Shots!

Tom Boonen of Team Quick Step tested positive for drugs in April. He was allowed to continue racing since they weren’t of the performance enhancing variety.

“I was very drunk. I do not know what happened, but the next day I tested positive for cocaine,” he said.

He has an interview on Cycling News talking about not getting blind drunk every time he goes out drinking. Hey buddy, we all ride bikes and drink lots of beer. Don’t get too down on yourself.

via Deadspin

Portlanders are into bikes as much as people from Minneapolis. And with bike love comes beer and generalized earthiness. But now Portland is beating us in the new Cold War of beer/bike technology. It’s only a matter of time until we get our own Hopworks-style Bike Bars in the Midwest. I think we still would have gotten that the guy in the video was a biker; he could have taken his helmet off for the interview. I like the idea of having two full kegs on tap that are attached to my bike, but I imagine they’d get shaken to hell. You’d have to pour off half a keg of foam before you got a decent beer. That said, you can’t argue with bikes and beer. I’ll stick to cans and a messenger bag for now-less likely to get arrested.

via Wend

Armstong drinking some Michelob Ultra.

Lance. I try so hard to like you for the good work you do with cancer, but this is too much. I don’t give a shit if you date the 17-year-old Olsen sisters and are generally a jerk, but this is beer we’re talking about. Bikes and beer go together-everyone knows that. But you becoming the poster boy for Michelob Ultra is a step away from the Bikes and Beer culture. I’d rather see you support Sharps Amber, at least that has some taste. This ULTRA garbage drives me crazy. Their commercials look like they’re trying to sell Gatorade, and the stuff tastes like shit. I may as well drink hydrogen peroxide to try to get drunk. Now everyone who understands bikes only through Lance Armstrong is going to think we’re a bunch of spandex-wearing, pussy-beer-drinking Nancies. Thanks.