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March 16, 2011
I think we are all patiently waiting to hear the news about CC's acquisition of Merlin Metal Works. Please, do tell.
- PJN , Laramie WY
March 16, 2011
I think you have not understood velocity nation at all. I am sure they would allow anyone the right to comment and reply on pieces. In fact they have a comment section which okay is filled with people wondering how they can upgrade from cat 5 but the option is still there. That you were frustrated by velocity nation says a lot more about you than them. They are trying to open up the issues and let the public decide. Full transcripts go a long way to that and any sense of importance from their part seems to have always come with a good laugh at themselves.
- merckx, brussels
March 15, 2011
It's a journalist's and editor's duty to discern fact from fiction when reporting a story. This is why quality publications go through the process of fact checking and verifying information with reliable secondary sources. Otherwise, how are readers supposed to discern what the truth is? Intuition? False information has a funny way of becoming the truth when told enough times. Politicians do it all the time and it's surprising how many people accept their lies as the truth. This week marks the anniversary of the Iraq war, a war that was justified by an unverified source ("Curveball") and intuition.
- Charles, New York
March 10, 2011
Agree with Mark from SD- transcripts reveal much more than the screen of bias of the editor and writer. Paper/magazine are too concerned with the litigous and keeping their ad revenue high.
I am sorry, but poor form Brandon to poo-poo someone who is fighting for those who are wronged- kimmage does fight for those that have been wronged by doping and that is a good crusade. We need more of these people who speak for those who are afraid to speak out.
- Joe Strummer, NYC
March 09, 2011
I prefer having unedited transcripts and deciding for myself what's true. I do not need a bad writer filter it for me.
I've seen several articles based on interviews, and the interviews on which they are based. I have have decided that most journalists do not add any value to the transcript.
- Mark, San Diego
March 08, 2011
Strange. Those pieces have been up at nyvelocity for about a fortnight and I don't recall you ever wading into the fray over there. Cold comfort hanging back in your own world and lobbing brickbats at Landis, NYVelocity, & Kimmage from here. Head on over there and let the boys have it above board and in the open. I'm sure they'd love to hear from you in your own name and not one of the noms de plume that the site assigns to you. Get a set and get on with it. Otherwise just shut up.
- Michael, Fond du Lac
March 08, 2011
Dont kill the comments section, thats where I get most of the laughs. Excellent blog this week, worth the wait
- dan , kansas
March 08, 2011
Dom's bum is fat because he is from Quebec. One word: POUTINE. He is going to win a decent Belgian race this spring, his form is good.
- EKH, YVR
March 07, 2011
While reading of this editorial I begin to realize that phentermine and weight loss isn’t the mainly important thing in our being
- loco, LA
March 07, 2011
The best way to train the Hunter's response is to go outside in the cold with only enough clothes on so your neighbors don't call the cops and place your hands in warm bowls of water. This will train your body to keep the capillaries in your hands open even when the core is cold, when it typically would divert the blood away from the extremities to the core.
- Deer Slayer, TN
March 07, 2011
Why am I not surprised that someone from Portland (not "Portlandia" you pretentious douchebag) would support silencing dissenting voices...
- Chris, LRAR
March 07, 2011
Every now and then I make the mistake of looking below the blog at the train wreck of posts that always follows. I get that at this time in the history of the interweb, there is some idea that perhaps letting people post comments bares some value. Perhaps marketers are more afriad of alienating people if they cannot post. But if its worth anything from this reader, I think you should kill this section. Most of these posts (not all) (and yes, go ahead and say it.."so is this one") are pretty much wasted space. Better to just let the blog stand on its own without the added graphitti.
- Steve McQueen, Portlandia
March 07, 2011
Avid cyclists everywhere were up in arms over the NJ bike registration bit, but the proposed legislation was aimed at an entirely different group. It was racist. Have you ever spent time on the NJ banks of the Hudson river? The population is largely foreign and depends on bicycle transportation. The license plates would have been a veiled attempt at extending Arizona's immigration laws and had little to do with overweight corporate bankers riding Treks up and down 9W.
- K, NY
March 07, 2011
I would trade the long term relationship benefits of any number of great shops in LA for a strip of bike lane paint from my place in West LA to Downtown.
- vectorbug, san francisco
March 07, 2011
Kimmage always only cared for himself, notice he said nothing until he was spit ass end out of the sport, not wonder his blind devotion to Landis despite Landis' numerous and extensive falsehoods (including an entire BOOK). About the only people that still care about Landis, Kimmage or frankly the washed up Velonation site are ultra-hardcore anti-Armstrong zealots. Amusingly some of them have appeared to have posted here.
- wren, Gotham City
March 07, 2011
Well, Paul Kimmage did a lot for cycling and it took some courage to do it; and yes, it is fair to say that in the pro peloton a majority probably dopes -- how long will it take to come to terms with this truism and why hate the messenger? On this site denial has a tendency to morph into spite and condescension... I suppose it is to be expected that Kimmage’s reward for confronting an issue 15 years before anyone else is opprobrium from all quarters, including of course the UCI, the corporate cycling press and anyone whose attachment to cycling coincides with how much money they can extract out of it. This is understandable from the average professional rider’s perspective (at least publicly), caught that they are between the twin exigencies of having to dish out super-human performances on a routine basis and toe the line for their DS and advertisers. What I find less palatable is the fury Kimmage attracts from this writer in the form of selected quotes and grandstanding about what journalism is supposed to conform to (what it boils down to: a journo should not make waves that disturb the flow of cash or the powers that be; a disturbing similarity with the State department’s response when confronted with Wikileaks). I do realize that a complete coming to terms with the doping issue in cycling would create a big mess, would include the fall of the house of Lance and would not be good for (this and other) cycling related businesses in the short term, and if that were to happen folks here might then be less likely to buy a pro rider’s super carbon bike for $5,000 (frame and fork) : I guess you got to pay for those junkets in Girona somehow, but what about the (not so) long term future and viability of the sport? Who cares about that? Well, Paul Kimmage for one.
