Photo by By scarlatti2004 It was a great tour de France. The best I can ever remember. As I said recently in (Tour)- how quickly you can forget the past problems of pro-cycling when watching a new edition of the tour! Cadel Evans was a worthy winner. His final time trial was awesome. He was [...]
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Andy Schleck Chapeau !
Andy Schleck rode to a magnificent stage victory in today’s stage of the Tour de France. I’m not often inspired to blog about the tour, but it is quite something to attack from 60Km out and hold out for so long. It was a real gamble and I think the favourites let him go because [...]
Crashes in the Tour de France
A follow up to questions on the Tour de France. I’ve been watching the Tour de France with various family members whose knowledge of the Tour ranges from the very limited to the non-existent. If you’re watching a sport like rugby – it can be frustrating to get asked questions right in the middle of [...]
Tour de France – Love and Hate
I don’t think I’m the only one to have a love-hate relationship with the Tour de France. Under the stewardship of Henri Desgrange, the early tours were supposed to test riders to their absolute limits. For years Desgrange prevented the use of dérailleur gears on the basis it would make it easier for the riders. [...]
Tour De France Questions
The tour is one of the biggest sporting spectacles in the world. No matter how many scandals and allegations of doping, we can’t resist the allure of watching 180 Lycra clad men, cycling their lightweight bikes around France.But, if you’ve ever wondered at the range of seemingly strange tour vocab, hopefully, this will explain the [...]
Contador vs Schleck
Photo by Will Cyclist (2009) It has been a great Tour de France. There are few moments watching sport, when you just want to admire the supreme physical effort, and as David Duffield would have as say – ‘Chapeau!’ It was gripping stuff as the diminished peleton hit the lower slopes of the Col de [...]
Tour de France – English
Some Things the tour riders don’t have to cope with After watching the Tour de France I really get inspired to go out and ride my bike. The problem is I half expect to be able to replicate the tour on English roads. But, riding in England makes it very difficult to replicate a stage [...]
Lance Armstrong Story
Sunday was a good day. First I suffered in the 100 mile race. Then I return home to watch others suffering on a much larger scale. It wasn’t just the usual suspects suffering on the mountain passes (the sprinters like Cavendish) but no less than the global phenomena of Lance Armstrong. Even the greatest champions [...]
Tour de France 2010
image Hada Tour de France 2010 Recently, I wrote a post – tips to improve cycling fitness – but, really I should add another one – disable Eurosport so you don’t spend all summer watching the Tour in the vain hope this will teach you all the pro tactics necessary to effectively ride a 25 [...]
List of Tour de France Winners 1903 -2010
Despite breaks for the two world wars the Tour de France has been held every year since 1903. It is not the oldest cycling race. But, it is the oldest and most prestigious stage race. All the great names of professional cycling can be found in the list of Tour de France winners. 5 Cyclists [...]
