Lately there has been a lot of doom and gloom in cycling. On the front pages of newspapers and websites we’ve had drug and mechanized scandals. To the casual observer this may seem to be all there is in cycling – drama and scandal of soap opera proportions. I look at Twitter...

Most of the cycling press releases I’m receiving now are all about the Tour de France. In spite of the frenzy of soccer’s (or football’s for my Euro speaking brethren) World Cup, the world’s attention will swing to Rotterdam on July 3rd. With every press release...

Motivation – everyone needs it. As I write this I’m staring at a flier for an upcoming Gran Fondo in my area. As of late my training hasn’t been too impressive. I came back from the Amgen Tour of California a bit wiped out and then I needed to catch up on a few writing...

Lance Armstrong has called his season leading up to the Tour de France one filled with “speed bumps.” These bumps include illness in March which forced a last minute withdrawal from Milan-San Remo. In April Armstrong rode only one stage at the Circuit de la Sarthe before pulling...

In just over four weeks the biggest stage race of the season the Tour de France, also known as Le Tour to friends, kicks off in the city of Rotterdam. The opening salvo of the Tour is a short eight kilometer prologue through the downtown streets of this port city. However, before one pedal...