Tour of the Gila – who’s to blame? Snow or French Canadians?

Once again I need to step in and sort shit out and this time it’s the Tour of the Gila. This proud race was on the verge of extinction until SRAM stepped in with some much needed sponsorship dollars. To further pump life back into this New Mexico stage race Armstrong and crew for the past [...]

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2010 Amgen Tour of California route to be revealed (press release)

Specific route details for the 2010 Amgen Tour of California professional cycling race will be revealed beginning tomorrow via individual stage videos, AEG, presenter of the fifth-annual event, announced today. The videos have been created in collaboration between the start and finish cities of each stage (designated at “host cities”), highlighting features of the route [...]

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Lucas Euser interview: What @neilroad followers wanted to know

Lucas Euser did not have an easy 2009 racing season. He came off a strong 2008 season and was aiming to ride the Vuelta in 2009. However, he was struck by a car in May 2009  resulting in broken ribs, fingers and a shattered patella, effectively ruining his season. Released from Garmin-Transitions for the 2010 [...]

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Interview with Levi Leipheimer

Two stage races and two wins for Levi Leipheimer. After taking victory at the Amgen Tour of California, next up he was scheduled to compete in Paris-Nice. However Leipheimer discovered that he had fractured the sacrum in his stage 3 crash, scraping plans for competing. Once he had healed up and was race ready, Leipheimer [...]

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I finally got a cover!

This is the cover. It will be cropped a little but you get the idea It’s been awhile since I blogged. I’ve had stuff to write about from the Tour of California, like Tim Johnson telling me how the Health Net squad and the Slipstream team got into a food fight. Johnson is great at [...]

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The good, the bad and the ugly interviews

Lance ignoring me at the Discovery Channel team launch My friends often ask me if I’m nervous when I interview a famous rider. In the beginning I was extremely nervous. I remember my first interview was with Fred Rodriguez and Bobby Julich. I wrote down everything I was going to say to them, even my [...]

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