The  world seemed to have one eye focused on Mandela and his celebrations in London last Friday, and the other back home, on Southern Africa and its present crisis.

(Nelson Mandela)

Xterra Czech 2008: Hluboka nad Vltavou.
DNF: Puncture (Another)

(Getting set for the start on a soccer field to a castle back drop)

Here with a copied version of the Xterra Newsletter sent out earlier today… Should a battle royal tomorrow!

Specialized played the marketing dream card last weekend in Italy at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships, starting Christoph Sauser on the revamped Epic for the first time. I’ll accept Sauser rode like a beast and tore the race apart. But, the most visible difference from being outsprinted three weeks prior to winning a world [...]