THE SUFFERFEST is this week’s TourChats sponsor! Today’s TourChats are sponsored by Pedal Chic Only women-specific cycling & athletic boutique in the Southeast Follow Pedal Chic on Facebook and Twitter You can ask questions via webcam or text. Your webcam won’t become...

THE SUFFERFEST is this week’s TourChats sponsor! Join Neil and JoE Silva for a rest day video live chat. We are trying out Vokle Beta for tonight’s video live chat. You can ask questions via webcam or text. However, you need Flash and pop-ups to participate, so unfortunately no...

When do we draw the line on when a gladiator of the road is picked back up and returned to the arena? As you know the Tour’s first week has been one of unexpected injuries that have knocked some potential general classification contenders out of the running. But the one incident that has...

We’re knee deep in the Tour de France and as expected the first week is revealing cracks in some teams’ armor. Defending champion* Alberto Contador, through a run of bad luck and/or bad karma, is already 1:30 minutes behind his main rival Andy Schleck of Leopard-Trek. The Spaniard isn’t...

The Tour de France is one of the biggest sporting spectacles on the planet. I won’t bore you with the metaphors of riders suffering or how competing in the 21 stages is the equivalent to running a marathon everyday. Instead let’s focus on something that really matters – having a good...