steve outing's blog

Hey, everyone. The YourCycling.com tech gnomes have been hard at work making the site better.

In recent days they rolled out ... MAPS ATTACHED TO STUFF!

You may have noticed these already on some photos, videos or blogs. When someone posts content to YourCycling.com, they're now given the option of identifying on a map where the content belongs physically.

Bobby Bostic completed both the North Pole Marathon AND the first-ever bike race at the North Pole over the weekend. He may be the first person to have endo'ed at the pole. Now he's hanging out in Longyearbyen, Norway.

What should we call this? Is it cyclo-cross? A mountain bike race? It's certainly not a road race. Definitely call it historic.

I just learned that you can now sign up for a 2008 bike race at the North Pole. It will happen in April 2008, and participating racers will do 26.2 miles on a loop course at the geographic North Pole.

YourCycling.com enthusiast-in-chief Whitey Debroux had a truly nasty crash during a race in Mexico last year -- when his bike broke apart on a final sprint to the finish line and his face hit the pavement at 40 mph.

Hi, everyone. Here's news of a new thing we've instituted here on YourCycling.com:

If you write a blog about cycling (that's hosted someplace other than YourCycling.com), we can help you get a larger audience. Just add your cycling-related blog to our Blog Share Program so that your content will appear on this website as well as your own -- with links to your blog.

This is primarily a way for new readers to discover your blog and boost the size of your audience. But there's also financial incentive: We'll run Google contextual text ads alongside your blog content, then split the revenue with you.

YourCycling.com is ready for you! We've finished putting the site together, and now the future of this new online community is in your hands. We hope you'll take the opportunity to share some of your biking life here -- your best photos, videos, and stories of the road.