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Is this the same Visma that looked so weak and disorganized in the TdF? Seems like night and day.

Even when the 30-second "sprints" come at random, with minutes in between? The 30-second program they called "intervals" was 30-seconds full-gas, 15 seconds easy for a certain number of reps. I didn't do anything that regular.

Today's 20 mi coast and hill ride in and around Carlsbad Village was mainly about exploring the Village's watery boundaries — Buena Vista Lagoon and Creek on the north, and Agua Hedionda Lagoon and Creek on the south. These show up green on the map. The idea was to hug both lagoons and creeks...

In TdF 2026, Tadej racked up a huge GC advantage early on. Then he used some of the wiggle room that gave him to boost Del Torro in a big way. Today's stunning Stage 4 win puts him in a similar poition in the Vuelta early on. Will he boost a different UAE rider this time — say, Ayuso or Vine...

Is that the pride part or the money pit part?

Now, if the Garmin could also vaporize them painlessly before they reach you, that might be worth the money. Oops, did I say that out loud?

Spotted on the Coast Highway in downtown Encinitas today. Ride this stretch a lot, and I'm here to report that SoCal car culture is alive and well here. The rightfully proud owner let me take pictures while he explained to another passer-by what a money pit it's been. We all have our...

Just a taste of what you can do with mechanical LEGO these days. Wife said I couldn't have a Mars rover, so this is the next best thing... The key to success here was to mimic the exact geometry of NASA's patented 6x6x4 rocker-bogie mobility system at ~1:12 scale. Couldn't steer the corner...

Wow, that hail storm reminded me of our Denver days. Got serious to apocalyptic hail there several times a thunderstorm season (roughly May-September). Can't imaging riding and especially descending in that stuff — including the hail already on the ground. Was really looking forward to the...

There's some truth to this — especially in the Star Wars line, where certain spaceship shapes required special parts with limited potential for other uses. Ditto for some of the other big franchise lines that choke store shelves. But don't think that modern LEGO ends there. The original concept...

The mechanical engineering side of LEGO has become an experimenter's and tinkerer's and closet engineer's dream. Grew exponentially from the Technic line introduced in the 1970s.Thousands of well-engineered, high-precision mechanical parts by now. I usually don't buy sets, just parts. If you...

This post is "just for fun" in the toy sense... As both a cycling and LEGO nut with a special fondness for making LEGO spinning tops, hard to say what was more exciting about the recently released LEGO Road Bike (set 11380) — (a) building and playing with the bike, or (b) first making tops out...

Roll and CVV were both totally fixated on Hayter when I came in at ~80 km to go and stayed that way till maybe 10-20 km out. Not sure why. I've only been watching pro racing in earnest for 3 years now, and I know nothing compared to them. But aside from crashes and Pogi just riding away, I...

Do you do "silly stuff" just to get YouTube views, likes, and comments? Lots of YouTubers do just that, but I don't think that's you. I think you do your so-called "silly stuff" first and foremost because you enjoy it. Then you share your experiences. In your case, this results in...

As long as folks ride responsibly, I think they should ride however they like — with or without numbers. I like the middle ground here. I record my rides strictly for my own enlightenment and entertainment. After the ride, I look over what I did — especially WRT rider power — and try to...

Watched every episode of Saving Lives at Sea, a docuseries about the UK's heroic RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institute). Highly recommended! The UK coast can clearly be a treacherous place — especially where there are high tidal ranges and fast tidal currents as a result. High winds pushed...

From how far away?

Vuelta fever's setting in already. This preview didn't help. World Tour-wise, it's the final frontier for Pogi, Jay Vine's back from injury — and best of all, WVA and Pedersen will be battling for stages and points! TJ called the WVA-Pedersen match-up "must-see TV".

Gee, thanks. Try to remind myself of a passage from the Desiderata in encounters like this: This person was definitely riding on the greater side of the equation. Not uncommon for unmotorized roadies to pass me around here, but this one felt exceptional.

Got myself out of the house this afternoon by promising a leisurely Coast Highway ride south to Swami's Beach and back. And I kept the promise in all but 2 places: (1) a southbound construction zone that I always try to blast through, and (2) pretty much the whole way home. First photo stop...