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From the Archives - It IS About the Bike
IntroductionSeven or eight years ago, the iconic American bicycle frame company Serotta went out of business, and there was some journalistic buzz about its legacy. A friend suggested I write a tribute...
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From the Archives - It IS About the Bike: Part 2
IntroductionLast week I ran the first half of a story I originally published in the Daily Peloton back in 2015. Well, to be more accurate I wrote it for some other magazine honoring the bicycle frame...
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Biased Blow-By-Blow - 2021 Paris-Nice Stage 7
IntroductionIt has become harder and harder to watch bike races online for free. Meanwhile, Europe is six to nine hours ahead of the US, and getting up early is hard. Plus, it’s rare to get find...
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All I Need to Know About Corporate America I Learned in Team Time Trials
VlogEar hair. It’s becoming a real problem for me, but I don’t always get around to trimming it. Nothing motivates me like posting a video to the Internet. For that reason (and because I’m told some...
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All I Need to Know About Corporate America I Learned in Team Time Trials -...
VlogWhat could be more embarrassing to my teenage daughters than my blogging? Well, vlogging is probably on the list. For that reason alone I’m providing this post in both text and video formats. If...
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From the Archives - Punish Me, Young Man!
IntroductionToday’s post is a story I originally wrote for Daily Peloton. (Their servers crashed a couple years ago and all their content was lost, so I’m gradually re-posting my dp articles here.)...
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COVID wristbands
IntroductionI’ve had my first COVID vaccination shot, and more and more of my friends and family are getting theirs. It feels like there’s finally an end in sight. It’s so tempting to give in to this...
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How to Avoid Being Bike-Jacked
IntroductionAbout a month ago, an email went around my cycling team about a bike-jacking on Wildcat Canyon Road up in the Berkeley hills: two men ran a guy off the road with their car, then stole his...
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Tom Swifties
Introduction What? You’ve never heard of a Tom Swifty? It’s a very brief kind of joke in which some rando named Tom does something in a certain way, such that the sentence has a pun. For example, “‘I’m...
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From the Archives - HAZOP Blues
Introduction Ages ago, before beginning the career I’m in now, I worked for a chemical engineering firm. That’s how it described itself, anyway. I never saw actual engineering take place; the...
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Biased Blow-By-Blow - 2021 Giro d’Italia Stage 9
IntroductionYou don’t have to wake up at 5:30 a.m. to watch the Giro d’Italia. Come to think of it, I don’t either, but I’ve already started drinking coffee so I might as well stick with it. I’m here...
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Biased Blow-By-Blow - 2021 Giro d’Italia Stage 14
Introduction If (in a normal, non-pandemic year) you were to watch the Giro d’Italia in a sports bar in Italy, you’d certainly expect the fans to be biased towards the local riders. Meanwhile, if you...
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Biased Blow-by-Blow - 2021 Giro d’Italia Stage 20
IntroductionYou know how bike race announcers bite their tongues when a doper mops up the asphalt with his competitors? Or they leave it unsaid when a rider is just being a douche? Well, I don’t. If...
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From the Archives - HAZOP Blues II: The Spawning
IntroductionIf you’ve been paying attention to albertnet, you’ll have seen my first “HAZOP Blues” tale, from my archives, four weeks ago. Despite popular demand, I am running the next installment,...
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Better Bridal Registry Ideas
IntroductionI’m not a big fan of bridal registries. Why should I be, when I’ll never be a bride? When my wife and I married we didn’t do a registry. I thought it was outdated even then, like dowries,...
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Father’s Day Focus - Are Parents Interchangeable?
IntroductionIt has become traditional, or more to the point inevitable, that on Father’s Day I reflect on my role as a parent. This year I was also plunged into reflection by a Culture Desk essay I...
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HAZOP Blues III: The Final Insult
IntroductionIn two recent from-the-archives posts (here and here) I described my old job, decades ago, scribing HAZOPs for a consulting firm. While discussing those posts with an avid albertnet reader,...
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Biased Blow-By-Blow - 2021 Tour de France Stage 9
IntroductionWhat would it take for a modern bike race announcer to cry bullshit on an obviously Not Natural performance? Let’s just say a lot … because nobody spoke up when Mark Padun, a previously...
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Biased Blow-By-Blow - 2021 Tour de France Stage 15
IntroductionWe’re into the final week of this year’s Tour de France. The UCI has demonstrated, by dismissing Chris Froome’s positive drug test a couple years ago, that they’re not really interested in...
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From the Archives - Daily Peloton: Everest Challenge 2009
IntroductionI originally wrote the following story for Daily Peloton. Their servers crashed a couple years ago and all their content was lost, so I’m gradually re-posting my dp articles here.You may...
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