In this episode we discuss what we just witnessed at Road World Champs because yes, its gravel-coded in that male winner is a super domestique extraordinaire American cyclist that has skipped riding gravel… and by wearing the storied rainbow jersey seemed to have kicked that down the road for quite some time!!

The women’s race was awesome too but we always knew that was going to be the case.

We touch on Gravel Nats, The Rad, Sea Otter Girona drama and this and that and the other about gravel. There’s some tech talk as well. But this episode mostly serves roundup about the intersection of american popular culture and the modern cycling zeitgeist. Does gravel have anything in common with the viral lesbian covid bar? It is “punching down” to bring it up, or is it a tacit acknowledgement of the power of the narcissistic ‘call out’ fake activism in progressive politics and how for the betterment of the movement we need to be more like cycling’s Team USA (ironic) and understand that a general rising tide lifts all boats.

Mostly this pod is about Cecily Decker’s instagram post which stayed on the screen for almost the entirety of recording.

And yes I do know and believe long covid is real. I kinda, maybe had it at one point (what counts as “long”?) and the effects on my cognitive abilities lead me to creating this media empire.