Saturday, March 2, 2024

White Lightning: Triple: The Beginning

 




Finding fulfillment

More than a four letter word

Inspirational


Sunday, February 25, 2024

I've Still Got It...The Juice Is Flowing

 

  
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It is well known among cycling scholars that if one is anointed by Mongo as his "Guy", good things immediately start to happen. Nothing has changed in 2024.

Most people would be content with being Belgian, handsome, and having some of the best hair in the game, I know I would, but WVA also likes winning bike races.

After a third place podium finish at Fruitloop Net Hasselblad, the one man boy band comes back strong the next day and wins Karen-Brassieres-Karen.

As significant as these results are, the legit Spring Classics are right around the corner and it's about to get real.

Mongo is ready...I'm talking to you, Van der Poel!


Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Hard Tales...The Pun Isher

                                                                                                                                                                                     


   I assume that most of you know by now that Mongo was one of the original pioneers of mountain biking in the United States and the lower Americas.

 Patrons in the hallowed halls of smug, cycling centric coffee spots, along with those who like to hot-box in a Subaru whilst traversing a Taco Bell drive-thru, all put Mongo's name on the Mt Rushmore of legends with the likes of Fisher and Ritchey and Knievel.

 Unlike fellow hall of famers, Mongo's mountain biking journey to greatness began in 1992 in the hotbed of the scene...Miami, Florida!

...To be continued!?


Thursday, February 1, 2024

The Season Approaches...I Need A New "Guy"

 



   Where to begin?... No, really, where should I begin?

There is so much to talk about but so little effort on Mongo's part to do anything about it. Sitting down and writing these days is harder than prying a half-priced Margarita from the hands of a frustrated school teacher at a Bennigan's happy hour who is already two and a half deep in the first hour and is woo wooing every time a new person arrives while getting the judgmental side-eye from most of her colleagues . *(60 Word Sentence...Illegal in nine countries)

 I will do my best and try to power through the malaise and regale everyone with my verbal gymnastics, but instead of insight and thoughtful prose, there will more than likely be unsubstantiated proclamations and unfounded predictions mixed in with a smattering of hack writing and laziness. Here we go!


1...Wout Van Aert is Mongo's "Guy" for 2024  ( RIP Edvald Boasson Hagen (He's not dead)...Previous "Guy")

2...Tadej Pogacar will win the Tour de France

3...Mathieu van der Poel will win three Monuments and repeat as World Champion

4...Mongo is back, baby! (We'll see, I still have my doubts)

5...To be continued



Monday, January 15, 2024

Time To Musk Up



Well, another year has passed and Mongo has tied the record for fewest blog posts attempted or delivered in said calendar year. The magic number is three. This dismal effort has been repeated four times since Mongo first started the now world famous blog in 2007. It is a horrifying statistic that would stand on its own as a low point if it were not for the fact that the year 2022 does not exist in the table of contents.

   Apparently, Mongo was embarking on his Vision Quest in Bolivia and things got a little out of hand. The entire year was a blur and details are scarce, but a short stint at The Canyons after returning stateside seemed to do the trick.

   Mongo's official slogan for 2024 is "Go For Four". 

Mongo would like to get back into double digits if possible. It may seem like a tall order for all those who doubt the likelihood, but for the tens of people who have been with me since the beginning will know, way back in 2009 Mongo had 460 posts. The internet access at Rikers was surprisingly good for the time, and it turned out that some of the guys on the yard were big fans of Andreas Kloden.   

 

Thursday, October 5, 2023

Together We'll Cross The River



When it feels perfect

No barrier is too high

Believe in what's true


Thursday, September 28, 2023

Whose Time Is It?


 

Now is the time to remember yesterday but live for today

Now is the time to look inside but embrace the unknown 

Now is the time to whisper of the future but enjoy every moment

Now is the time

Monday, April 17, 2023

The Contender



 Lack of discipline in an unattended garden

Excuses grow on the excrement of delusion

Grief and belief and speculation of intent

Running too far to get home


Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Gravity And The Unknown


To be or to pretend to be 

To thrive or fail through self or the boundaries of imposition

The purpose of the son pursuant to the pride of the penance

A four chord melody balancing the scales of time

 

Monday, January 18, 2021

Looking For America


Contempt for a future saturated with fear

Intent on a masterpiece with expectations clear

Credible roots borrowed from time

Indelible truths exposing the crime

 

Thursday, January 7, 2021

For What He Never Knew



Suppressing reality in pursuit of flight

Asking questions with multiple answers

Waking to the sound of guilty eyes 

Reckoning time and abandoned inhibition


Monday, December 7, 2020

Always



Sometimes the smell of the wet pavement

Sometimes decaying leaves mix with fossil fumes

Sometimes the hum of the earth is all that is spoken

Sometimes doing everything while accomplishing nothing 


Tuesday, December 1, 2020

There Is More To This Life


 A child of the sixties and a child almost sixty

Observation over participation...a lonely affair

Demanding distance in cultural climaxes

Entangled in the fringe of unconditional surrender