well you've got some P3C's so give us a low down, we all know it looks good

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Trizilla...My local bike shop a few thousand Ks away


Speed Hurts ...How fast do you want to go

How about something on Cipo?

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Suffer Well.

my favorite editorial you wrote was the one about calvin/colin. maybe you could do another piece on the other people in your world - bike shop employee/your cats/parents...

TRuthfully, it may be a while before I really review the P3C since I have yet to get one in my size and actually do a lot of work with one. The only thing I know at this point about it is that it looks nice and seems like a relative bargain.

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Tom Demerly
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I do like to write the sort of characterizations of people in my little world on this corner of earth. They are fascinating characters.

Do other people find this interesting? It is easy to get inspired by that- there is a lot to talk about.

Colin's brother Steven is an interesting figure now.

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Tom Demerly
The Tri Shop.com

How about some stories from your past as a professional cyclist?

That would be quick since I was never a professional cyclist.

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Tom Demerly
The Tri Shop.com

Hey, I was just trying to be polite! I vaguely recall you describing it as "bush league?"

How about what it's like to be an Airborne Ranger.

That's easy:

Wait around.

Clean things.

Clean them again.

Wait some more.

Do secret shit.

Clean up after it.

Wait around for more secret shit.

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Tom Demerly
The Tri Shop.com

It was an elite amateur team more specifically, which allowed us to race in events with Sean Kelly, Laurent Fignon and Greg LeMond (can you tell how old I am). It was cool, but I sucked.

Actually though, that is a pretty good idea.......

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Tom Demerly
The Tri Shop.com

Simple..."Why is it a MOP'er keeps coming back...and why did they start to begin with...what is at the end of the journey for the rest of us..."



Or, track down some former FOP'ers but not top 10 folks...find out why they quit...and what they do now.

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What if the Hokey Pokey is what it is all about?

That is huge. Five stars on that one.... I already have a title.

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Tom Demerly
The Tri Shop.com

All I ask is for credit on the idea :-)

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What if the Hokey Pokey is what it is all about?

Tha's a given. I really do like that idea.

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Tom Demerly
The Tri Shop.com

How about an interview with your friend Frankie Andreu? It would be interesting to hear his take on the current state of things, and whether or not he's ever going to join the tri world.

More fiction, a la your special forces piece.

Maybe profiles on some of the Slowtwitch personalities ... who they are, what they do, why they do it. that sort of thing.

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"In case of flood climb to safety"

I wrote a follow up to the special forces thing featuring the same fictional character who returned to Iraq in Gulf II as a private contractor. It was written when Scotty H. was killed in Falujah on the bridge.

It was too edgy though, and probably would get me in the same trouble as the first one (http://www.bikesportmichigan.com/...orials/0000023.shtml). I was pissed when I wrote it, so all the bad guys died ugly.

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Tom Demerly
The Tri Shop.com

how about where this notion of triathletes being "friendly" came about? Seriously, I hear about it, and have experienced it, but have also experienced some serious snobiness. Is this "encouraging notion" in tri, a part of what defines us? I hear people say "oh I started tri cuz I heard everyone's nice" etc. but at the same time I've seen some elitism from some towards newbies... which doesn't help some of our more fragile egos...

or maybe i'm just ranting about some jerks in a local club that were snubbing us today...

tell me some more about this please: What happened?

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Tom Demerly
The Tri Shop.com

Is that your story "An Elite Athlete?" because I just found that in our office recently and almost fell off of my chair when I saw you wrote it.

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Have you hugged Your Mom today?

That's it. It turned a few heads.

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Tom Demerly
The Tri Shop.com

Hi Tom

Can you do two new articles, these are of high importance:

What is the best bike?

and

If I remove the water bottle cages from my bike will I go faster?

Thanks

;-)

(now I sound like SAC ... or maybe Monk)

Hey, what do you get when you cross SAC with Monk? ....

A SAC-Monkey ... of course!

This may not be material for an editorial, but what is the status on your book deal? When are we going to see your work on the best sellers list?

My agent pitched it to damn near every huge publisher. As I received the most polite and flattering rejection letters from the finest editors he told me, "Don't be discouraged, you are competing with Hillary Clinton, Martha Stewart and Oprah for publishing space." I actually have a rejection letter from the editor who bought "The Davinci Code".

He was fishing in very deep water. Somewhat oddly, many publishers and editors said the category was full. Then the Dean Karnazes book came out and a lot of money was spent on the hype surrounding it- it was on the front page of CNN.com. I was like, "Ahhh, what about this?"

As a result, we are going through round two with "The Tango Variable", the book about terrorism and special operations. It is a cool book if I do say so myself and has potential.

The first book, "Race to a Distance Sunrise" has morphed into another concept called "Never Out of the Woods" about owning a small business in America.

One problem with my agent is that he may be too big and is pitching to publishers who want the Hillary Clintons, Martha Stewarts and other celebrity authors. The up side is that when a deal does get inked it will be huge. When he told me what he was proposing as a price tag I was stunned into silence. Suffice it to say, had any one of the couple hundred publishers he pitched it to taken me up on it I would have never had to work a day again. but of course, I would have worked them all- so nothing really changes.

I will get something out there. It it my primary lifetime goal.

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Tom Demerly
The Tri Shop.com