By Jim Freiberg. Photos, John E. Chico.  Editor Jen Benepe. All rights reserved.  The first two days of America’s greatest bike race practically roasted the riders, and the crowds that came to watch them too. Checking every thermometer in the area on Sunday, the temperature on the first day of the Amgen Tour of California...
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In this article in the New York Times, the author rides 100 miles in 3 days around Luxembourg on a touring bike. We love this story because not only is it well told, but the adventures of Bruce Weber on this trip sound like so much fun. The best part, he and his companion...
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Andy Schleck, a top Tour de France podium winner in the 2011 event, will not be competing in the big French race this year, according to a flash article published in Bicycling.com. http://bicycling.com/blogs/thisjustin/2012/06/13/andy-schleck-out-of-tour-de-france/#.T9jJCg_f07M.facebook Allegedly the rider has suffered a fractured pelvis in the Criterium du Dauphine this month, and will not be able to...
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The 2010 Tour de France winnner Alberto Contador lost his case with the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and now also his Tour title.   The decision has been pending since about August 2010 soon after Contador tested positive for clenbuterol, a finding he said was due to eating tainted meat from Spain. Contador...
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July 25, 2011, Paris, France Cadel Evans brought a new spirit to the Tour de France this year, and perhaps a new methodology. The oldest rider since World War II to win the Tour, the 34-year-old Evans rode a sensible, if not patient Tour in which he worked hard to protect his gains when...
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July 24, 2011, Paris, France Australian Cadel Evans accomplished the unexpected yesterday when he overcame the odds and won the Tour de France. In the final stage before Paris, Evans made up the deficit he had with Andy Schleck, and passed it mightily by besting his time in the time trial in Grenoble. He...
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July 20, 2011 Luxembourgan Andy Schleck prevailed today on the highest stage of the Tour history, the Col de Galibier, just barely missing the Yellow Jersey, but claiming a large advantage over his fellow competitors. With over 60 km to go, the Team Leopard Trek rider attacked the Yellow Jersey group halfway up the...
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This 167.5 km stage from Blaye les Mines to Lavaur was mostly flat with some short, steep hills in the last hour, followed by a mostly flat final 15 km,  suitable for a mass sprint at the finish. Would the rivalry we saw between Greipel and Cavendish in stage 10 play out again on...
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It was a stage perfectly suited for the sprinters, and the question at the beginning was, will it be Tyler Farrar or Mark Cavendish who will throw his arms up at the end? But neither of the two favorites took first place in the final meter at the finish: Cavendish took an early sprint...
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As competitors enter the fourth stage of the Tour today from Lorient to Mur de Bretagne, they’ll also be riding on slick, wet roads and and in the cold. It’s on days like these that riders cross their fingers and kiss the crosses hanging around their necks, because crashes are more the norm than...
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A new winner will be donning the Yellow Jersey today after the team trial in stage 2 at Les Essarts made it clear that the American Garmin Cervelo team was the fastest team to finish the 23 mostly flat kilometers of the stage. That win landed the Yellow Jersey to Thor Hushovd who had...
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Photos: ASO It was the kind of stage results that you could expect from a course that starts on a road that is submerged under water two times a day, the Passage du Gois, and then finishes in a steep mountain pass. The stage also followed along a beachfront that does not allow cars,...
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Today’s first Tour de France stage will take riders on an 191.5 km mostly flat run with a small uphill finish. The first stage includes the Passage du Gois in the north west of the country where the causeway is covered with water during low tide, site of many crashes in the 1999 tour...
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