Operation Gadget
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A Bad Performance in an Early Stage This Year Can Lose The Tour for a GC Man
Reading Time: 2 minutesI got in a bit of an argument with a friend of mine the other day on Facebook. He believes that Lance Armstrong betrayed his teammate Alberto Contador on Stage 3 to Le Grande-Motte. This was the stage when Columbia HTC created a split in the peloton near the end of the…
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TDFblog Publishes Comprehensive List of Pro Cyclists Who Use Twitter
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy friend Frank Steele keeps going and going with TDFblog. A couple of days ago he published Tour de Twitter, which is a pretty comprehensive list of pro cyclists and teams as well as press and bloggers that cover pro cycling. I went through the list and I was only following…
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Tour de France: More Time Trials Like Monaco Please!
Reading Time: 2 minutesI think this is going to be a great year for the Tour de France. I watched quite a bit of the Stage 1 Time Trial in Monaco, and I have to ask, why haven’t the Tour organizers given us an opening time trial like this before? The key to the Stage…
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ESPN E:60 Calls Attention to Dangers of Indoor Air Quality at Ice Arenas
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe ESPN program E:60 recently reported on the dangers posed by improperly tuned ice resurfacing equipment and ventilation problems in indoor ice arenas. This 13-minute long report claims that in 28 rinks that they tested that used propane or natural gas ice resurfacers, “nearly one-third were found to have dangerous levels of…
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Philadelphia Cycling Championship in Jeopardy Due to $500k Budget Gap
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEarlier today, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the TD Bank Philadelphia Cycling Championship may not be held this year due to a $500,000 budget shortfall. This is partially due to the City of Philadelphia’s decision to charge the organizers for police and other city costs. Operation Gadget has covered the Philadelphia…
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Now You Can Follow Operation Gadget on Twitter
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt hasn’t mattered up to now, but you can follow Operation Gadget on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/OperationGadget Following both OperationGadget and daveaiello will be somewhat duplicative. Some readers of this site probably care more about the blog posts here than they do about my personal life. If that’s the case, you really…
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“No Heart Monitor for Me, Thanks, I’m Drivin’”
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe only story I can tell to bring Operation Gadget back from the dead is one about my wife and what she’s been through. On November 7, Kathleen was in a car accident that scared the heck out of us. She fainted while behind the wheel on Interstate 95 about four miles…
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iPhone Headphones and Heavy Exercise Don’t Mix
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve been wanting to talk about my experience with iPhone headphones and exercise for some time. In my opinion iPhone headphones manufactured by Apple are consumables. I have never had a set last for more than 4 months. They get so much use from me that the rubber holding the earbuds together…