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. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/29/check-the-tour-de-france-on-your-cellphone/
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/
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/
Kazakhstan's Alexandre Vinokourov, last year's number 5 finisher in the Tour de France bike race, can race this year after his team got the go ahead to compete beginning July 1.
Vinokourov's team is Astana Wurth. It was formerly Liberty Seguros-Wurth until a doping scandal convinced the Spanish subsidiary of the Liberty Mutual insurance company to abandon the team. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/23/vinokourov-gets-good-news-he-can-race-in-tour-de-france/
The female duo Ditty Bops currently making their way cross-country by bicycle isn't the first band smitten by the bicycling bug.
A love of the bicycle caused German band Kraftwerk to whither creatively for 17 year before reuniting a couple of years ago to create Tour de France Soundtracks.
The love of bikes and cycling has united the Ditty Bops for their road trip. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/20/bicycle-crazy-bands-ditty-bops-and-kraftwerk-couldnt-be-more-different/
Three Americans are assigned to help Italian cyclist Ivan Basso win the Tour de France bike race for Team CSC this year.
It's at least the second time in the Tour de France for all three. They are Bobby Julich (right), Christian Vandevelde and the third American ever to wear the yellow jersey, David Zabriskie.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/19/bassos-csc-team-names-3-americans-for-tour-de-france-5-on-other-teams/
Lance Armstrong is not letting the controversy over last year's doping allegations die quietly.
In response to a report that concluded the World Anti-Doping Agency acted irresponsibly in the mishandling of urine samples from the 1999 Tour de France, Armstrong is seeking discipinary action against WADA chief Dick Pound. (Updated June 22) …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/19/armstrong-wants-anti-doping-chief-dick-pound-punished/
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'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/
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