For a race with the good ol’ boys in Georgia there is a wacky list of recent winners. This year the new guy with a funny name (yes, my name is Marcello and it is funny too) is Kanstantin Sivtsov. Not yet a household name, but that is what you said when Jani Brajkovic won [...]

The Jittery Joes team rides through the Road America race course in a preview of the Team Time Trial.

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The race is lower key than the Tour of California especially as it comes right in the middle of Classics season. But the beauty of cycling is the fact that there is enough talent to go around. So the Tour de Georgia sees George Hincapie (Phil and Paul’s favorite cyclist) appear [...]

Following the Tour of California Tour Tracker, the same technology will be used for the The Tour de Georgia Tour Tracker.
Allan Padgett of Adobe was originally involved in building the Tour of California Tour Tracker. He provided details on how it was built using the Adobe Flex Framework. The entire app was built within [...]

Follow the Tour de Georgia with the tdgblog. It looks like it is the same folks that bring you the tdfblog.com as the format is very similar. There are links to photosets on Flickr and reports from folks who are at the race this year.
The Flickr links are by far the best feature since [...]

Nice shot of the Specialized Angel from Sea Otter. This pic comes from Flickr courtesy of the tdgblog.com

Specialized isn’t putting too much marketing behind the Tour de Georgia especially since Gerolsteiner is not racing there this year.
Specialized has a fairly low-profile presence in Georgia this week. Their only official sponsorship is of KodakGallery.com-Sierra Nevada, for [...]

The Tour De Georgia starts tomorrow, but nobody could really tell since there is not much buzz about the race this year. Maybe everyone got too excited by the Tour of California and the Classics?
The Tour de Georgia comes at a time when many US riders are injured and thankfully on the mend. Saul Raisin [...]

Cyclelicio.us has an entry on the feasability of having a Tour of US. Looking at some of the major US races which are about 1 week long, would it be feasable to combine these to to one three week race?
Tour of California - 8 stages
Tour de Georgia - 6 stages
Tour de Toona - 7 stages
It [...]

The Tour de Georgia’s route was unveiled yesterday.
Stage 1: Tuesday, April 18 – Augusta, Ga. to Macon, Ga. • Augusta: Third year to host the Tour, with a Stage Start venue in 2003 and Overall Start in 2005 • Macon: Fourth consecutive year as a host city, having participated as a Stage Finish and Stage [...]




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