Monthly Archives: April 2009

Changes To The Warny

The Melbourne to Warrnambool, or “The Warny”, as it’s affectionately known and abbreviated like most other nouns by the Aussies, has some big changes coming this year.   It’s the world’s second oldest race and was the world’s longest UCI sanctioned …

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Essential Roadtrip Skills

As Australia moves from crit season to road season, and as the rest of the world moves from no season to road season, we all have one thing in common:  The Roadtrip! You gotta love packing up all your gear, …

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Process vs Outcome Oriented Goals

Setting goals is great, however it can be a disappointing experience if you don’t reach that end goal up to the expectations you’ve set for yourself.    A shift in perspective is all it takes to see everything in a …

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Rollers or Trainer?

If you’re looking at getting a set of rollers or a trainer and aren’t quite sure which one is for you, I’ll explain the differences of each. Both rollers and trainers are great ways for you to train indoors because …

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Watch Liege-Bastogne-Liège Live

I’m glad that many of you who read this blog have had the chance to watch the spring classics over the internet rather than via text updates.  Liege-Bastogne-Liège isn’t being broadcast on television here in Australia, so us die hard …

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Liège-Bastogne-Liège

Our overseas PRO tipster, Chris  D’Amelio, racing for Cinelli gives us the inside scoop for Sunday’s classic – Liège-Bastogne-Liège. Well the early season classics are truly into full swing! The cobblestone battles produced some exciting racing and amazingly we saw …

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Keenan Back In Action!

The voice of Australian cycling is back!  For those of you who don’t know, Matt Keenan was seriously injured in a freak accident while out riding a few weeks ago.  Thankfully Matt is doing well and he’s back at work …

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Theo Boss Incident Debunked

With so many points of view on the Theo Bos vs Daryl Impey incident I figured that someone had to settle it once and for all.  It certainly looked intentional, but too many things didn’t add up.  Why would Theo …

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Cycling Movie Greats

A reader this week asked me for suggestion on a few cycling flicks that him and his buddies can catch up on. His timing was perfect because I was in the middle of writing this post on my favorite cycling …

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Theo Bos To Switch Sports?

You may not have seen this yet.  This is the crash that everybody’s been talking about in the final stage of the Presidential Tour of Turkey.   Fast forward to 3:41 and look at the bottom of the screen (watch …

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