Episode 80: Cycling Fashion 101

Enter our "Make the Lotto Belisol Jersey Better" contest. Details below.

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MAKE THE LOTTO BELISOL JERSEY BETTER CONTEST

As heard on the podcast, here's what you need to do to enter the contest:

Step 1. Right click the image of Marcel Sieberg to the left (it should be 1080 x1596 px), and save it on your computer.

Step 2. Power up MS Paint, PowerPoint, Corel Draw, Photoshop, or your image editing software of choice and go nuts.

Step 3. Save your vision of a better jersey and email it to: SpeedMetalCycling(at)gmail.com

Note: Sleeping kittens and Kim Jong-un as subject matter are not allowed, since I obviously already kicked your ass.

DEADLINE JANUARY 30.
We'll chose the winner at our own discretion and announce it on our next episode. If you win, we'll send you an email letting you know.

The winner will receive a copy of The Jersey Project book by Bill Humphreys. Courtesy of Gage+Desoto. 

WTF WERE WE TALKING ABOUT?

- Island200 Pittsburgh Velofrome
- BMC + Lululemon = funny pics
- 2013 vs 2014 Kits

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Episode 77: Juicy Bananas '77

Do you really need more evidence that CX is super stupid?

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Separated at birth: Matt Striker and Mauro Santambrogio

WTF WERE WE TALKING ABOUT?

- 2014 Tour de France Route
- Santamborgio's tragic tweets
- Four Christmases starring Vince Vaughn
- Borys works for Magazyn Rowerowy

Klaus sent me this image half way through recording

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Email:
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Cycling Inquisition

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KRUSHING THE TOUR: Stage 12

Ferdinand Cheval's Palais Idéal. You can all thank me for not using an image of earwax sculptures.

Did anyone see where I put my shotgun? I want to shoot myself.
Remember when I said yesterday that today's stage was being run backwards? And that anything interesting that could happen in the early climbs would be over by the time the stage ended? Well, even I, with my perpetual negativity, could not have predicted just how BORING this stage turned out to be. The grupetto caught back up with the peloton 80 kilometers out! 80 kilometers left to ride and the sprinters were back in the main field. WHY ON EARTH BOTHER WITH THE TWO CLIMBS THEN?

The stage was SO boring, the highlight of the Eurosport broadcast was Carlton Kirby and David Harmon discussing earwax sculptures on matchsticks and Ferdinand Cheval's Palais Idéal. I don't even want to think about what Liggett and Sherwen were talking about! Wait, they were probably on a commercial break or some stupid, useless segment sponsored by SRAM. Never mind.

Anyway, do you think the topics of Naïve art (earwax sculptures) and Naïve architecture (Palais Idéal) would have come up if the Col de Grand-Cucheron and the Col du Granier, had been in the LAST 80 kilometers, instead of the FIRST? Of course not.

Tomorrow's stage is going to suck, too. It has a cat 3 "climb" with 23k to go that may provide about 10 minutes of excitement. It does, after all, climb to a WHOPPING 159 meters! I can spit farther than that.

I hate the ASO and they can kiss my ass.

217 kilometers of pure, unadulterated boredom. Woopty friggin' doo!!!