Category: 2006 Tour de France

  • Unusual Time Trial Shakes Up General Classification

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Did anyone expect that Serhiy Honchar would win the Stage 7 Individual Time Trial of the 2006 Tour de France? I certainly didn’t. Honchar has turned in good time trials in the past, mainly in races like the Giro d’Italia which is not on television a lot in the United States.…

  • Doping Scandal, Injuries Taking Their Toll on Cycle Sport’s Cover Boys

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Cycle Sport America has photographs of six riders on cover of their Tour de France Guide 2006. So far four of those riders are out of the race due to withdrawal or injury. [ Photo: Cycle Sport America ] Has anyone noticed that two-thirds of the riders depicted on the Cycle Sport…

  • OLN Highlighting Telemetry from Polar and SRM Gadgets On Board TdF Bikes

    Reading Time: 2 minutes OLN is highlighting data from Tour de France riders’ heart rate monitors again in its 2006 broadcasts. They provided information exclusively from Polar Heart Rate Monitors in 2005, but this year they are showing the heart rate data from both Polar and SRM. SRM is known more for its power meter…

  • LeTour 2006 Version 2.0 Adds Rider and Team Lists, Fixes Treo Problems

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Deepweb has fixed problems in LeTour 2006 that made it incompatible with the Treo 650 and 700p Datebook. [ Image: Deepweb Internet Solutions ] Our friend Ad de Vries and his coworkers at Deepweb in The Netherlands have released Version 2.0 of LeTour 2006. The major new feature of this release is the…

  • I Wasn’t Around When the Impact of Operacion Puerto Hit the Tour de France

    Reading Time: 3 minutes My first indication that something significant was wrong in the world of Professional Cycling was an email I received early Friday morning from Ad de Vries of DeepWeb Internetsolutions. He said that he was sending me the latest copy of his Palm application LeTour 2006: This evening or tomorrow morning… the…

  • Dutch Developer Releases PalmOS-based Guide to the 2006 Tour de France

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Deepweb has released LeTour 2006 to help Palm users follow the 2006 Tour de France. [ Image: Deepweb Internet Solutions ] Frank Steele at TDFblog.com recently pointed out that Deepweb has published Le Tour 2006 a PalmOS application that provides stage profiles and distances, as well as intermediate Sprint and King-of-the-Mountains points. An…