Velochimp: Astrochimp on Cycling

It’s no secret that I have taken up running this off season. Since September I have been running once a week for 6 miles. Usually it would be a one hour run during lunch time or on the weekend. I kept up this program until Christmas where the nice weather allowed me to ride my [...]

(pic from floydlandis.com)
Floyd Landis is not very optimistic about riding professionally again in 2007. The long process of trying to clear his name from the positive drug test in the Tour de France is making the possibility of getting on a Pro team this year look very bleak. Even if he is cleared of the [...]

I have not tried cyclocross yet, but after the fall series in New York State I did get the bug. Luckily it was dry for most of the races here in the Northeast. In the Netherlands however, the weather can get wet. When it gets wet, it is slippery. Check out this footage. The crashes [...]

(pic from letour.fr)
The sprinters battle is leaning heavily to Tom Boonen as he took his second consecutive stage win ahead of arch-rival super sprinter Alessandro Petacchi. The sprint was almost an exact repeat of yesterday’s stage win minus the brutal crash by Tom Steels which resulted in a broken collarbone.
The two wins so early [...]

Boonen Congratulates Team: pic from letour.fr
The “battle of sprinters” is taking shape as Tom Boonen took the first round in the Tour of Qatar. Boonen took the overall lead after winning the stage beating Alessandro Petacchi in a mass gallup to the line.

The Tour of Qatar is the first showdown between Alessandro Petacchi and Tom Boonen. Last year the two had some head to head battles leading up to the first big classic of the year. Milan San-Remo was supposed to be a showdown of the two sprinters, but Boonen’s Quick-Step teammate spoiled the battle with a [...]

The Giro D’Italia will feature only 18 of the 20 ProTour Teams and will make the final announcement on February 12. This is a move that signals a large fissure in the battle between the UCI’s and the three Grand Tours. This situation was not helped much when Pat McQuaid made some very odd comments [...]

(Me with Johan Museeuw in Hamilton, Ontario during the Worlds 2003)

Johan Museeuw the Barry Bonds of cycling has admitted to not being 100% honest in racing late in his career.
Johan Museeuw has confessed to not being “100 per cent honest” during the final year of his cycling career, in what is generally being interpreted as [...]

Little by little Sam and I are getting things done to make the 2007 Syracuse Race Weekend a reality. Today we met with folks from the Syracuse Parks and Recreation department. These folks were great to talk to as they seem ready and willing to help make dreams into reality. Sam and I suggested a [...]

Oscar Pereiro the runner-up/winner in waiting of the 2006 Tour de France is in the headlines after French paper Le Monde publish a story detailing a positive drug test result for the Caisse D’Epargne rider. The drug test result was salbutamol a drug for which Pereiro has a medical waiver registered with the UCI. The [...]