Patrick O'Grady
BACKGROUND: O'Grady has been a journalist since 1977, working as a reporter, editor and/or cartoonist at a series of daily newspapers before signing on as VeloNews' editorial cartoonist in 1989.
He turned freelancer in 1991, contributing work to Outside, Men's Health and other publications. He has been a regular contributor to the trade journal Bicycle Retailer and Industry News since 1992. In 1999, VeloPress published a collection of his VeloNews cartoons, titled "The Season Starts When?"
O'Grady has raced on road and off without distinction, barring 1999, when he got lucky a couple times on the Colorado cyclocross circuit. He continues to draw cartoons for VeloNews and is the online editor at large for VeloNews.com, a virtual soapbox upon which he occasionally acts the fool. He lives in Colorado Springs with his wife, Shannon, and their cats, Turkish and Mia.
BIKES IN THE GARAGE: Six cyclocross bikes (two Steelman Eurocrosses, one custom Nobilette, a Jamis Supernova, a Voodoo Wazoo and a Soma Double Cross), Steelman time trial, Pinarello Prologo TT, two ti’ road bikes, DBR Axis, DBR Prevail TT
Stories by Patrick O'Grady »
Posted: Mon, Apr 9th
Monday's Bonus Rant: Bloody 'ellThe driver pretended not to see the red light nor hear the honking black and white which followed him for a block until Calvin angrily blasted him to the curb with the siren. “Watch him say ‘who me?’” said Calvin as he got out of the car and approached from the ...
Posted: Sun, Apr 1st
USA Cycling outsourcing story was an April Fools jokeDear readers,We have received a number of letters from readers complaining about USA Cycling’s plans to “outsource” its membership services to a contractor in India named “HelloDehli.” The story, which appeared on this website on Sunday April 1st, was an example of a ...
Posted: Fri, Mar 2nd
Friday’s Foaming Rant: Percentage players die broke, too"Races are like films. You need actors to make them happen. The teams have all the actors, and without us there are no races." — pro-teams president Patrick Lefevere
The drudgery of a daily newspaper job is starting to look pretty good these days, and not just because the ...
Posted: Mon, Feb 26th
Monday's Bonus Rant: Ullrich hangs up his tar-speckled jersey"Unlike [Lance] Armstrong, [Jan] Ullrich doesn't have the killer instinct. He's not obsessed. It's too bad. Because if you mixed the professionalism of an Erik Zabel with the talent of a Jan Ullrich, you'd have an Eddy Merckx." — T-Mobile team manager Walter ...
Posted: Fri, Jan 19th
Friday’s Foaming Rant: Stedenko and Clouseau, together at lastBorder guard: Your papers, please!Hippie: Sorry, man, all I got is a pipe.—A Child’s Garden of Grass
I’ve heard it said that the French love Jerry Lewis movies. But anti-doping chief Pierre Bordry must be a Cheech and Chong fan, because he seems to be modeling his pursuit ...
Posted: Fri, Dec 29th
Friday's Foaming Rant: Holiday on ice!Change in the weatherChange in the weatherSomethin’s happening here. — "Change in the Weather," by John Fogerty
Like everyone else, we had plans for the holidays. But ours got put on ice.
Seriously. Colorado got a stone-cold one-two punch this year — a solid, snowy smack ...
Posted: Fri, Dec 22nd
Friday's Foaming Rant: The 2006 O'Grady AwardsThese days, the alleged humorist Patrick O’Grady is generally confined to soiling the virtual sandbox here at VeloNews.com, where subscriptions are not at risk. His "contribution" to VeloNews the magazine normally consists of an editorial cartoon so severely downsized over the ...
Posted: Fri, Dec 1st
Friday's Foaming Rant: Spinal rapSo I had to go see a chiropractor in New York, and they're different to osteopaths, chiropractors, because of the spelling. And they crack your bones, that's what they do, they crack your bones! And they take X-rays, but it’s pointless, because whatever is wrong with ...
Posted: Mon, Nov 6th
Notes of a Dirty Old Man: Regarding reach and graspThe world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There’s far less competition.— Dwight Morrow, 1873-1931, in a letter to his son
I caught a glimpse of the Vomit Comet on Sunday while driving out of ...
Posted: Sun, Nov 5th
Notes of a Dirty Old Man: O'Grady, Xilinx and 'crossWe can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.— Will Rogers
You know you’re not in Colorado Springs any more when you see an Adopt-a-Highway sign reading, "NORML for Boulder." We don’t want to know what’s normal for ...
Posted: Fri, Nov 3rd
Friday's Foaming Rant: A dirty girlIt’s still the same old story,A fight for love and glory,A case of do or die!The world will always welcome loversAs time goes by. — "As Time Goes By," Herman Hupfeld
This isn’t much of a rant; it’s more of a rave.
I love cyclo-cross.
When I stumbled into this sport ...
Posted: Tue, Oct 31st
Tuesday's Trick-or-Treat Rant: Saiz it ain't so"If someone calls me up and says their toaster is talking to them, I don’t refer them to professional help, I say, ‘Put the toaster on the phone.’"—Sal Ivon, former manager of the Weekly World News
Okay, let me see if I’ve got this straight: Manolo Saiz is said to ...
