Note to top contenders in the 2006 Tour de France bike race: Der Kaiser is back.
German cyclist Jan Ullrich is this year's Tour de Suisse champion, winning on the strength of his individual time trial ride on Sunday after staying near the top of the standings through the mountain stages in recent days.
The team leader for T-Mobile won the 19-mile time trial from Kerzers to Bern by 22 seconds over second place finisher, Cadel Evans of Davitamon Lotto. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/18/jan-ullrich-back-in-top-form-wins-tour-de-suisse/
I may be nothing more than a recreational bicycling hack, but my style of cycling has more in common with elite racers in the Tour de France than those competing in the Race Across America.
Basically, my rides begin and end on the same date and in the same time zone. Not so the RAAM, which is passing through Missouri and into Illinois on Saturday. Cyclists who started this race on Sunday in California stay on their bikes as long as possible without sleep on their way across the continent to Atlantic City, New Jersey.
They are a completely different breed. Race reports from RAAM writer Danny Chew are so bizarre they can't be fiction. Consider …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/17/how-raam-cyclists-are-different-than-the-rest-of-us/
From Race Across America website, solo rider Marko Baloh from Slovenia
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The Discovery Channel and Gerolsteiner pro cycling teams named their Tour de France squads Friday, and Americans lead the lists for both.
George Hincapie, left, is leading the Discovery team and Levi Leipheimer, right, heads the Gerolsteiner squad. Both have competed in the Tour de France many times.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/16/americans-head-discovery-and-gerolsteiner-tour-de-france-squads/
It looks like all the leading Tour de France contenders are having their way with different bicycle races. Floyd Landis, Ivan Basso, and Levi Leipheimer each have dominated at one or more contests this spring.
Now it's Jan Ullrich's turn in the Tour de Suisse, his final tune up for the Tour de France beginning July 1. After struggling toward the end of the Giro d'Italia in May, Ullrich has been pressing on the climbs. He's come up short of stage victories, but he gained third place overall on Thursday and held that on Friday. (Updated Saturday, June 17) …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/16/jan-ullrich-sitting-pretty-in-tour-de-suisse/
It's been slightly more than two weeks since Spanish authorities sprung a trap that netted a bicycling team manager, the assistant director of another team, a doctor, and several others in a blood doping probe.
Looking at the news so far, it's striking how many cyclists not implicated in the probe have fallen victim in the run up to the Tour de France because of their association with some teams. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/15/fallout-from-spanish-blood-doping-probe/
Joe Bowen, a very fit Kentucky cyclist, pedaled off on a 14,000-mile bicycle tour last spring to visit nearly every state in the US — a second time.
Bowen was repeating a bicycle trek he took upon his discharge from the Air Force in 1967 when he left Lompoc, California, and bicycled through 46 states before returning home to eastern Kentucky.
Now, at 63, Bowen is returning home again …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/14/joe-bowen-ending-14000-mile-around-america-bicycle-tour/
Lance Armstrong may be retired, but the Outdoor Life Network is still working around the clock to broadcast live and replayed bicycle racing from the 2006 Tour de France.
The OLN TV's live coverage usually begins daily at 8:30 a.m. (ET) daily, including weekends, and concludes about 11:30 a.m. (ET). Coverage for some of the longer bike race stages in the mountains begins 30 to 60 minutes earlier …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/13/where-to-watch-the-2006-tour-de-france/
Bicycle race begins July 1
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There's a lot of bad mojo in bicycle touring, even if you're riding in the best of the supported cross-state week-long bike rides.
Yesterday I wrote about some avoidable, and unavoidable, bad things that can mar an otherwise idyllic bicycle ride. Here are some more problems that might arise, and how to prevent or deal with them.
1. Help! My luggage is lost!
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/13/more-bad-things-that-can-happen-on-good-bike-tours/
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