Did you happen to catch The Last Rider when it had a theatrical release? It was June 23, 2023, just before the Tour de France departed, and in the midst of the Tour de France: […]
John Tesh wrote the soundtrack to my cycling youth. The 1985 Paris-Roubaix is seared into my memory as possibly the greatest classic of all time. I fear the reason is possibly because the music not […]
When I first started following the Tour, one of the many things that surprised me about pro racing and racers was their emotions. Compared to what I seemed to be seeing with American pro sports, […]
The opening stages of the 2021 Tour de France has not only had spectacular racing, but crashtacular carnage. So much that the crashes have dominated the reporting of the first three stages . Every time […]
Hugo Koblet popped into my head. The Swiss rider, winner of eight national championships, six-days in Chicago and New York, medalist at the Worlds, and winner of the 1950 Giro d’Italia and 1951 Tour de […]
2020 was an exciting vintage of the Tour de France. Possibly the most exciting in years. The defending champion and his team didn’t have the goods. The Green Jersey race was a battle through the […]
For seven of the past eight years, Bora-Hansgrohe’s Peter Sagan made winning the Tour de France Green Jersey look easy. (In 2016, he was set to make it look easy until he was wrongly disqualified […]
The opening stage of the 2020 Tour de France was largely neutralized by the riders after a spate of crashes on the tiny, twisting, rain-slicked roads the route took around Nice. Looking at all the […]
The Tour de France is the most important equipment rollout of the year. The importance is due to the stiffness of the competition, the importance of the stakes, and the worldwide attention focused on the […]
Two former Tour de France champions were taken off their team roster this week. Four-time champ Chris Froome was seen as not good enough to ride for his team. Same goes for 2018 winner Geraint […]
