Comments on: Hey Joe, do you ever follow what Jonathan Page is doing as a cyclocross racer in Europe and see similarities to your experience? I don’t know if you know him or much about his approach to racing in a foreign land but it seems like he’s about as alien there as you were back in the day. And yet, he keeps going at it. He could stay stateside and probably win tons of races but he obviously likes duking it out with the ‘Big Boys’.

By: Waffles & Steel

Waffles & Steel — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:24:55 +0000

Hey Joe,

I agree fully about the importance of history and how cycling is much more about math (which I really suck at). To hell with the critics. I’ve given your book a big thumbs up on my blog.

Chrs,

W&S

By: Matthew Walsh

Matthew Walsh — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:50:14 +0000

Joe, I am half way through your book and I am digging it big time. I like your wry, matter-of-fact story-telling and the Dorothy peek behind the curtain of racing in Belgium is fascinating to me. I plan on doing a review/plug for your book for my cycling blog. (Did a link in my lastest post, too.) Hope I get a chance to meet you sometime at asome event. Great stuff. Matt

By: Mark Zeh

Mark Zeh — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:36:34 +0000

Hi Joe,

I agree with your sentiments on this!

Recently I was visiting my old friend B.L. in the American Midwest. He was telling me about some local guys who apparently have taken performance-enhancing stuff, of the illegal sort, just so that they could be the Kings of the Wednesday Night Crit series.

I’m not sure what it feels like inside to know that you had to cheat to win some local crits, but I do know that this kind of kills the buzz for the rest of the hobby racers that these guys are up against…

-Mark