I kind of see your point if it is that members of one gender may have more difficulty making the cut to get in on the rides (and the business opportunities) than members of the other...... But, with mechanical doping, things can be equalized. And while there may be some puritanical reaction to such a heresy, it seems to me to be a lot better equalizer than a golf handicap -- everyone in the group can be riding to their physical capabilities and sharing in the burn, and yet the mismatched members of the group can hang with the rest.

I cant get past the picture which makes it look like they are riding in fog with visibility <100 feet or so......

Not so much gender necessarily, as much as culture. Bike riding in groups at a high exertion level isn't exactly embedded in every culture.

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"Go yell at an M&M"

Mr Levchin recalled of Sam Inkinen....

"It's rare that you have someone who can pitch a company while riding hard and I'm not slowing down."

Here is what I suspect:

Sam Inkinen was NOT riding hard. Inkinen could have made the pitch riding a Huffy with the banana seat.

Of course, Mr. Levchin wouldn't need to slow down. He is slow. But you can't tell him that.

The only problem for Inkinen was that he had to skip a real workout so as to hang out with these douche bags.

But work comes first I guess...

i'm disappointed that it's taken almost two pages for someone (yours truly) to point out how trite this article is: http://www.nytimes.com/...con-valley.html?_r=0

basically the same article from 2005, and it would appear that the author of the more recent article isn't even aware of the earlier article...

yeah, all the news that's fit to print...

This x 1000000

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Next races on the schedule: none at the moment

The paradox of endurance sports as a "networking" activity:

The best training partners are people that are as fast (or a little faster) than you are. They are young. They spend lots of time training. Make the same questionable choices you do.

They will usually be poorer and less well connected than you.

On the other hand.
The best people to network with are going to be older. They are going to spend most of their time working.
Usually they will become crappy athletes.

Nope. Just noting.

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clm
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