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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By Jen Benepe, June 30, 2012 This year’s Tour de France starts today, and the biggest buzz surrounds predictions about who will win. With favorites Andy Schleck out with a broken pelvis and planning for competition in the Olympics, and Alberto Contador out for penalties from the Court of Arbitration for Sport for alleged...
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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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It was almost as if the French had decided that their performance wasn’t good enough on Bastille Day so they had to make it up today in the course from Pau to Lourdes. About 4 km from the finish in Lourdes it almost looked like Jeremy Roy of team Francais des Jeux could win...
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It has been the day we were all waiting for: when the Tour reaches the first mountainous stages and suddenly the riders that were winning before are in the back, and a new climbing set takes their place in the bastion of power. No better day than Bastille Day, one of the most important...
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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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With the Tour switching to the mountains today–even little ones–the outcome  was predicted to change the winners. But the massive shake up that Tour de France watchers were looking for never materialized: even with the first major climbs of the tour, Yellow jersey winner Thor Hushovd–more a sprinter than a climber,  managed to stay...
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Mark Cavendish took his 17th win of a Tour stage today into Chateauroux on the 218 km mostly flat stage with a massive lead out train from his HTC Highroad team. Cavendish won this stage for the first time in 2008 and was said this morning to be looking for a symbolic anniversary win....
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Today’s mostly flat 164.5 km from Carhaix to Cap Frehel offered a wide open opportunity for the major sprinters to go head to head. And so they did, with the Manx Missile Mark Cavendish winning handily at the finish in Cap Frehel. But the action did not come without lots of pain, crashes, an...
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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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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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