… what’s with all the fascination about pro cyclists’ personal lives?

Recent search strings leading people to my blog:

• Tyler Hamilton divorce
• Tyler Hamilton IRS
• Lance Armstrong divorce
• Will Frischkorn divorce
• Greg Lemond divorce
• Richard Sachs gay
• Michael Balls Floyd Landis
• Floyd Landis gay
• Tyler Hamilton gay

These are all Google search strings that have shown up recently in my SiteMeter stats, and you’ve got to dig pretty far in to Google results to hit my site from some of these …

Imperfection is Perfection: A Film About Richard Sachs and his Bicycles

For nine months in 2007, film maker Des Horsfield made a documentary about bicycle frame builder Richard Sachs.

Horsfield’s film takes an intimate look into the life and mind of the bicycle frame builder as Richard Sachs talks about why he does what he does, exactly as he does it.

The story reveals his reasons for entering the frame building trade, how and why he works only with steel, and why the entities of Sport and Bicycle have remained inseparable to him.

Check out the trailer at Des Horsfield Productions.

ATMO-Licious is a blog that I’m gonna have to beat up Richie for not telling me about sooner … or at all. I got lucky and stumbled on this one.

Written by Amy Wallace and Alie Kenzer, two women who ride the the RGM Watches-Richard Sachs-Rex Chiu cyclocross team … this chronicling their cross-country adventures over the past couple of months from Massachusetts to San Francisco to L.A., and now to Boulder, where Alie will be settling in and remaining, while Amy returns home to New England come month-end.

Hopefully, they’ll keep the words flowing once the hip-separation surgery has been completed.

If so, I’m thinking that Jennie might want to link this one in to Two Wheel Lovin’ Ladies …

Email from e-RICHIE today:

Most of you know that this coming week is NAHBS 4.0 — the 4th Annual North American Handmade Bicycle Show. Once again I’ll have a couple of booths there, and I’m looking forward to seeing all of my peers in the trade. For anyone interested in handmade, one-of-a-kind, high-end bicycles, this is a must attend weekend.

I am excited to let you know that, in addition to displaying my bicycles, framebuilding parts, and softgoods, NAHBS will also be showing the premiere of Imperfection is Perfection, a film on me and my business. For a brief description, please see the NABHS site. I shouldn’t give away the farm, but I gots to tell ya’, Des captured it all on celluloid, or Hi-Def whatever it’s called. This film covers about everything I wanted to show and say, and it’s professional from one end to the other atmo. I hope all who read this can attend NAHBS and take advantage of the time there to catch the film.

I can’t wait to get my copy … wonder if Des would let the Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective show it as part of the Pedal Pusher Film Festival during Cycle Salt Lake Week.

Fastgrrrl’s crrrrent post reminds me that one should keep the following three things in mind when it comes to successful pursuits:

1. Be desireless.
2. Be excellent.
3. Be gone.

At least according to the Tao of Steve … only problem is that I’m a pretty lousy Steve, which is probably why I go by Steven instead.

I’ve also been known to answer to Stevo, as e-RICHIE calls me, stamping it as part of the serial number on one of the two bikes he’s built me; and even Stevie, as The Mistress often calls me …

So if Steve McQueen is one of the three pillars of the Tao of Steve … is there a such thing as Steve-zen for the more esoteric amongst us?

Check this blog: neue-destijl … Who dis?

Shikkaggah or SL,UT?

Some postings refer to Northbrook Velo (so Chi-town), but there’s sure a lot of Utah locals linked as well. The man in charge of team Red (now team Black) is askin’ me, and I don’t know what to tell him …

Unfortunately, people are starting to call me on it … even Dr. Cross told me to “Harden the Fuck Up” on Thursday.

I really am going to have to suck it up and suit up next weekend; at the VERY least on Sunday at Wheeler Farm, but I might be shamed into racing on Saturday at Fort Buenaventura as well.

Because of the craziness of the first flite, mixing “C” men, “B” women, and young kids, if I’m going to get a race in, I’ll have to step up and race 35+ “B” men … so I’m being upgraded not-by-choice and certainly not for merit … because I’m needed on the finish line during the race I’d normally ride.

Joyful!

Looks like we know who will have the DFL position locked up! Assuming I don’t DNF, that is, and I’d rather DNS than DNF.

So, to which team should I give a bad name with my dismal performance? Cutthroat Racing (my local team) or CYBC/Richard Sachs (my personal “sponsor”)?

Most of the big guns were out of town this week, doing 24 Hours of Moab or just off on business, but Mama T did a fabulous job to take the first lap prime in the women’s “B” race before fading a bit later, and Kathy Sherwin showed up for her first UTCX race of the season, but after winning the first lap prime, she had a mechanical issue which dropped her back to 2nd place, and while she clawed some time back, she couldn’t catch back up to Krieg Cycling’s Kris Walker.

In the men’s “A” race, Ali Goulet pulled out a very large lead on the first lap, but young gun Mitchell Peterson pulled back seconds on him every lap, until finally passing him for good on the off-camber run-up on the last lap, aided in part when Ali slipped on the run-up. Jon Gallagher held on for a strong third-place finish. Art “the Condor” O’Connor was putting in a fine effort for 4th place, when a mid-race crash took him out of the race completely … hope the knee feels better than it looked.