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Saturday, May 16th, 2009I discovered the above homemade truing stand in an article at Velonews. It is being used by the Cervelo Team mechanics at the Giro D’Italia. It is made from a steel fork with a second set of fork legs welded to it. The original fork ends are used to hold a front wheel and the additional […]
Lance Armstrong Is Just One Of The Pack
Friday, May 15th, 2009The Giro D’Italia has completed three mountain stages so far. For the first mountain stage, Lance stayed close to the lead group. However the next two stages took a toll. Here are his results from the first three mountain stages.
Stage 4 - 15 seconds behind leader
Stage 5 - 2:58 behind leader
Stage 6 - 1:15 behind […]
Craigslist, Erotic Ads and Bicycles
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Recently Craigslist has been under pressure to remove their erotic services ads after a man answered one of the ads and killed a prostitute (oops - I mean erotic service provider). Craigslist had said that they had that ad category so that those ads would not be listed in other sections on their site. However […]
Before You Do A Charity Ride
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009Before you sign up for a charity ride, it is a good idea to check out the charity. Seven years ago the Washington Post reported that Pallotta Teamworks, the for-profit group that organized the AIDS rides, had spent 86% of the money raised for the DC AIDS ride on overhead.I recently discovered a website that rates […]
Giro D’Italia TV Coverage
Friday, May 8th, 2009One benefit of Lance Armstrong’s return to cycling is the additional coverage of the sport. The Tour De France has had daily television coverage in the United States for the last ten years. However the Giro gets less coverage. Versus TV had tried daily coverage of the race several years ago but dropped it after only one […]
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