Unfortunately, it's still a comment thread on an article about bicycles, so as good as that one subthread is, the bulk of the comments are infuriating nonsense.

Suuuper long shot but I don’t suppose any of the cambridge bike people who are seeing this might happen to have found a brand new pair of boots from REI that were left in the front basket of a blue bike that my other half docked in central square yesterday? 😅🙏

Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92

It’s hard to express how important Iris was to ACT UP’s scientific development. She was the catalyst who started it all. Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

"Drake Bombs in Toronto" was just sitting there for the taking.

MassBike and Worcester Earn-A-Bike are hosting Adult 50+ Nights beginning April 21 and reoccurring every 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month from 5:30-7:30 pm from April to October. Learn, repair and connect. Located at 4 King Street, Worcester, down the driveway around back.

MassBike & Worcester Earn-A-Bike (WEAB) are hosting 50+ Adults Worcester Earn-A-Bike Nights, kicking off on April 21, 2026!

This is a free, fun, & hands-on way to get into bikes that meets twice a month on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays from April through October.

www.massbike.org/50_adults_wo...

A woman in bike clothes is sitting back in an office chair with her feet on the top tube of a stationary bike. She is looking at her phone and eating a stroopwafel.

Other Zwifters will appreciate that this is the advanced technique for descending Alpe du Zwift

As Trump Rants About Birds and Wind Turbines, the World Passes the US By It’s not hard to look around America today and see signs of...

I've been making this argument for years, so I'm always happy when someone like Josh Marshall puts it so much more coherently than I could.

The US could have been a world leader in renewable tech. Instead, we elected Trump president twice. Basically, we voted to be irrelevant.

The MtGox thing should have been the death knell for this whole scam

He looks more like Grandpa Munster every day.

Harvard University is offering a free online course on the U.S. Constitution, taught by my friend and mentor Thomas Patterson. Understanding our Constitution has rarely been more important. Here's how you can enroll. www.edx.org/learn/govern...

Oh thank God. I had my eyes dilated a few hours ago at my eye exam, and when the colors flipped, I was like "... that shouldn't happen, should it?" I had to ask my partner if I was seeing things.

Is the easter egg on your personal site the acid-trip color change thing?

I live in greater Boston, and we have a whole sub-genre of obnoxious tourists who come here to walk the Freedom Trail while simultaneously lecturing the locals about how we're not "really Americans."

MFers, we helped invent the damn thing!

"We can talk this through." Oh, honey, no, it's far too late for that.

She must be one of them paid crisis actors

You can't fool me, that's Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers

Is it just me, or does this look like Donald Trump is healing Jon Stewart?

"Armando pulled her close, and passionately IN 500 FEET TURN LEFT!"

Aargh, if I had any hair I'd be pulling it out in tufts

5km to ride in Paris-Roubaix Femme and the stream freezes.

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Wake up dogs, the party is here.

Wow, what a sprint for the line. I feel so bad for Tadej, but Wout absolutely earned it in the last 300m.

6km to ride, and it's just Pogačar and Van Aert at the front. This might be the best possible finish: a two-up sprint between to massive talents, neither of whom have ever won this race before.

We used to joke that there should be a special category of winner at Paris-Roubaix for "shortest elapsed time without a flat or a bike change." I'm not sure anyone will qualify for that category this year.

And now Van Der Poel flats in the middle of Arenberg, and has to steal a teammate's front wheel. MVDP has won three consecutive runnings of Paris-Roubaix, but it would be shocking now if he won a fourth today.

For most other riders this would have been a catastrope. But for Tadej, it's been a major nuisance to catch back on to the lead group, but he's already there.

And that's despite MVDP and Van Aert trying to drop the hammer on the next secteur of cobbles.

Arenberg Forest coming right up.

Martin Luther must be spinning so fast in his grave that you could hook him up to a generator and power all of Europe for a week.

A Sunday in Hell [HD remastered] - Paris Roubaix documentary (1976) YouTube video by De Muur

I think I first saw "A Sunday in Hell," a documentary of the 1976 running of Paris-Roubaix when I was about 14, and I should really watch it again. It's still considered an icon of the cycling documentary genre.

WHY we care about Paris-Roubaix so much... RACE PREVIEW YouTube video by Orla Chennaoui

If you want some pre-game analysis, @sportsorla.bsky.social has a good one.

And FWIW, my favorite secteur of cobbles is Trouée d'Arenberg (this will all make sense if you watch the video).

Official website of the Paris–Roubaix Femmes Hauts-de-France Official website of the Paris–Roubaix Women Hauts-de-France cycling race

Coverage of the women's race begins at 11:00AM EDT.