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More than a jersey. East Portland Youth Cycling.
I have known James Newman since one of my first Team Oregon bike rides when Sam and I moved to Portland back in 1994. We hit it off...
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billcassdesign
- Mar 29
- 9 min
The McCormack Brothers.
If you compete in any sport for a length of time there will be some random day when you cross paths with an athlete that instantly...
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billcassdesign
- Mar 18
- 6 min
An Epic Day with Dave Geissert. Martha's Vineyard 1987
On a Saturday in mid September of 1987 I drove in a sliver of dawn the 40 or so miles from my Dad’s house to the Ferry Launch for...
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billcassdesign
- Mar 12
- 3 min
Scarborough Criterium Series 2023.
One thing I have always loved about bike racing is that it is not always the strongest rider who wins the race. If that were the case I...
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billcassdesign
- Feb 28
- 10 min
TONY DOYLE. "Don't try this at home."
When the whistle blurted out and pierced the air I can’t say I was surprised. Now to find out whether I was about to be D’Q’d or given a...
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billcassdesign
- Feb 14
- 6 min
Gamache's Cyclery, 65 Laurel Street, Fitchburg, Massachusetts
I am weirdly nostalgic about many things. Even when I was young I saw greater meaning in objects or events than most kids my age. This...
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billcassdesign
- Jan 27
- 7 min
1899 World Professional Sprint Champion Major Taylor
In the spring of 1981, I rolled up to the house of my soon-to-be life long friend Alan Cote. We had met at the Fitchburg Cycling Clubs’...
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billcassdesign
- Jan 15
- 6 min
The One and Only BB
“Have you ever heard of Beryl Burton?” interjected my TeamO captain Jonathan Walpole during a chat around the table a few years ago. I...
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billcassdesign
- Jan 11
- 4 min
Once upon a Velodrome.
I loved track racing before I had ever ridden a single lap on a banked oval. My cycling teammate and friend Alan Cote's dad had a...
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billcassdesign
- Dec 30, 2022
- 2 min
The Tale of Two Sisters (Part 2)
After Finishing my previous "Megan the Vanquisher" image Nathan said he would like me to do a drawing of his younger sister Amie. Nathan...
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billcassdesign
- Dec 29, 2022
- 3 min
The Tale of Two Sisters (Part 1)
I spent a couple hours doing a sketch for one of my illustrations and then somehow lost it. It was an image of two teenagers hiking out...
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billcassdesign
- Dec 26, 2022
- 1 min
Just an Ordinary Guy
Steven Payne is absolutely the opposite of Ordinary. Steven is a friend of Lex Rudd who is an acquaintance we made thru some of our...
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billcassdesign
- Dec 26, 2022
- 6 min
All for One.
SCOTT MACEACHERN’s name appeared on my phone in bold letters and I dove for it. 99% of the time if Scott called it was going to be...
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billcassdesign
- Dec 11, 2022
- 2 min
My Monster Truck.
A friend from our time in Michigan came to me with an intriguing image challenge. Alan has a son named Rhys. At times Rhys regales Alan...
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billcassdesign
- Nov 26, 2022
- 8 min
The Story of Nymbol
and why that name means something to our family. In 2008 I was toiling away at my desk, working on a new 3D program for footwear design,...
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billcassdesign
- Nov 23, 2022
- 6 min
Lance part one.
The Get Well Card Many years ago I was sitting at my desk when Scott MacEachern, the director of Nike sports marketing for cycling came...
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billcassdesign
- Nov 22, 2022
- 4 min
Bumbles Don't Bounce
Well that didn't go as expected 22 years and 11 months ago was that last time my wife Sam and I rode on Porcupine Rim Trail in Moab. We...
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billcassdesign
- Nov 21, 2022
- 13 min
Electric Dreams
"What do you think about an electric bike?" “Go F(bleeeeeeep)k Yourself!” Sam said and then followed those words with another ...
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billcassdesign
- Nov 21, 2022
- 5 min
How Deep Can you Fall
An UnExpected Summer Did you ever dig a hole so big you are sure you are never going to crawl out of it? I have. Some herniated disks,...
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billcassdesign
- Nov 21, 2022
- 2 min
Flanders Fields
James Newman spent a wonderfully hard summer getting getting his ass handed to him in Belgium. He did have a couple great days on the...
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