Bringin' tha heat!

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Hot damn it's been hot this week! Over 100 everyday now I think. 103 today. 104 on Sunday. 89 on Sunday? What? This damn Oklahoma weather never ceases to amaze me. If OK weather was a murderer it'd be OJ (allegedly); oddly personable, yet you know that somethin' just ain't right with a side dish of crazy.

Night rides are in order. Did one the other night with Mrs. 'Tube on the MTB's but kept the rubber on the pavement as both of us are currently way under powered for any real off road riding in the light dept.

Look for that to be changing SOON.

Light & Motion's Seca 700 sure looks like a doozy.

So I randomly pulled out an old Velo News from a few years back when LA first retired. It's quite interesting to read his words from that time and then to see him back now. I found the admission of donating his own moola towards machines to help catch dopers to be interesting.
Especially since reading this:
and others that share some striking similarities.
Coincidence? I not think!

If this really is one big heist on cycling, I wonder if/when the proverbial shit will ever hit the fan. I've got some insight into this as a former racer and know others with even more insight and more direct experience, and my hindsight is screaming to my foresight and my insight is freaking out. Surely the charade can't go on forever. Or maybe it can....

But then THIS:
pops up.

Remember that old argument about "everyone around you has been proven to dope and you expect us to believe that you beat them all while clean" ?

LA has had that one over his head for some time. Mr. LeMond may have even dropped that one on him a time or two? Not sure, but isn't it interesting that we're expected to believe that those 8 seconds in '89 were by a clean rider over a unclean rider?

Hell, I DO believe it, but just the fact that no matter what the argument is or who's making it, there's always another angle and another and another and another.....

I don't really have a definitive take on this whole issue. I just know that it's real and it's made cycling something of a reality tv show circus.
I have no pony in this race. I do love the sport and it's history however and supplemental help has been a part of it pretty much since day one in some form.

I'll still love it no matter what and hope you will too. Not because you're an armchair director sportif, but because you still get out on your own bike and enjoy the ride, enjoy the suffering, and enjoy stuffing your greazy fat self into spandex with your best buds every weekend.

Life will still be good as long as we keep pedaling circles.