Comments on: Review, Part II: The Loyal Lieutenant, by George Hincapie

By: ebook strategy

ebook strategy — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 19:03:49 +0000

I like the helpful information you provide in your articles.
I will bookmark your blog and check again here regularly.
I am quite sure I will learn a lot of new stuff right here!
Best of luck for the next!

my blog post – ebook strategy

By: Mrflux

Mrflux — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 21:07:55 +0000

I just finished this book. I have to say, Fatty was much kinder than I would have been. How does one come off so badly in a book they write about themselves?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 00:24:49 +0000

Fatty,

Great review, do more of these please, you just saved me a couple of bucks and hours of reading.

I liked the objectivity in there and the idea that it took a comment or two above provided even more insight. So kudos to the readers you have accumulated.

Cheers

Andrew

By: Andrew Valko

Andrew Valko — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:46:48 +0000

Hi Fatty, it would seem that your email account has been hacked. I’ve been receiving spam emails about once per week from your address for the past several weeks. You may want to investigate further to ensure no important details have been compromised. Cheers, Andrew.

It’s not that my email account has been hacked, it’s that it’s spoofed. – FC

By: Felipe P.

Felipe P. — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 04:08:26 +0000

Another hearty recommendation for Phil Gaimon’s “Pro Cycling on $10 a day”. I couldn’t put it down! Candid, entertaining, sometimes heartbreaking, and other times tears-in-your-eyes funny.

By: MattC

MattC — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 18:44:55 +0000

OH, and on a diff note, my brother Greg is out crewing for a friend riding the RAAM as a solo rider(it started yesterday morning down in San Diego). Here’s a link to the race tracking site:

http://tractalis.com/raam2014/

His friend is Dale Capewell, racer # 493 (I think). He plans to ride 300 miles a day for 10 days, roughly 20 hours a day in the saddle (if you can imagine that). They’re climbing in Arizona as of this morning, in the HEAT!

By: MattC

MattC — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 18:36:43 +0000

@AUChefD, AMEN brother! I’ve been over the doping thing for a while now. Quite honestly, I never had a dog in the hunt so to speak (ie: it didn’t PERSONALLY affect me), so why should I waste energy being angry about it? That should be reserved for the Frankie’s/Betsy’s, and the rest of those that were truly wronged, along with all the ‘clean’ racers in that era that were cheated (and yes, I mean both of them).

There’s SO MUCH judgment going on over these guys decision to dope. Reminds me of the saying “never judge a man until you’ve walked a mile in his shoes”. I can’t fathom having the talent and doing the work and finally arriving to your dream, “the show” of professional bike racing in the mid 90’s… and then being pretty much forced to decide whether to dope, to ride clean and most likely be 2nd tier your entire career (however short that would be) or to pack it in and go home. It’s quite easy to armchair QB this and say you’d have made a diff choice.

And the OTHER saying that comes to mind is “let he without sin cast the first stone”. Anybody out there with NOTHING you’ve ever done that you’re ashamed of or wish you had done differently? Just my 2 cents.

And Leroy, if your dog ever writes a book (you’d obviously be his ghost writer) I’d buy it.

By: Brandy

Brandy — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 14:52:40 +0000

I second Phil Gaimon’s book. Funny and a refreshing change from all the doping books.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 14:18:32 +0000

I recommend Phil Gaimon’s book. It is an entertaining, honest & easy read.

I am already reading this book and plan to review it soon. – FC

By: AUChefD

AUChefD — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 12:41:21 +0000

Thanks for the review. Perhaps the sub-title should have been, “How I am cashing in on Lance”. At least you would have been more prepared for what you read.
I said all along that I don’t care what these guys did, it is over, just don’t vilify one and make the rest out as poor helpless heroes. They still can’t find anyone clean to give those yellow jerseys to.