Hampsten and the ’86 Tour

There's an amazing interview with Andy Hampsten over at Belgium Knee Warmers about the battle between LVC teammates Bernard Hinault and Greg Lemond during the ’86 Tour de France.

Truckloads of wowzers.

In Response To "Come On!"

See if you can get your Tesla deposit switched over to Lotus.

via VW Vortex

And Dance

Dancer from -kw on Vimeo.

Salute You

Another mystifying week over at riotclitshave.com.

WhaBaam!

More at riotclitshave.com.

Nothing New

Some of you might have read the post "Bad To Get Mad?" a few weeks back. A bit lengthy, it recounted two of the many close calls I've experienced when the driver of a car has—without provocation—aggressively swerved or otherwise purposefully driven in a way that required I take evasive action to avoid getting run off the road. The latest episode happened on July 17th. Thankfully, no humans were harmed in the making of this history.

Disturbingly—and during the exact same time period—similar things were happening to cyclists all over the country, as reported by Bob Mionske on the Velo News web site. As Mionske points out, the incidents are really nothing new. What may be new, however is that some notice is now being taken of this ubiquitous car-on-bike aggression—maybe because more people are riding bikes to ease the burden of gasoline prices, or maybe because it's becoming harder and harder to hide the fact that most people aren't very nice.

Watch your back.

Mommy Issues

Skateboard Mag staff writer and off-season Santa to the donkey-butt stars, Dave Carnie , has delved head first into the world of skate rock and composed his first musical masterpiece — "Grind Tough (Or Go Home To Mommy)".
Jackassworld.com has the whole E! True Hollywood Story thing, except it might not be true, it's about San Jose, and it's more of a yarn than an actual story.

Hope You're Feeling Better

2 prosthetic eyes

Dissent TV: Tony with blind skater Tommy Carroll

As God Intended

"30 year old 10-speeds with tapeless bars, bottomed-out seats, one piece forged steel cranks and stamped dropouts are going to be hot in 2008."

Old Ten Speed Gallery.

Tour d'Afrique

Old friend of Good Problem, Brian Vernor, just wrote from the 120 day Tour d'Afrique — a bike race / expedition from Cairo, Egypt, to Cape Town, South Africa.

He's a few weeks into it with many, many more to come, and you can read about some of his experiences and see some of his photos at VeloNews.

Ride All You Want

Let Levi Cry.

Italian Spiderman

Had to steal this from Carl Sanger.

4Q

Max's blog. Check it.

I'm everything without you

Long-term thinking from the mind behind Wikipedia, Alan Weisman.

Trip Out

Click here to see a few opical illustions from Bill Nye the Science Guy's friend, Jerry Andress.

go big!

Mad Butter, Yo

I'm sure there will be a drug introduced soon to fight the effects of breathing hot fake butter.


Get in on the ground floor and you could make millions (of enemys).

So, Prince and Michael Jackson are at this James Brown concert ...

It sounds like the beginning to a really good joke, but instead it's the best thing ever.

Lettus Skate

The UPS man just dropped off a box from Upper Playground.

















Looky what was inside.


















Get yours at Bend Press. Hurry, though. I think they only made 500.