The prologue for the Amgen Tour of California starts at 1 p.m. (PT) today in Palo Alto, but Rock Racing's roster Saturday night looked like a big question mark.
Tyler Hamilton. Oscar Sevilla. Santiago Botero. Will they attempt to race in spite of being banned? Apparently not.
And will one of the greatest sprinters of all time, Mario Cipollini, actually emerge from retirement at age 40 and slip on Rock Racing's black jersey? Apparently so …
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Rock Racing is sponsored by clothing company.
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Can't make it to the roadside for the Amgen Tour of California, which rolls out Sunday through Feb. 24? There are many ways to watch it from the comfort of your office or home computer.
I'm not encouraging slacking off at work, but computer users will get an enhanced Tour Tracker that offers video streaming, expert audio and other cool doo-dads at the official website this year. There's also “play-by-play” offered by VeloNews and CyclingNews, as well as the highlights presented by Versus on cable TV.
You'll have to look for the link to Tour Tracker on the Amgen Tour of California website. This is the third year the Adobe and Computer Sciences Corp. have combined attempted this, and frankly the second year was much more reliable than the first. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/02/16/watching-the-2008-tour-of-california-from-work-or-home/
While we've been on the subject of globe-girdling bicycling with Annie Londonderry, 25-year-old Mark Beaumont completed his journey earlier today when he crossed under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
Beaumont's amazing feat? He shaved 81 days off the previous around-the-world solo bike tour record of 276 days.
No sag wagon accompanied him or carried his stuff. Beaumont toted his own 66 pounds of gear over the entire 18,000-mile journey for 195 days. Now he's looking to get some sleep…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/02/15/scotsman-sets-record-for-around-the-world-solo-bike-tour/
Annie Londenderry staged photos of some exploits to spice up her lectures about her bike trip in the United States.
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Peter Zheutlin is a Boston-area freelance writer whose fascination with biking coincided with his work on “Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry's Extraordinary Ride.”
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If you're familiar with the world of bicycle touring, you probably already know that the first cyclist to pedal around the world was Tom Stevens, who left San Francisco on a penny farthing in 1884.
But who was the first woman to accomplish the feat?
Let me introduce you to Annie Londonderry, a Bostonian in her early 20s who undertook the journey 10 years later in 1894. Credited with accomplishing the bicycle journey by Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and countless other newspapers at the time, her story is one of high adventure and extreme risk for a woman travelling alone in the late 19th century.
Her stories involve run-ins with bandits, nights spent sleeping in barns or open fields, visiting the front of the China-Japan war where she was wounded and taken prisoner, accidents out on the road, and tiger hunts in the jungle from atop an elephant. She did it all to win a bet that a woman could bicycle around the world. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/02/14/annie-londonderrys-amazing-bike-trip-around-the-world/
Here's a map of her bicycling route taken by the time she reached San Francisco. Note that much of it is over open water. Used by permission of Peter Zheutlin.
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A drawing of Annie Kopchovsky on her Sterling men's bicycle. Used with permission of Peter Zheutlin.
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It looks like two of the top 3 finishers in last year's Tour de France will have three weeks of vacation come July. The owners of the Tour de France announced that the Astana pro cycling team cannot compete in that race, or any other that it hosts in 2008.
That means Spain's Alberto Contador can't defend his titles in the 2007 Paris-Nice or Tour de France. No. 3 Tour de France finisher Levi Leipheimer won't be able to compete in the race either
Banning cycling teams from races, in spite of team-management and internal doping-control overhauls, seems to be the fashion this year; the Giro d'Italia already banned Astana and Team High Road (formerly T-Mobile).
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/02/13/slam-astana-shut-out-of-2008-tour-de-france/
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