Monthly Archives: July 2009
What You Missed At 1am This Morning…In Norway
This photo doesn’t show a nice bike, a local hire bike from the book shop had to suffice. (but we’re not bike snobs here are we!) It doesn’t show a rider in full flight, i’d just had a few glasses …
Now It Begins
-By Matthew Keenan Image from Velonews After two weeks of trying to work out who has the best legs and is most likely to wear yellow into Paris, some real decisions are about to be made as the race finally …
Lanterne Rouge Stage 12 – Go Kenny!
Kenny van Hummel continues to lead the Lanterne Rouge. You gotta hand it to him though – he hasn’t quit! 14 others cannot say the same. And thousands of pro cyclists can’t even say that they got to start. I …
Bike Cases – Softshell or Hardshell?
Over the years I’ve owned a few bike cases and have come across many more. I did a post some time ago on some various ways of packing your bike that you can find here. I’ve been in the market …
Lanterne Rouge Stage 10 – Go Kenny!
Image from cyclingnews.com I’m really beginning to like our Lanterne Rouge. Kenny pulled off a 7th place in today’s sprinters stage. He certainly isn’t “slow” or deserving of his last place. In fact, he’s a pretty damn good sprinter. To …
The Other Australians
By Matthew Keenan While most of the media attention in Australia, rightly so, is focused on Cadel Evans six other Australians are at the Tour de France playing important roles with varying success. Matt Lloyd, a Silence-Lotto teammate of Evans, …
What You Missed This Morning…
Thanks to Aaron for sending this in. Sensational!
Race Radio Experiment
Race radios have been regularly used now for years and the criticism is that racers have begun to rely on them too much and that it makes the race too predictable. The Tour organizers are banning the race radios …
Lanterne Rouge Stage 7
Kenny Robert Van Hummel of Skil Shimano still holds the Lanterne Rouge. He probably has no concern whatsoever about his GC placing seeing as he has a few decent results in the Tour up until this point anyway. Both Kenny …
What You Missed…In France
Hey mate, love the blog. Helps get to me out of bed on those morning that a cold training ride seems out of the question over here in London. I’m from Melbourne and it makes me smile when read the …
Actually it doesn't apply to just the top tier pros. I co-manage a U23 amate...
Great post Wade. Re: photo. Have you ever worked on a mine site? You can expect...