Velochimp: Astrochimp on Cycling

With a little more than a week to go for the Tour de France, cycling news and cycling blog sites are getting a bit overzealous with their pre Tour analysis. It is a long two week run from the end of the Tour de Suisse to the start of the Tour de France next Saturday. [...]

The process for the change of sponsorship from Liberty-Seguros to Astana has cleared the investigation by the UCI. This allows the team of Alexandre Vinokourov to be allowed to participate in the Tour de France. This is a big relief for Vino since there was a very real possibility that the team would not be [...]

These jets are made for radio controlled airplanes and helicopters. But no one said you can’t strap them onto an old mountain bike? These turbines cost around 3k each. Not a bad price considering a sweet carbon bike will run you about as much. You will leave the competition in your after burners when you [...]

Downhiller Dave Watson jumped over the Tour de France in 2003 on the climb up to L’Alpe D’Huez. The jump was setup just as a breakaway was riding through. The Downhill daredevil seemed to be an urban legend as word of the jump could not be verified and it seemed as though the Tour Organization [...]

Wow, YouTube and other video sites do have quite a bit of footage. Interesting to search the sites and find out what you can dig up.
Check out the footage from 2003 when Lance Armstrong caught a mussette and went down. The crash caused his frame to crack which later caused Lance to unclip from his [...]

The Tour de France is almost upon us, and it is time to kickoff the excitement with some videos in French of course. First up is a look at L’Alpe D’Huez and Lance Armstrong with some footage taken from OLN and Lance’s Reality show.

Next is a profile of Jan Ullrich from 2004. Take a behind [...]

The RAI Click website has an archive of the entire Giro D’Italia coverage as seen on RAI. Relive the domination of Ivan Basso and listen to some great Italian commentators too. The Processo alla Tappa program is also available and that is worth seeing too.
Click on “VENTUNESIMA TAPPA - 28/05″ (the 21st stage) to view [...]

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Jan Ullrich is looking strong on the roads of the Tour de Suisse. Although he had a strong sixth place finish in yesterdays first hilly stage near the front, the true climbs will come today where Der Kaiser hopes to test out his form a bit more and possibly go for [...]

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Comunidad Valencianna (formerly Kelme) are now uninvited to the Tour de France as a result of the Operation Puerto investigation. No surprise from this announcement as it was already seen as a done deal. Jean Marie Leblanc has stated previously that no other team will be invited in place of CV. No surprise [...]

If you are being too productive at work, the Tour de Suisse is available live on the web at http://www.tsr.ch/tsr/index.html?siteSect=100000
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