on the 25th!

Did I see the future?

So how does that work? Lance dials up Prudhomme and says "Yo Chuckie, I got the Motts!" "You got the Motts, Ahh, then welcome back!"

with Garmin Chipotle team, teams Toyota, Colavita, Kelly Benefits, Toshiba, Healthnet Maxis, Jittery Joe’s, Symmeterics, Time, Successful Living, Calyon Pro and Rite Aid.

How cool is that?

It really is about time that D.C. have a good showcase race and Fenty in office, all I can hope for is that this is first of many Capital Crits!!!

I'm hoping that there will be some good schwag to be had!

More cowbell! More cowbell!!!

I've been mulling HWMNBN coming out of retirement since the news hit.

Several things caught my eye, such as, "I'm racing to raise cancer awareness!" from HWMNBN to "It's news to me, but he's welcomed back, if so!" from Bruyneel.

Plus, I'm sure that the Kid will not be please to be part of a new triumvirate approach to winning the Tour and HWMNBN is playing for keeps! Remember HWMNBN's Ricky Bobby approach to racing.

So my prediction is...

A new Pro-Continental team called "LIVESTRONG".

The foundation has money to burn on a team if he so wishes and since is supposedly riding for free, I'm sure ten million dollars can buy the best help possible.

That plus he senses that since the peloton is clean now, he can come back clean too, and win the Tour.

Hmmmmm.

Any opinions?

Anne who?

Heathens.

There was a time when I didn't have a road bike. My rigid Cannondale V-900 mountainbike was my trusted companion, singletrack was my calling and Anne Caroline Chausson was a GODDESS! Nico Vouillouz was da Man!

Not because she was hot- she was cute in that sporty French way. But she had BALLS the size of a small planet.

She was a downhiller, which is the craziest, gnarliest of cycling disciplines.

Here are her stats:

• Junior Downhill World Champion: 1993, 1994, 1995
• Downhill World Champion: 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005
• Dual World Champion: 2000, 2001
• 4X World Champion: 2002, 2003
• Olympic Champion: 2008

She came out of retirement, just to win this medal.

And she did!

Hats off, Anne Caroline.