Category: Lance Armstrong Watch
(NOTE: This ride is booked. Updated version posted July 31, 2005. See “Lance Armstrong riding at 3 events this fall”)
This year marks Lance Armstrong's last Tour de France, but that doesn't mean he'll stop riding the bike, especially at fund-raisers for cancer research and awareness.
Armstrong is coming to the Pacific Northwest for the LiveStrong Ride Portland 2005 at Nike's world headquarters in Beaverton, Sept. 23 – 25.
For a minimum registration of $150, bicyclists can ride for 10 to 100 miles …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/07/01/lance-armstrong-to-ride-in-portland-sept-23-25-weekend/
So is Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team manager Johan Bruyneel serious with his list of 3 strongest challengers for beating Lance Armstrong at the Tour de France this year?
Jan Ullrich. Alexandre Vinokourov. Ivan Basso.
All are serious contenders, but I think he's trying to mess with the riders' heads over on the T-Mobile bus, especially by choosing two from …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/07/01/tour-de-france-bruyneel-mind-games/
Lance Armstrong watchers might be surprised to learn that eight other Americans are riding in the Tour de France 2005 this year.
They're not all riding on Armstrong's Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team either, but spread out over seven teams. In fact, Discovery has just two riders from the US, same as Denmark's Team CSC.
Who was the first US rider in …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/06/29/us-cyclists-at-tour-de-france-2005/
“The unfortunate thing is I hit my head which cracked my helmet in two. … It wasn't that serious and nothing was wrong. No breaks. No stitches; just road rash and a little beat up.”
Lance Armstrong explaining his “silly crash” that gave him a black eye during a training ride near Nice, France, last Wednesday …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/06/27/bicycle-quote-lance-armstrongs-silly-crash/
Will Lance Armstrong break the Tour de France record he set last year and win a 7th Tour de France championship this summer?
Three-fourths of you think he will. That's according to the poll that's been running for about two weeks at Biking Bis.
Interestingly, the voting heavily favored Armstrong the first few days, but dropped to about 66% at …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/06/17/biking-bis-results-for-lance-armstrong-poll/
A friend sent me a link to the Booknoise.net Q & A with the author of “Lance Armstrong's War,” the latest book to come out on The Boss and just in time for the Tour de France.
The author, Daniel Coyle, a writer for Outside magazine, moved the family to Girona, Spain, and spent …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/06/15/the-struggle-to-be-lance-armstrong/
It's no news flash that hard training and weight loss create more speed. But by how much?
In the case of Lance Armstrong, he boosted his muscle efficiency by 8% over the period from 1992 to 1999. Couple that with a 7% reduction in body weight and fat and it adds up to an 18% improvement in his steady state power …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/06/14/lance-armstrong-boosted-muscle-efficiency-by-8/
So what if Lance Armstrong is a few places down going into the last day of the Dauphiné Libéré? The Associated Press reports that Armstrong is considering his future with rockstar Sheryl Crow.
When asked about having kids with Crow, Armstrong said:
“Yeah. Sheryl and I are very happy. To me, when you have a relationship, you're happy and in …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/06/12/big-plans-for-lance-armstrong-and-sheryl-crow/
Lance Armstrong faces a huge challenge if he wants to win the weeklong Dauphiné Libéré bicycle race in southeastern France this year. After climbing into second place on Thursday, he fell to fourth …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/06/10/lance-armstrong-loses-ground-in-dauphine-libere/
Lance Armstrong is showing that he must have trained hard during those few weeks off after the Tour de Georgia. The Texan has climbed into second place after the torturous climb up Mount Ventoux on Thursday in the week-long Dauphiné Libéré. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/06/09/dauphine-libere-lance-armstrong-climbing-up-the-ranks/
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