Velochimp: Astrochimp on Cycling

This is a good overview of how to handle yourself on the road. Some of these techniques such as divergent lanes next to a highway on-ramp are new to me. I would always wait to cross over at the right spot and stay to the side of the road.

I normally post about Top Gear on my other blog, but this episode has a good aspect on bikes. The Top Gear crew is known for doing elaborate races such as a jet plane racing a Bugatti Veyron. Here the Top Gear crew takes four different forms of transportation across London. Richard Hammond rides a [...]

Jan Ullrich is very serious about his training this year. Der Kaiser traditionally trains in Tuscany around this time of year as the season approaches. The weather in Tuscany has not been cooperating with Ullrich’s training schedule, so Jan, a few teammates and Rudy Pevenage took the next flight available for South Africa.
“Currently, winter has [...]

Jan Ullrich now has Eddy Merckx picking him to succeed in France come July. Merckx made a few comments on the “Man with the new coif” while assiting at the Doh International GP. Merckx particularly likes the fact that “Der Kaiser” has decided to add the Giro D’Italia as part of his training schedule leading [...]

Perhaps Bode Miller has been a little too eager to give interviews and speak his mind. Miller throws fellow athletes Lance Armstrong and Barry Bonds under the bus for simply taking pills and not asking questions. Come on Bode, do we need to make the drug issue more of a witch hunt than it already [...]

Selle Italia is getting their season off to a winning start. Yesterday, they took their first win with Russel Van Hout, today they get the victory with Alberto Loddo who won the fourth stage of the Vuelta al Tachira in Venezuela. This is a comeback for Loddo who last season moved down to the amateur [...]

Team Milram have their official presentation today in Brema, Germany the home to the dairy company. Milram is the latest blue jersey to join the peloton and will be headed by three team captains in Erik Zabel, Alessandro Petacchi and Mirko Celestino.

All three it seems have had some hand in trying to win Milan-San Remo [...]

Rule number one of riding in the rain is do not ride through puddles. There are many reason to not ride through a puddle and number one is the fact that you do not know how deep the puddle is or what is below. A bicyclist in China had his ride through a puddle turn [...]

On the list of links to rider’s sites, one of the best has to be soprojones.com. The quirky website was always worth a visit for something entertaining even though it was not always updated. The last week or so, I noticed that the site seems like it was taken over by some generic company that [...]

One of several veteran Italian riders left out in the cold after the Sony Ericsson debacle will still race next year. Fabio Baldato will join the Italian Continental Team Tenax - Nobili Rubinetterie - Salmilano. Baldato will bring a wealth of experience to the young Tenax team. His palmares include 2nd place in 1994 [...]