I’ve got a mate who keeps blaming his lack of descending skills on the mental image of his front wheel buckling or blowing out on a big fast descent. Well, as some of these images show, most of the time it’s when you’re on the flat that you’ve got to worry! Here’s 9 of the [...]

Vive Le Tour! This is amazing, if you’ve got 20min on your lunch break to take a look, sit back and enjoy. A real and nostalgic insight into the 60′s and 70′s Tour de France. I love the 2 guys sharing an ice cream. Thanks Ross

From mclaren.com Cavendish became the first Briton to claim the Green jersey, awarded to the rider who scores the most points over the course of the tour, just a couple of hours after Lewis took the chequered flag at the Nurburgring. Cavendish won five of 21 stages, including the final one which ends on the [...]

This has done the rounds last week already, but it’s worth taking another look at it and it came up again in conversation over the weekend. I can’t seem to really get my head around it! The Argus looks like someone just smudged a line of ink for the border or something.  It’s really a [...]

For most viewers, the Tour de France is all they know of cycling. And it always amazes me how many people watch the Tour who generally don’t give a hoot about cycling as a sport. But once a year, they find themselves caught up  in 22 days of drama in lycra. So if you’ve found [...]

There’s been a lot of MTB articles lately, but now The Tour de France 2011 is almost upon us! Running from Saturday July 2rd to Sunday July 24th 2011, the 98th Tour de France will be made up of 21 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,430.5 kilometres. Distinctive aspects of the race: [...]

News has come in that Morvélo has designed a range of official t-shirts for the Tour de France 2011  and I love them!! I’m a big fan of them having learnt of them at the London Cycle Show last year and already have a couple of their t-shirts. The Ride Tour de France range is [...]

Ah, I like Team Time Trials. It’s back. Route looks quite interesting actually. And the etape stage looks to be the 109km Modane – Alpe D’huez. Nice! The 2011 Tour de France (July 2-24, 2011) will celebrate the first passage of the race through the Alps in 1911. From Road.cc: As expected the Vendée on [...]

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He comes at the guy with a wheel. Awesome. If you haven’t seen this already…as you would say in rugby parlance, just a bit of ‘handbag swinging’. So the final mountain stage was a bit anti-climatic.  I think Andy should have attacked much sooner nearer the bottom, but Contador with his one attack halfway up [...]

Mark Renshaw shows Julian Dean his impression of Zinedine Zidane. Unfortunately it got him chucked off the tour. Too harsh?

Cavendish in must-win situation for Tour’s green jersey Check out Bradley Wiggins custom saddle Tour de France stage 10 – Paulinho gives Radioshack something to celebrate

No crashes. Weird. Pretty straightforward. Cavendish not looking on form and fades badly in the sprint. Go Robbie Hunter though.:) Stage 4 roundup: road.cc – Tour de France Stage 4 reaction: Petacchi says timing was crucial to yesterday’s win Yahoo! Cycling – Who’s Hot | Who’s Not Barometer Stage by Stage Bicycling.com – Petacchi Outsprints [...]

One word. Cobbles. If Stage 2 was chaos, Stage 3 was something special. This was serious bike racing, with some phenomenal efforts by the peloton. I felt drained at the end from just watching it. Sometimes you’re the hammer, sometimes the nail. Today I was the nail. I have 20 days now to be the [...]