Velochimp: Astrochimp on Cycling

Now that Operation Puerto has completely up-ended anyone’s Tour de France predictions, it is time to hastily draw up a new set of favorites for the upcoming Tour. The dust has yet to settle on the fiasco caused by Operation Puerto, but we must move on and pick favorites.
It looks very good for an [...]

With all of the news on Operation Puerto and the polemics between Lance Armstrong and Greg Lemond, lets take a minute to watch the video below.

Feel better? now go out a ride your bike.

Assuming the Tour de France does not degenerate into a gigantic orgy of performance enhancing drug innuendo, I will quickly post my predictions for the 2006 Tour de France. This post may be updated and embellished before the official start on Saturday. Seeing as everybody and their mother is posting their picks, I might as [...]

Hopefully the craziness from Operation Puerto dies down long enough for some racing to take place in the next few days. I am all for stopping cheaters, but the way El Pais, and the Spanish authorities have run this latest scandal it is very irresponsible. The who scandal is being played out in the press [...]

Jan Ullrich’s waistline is a huge issue each year. Here is an inside look at Jan’s early season training. You can see just how much weight Jan has lost from the spring time until now.

Video from http://www.tourdefrancegids.nl/

Ouch, the Paceline has links to some very bad commercials featuring Bob Roll all decked out in Disco gear. OK, it is not as bad as having Phil Ligget and Paul Sherwan goofing off on the set of OLN TV while trying desparately to win Trek gear. At least this time Bobke keeps his clothes [...]

(Damiano Cunego will scope out the Tour course just to get a taste)
The Italian contingent looks fairly strong in a race that traditionally is not a high priority. Twenty four Italians ranging from the oldest Giovanni Lombardi at 37 years old to Ricardo Ricco at 23 years old. Paolo Savoldelli and Ivan Basso are contenders [...]

(photo courtesy of Photoradius)
Last Saturday I raced in the Rochester Twilight Criterium. The race circles around downtown Rochester with several corners, and uphill and downhill section that are not very difficult, but get worse as you are going around at full speed. My race was the Cat5 over 30 competition which had a field of [...]

I raced the Rochester Twilight Criterium this past weekend. The course is lots of fun, the competition is fast, and the crowds are gigantic. 40,000 people lined the streets of downtown Rochester to see pros ride over 30mph. Many of the spectators were new to cycling and the speeds were impressive.

Rochester Twilight Criterium on [...]

El Pais is churning out stories from Operation Puerto on a daily basis and Tuttobici web has some translations to Italian. Velochimp kindly translates it for you while providing some insight.
Seems like information is starting to come out and names are being tagged with the documents. In all due respect, it is not fair to [...]