News and links 10-13-08

• Sophia Lee is cool enough to share her blog with the rest of us mortals. (I'm just kidding: Sophia is waaaay cooler than most cyclists I know of.) She writes about racing, riding and what appears to be software for architects. Oh, and she doesn't eat donuts before racing. By the way, I keep finding blogs by cyclists from the Chicago/Illinois area. My most up-to-date blogroll is permanently posted on the right margin of Morning Roll. In particular, I would like to highlight two recent additions to the list: Joe Kallo, a Hyde Park resident, owner of a beautiful pink fixie, and recent addict to CX; and Radio Freddy, 50% of long-time favorite Belgium Knee Warmers, who apparently lives in the Chitown area. (Can anyone confirm this?)
• Chicago's "cycleway" project, on Oct. 5 and Oct. 26, got watered down, from Time Out Chicago. (Note to the TOC writer: it's "Bogotá", not "Bogatá"; and it´s "ciclovía", not "ciclovia"--accent marks exist for a reason: they alter pronunciation or distinguish between otherwise identical words.)
  
• Get married to cycling. Yes, I mean it. Padraig of BKW draws a parallel in several paragraphs of typically delicious prose.
  
• Jackie Chan fends off foes riding a celeste Bianchi. And apparently the Tati folks are not the only ones wearing knee-high argyle socks. (This video is only three-minutes long.) Hat tip to Cyclelicious.
  
• BikeRumor keeps flooding us with pictures and reviews from Interbike. DudeGirl clothing got my attention the other day. DudeGirl makes snazzy yet feminine cycling jerseys (which I like)...
  

...as well as skimpy outfits for runners (which I find horrendous):