An Interview with Colin Reuter - Part 2
In Part 2 of this gripping interview, Colin starts to really let his true colors fly. We discuss things and people he hates (those he let me publish, anyway), how CrossResults.com was born, Twitter, and ponies.
me: What kind of cyclocross course best suits you? I saw you ripping it up at the Ice Weasels.
colin.reuter: Fast and technical. I actually do shockingly well on a course like Northampton, which is super fast but has a lot of braking/acceleration in it. I blow super duper chunks on mud slogs like New Gloucester or Gloucester Day 1.
me: Who’s the idiot who designs the Northampton course?
colin.reuter: I figured it was Adam Myerson.
me: Are you calling Adam Myerson an idiot?
colin.reuter: Absolutely. I think we can all agree that he’s a cancer on the sport.
me: Wow, here we go again. I will never forget when you called disc brakes the “gay” of cyclocross on Twitter.
colin.reuter: Sometimes you say stuff on twitter without thinking about how 300 people are going to read it and how some of them might not have your sense of humor, or any perspective at all, for that matter.
me: Ahhhh, now the smarts are coming out. You do think you’re smart, I knew it.
me: Who’s your favorite person to follow on Twitter.
colin.reuter: Oooh, good question. Give me 30 seconds to research this.
me: Take your time.
colin.reuter: @cosmocatalano is consistently angry in a funny way; it’s hard to beat that, because I laugh, and then I think, “Man, I’m glad I’m not him.” I can’t believe we’re talking about twitter again.
me: Whoa, I didn’t know you could follow him. I just follow @cyclocosm, the enigma. It’s fun wanting to not be someone. Brings me to my next question, who do you least look forward to racing in cyclocross. Not because of how good they are, but because you hate them.
colin.reuter: Oooh, who do I hate most in a cross race? Like personally? Or friendly hate? Because I’m not telling you the former. On the record, anyway.
me: I won’t publish it, tell me.
colin.reuter: Hahahaha! I don’t trust you at all.
me: You should.
colin.reuter: I really, really hate when guys like Dylan McNicholas pick up a bike and are faster than me after riding for one month, and then you talk to them and they turn out to be nice guys and you can’t even enjoy hating them.
me: I have talked with Dylan, a lot, and I enjoy hating him, mostly because he’s a prick. You should try being his teammate…
colin.reuter: Dylan’s an asshole, but he’s my kind of asshole. Kind of like you.
me: Thank you.
colin.reuter: Also, I hate Juniors.
me: So, I blogged about the change in cycling courtesy of l’internet. Crossresults.com was one of the big changes I mentioned. How’d you come up with it? And why? Keep this short, too, because I’m just being nice asking. No one cares.
colin.reuter: Thanks dude. So I went to USAcycling.org to request an upgrade to Cat 3 CX
me: That’s enough.
colin.reuter: And they had a link to my race history.
me: Stop.
colin.reuter: And I was like, “Oh wow they must have an awesome database of races!” And then I clicked…
me: I’m gonna be sick.
colin.reuter: …and became so, so sad.
me: Wait, I’m starting to know what you’re talking about.
colin.reuter: Then I drank a bunch of coffee until doing their job for them seemed like a good idea. Basically I was like, “Holy shit, something that hasn’t been done on the internet! I’ll do it!”
me: When did you do it?
colin.reuter: December 2006
me: Where’d the idea for the Race Predictor come from?
colin.reuter: Ah, my first stolen idea…A friend of mine was like, “You should make a greasemonkey script that lists people’s points next to the BikeReg confirmed riders list,” and I was like, “LOL, shut up you nerd.” And then I ran away and did it.
me: Like that Facebook kid…
colin.reuter: Exactly! Except my friend didn’t have a website.
me: Who else helps with the site? It seems kind of rude that you’re taking all the credit.
colin.reuter: I have a bunch of people across the country who upload results for me. Without them I wouldn’t be able to do this thing nationally.
me: Your payroll must be stifling.
colin.reuter: Well, they know that since you love it, you’ll do it for cheap. Like really cheap. Like free. I paid out like $100 in T-shirts last year.
me: I’d like a shirt.
colin.reuter: I’d like a pony.
me: You should have them make sneakers for you.
colin.reuter: I don’t think they love sneakers as much as they love cross.
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