Tour de France General

Without the addition of the Team Time Trial the first week of this years Tour de France seamed a bit longer than usual, day after day the tour featured (mostly) flat stages which nearly always resulted in the early morning “knuckle head” breakaway which would be caught in the last 15k’s and a sprint finish.
Yesterday’s […]

Last night while watching the extended coverage of the Tour de France I caught a story about SRM and how they have live data on several cyclists including Sebastian Lang, Michael Rogers, Jens Voight and Christian Vandevelde to name a few. The data is streamed to the web live so you can keep up with […]

Usually Tour de France race officials invite two wildcard teams for the seasons biggest race, which was the case this year. However with the recent doping scandal one of those non-pro teams was banned from racing this year Tour de France leaving only the French team Agitubel which will be lead this year by two Spanish […]

This years Giro d’ Italia has been an excellent race, Ivan Basso has really proven his abilities. No rider out of the 200 plus field has come even close to challenging him. Expect all eyes to be on Basso this July when the “big race” gets started in Strasbourg. As the Giro wraps up this […]

Casual viewers of the Tour de France and other major cycling events often think that pro racing is a solo event, this could not be farther from the truth. Pro riders ride for “teams” which consist of 9 riders and they work together to try to accomplish the “team” goals. While teams with top riders […]

Have you had a chance to watch any of the OLN coverage of the start of the 2006 cycling season? Each Sunday OLN features about 90 minutes of cycling coverage, last Sunday they aired the last hour or so of the spring classic Milan - San Remo (the longest one day classic which is nearly […]

Each year the Tour does it’s damage, weather it’s severe crashes, bad luck or good ole wear and tear the Tour de France takes riders out. Today was just such a day with three notable riders not continuing:

Yens Voight
Today as I began to peel my eyes open around 7am I watched the first frames of […]

Yesterday the damage was done for those NOT riding for Discovery / Lance Armstrong, Lance has delivered two blows this year to his GC rivals. Once during the opening time trial where he gained no less than 55 seconds to his main rivals and again during Tuesdays stage to Courchevel.
After the race lots of people […]

Hard boys ….that is one of the chapters in a new book out called “Armstrongs war, the chapter talks about just how dangerous pro cycling can be with riders seriously hurting them-self quite often.
Joseba Beloki is a rider who knows just what it means to be a “hard boy” during the Tour de France of […]

Australian sprinting ace Baden Cooke has not had the best of luck this tour, so far he has crashed at least once … possibly twice (if you know please comment below) and has had a rough time beating his country men Robbie McEwen during these dangerous crash filled early stages.
Cooke was born in Benalla Australia and […]

Sunday, July 10th 2005
Tuesday July 12th 2005
That is my prediction on where the fight begins for the “general classification” or overall race leader. I personally think that weekend (sat and sun July 9th and 10th) will be hell on wheels for a number of riders who are not up to par with their mountain climbing […]

Christmas in late June? Well it sure could have been yesterday as I got my “tour goodies” for this years Tour de France. Last year my brilliant wife thought it would be fun to order some T-Shirts and assorted goodies from the tours official site: http://www.letour.com/
It would seam that each year now we will order […]

Basque cycling team Euskaltel-Euskadi has been on a roll lately (no pun intended) winning the last two major stages races with wins at both the Tour Suissie and the Dauphiné Libéré.  Both races offer tour riders an excellent primer before the sports biggest race, the Tour de France in July each year.
In late June, 28 […]

Roberto Heras knows about winning, in fact he has helped Lance Armstrong during several tours and was his right hand man during the all important mountain stages several years ago when he rode for the defunct US Postal Team (now the Discovery Channel Team). Roberto has also won some very impressive races himself including last […]