It's a strange thing to be here at the bottom of the internet - the very bottom - and gazing way up towards the top, at one of the web's most-useful artifices (cat videos and porn notwithstanding) and seeing them way up there talking about us way down here.
From Wikipedia:
"Each year a loyal group of riders in Charlottesville, Virginia attempts to pay homage to Marco Pantani by meeting on his birthday weekend and climbing the most ridiculously steep gravel climbs in the area. It is a grassroots ride/race that began in 2005 where the winner gets to keep the "Pink Jersey" until the next Pantani ride/race the following year."
Which is pretty neat, right?
Unless you consider that the riders to which the wiki refers are not "loyal" by any means, or that we meet on the anniversary of Pantani's death and not his birthday, or that we fight, tooth and nail, or at least B-Slow and Qwadsworth do, to wear a Jersey that is the color of a pistachio nut, and not pink at all except for where the blood won't wash out.
So it's kinda neat, I guess, but not accurate.
If McCardell didn't write that while he was near-blackout drunk, I'm out of guesses.
Here's the truth, though:
Pantani2020 is Feb 9th, Sunday at 10 AM from the Paranormal field.
Everything else is just the rest of the internet.
Might not be a bad idea to ride your bike this weekend.
From the very bottom, keep spinning, keep looking up, up, up.
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