Category: 2005 Dodge Tour de Georgia

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA special welcome to the readers of The Paceline, the official website of the Lance Armstrong and Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team. The Paceline linked our story about Discovery’s use of AMD Personal Media Players to review time trialing techniques, and gave us a nice traffic boost. For those of you…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI added more photos from Stage 6 to the 2005 Tour de Georgia Album in the Operation Gadget Photo Gallery. Most of these are close up photos of bikes that the riders rode in the final stage. I didn’t realize that backfilling photos would change the order of the photos and…

Reading Time: 2 minutesHail Storm on Woody’s Gap: This 2-second MPEG movie may be all you need to appreciate the furious hail storm that occurred while fans were waiting for the riders to pass by. [ Video: James Bailey ] See more TdG photos in in the Operation Gadget Photo Gallery. One of the moments…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI had an uneventful flight from Atlanta to Newark yesterday afternoon. This ended my two week trip to the Chicago Showcase and the Tour de Georgia. My wife Kathleen met me at the airport and we went food shopping at Wegmans on the way home. At least I’m trying to get…

Reading Time: 3 minutesLance in the Wind Tunnel as Seen on the PMP: Discovery is using AMD-powered personal media players to help improve time trial performances. More PMP Photos. See more TdG photos in in the Operation Gadget Photo Gallery. [ Photo: Dave Aiello ] On the final day of the 2005 Dodge Tour de…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteGord Fraser of Health Net Presented by Maxxis edged teammate Greg Henderson to win Stage 6 of the Dodge Tour de Georgia which finished in Alpharetta. Tom Danielson came in with the field, so he retained the yellow jersey and placed first in the General Classification. Provisional Results are as follows:…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI didn’t set out to see every start and finish of the Dodge Tour de Georgia, but I managed to do it anyway. I drove up to Blairsville this morning from my base of operations off of I-85 just north of “The Perimeter”. Now I know what it’s like to drive…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe had fun getting off of Brasstown Bald last night. I was with two other journalists and several members of the Tour de Georgia media staff when we left the Observation Tower at about 9:15pm. We opened the door and walked directly into a cloud which was encircling the summit at…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe only bad part of being at the Media Center at the top of Brasstown Bald today was that our viewpoint didn’t give us a good look at the riders finishing. I was very close to the finishers less than 50 meters from the line, but I was 25 feet above…