- Oliver, Carrboro
March 06, 2011
Sir-
What do you think about the current radio situation? Organized road racing began around 1868! That's almost 120 years before radios were introduced by 7-Eleven/Motorola.
ps can't wait for canyon!
- felipe trinidad, williamsburg
March 06, 2011
The New Jersey story is old (and dead) news. The proposal was dropped the week after it was introduced, as the legislature realized it would be impossible to implement, and would cost more to administer than it would receive in registration fees.
- Touriste-Routier, Pineville, PA
March 06, 2011
Is the moral high ground from whence you sell goods for 50% over the going rate?
You, DA 7900 cassette, $300 http://www.competitivecyclist.com/product-components/2011-shimano-dura-ace-cs-7900-cassette-5079.22.1.html
Excel, $200 http://www.excelsports.com/main.asp?page=8&description=Dura-Ace+Cassette+7900+10+Speed&vendorCode=SHIM&major=1&minor=10
- Sigmund, Manrod
March 06, 2011
Are you guys going to become Trek dealers soon? Can't understand why, since the Pinarello's are great, but with this recent blog post, I think you must be aspirants to Lance, Inc.
- Joe, Pittsburgh
March 06, 2011
I guess you missed the memo. The world of journalism has changed. No more are the elite few only allowed access to important material who then get to shift through with what they feel is correct and what is not. Shall I give you a long list of wars and human atrocities that simply never got reported because the elite few in the media chose not to ?
The world has changed. The internet has allows us all access to information we never had before.
I don't know about you, but in the school I went to, we learned how to use critical thinking. I learned to not just take what the media, politicians and certainly cycling industry people who are just trying to sell more Treks, very seriously. I am able to make up my own mind and to determine bias. What Nyvelocity have done and more importantly what Kimmage has done is very important. It allows us the views of one man. These are views that in the past were censored. If others don't agree with it, they are free to publish their own opinions ! Is there anything that would stand up in a US court for libel in that Kimmage interview ? The interview was conducted in the US and it's an American making those very comments. I fail to see where the issue is.
As for Kimmage not caring who wins the race, why should he ? It makes no difference to Kimmage. He's not selling overpriced Asian made bikes. By the way, who are you and why do you never publish your name ?
- Justin Knotzke, Montreal, Canada
March 06, 2011
Apology accepted. Finding a new 'What's New' each Monday shortly after lunch used to make Monday's bearable. Re Rollin, when did Canada become a Belgian territory? They've gone from post Bauer non-existence to pumping out strong men in just a couple of years.
- Adam, Hamilton
March 05, 2011
re: The Farce in Trenton. It would almost be worthwhile to see such a proposal pass and get adopted nationwide if for no other reason but to see the reactions of the weight weenies and the aero-drag obsessed. Imagine spending thousands of $ to get your bike to weigh less than a beer-fart only to be told that you now have to affix a state-issued "license plate" to it. Oh the hilarity that would ensue. Hunter's Response? And I thought all those kiddies I saw riding in 20 degrees without gloves were just morons.
- PawleeWalnutz, NYC
March 05, 2011
Sweet, so when can i buy my Cervelo R3 sl.......... oops I mean my Canyon Ultimate CF.
- Edwin, Chicago
March 05, 2011
Re. Floyd and Kimmage, it's frustrating that readers are assumed to be incapable of forming their own opinions of what he has to say. Anyone reading the transcript who know who Vaughters and Barry are, surely also know the reputation they've built. And they surely also know Floyd's reputation. What's so problematic, then, about hearing all of Floyd's side of it, and then judging for oneself who the liar is?
- mj, Ontario
March 05, 2011
The point of being a journalist is presenting information that is fact checked. That is what journalists do. To present yourself as a journalist but then circumvent your primary role to check the statements is just as morally bankrupt.
Whether or not anyone doped, posting information without fact checking does not make you a rogue journalist, its not journalism at all. Is rogue journalist the new Fox News term for idiot blogger? Just fact checking...
- Glenn , YEG
March 05, 2011
"What followed, however, was much more unusual and journalistically dubious." Dubious, as in suspect? I'm not sure I follow. I'm also not sure what your point is, exactly. Is it that Kimmage is a rogue journalist? That the truth must be served up _properly_ if it's to be considered at all? Or, perhaps you're suggesting that "traditional" journalism has served the sport and its fans more legitimately?
- Matthew, PRoB
March 05, 2011
Like most cycling businesses in the Anglo Saxon world your profits are inexplicably tied to LA reputation. What Kimmage did does not rank in the “spineless, lazy and morally bankrupt” category. When that bloodhound Novitzky finds the dirt then we will see moral bankruptcy.
It is possible to love the sport despite knowing that it is corrupt to the core.
- peter, sydney
March 05, 2011
So does this mean you're selling Canyon soon?
- Josh, LA
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