Dance Dance Dance Dance Dance To The Radio

As you may or may not or may may not be aware, WBAI, the station that was broadcasting my radio show, has stopped broadcasting:

Hey, at least I got mentioned in the article:

Oh well, it was a good run.  Yes, my radio career was quite the thrill ride.  There I was, sitting on the couch eating Doritos a few months back, when the WBAI program director called and asked me if I wanted to be on the radio.  "Sure," I replied, brushing the crumbs off my gut and shuffling off to the shower, and the rest is history.  On one foot I'm sad that I no longer have a radio outlet on which to bloviate, but on the other foot I no longer have to schlep all the way to Brooklyn every Monday, so it all works out in the end.

Of course, WBAI is simply the latest victim in a long series of august enterprises I've successfully tanked.  For example, there was Islabikes, who sent me (well, my son) a bike to test and then shuttered their United States headquarters:

Then there was Renovo, and we all know what happened with them:

As for why this is happening, I have two theories:

1) Companies only reach out to me out of sheer desperation, and by the time they do they've already got one foot in the grave;

B) I am truly cursed and my touch causes even the ripest fruit to wither and die on the vine.

Either way, I imagine Tresca are like, "What the hell were we thinking?"

Speaking of the Tresca, while I may not have been blown away by its performance in a racing scenario, I'm not writing it off by any means, and will continue to experiment with it as time permits.  Unfortunately I don't have unlimited access to a wide variety of components, but certainly swapping wheels with my plastic bike is in order, and a saddle change as well as a swap to a longer stem with some rise would also be worthwhile.  I will say though that when, the day after the race, I hopped on my Plastic Fred Sled I was like, "Wow, this bike feels good:

Then when I hopped on my new-to-me titanium "Forever Bike" I was like, "Wow, this bike feels really good:"

I may not have a radio show anymore, but I'm in a pretty good place as far as bikes go, anyway.  And isn't that what's most important?

Finally, I've got a new column on the Outside website, and it's about how we should stop making such a big fucking deal about bike lanes already:

If the media constantly referred to toilets as "controversial" we probably wouldn't have enough of them either.