Columnist About
I am a self-taught pseudo-intellect specializing in the art of cynicism and judgementalism. My short temper and impatience often bare themselves through words and onto paper. For this I apologize, but from me you can always expect objectivism and truth. I haven’t the fear of burning bridges for the good of the sport or the good of our world.
- Member Since:
- January 2013
- Based In:
- Perth, Australia
- Favourite Sports:
- Cycling,
Latest Articles
Giro d'Italia 2013, Stage 18: The Daily Roar
24 May 2013Mental Stress and bicycle racing. Let’s face it, we’re (us racing cyclists) all head-cases when it comes to bike setup. I know a guy who will stop every single day of the first month after he gets a new bike, adjusting a millimetre up or down in his bars or stem. One millimetre, yes, one [...]
Giro '13, stage 17: the Daily Roar
24 May 2013You’d swear the Giro race organisers are teasing the riders. Mountains either side, stage 17 wasn’t only run on the base of some cols topping 2000 plus metres, but they were in plain sight all day. Mr Organiser also seemed to give the middle finger (thankfully for our entertainment) to the sprinters once again, in [...]
Team Time Trials, fair place in a bike race?
14 May 2013How fair is it to have a Team Time Trial in a cycling tour? How much control does the top rider of each team actually have in managing his team to be specialist in the TTT? Should TTT time gaps be real or nominal? The Tour of Toowoomba, one of Australia’s most prestigious National Road [...]
2013 Battle on the Border, National Road Cycling Series
7 May 2013Everyone knows Australia isn’t a small place, we could actually fit most of Europe into our wide land and still take a walk around the edge. I mean, the average residential property size is about 350 square meters. Some people in Hong Kong live in apartments smaller than my modest sized bedroom. This vast spread [...]
Quokka dodging at the 2013 Tour de Perth
30 Apr 2013The 2013 Tour de Perth took bike racing to a new dynamic: quokka dodging. Have you ever seen a quokka? It looks like the production between a short, fat kangaroo and a sewer rat, native to one small island paradise. Nowhere else has such uselessly blind and obnoxiously clumsy life fathomed itself into existence but [...]
Paris Roubaix: Chavanel the dark horse in Hell of the North?
6 Apr 2013Every second Saturday of April for the last seven years of my life, I have woken up and typed the following words into Google: ‘Weather Roubaix’. For the past seven years of my life, I have discovered, to my overwhelming despair, there has been pleasant weather forecast. I have ranted and raved about Europe’s not-so-toasty [...]
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