Team RadioShack or Best Buy?

Back in July it was announced that RadioShack was going to sponsor a ProTour team with recent third place finisher of the Tour de France, Lance Armstrong, at the helm. This was something we as American cycling fans could wrap out heads around. RadioShack is a Texas based company and is one of the oldest [...]

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The Floyd Landis exclusive!

Out of the blue I received a phone call. My source – code name “Balls Deep” was on the other end speaking Pig Latin. I’ll spare you the Pig Latin, but translated my contact relayed this exciting bit of information, “Word from behind the car wash is that Landis is riding again.” What?! I made [...]

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Alberto Contador: Is he beatable?

With only two weeks before the Tour de France begins the odds on favorite continues to be Astana’s Alberto Contador. He just finished the Critérium du Dauphiné in second place taking two stage victories: the prologue and stage 6 – Crolles to Alpe d’Huez. His only stumble had been in the longer time trial where [...]

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It’s not all doom and gloom

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 and Facebook and [...]

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In the sick bay

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 announcing who is on the long squad for the [...]

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Floyd Landis – Motivation speaker to the stars

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 assignments. [...]

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Lance Armstrong and the Tour of Luxembourg: Phase 1 complete

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 out with a stomach illness which put [...]

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Super secret training for the Tour de France

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 stroke [...]

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Alejandro Valverde ban – release the lawyers!

In a what was widely seen as a long time coming, Alejandro Valverde was finally sanctioned for two years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport [CAS]. This was met with relief from not only the UCI but racers in general with many sounding off on Twitter. The Valverde case has been a long and confusing one, taking [...]

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Down the Rabbit Hole – The Landis Matrix

It’s been a week since I received the “Landis e-mail” and I feel like I’m in the scene from the movie Matrix when Morpheus warns Neo, “This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever [...]

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