What a scare during the opening prologue for the 2006 Tour de France. It's American Floyd Landis' turn to begin his bike ride, but the platform is empty.
After the carnage of Black Friday in which 13 riders were dropped from the starting roster, I was thinking anything could have happened.
As it turned out, Landis got a late start out of the gate by about 8 or 9 seconds. In the standings, he ended up 9.26 seconds behind prologue winner Norwegian Thor Hushovd …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/07/01/hushovd-wins-tour-prologue-wheres-landis/
Back in May, I asked Biking Bis readers who they thought would win the 2006 Tour de France. Ivan Basso and Jan Ullrich received three-fourths of the votes.
With those two heavy favorites out of the race, I'm posting another quickie poll at right. Here are some top contenders …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/30/new-tour-de-france-bike-race-poll/
The two favored contenders in the the 2006 Tour de France have been thrown out in shame, caught up in a blood doping probe that started in May.
Ivan Basso, looking for his first Tour de France win, and Jan Ullrich, hoping to fulfill the promise he showed as a young Tour winner in 1997, will be watching the Tour from the sidelines this year.
The decision came less than 24 hours before the three-week race is set to begin. It changes the whole complexion of the race, and could help propel Americans like Floyd Landis, Levi Leipheimer and George Hincapie to the front of the pack. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/30/its-a-whole-new-tour-de-france-basso-and-ullrich-tossed-out/
I didn't know much about bicycles — I'm still not what you'd call a gear head — when I bought my first set of wheels back in 1977.
With $150 in my wallet and a copy of the latest Consumer Reports in my hand I marched into Big Wheel Bikes down by the canal in Washington DC and bought that year's recommended bicycle — the Fuji Dynamic 10. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/30/consumer-reports-recommends-bikes-in-june-issue/
This could be a very different Tour de France than the bike race we envisioned just a few days ago.
Favorites Ivan Basso, left, and Jan Ullrich have been named in media reports among the patients of Dr. Eufemiano Fuentes, the doctor who is the focus of the Operacion Puerto drug probe in Spain. Eurosport says Thursday that the cyclists were identified by sources for Cadena Ser radio. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/29/basso-ullrich-others-named-in-doping-probe-radio-report/
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. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/29/forget-tour-de-france-armstrong-to-ride-ragbrai/
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 …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/28/odd-talk-in-the-peloton/
(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. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/27/vinokourov-team-may-not-race-in-tour-de-france/
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. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/27/follow-that-dream-and-bike-trail/
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.” …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/26/spanish-newspaper-links-jan-ullrich-others-to-doping-probe/
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