Derailed Issue Four
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This was a busy time in work and in life. We had been working on a lot of content over at Cycling.TV, and this, a monthly cycling quiz with fiendishly difficult questions and only modest prizes, was one of the early leaders in the new, more fun content format. It combined our obsessive knowledge of cycling trivia with our more general chaotic nature.
Later editions got us in so much trouble that it was eventually canceled. But this was young and new, and we wanted it to be a success, so we made it an entire Derailed monthly update.
Published April 30, 2008
Aw shit, we’ve already broken schedule. This month was supposed to be our “Tech Support” issue, followed by us taking May off and just updating for the end of June, but then technology and health conspired to ruin any of those plans.
Cycling.tv to the rescue, then. We actually had a large part to play in creating the questions for their Giro d’Italia “Beat the Brains,” and since they were so keen to have it featured on here, we’ve happily obliged.
Address your complaints to Cycling.tv, not us. They’re used to it.
(Lmao, they made the video private in the… the… fuck, the 14 years since we did this.)
PS.
Let’s spare a thought for NGC Medical-OTC Industria Porte, who’ve been unjustly excluded from the Giro d’Italia for nothing that their current team has done. Or their past team. Despite having been invited to ride the Giro at the start of the year and basing their entire season on this participation, RCS have kicked them out at the last minute to make way for Team Astana. Presumably they were worried about the prospect of finally having a Giro winner who wasn’t going to subsequently turn out to be a dope cheat.
So far, the people who were saying that it was illegal and wrong for Astana to not be invited to the Tour de France haven’t yet started campaigning for this much greater infraction. We’re starting a Let Massimiliano Maisto Ride campaign in order to ensure that the team gets reinstated into the Giro, so that cycling doesn’t lose yet another sponsor, and so that these young, passionate professionals get the career highlight and moment in the spotlights that they’ve been preparing for over the past five months.
This month’s issue is pyar full of copyright, ya get me lad? Normally we’re not even arsed if you’re robbing are shit but it’d be dead shady to rip off Cycling.tv after they’ve let us bang it on here, so don’t do it you fuckin’ meff.