Cord Wrangling
Runners on Bikes
From The New York Times – A Dream on Two Wheels: In Country of Runners, Kenyan Cycling Team Faces Uphill Climb
Five years ago, Sammy Ekiru was negotiating traffic on his bicycle taxi for roughly three dollars a day in Kitale, a remote Kenyan town 20 miles from the Ugandan border. Today, he and his bike remain inseparable. His labor and his livelihood, however, have taken a substantially different course.
Tour de Cheat
From BikeRadar: Who needs doping? Most creative Tour de France cheats
There’s a good chance that the old saying ‘cheats never prosper’ derives from the catalogue of foul play at the Tour de France.
The depths of skulduggery to which riders have gone down the years beggars belief, but the real surprise is how they expected to get away with it in the first place. Spiking bottles, wearing wigs, using lead-filled water bottles, catching trains – these stories only exist because the perpetrators were caught red handed.