El Mero Chingón welcomes you to check out the mojo-mofos at

 "Huh?  What's BikeMojo??  And who is "El Mero Chingón" and what the hell does that mean?  Isn't that a bad word?  I don't speak Spanish!  And what the hell does your signature quote there mean, too?"  

You'd be surprised how often I hear that from people.  I mean, c'mon!  

Seriously, allow me to e'splain...

BikeMojo is my favorite cycling resource on the internet.  It has a fairly extensive search engine along with technical articles on things like bike maintenance.  But it's perhaps best known for it's web forum.  It's fairly similar to www.bikeforums.com or www.ridemonkey.com only it's based right here in San Antonio.  At last count, there were over 2200 registered members from all over the State of Texas and parts beyond; all with not much else in common except for the love of having FUN while cycling.  No, it's not a club and no one really 'belongs' to it, rather, its just an online community where a motley cast of characters hang out to post about whatever the hell they feel like, without organizational constraints or PC police imposed on it.  Sometimes, we'll even actually talk about cycling (but trust me, if such an occurrence were to happen, it would promptly revert back to beer or p0rn within a couple of message postings!).  So go check it out.  Be sure to tell 'em "El Mero Chingón" sent ya.

So who is this "El Mero Chingón" person?  Ummm, that would be me, yours truly.  Literally, "El Mero" es la persona principal, the most important in certain settings or circumstances.  And "chingón" is a Spanish vulgarity that is used to express "el sumamente bueno" -the superlative.  So loosely translated, el mero chingón is the big bad-ass.  OK, while I'm not exactly a bad-ass, at 6'3" 270 lbs, amongst cyclists, I'm certainly big.  And everything on BikeMojo is said and done tongue-in-cheek.  Colloquial?  Sí.  Obscene? If you think so, then you need not bother checking out the website!

Finally, my signature quote.  It's the final verse in the ranchero clasico, "El Rey" by José Alfredo Jimenez.  (Folks growing up in the southwest will recognize it as the song many a drunken hombre will sing along half-way "llorar, y llorar, llorar y llorar" even if they don't know any other words to the song.  'El Rey' is a soliloquy about a man who, despite not having or amounting to much, with much bravado and machismo, proclaims himself 'El Rey' or 'the King' because he is carefree and answers to no one.  Anyway, the lyric I quote is:

Because I have little chance of ever finishing in the top 10 of a race (ok, maybe if there are only 10 people riding) I've adopted this as my approach to cycling.