El-Reedo

Dartmoor Thumper

This guy is more than just a road racer that took banned performance enhancers (forget the fact that, oh, ALL of the competition at that level took them). This guy is a role model for an un-imaginable number of people suffering from cancer. He overcame an illness that takes down most poeple unlucky enough to have it, and he came back so hard that he competed and won at an internatioinal level of a professional sport. This whole big thing is a witch hunt. There's obviously some very silly people who govern the sport of road biking who have a personal vendetta against this man, and they've taken it so far as to do everything possible to ruin his name. Now I'm not saying it's a good thing to do what he did, I'm saying that making a public spectacle out of a person who provides inspiration to cancer patients is not cool.

That was a rad video. But no, you don't want to ride in the snow; it's not as good as this looks. However the bike-crippling falls are real, and just like what was shown. Only there's more of them.

Bring the right tool for the right job. Park and shuttle runs need a burly bike, the ride to the grocery store needs a cruiser, and pedal accessible riding needs something in between. Opinions can be too generic, so know what you're up against and plan accordingly.

Hulk Hogan, all the way.