The Big Picture | Antwerp Port Epic
In recent years the Antwerp Port Epic has been almost a pre-season cyclo-cross event. Going back to the time when … Continue reading The Big Picture | Antwerp Port Epic
In recent years the Antwerp Port Epic has been almost a pre-season cyclo-cross event. Going back to the time when … Continue reading The Big Picture | Antwerp Port Epic
A cold wet day in Namur saw continuing Dutch domination in the women’s field. The beginning of the women’s race … Continue reading The Big Picture | Namur World Cup – Women
Marianne Vos, Ceylon Carmen Alvarado and Anne-Marie Worst lead the race through the set up of planks at the top … Continue reading The Big Picture | Pont-Château World Cup
Like you need me to remind you that the gift giving season is right around the corner. But if you’re … Continue reading Crosshairs Gift Guide
There is a little known provision in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 requiring the Treasury Department to reimburse to all qualifying applicants up to $2000 of allowable costs for cycling-related improvements. Got that? The government will give you $2000 to help you be a better cyclist. Now this is stimulus spending you can believe in. Or, it would be if it were true. It’s not. I made it up. But let’s pretend the provision exists and you are given $2000 to make yourself a better cyclocross racer. How would you spend the cash?
It is a hypothetical not exclusive to the cycling community. In a recent article on his Web site, byThom, Nikon guru Thom Hogan analyzed the same question. What should an aspiring photographer do with $2000? Although his article dealt more with lenses and camera bodies than wheelsets and carbon frames, the bottom-line advice Hogan gives translates the same to both worlds. For instance, look at the three sentences below taken from his article and replace “images” and “photographer” with “results” and “bike racer.”
“There’s a real difference between wanting the latest equipment and wanting to create better images,” Hogan writes. “If you just want the latest gear, you fall into the Photographer Wannabe category. If you want to improve your images, congratulations, you probably are a Real Photographer.”
Around here, this is what we like to call a universal truth. Continue reading “The $2000 CX Upgrade: Every Picture Tells A Story”
In today’s digital age, if you raced on Sunday there is probably a picture of you somewhere on the interwebs … Continue reading Say ‘Mud Bog!’: Cycling Captured’s Anthony Skorochod