Padraig on Bicycling.com
One of cycling’s more prolific writers, Bicycling Magazine‘s Bill Strickland, is taking a break from his online duties to work on stuff for the print magazine; what exactly, I have no idea. What I can tell you is this: In their desperation for content, any content, they turned to RKP. To make matters worse, they asked me to be funny.
It seems they can both tell a joke as well as take one.
It’s a bit different from what I typically do here. The best I way I can think of to thank them for the opportunity is by suggesting you folks stop on by. You can either click on the picture of this really dirty Campy brake as seen on Bicycling‘s home page or just go here.
Padraig … http://www.tusharcrusher.com/ … 79 miles, half-road, half-dirt, one bike, 12000 feet of climbing, KOM at 11,500 feet, 18-mile/5500′ vertical dirt descent, finish at 10,300 feet … you know you wanna …
Among the many pages open in my browser currently is that one. Going to talk to some magazines to see who I can cover it for (and cover expenses). That looks like sick (maybe altitude sick) fun.
And yes … I do wanna.