Author Archives: SalRuibal
Waiting for the Giro
By Sal Ruibal | Photo by Veeral Patel You can’t fast-forward the Giro d’Italia. You can’t buy an advance copy before your friends. You have to wait. In the rain and in the cold, you don’t bitch about the weather. … Continue reading
Dirty Words | Fear of the Unknown
By Sal Ruibal I can’t even get angry with humanity anymore. Everywhere you look, somebody or something is blowing up and the TV and the Internets are full of looping video of flames and smoke and body parts. Some people … Continue reading
Dirty Words: The Sky was Born Today
By Sal Ruibal “Oshkosh, Wisconsin, sounds like the squarest city in America. The home of OshKosh B’gosh and Ardy & Ed’s Drive-In is hardly a Portland on Lake Winnebago. But if not for a momentous event that took place here … Continue reading
Dirty Words | The Road to Hell
Good intentions, bad drivers and lots of coffee By Sal Ruibal Sunday, muddy, Sunday. It just turns out that way. Paris-Roubaix is probably the toughest one-day race on the UCI road calendar, with the possible exceptions of the super-sized, full-length … Continue reading
Dirty Words | Brother, can you lend me a Hand Job?
By Sal Ruibal Friends, riders and countrymen, lend me your eyes. I come to praise the Ibis Hakkalügi Hand Job, not to bury it. But in the very near future, when humans no longer require cantilever brakes on their cyclocross … Continue reading
The Spring Classics: Two’s a rivalry, three’s a crowd
By Sal Ruibal | Photos by Mark Johnson One of the positive things about doing anything for a long time is seeing how patterns form. In the small, but very important, universe of the Spring Classics, we are now witnessing … Continue reading
Dirty Words | Faux Roubaix: A Cold Day in Hell
By Sal Ruibal Photo by Rich Hays Those guys in Paris-Roubaix ain’t so tough. The April 7th race doesn’t even start in Paris, so right off the bat there’s a whole slew of road not traveled. The start in Compiegne … Continue reading
Dirty Words: Il Papa needs a brand new bike
By Sal Ruibal I’m not a “lapsed Catholic,” I’m more of an eclipsed Catholic. The whole idea of finding my way in the Church has been eclipsed by riding my way through the wonderful woods and creeks just behind my … Continue reading
Dirty Words: Note to North Korea—Don’t mess with our “Missile”
By Sal Ruibal Illustration by Ryan LaBar I usually like to keep my politics separate from my fun, but since this was National Bike Summit week in D.C. and one of the goals – before the “Snowquester” blew in – … Continue reading
Dirty Words: How I got that shot
Words and Photos by Sal Ruibal I know this will come as a surprise to many of you, but some people think I’m a bit weird. That’s not because I ride a rigid, single-speed steel 29er in all conditions. And … Continue reading
