Editor’s Note: - By now, most long-time readers of VeloNews and VeloNews.com realize that our favorite – albeit not legally recognized – holiday is April Fools’ Day. Many of us here have long enjoyed the once-a-year opportunity to set aside our normal duty of checking sources, facts and the veracity of quotes and just make the stuff up.
The TT rig is an old U.S. Postal/Discovery Channel Trek. Steve Hed fit Bajadali to this bike, which he believes belonged to either Lance Armstrong of Viatcheslav Ekimov.
Roadie Happy Hour! Michigan Bike Race Announcer Jamie Smith and "Frazz" Illustrator Jef Mallett Launch Book at Kinetic Systems Join Jamie Smith and Jef Mallett for a book launch event at Kinetic Systems in Clarkston, Michigan, on Saturday, April 5th at 4pm. Smith and Mallett are launching their new book Roadie: The Misunderstood World of a Bike Racer during a happy hour event at the shop. ROADIE Book Launch Event Saturday, April 5 beginning at 4:00 p.m. Kinetic Systems 60 S. Main St. Clarkston, MI 48346 (248) 625-7000 www.kineticsystemsbicycles.com
It's been something of a tradition here at VeloNews to start the month of April with things a bit skewed from the normal. In the past, on April 1st, we've fired Patrick O'Grady, revealed the development of new mag-lev wheel bearings, declared Dick Pound to be head of the UCI (with Hein Verbruggen taking the helm of WADA) and scorched the French countryside with fatally flawed sunflowers that perfectly match the color of the Maillot Jaune. Yup, it's April Fool's Day.
Responding to numerous reader complaints, VeloNews publisher Andy Pemberton announced Tuesday that the site will be abandoning its new design after a four-month trial period, starting some time after April 1. “To fully comply with the many, many emails we're received on this issue - most typed in capitals and without punctuation - we will revert to the site as it was presented originally, in 1996,” Pemberton said. Outgoing web developer Kevin Hankens said he was not at all bitter about the seven months of 70-hour weeks he spent developing the new site design.
Spring Training on the Blue ridge Parkway
Real Men *Enjoy* Short Track (Fontana 2008)