Earlier this week, Spanish Journalist Laura Meseguer tweeted a photo of Joaquim Rodriguez’ custom saddle (that’s the technical term for “bike seat”) for the Tour de France. Cool custom saddle from @Selle_Italia for @PuritoRodriguez #PuritoDinamita #TDF pic.twitter.com/RaCuRTwLka — Laura Meseguer (@Laura_Meseguer) June 26, 2013 It’s pretty crazy, but it’s is far from the boldest we’ve…
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Has The 2011 Tour de France Really Been More Dangerous?
As Stage 9 brought in another handful of dramatic tumbles and sent out another handful of top names, the most compelling storyline at this year’s Tour de France continues to be the crashes. Everything from the weather, to “muppets” to too many bikes has been blamed, but I can’t help but wonder if this year…
How The Race Was Won – 2010 Tour de France, Stage 11
Obviously I couldn’t keep off this one—not the way the Internet exploded following Renshaw’s ejection. It wasn’t entirely an otherwise unremarkable stage, but most of this focuses on the final few meters. [click for iPad/iPhone/downloadable version] [Contains, in order of appearance, footage from Eurosport, Versus and NOS, and still photos from Graham Watson, Pascal Pavan,…
2010 Tour de France Versus Media Call
Versus hosted its media call for the 2010 Tour de France today, with Phil Liggett, Paul Sherwen, Tyler Farrar, Christian VandeVelde and Levi Leipheimer all on the line at one point or another. Highlights for me were Tyler saying the exposure to Dutch roads at the Giro will probably make things worse for the Tour,…
How The Race Was Won – Stage 15 – 2009 Tour de France
Finally! Back to GC action and Contador delivers. It certainly wasn’t a knockout blow, though. I’ll have plenty to say about this tomorrow, but for the time being, I’ll let the video do the talking. It’s also up on YouTube, but let’s try not to tell the ASO about it this time, yeah? [right-click for…
2009 Tour de France – Stage 2 – How The Race Was Won
Stage 2 of the 2009 Tour de France—in useful video analysis form! Some early-race crashes and good racing over the final kilometers. Watch the picture-perfect leadout by Columbia-Highroad HTC and hope they aren’t this effective for the next three weeks. I had a fairly clear schedule yesterday, so I figured I’d put another one of…
Untangling the Tour de France Dope Stories
So the 2007 Tour is finally finished. Time for me to return to this blog’s normal topics of telecommunications billing, with specific emphasis on reports generation, postpaid offline rating, journaling, and – new for August – general ledgers! (Are the new viewers gone yet?). Yes, the ’07 Tour may only be a memory, but the…
Tour de France '07 – And Now We Can Sleep
Yes, after 24 hours of on-and-off 503 errors, I am finally able to make my last post on the 2007 Tour. The finish, despite the cagey “maybe I will, maybe I won’t” attitude of Cadel Evans, and rumors of a mass protest, was a confirmation win for Danielle Bennati. His Lampre team hadn’t been having…
Tour de France '07 – A Hopefully Truthful Race
So that was a pretty good TT. Leipheimer riding like a man possessed, Cadel Evans looking like a wounded beast, and Contador feeding Evans slack the whole way, knowing all along that he had plenty to give. In the end, the Top 3 remained unchanged, but the tight time gaps (:31 between first and third)…
Tour de France '07 – Casar Wins, The Fans' Blind Eye
Say what you will about doping; I think today’s finish was the saddest and most unfair of the entire ’07 Tour. Not that three-time runner up Sandy Casar was an undeserving winner – he bounced back from an early spill, made his turns in the break, and played his speed edge perfectly in the finale….