Tour de France Through Stage 4 — All You Really Need To Know
There’s little exciting about a time trial unless you’re the guy on the bike. For fans, it’s just “there goes one, there goes another.”
But we all know the Tour actually started today. Everything before has been about pageantry and trying not to fall off the bike or otherwise embarrass yourself with stinkin’ thinkin’ (ahem, Menchov).
Not to [...]
Tour de France Stage 3 For Dummies
Ok, you’re back. Good. You saw what we wrote yesterday, you made a TON of money with your bookie based on our recommendations, and now you want more. Naturally. We’ll, we won’t disappoint. We never do. So let’s get started.
Yesterday, we said Stage 3 would be a major BORE-FEST. In fact, if we underestimated anything [...]
What You Need To Know About The Tour After First 2 Stages
Your Talking Points, Mon Ami…
Alright, you’re headed for the shop, or the office, or the neighborhood party, or whatever, and, as a fully-outed cycling nut, you know you’re going to get questions about how the Tour’s going.
Sure, you could snap off a quick “Valverde, a Spanish guy, is leading so far.” Of course [...]
David Millar To Spearhead Team Garmin’s Tour de France Bid
PARIS, June 26, 2008 (AFP) - Former stage winner David Millar of Scotland
will spearhead the Garmin (ex-Slipstream) team’s bid for glory on the July
5-27 Tour de France.
Millar recently came close to winning a stage on the Giro d’Italia, where
a late mechanical cost him any chance of victory, and the British rider [...]
The Newely Renamed Garmin-Chipolte Announces Their Tour de France Riders
Jun. 24, 2008
The recently renamed Garmin-Chipotle Professional Cycling team announced their Tour de France roster. Included on the list are the three American Riders Will Frischkorn, Danny Pate, and Christian Vande Velde.
Garmin-Chipotle, presented by H30 for Tour de France
Magnus Bäckstedt (S)
Julian Dean (NZ)
Will Frischkorn (USA)
Ryder Hesjedal (Can)
Trent Lowe (Aus)
Martijn Maaskant (Nl)
David Millar (GB)
Danny [...]
David Zabriskie of Team Slipstream Crashes Out Of Giro After Second Stage Crash
AGRIGENTE, Italy, May 11, 2008 (AFP) - American David Zabriskie of the Slipstream team was forced out of the Giro d’Italia after suffering a fractured lumbar vertebra in a crash during the second stage here Sunday.
The 29-year-old from Salt Lake City was among a bunch of riders when he [...]
Christian Vandevelde of Slipstream Is First American In 20 Years To Put On Giro’s Pink Jersey
PALERMO, Italy, May 10, 2008 (AFP) - American Christian Vandevelde became the first American in 20 years to put on the Giro d’Italia’s pink jersey after leading his Slipstream team to victory in the opening stage team time trial.
Slipstream hit an average speed of just over 53 km/h for [...]
SLIPSTREAM CHIPOTLE WINS FIRST-EVER TEAM TIME TRIAL AT 2008 TOUR DE GEORGIA PRESENTED BY AT&T
Stage Four – Road Atlanta
BRASELTON, Ga. (April 24, 2008) – American-based Slipstream Chipotle presented by H30 averaged over 29 miles per hour en route to winning the inaugural Team Time Trial (TTT) at the Tour de Georgia presented by AT&T by four seconds over Astana (LUX). Team High Road (USA), the last team [...]
