Belgium Knee Warmers™

The season is rapidly approaching its half way point and with it comes low resting pulse rates, increased metabolisms, irate drivers, and a ...

Few things complement each other as well as bikes and coffee. The crew at Laguna Cyclery have mastered this concept. However, don't sho...

When Radio Freddy first asked me to contribute to Belgium Knee Warmers , I wasn’t quite sure what to make of his blog. It was interesting, b...

Astana has released the final three names in its Tour de France roster. Sergio Paulinho, Gregory Rast and Dmitriy Muravyev have been selecte...

Some years ago, when I was making rent with a wrench, a woman came into the shop with a Holdsworth made from Reynolds 531. She had decided i...

Chad Gerlach rolled boxcars at the Tour de Nez on stage 2, getting a win and following it up with a top-10 finish in the final stage to give...

Drug use in cycling is a frequent, if unpleasant, topic here at BKW . It is a cancer that has the potential to destroy the top echelon of cy...

There was a time when an advertisement told a story in words. You’d see a picture of the product and below some copy would talk about the pr...

USADA has handed down an eight-year suspension for Tyler Hamilton. The Rock Racing rider tested positive in February tested positive for tes...

La Gazzetta dello Sport has gotten the admission of the year. Alberto Contador has declared that in addition to the Schleck brothers, Carlos...

I can’t let this one go. The UCI has declared that they can’t complete disciplinary proceedings against Tom Boonen in relation to his second...

The ongoing turmoil at Astana has, surprisingly, overshadowed the Tour de France dress rehearsal race Dauphiné Libéré. The battle for suprem...

By now you’ve heard that Team Katusha’s Antonio Colom is the second rider from the Russian team to test positive for EPO. Christian Pfannber...

Not since the La Vie Claire team of 1986 has there been a more curious cycling team than the 2009 Astana team. Last winter I wrote a piece f...

Viewers of the 2009 Giro d’Italia who followed the race in its entirety can be forgiven for thinking the final outcome was a foregone conclu...

How many races can you think back on where the performance you remember isn’t the rider who won, but the rider who animated the race? Was in...

Since my earliest days of racing, I found the role of domestique oddly sexy. The nearly behind-the-scenes efforts of a leadout rider to ensu...

Levi Leipheimer's record of three Grand Tour podium finishes is the best of any current rider who has yet to win a Grand Tour. Consideri...

It seems that every year the Giro organizers come under fire for some aspect of race logistics. Last year, it was the crazy and lengthy tran...