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Check the Tour de France on your cellphone

If you can't follow live Tour de France coverage from a TV or on the internet, use your WAP-enabled cellphone.

WAPReview.com tells how to set up your cell to capture live feeds from CyclingNews and VeloNews when the Tour de France starts Saturday, continuing through July 23. …

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Forget Tour de France, Armstrong to ride RAGBRAI

Lance Armstrong won't be cycling shoulder-to-shoulder with members of the Tour de France peloton in July; he'll be crunched in a mass of more than 8,000 RAGBRAI cyclists.

The retired Tour de France champion has confirmed he'll ride in one or more days of the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa that runs July 23-29. …

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Odd talk in the peloton

If you want some insight into what cyclists talk about in the peloton, check out the Dave Zabriskie Podcast at MissingSaddle.com.

His latest installment, discovered by TdF Blog 2006, talks about Russian cyclists and their mullets.

Further, the Salt Lake City native is featured in Bicycling magazine with Phonak team leader Floyd Landis. Zabriskie interviews …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/28/odd-talk-in-the-peloton/

Lance Armstrong

Mende, France. Tour de France 2005

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Alexandre Vinokourov

Kazahkstan's Alexandre Vinokourov, leader of the Astana-Wurth cycling team in the Tour de France.

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Charles Kuralt

“On the Road” correspondent for CBS Charles Kuralt; image from Academy of Achievement

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Jethro Mann — the Bicycle Man

Jethro Mann, subject of Charles Kuralt piece from the '80s, is still repairing bicycles for kids more than 20 years later.

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Vinokourov team may not race in Tour de France

(Updated July 29 — Astana-Wurth gets green light to race — CyclingNews) Tour de France organizers are seeking to ban the Astana-Wurth cycling team from the bike race this year after published reports link several members to a blood-doping probe in Spain. …

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Follow that dream — and bike trail

Forty-five bike trails in 36 months. That's the goal for New Orleans bicyclist Larry Lagarde.

Lagarde plans to ride these bicycle trails, review them and tell about his adventures at his website RideThisBike.com.

Right now, Lagarde has links to more than 40 bike trails worldwide at his website. His personal bike tour will enable him to add his own perspective on the bike trails and routes. …

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Spanish newspaper links Jan Ullrich, others, to doping probe

True or false, proven or unproven, this is going to be a huge distraction to German cyclist Jan Ullrich and some other cyclists in the Tour de France.

The Spanish newspaper El Pais reports that documents found in a raid during the Operation Puerto blood-doping probe relate to Ullrich, the winner of the 1997 Tour de France and a favorite this year.

Says Ullrich: “That has nothing to do with me.” …

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