Category: 2004 Tour de France
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Cycling Teams in Tour de France Publishing Performance Data on Web
Reading Time: < 1 minute Josh Gray of Jtri.com told us about Lennard Zinn‘s report for Bicycling Magazine about the alliance between the Saeco Cycling Team and SRM to allow Tour de France watchers to monitor heart rate, power, speed, and cadence data for some of Saeco’s riders. The data is available during the running…
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Tour de France TV Coverage is Full of Technical Innovations
Reading Time: 2 minutes Even if you think that watching cycling on television is boring, I urge you to turn on the Outdoor Life Network sometime this month and watch some of the coverage of the Tour de France. The coverage of the race on the road is particularly interesting when you think about how…
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“The Tour de France Companion” is a Good Guide for American Tour Watchers
Reading Time: 4 minutes I just received a review copy of The Tour De France Companion by Bob Roll with a forward by Dan Koeppel. This book is: partly a guide to the 2004 Tour de France, partly a Tour history book, and partly an introduction to Tour pagentry and symbolism for people watching the…
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“Lance Armstrong: Images of a Champion” is a Worthy Photographic Tribute
Reading Time: 2 minutes Graham Watson and Lance Armstrong have collaborated on a coffee table book called Lance Armstrong: Images of a Champion that was just released by Rodale Books. This is a 208-page coffee table book full of Graham Watson photos of Lance Armstrong’s career from 1992 to the end of last season. It…
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Outside Magazine Produced a Solid Series of 2004 Tour de France Preview Articles
Reading Time: < 1 minute Outside Magazine did a fine job previewing the 2004 Tour de France in its July 2004 issue. Five major articles including: An interview with Lance Armstrong when he was still training in California. (Excerpt available on-line.) An article about Tyler Hamilton, including many more details of his life before cycling…
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Ciclosport HAC 4 Plus is the Bike Computer Lance Armstrong Uses on Race Day
Reading Time: 2 minutes Yesterday, Jonathan Green pointed out that the July 2004 issue of Wired Magazine has a short article by Ben Hewitt about the gear that Lance Armstrong will use in his quest for a sixth consecutive Tour de France GC win. I bought the magazine at the newsstand in Newark Liberty Airport…
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Radios Used by U.S. Postal Service Cycling Team During Races
Reading Time: < 1 minute Last October, Men’s Journal did a cover story on Lance Armstrong that recapped his fifth Tour de France and his life at that time. A side bar to that article called The Innovator: The Winning Gear discussed many of the components that Armstrong and the U.S. Postal Service team used…