May
13
Giro d’Italia 2012 | Stage 7
(via Wall Photos)
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Mome Raths
Outrun, Outshoot, Outgrabe
May
7
“When I’m balanced on two thin wheels at 30 miles an hour, gauging distance, adjusting course, making hundreds of unconscious calculations every second, that idiot chatterbox in my head is kept too busy to get a word in. I’ve heard people say the same thing about rock-climbing: how it shrinks your universe to the half-inch of rock surface immediately in front of you, this crevice, that toehold. Biking is split-second fast and rock-climbing painstakingly slow, but both practices silence the noise of the mind and render self-consciousness blissfully impossible. You become the anonymous hero of that old story, Man versus the Universe. Your brain’s glad to finally have a real job to do, instead of all that trivial busywork. You are all action, no deliberation. You are forced, under pain of death, to quit all that silly ideation and pay attention. It’s meditation at gunpoint.”
On cycling. (via somethingchanged)
While I appreciate the sentiment of this piece, I don’t actually agree with it. I only find one frequent state at which I am completely focused on cycling, and that is in a race. At that point, I am focussing on where everyone else is, who looks strong, when the next move is going to go.
Before a race, after a race, on training rides, commuting, all of those times I am thinking. It’s not usually deep. It’ll often be the last song I heard that I liked (Tigers and Sharks by You Me At Six) or something I hated (Call me maybe), thinking about how I should have trained harder, about mistakes I made in the last race, about who is beating me on what Strava segments, what bike bits I want to buy next (hello Rapha) and more.
The only other time I really clean out my mind is at the very opposite point from this quote. It’s hill climbing. I suck at doing hills on a bike, but it takes all of my concentration to make sure my heart rate isn’t going too high, I’ve got my breathing reasonably under control, I’m not burning myself out too early, remembering what the gradient is around the next bend and preparing myself for it. This really only comes in for climbs that are longer than 3km or steeper than about 8%, too. And even then, as soon as things start to go a bit astray the world creeps back in.
(via somethingchanged)
Apr
25
i feel like if people had to endure, first hand, their own bullshit, that the world would be more liveable.
(Source: theblueprint)
Apr
15
From his morning-time perch above the southbound lanes of Highway 85 in Monterrey, Mexico, photographer Alejandro Cartagena catches images of people on their way to work.
this is beautiful.
<3
Feb
21
Volta ao Algarve 2012
Overall win for Richie Porte, stage win for Bradley Wiggins, and a stage win and the points jersey for Edvald Boasson Hagen. The Team Sky tour team is shaping up nicely.
Photo: © José António Fernandes (via Volta Ao Algarve 2012: Wiggins, Porte And Boasson Hagen On The Podium, Photos | Cyclingnews.com)
A good reminder of just how freaking tiny Richie Porte is, I mean he makes Wiggo look big and that dude’s ankles are the size of my wrists!
Feb
17
Speed Shop promo clip, courtesy of Simon and Paddy.
Shot by Paddy
Edited by me
And that’s me doing the riding IN THE BIG RING!
That means I was making him ride in the big ring, while I hid under a car sun protector to keep my camera out of the rain.
Jan
6
Help me out here guys! Go to this link (which is to my photo above), hit the facebook “like” button and you’re done. If you want to spread it around that’d be super awesome, because I want to win stuff :D
http://cyclingtips.olapic.com/168715052/1528810907/my-wymtm-for-cyclingtips-is-s_atkinson-fighting-through-the-rain-httpt-copmaixeik-what-you-missed-this-morning-finalists:most_voted
Dec
31
life:
Christophe Dessaigne photographs surreal scenes of lone figures wafering a post-apocalyptic landscape.
(via wisehart)
Dec
12
CCC Crits - 30/11/11
Nov
24
Hard, wet crit. The boys took out A through D grades, with me winning B. Great times.
Nov
13
Shot some Vikings Supercrits racing the other week in Canberra.
Everyone’s favourite @mome_raths Paddy pulled out second, then moved up to B grade this week and got second again. I’m stoked for him, but it’s making me think about giving up and growing my leg hair back. Getting dominated!
Simon’s a champ. For those (three of you) who don’t know what I look like, second photo, second wheel with the FML face.
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