The following is a paid advertisement for the "Toughen Up Sissy Boy" training program:

Are you tired of coming home after long rides knowing that you’ll still have feeling in your toes?!

Are you just dying to learn what the “Aero Ice Faring” is?!

Well I’m here to introduce you to the revolutionary training program: Toughen Up Sissy Boy, or as I refer to it... Tusb! Here in New England where Tusb was originally developed, we embrace our snowy cold winters. Instead of heading for warmer climates when the thermometer reads in the single-digits, we simply work with the weather we’re given and then thrive with it.

The first step of Tusb is to completely lose feeling in your far extremities – your fingers and toes. As seen here in this picture, my feet are encased in ice! They’re like an ice cube on my feet… or ice-cube-feet! Ha ha ha. Not only does this permanently destroy feeling in your fingers and toes thereby lessening the agony of the waning hours of a long bike race, the added weight with the ice build-up creates just the right resistance you need for your strength building phase of training. Booya!

Now that feeling has been destroyed in your fingers, it's not as though you need working brakes and shifting anyway, right?! As seen here, with enough snowy build up, your brakes will be rendered useless so that stopping is not something you need to waste your prescious mind thinking about. After all, there's probably snow on the ground anyway, so crashing would be more pleasant than disasterous. Additionally, shifting is slowly eliminated with the proper icy cling. You'll notice that the number of gears available to you slowly widdle down so that ultimately your derailleurs and cables are frozen, making your bike into a singlespeed... Ideal for winter training! Booya!

Continuing with the proper component selection, the third step of Tusb deals with wind resistance to strengthen your cardiovascular fitness. Bladed spokes that cut through the wind are sooooo last year. With the 2007 season around the corner, Tusb is the first company in the cycling industry to offer ANIT-Aerodynamic Spokes! With just the right build up of icy road grime on your spokes, you can get bladed spokes that are 90 degrees in the wrong direction for proper aerodynamacy! The spokes you see here have just over a half inch of ice build up that run directly into the wind. The harder you have to ride, the faster you get. Always… That’s my motto! Booya!

Lastly… the Aero Ice Faring. Everyone at Interbike and Eurobike was talking about it, but the public has been kept out of the loop. After years of painstaking research and development, Tusb is introducing the only aerodynamic faring that slowly builds up on your bike the longer you ride! Using the same technology found in the ANTI-Aerodynamic Spokes, your bike will gradually build a faring system on the back of every piece of tubing on your bike. This beauty of a picture is from the fork legs. Our research analysts at Tusb have calculated that over the course of a 40km icy time trial, you will save 0.006773 seconds! That’s remarkable! Booya!

With this program you will learn these and other outstanding tricks, like how to pick the perfect puddles to ride through for optimal bodily cooling! If you feel that you're not fulfilling your riding potential, please contact Tusb by leaving a comment below.

Booya!