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!

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!?

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