Month: February 2012

Cheers

Last weekend I got dressed up in my best gear , headed out with my friends, had a bite to eat drank loads, got hammered and came home legless . We caught up on all the news and gossip, there was plenty of slagging and things went a bit wild towards the end. Before people …

Smell the coffee

Recently on Facebook there was a link doing the rounds that told the story of a busker playing a violin for 45 minutes in a Washington Metro station .Very few people paid any attention whatsoever to the busker apart from a few kids who had to be dragged away by their parents. In total only …

The PDM hat

When the boss of the Phillips Corporation in Eindhoven gave the go ahead for subsidiary company PDM to sponsor a cycling team in the late eighties I wonder if he realised the full extent of just how far the sponsorship deal would reach . For a number of years the PDM cassette and video tapes …

News

Around 11 this morning Twitter, Facebook and many cycling news websites went on fire with news of Alberto Contadors’ 2 year doping suspension. By 1pm RTE were showing a video clip from the 2010 Tour with Contador in yellow crossing the finish line. Obviously I was just as curious as anyone to find out the …