Operation Gadget
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Will the Real Floyd Landis Please Stand Up?
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou know that I’ve got a lot going on elsewhere in my life if I don’t finish my Tour de France summary article before the G.C. winner is accused of doping and could be stripped of the title. The Floyd Landis Story was great while it lasted. His improbable performance on Stage…
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BusinessWeek Provides Manufacturing Cost Comparison Between Motorola Q and BlackBerry 8700
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday BusinessWeek published an article that provides a manufacturing cost comparison between the Motorola Q and BlackBerry 8700 handheld communicators. According to the article, the Motorola Q costs about $158 to make. Some of the key components in the Q are: LCD display, $25 XScale microprocessor, $19 Digital baseband processor, $14…
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Wall Street Journal Explains How Americans Came to Dominate The Tour de France
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Wall Street Journal published an interesting article today that sums up the impact of American riders on the pro peloton since Greg Lemond. The author, Sam Walker talked to Jonathan Vaughters, Bobby Julich, and Peter Cossins from Procycling.com to get some answers. {Floyd Landis’} miraculous comeback has already revived a…
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Landis Rides Away from the Field On the Day After His Disaster
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBob Roll called Stage 17 into Morzine “the most exciting cycling race” he’d ever seen. Who can argue with that? Floyd Landis’ performance today surpassed all of the epic rides I’ve seen in person or on television. The closest thing I can think of to the level of sheer effort expended…
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Bambi Francisco from MarketWatch.com Video Blogging the Tour de France
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBambi Francisco, a financial reporter for MarketWatch.com went on a cycling vacation along the route of The Tour de France for the past few weeks, and decided to video blog her trip. She was on a trip organized by Marty Jemison Cycling Tours, which gave her brief access to Team CSC…
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Slate Publishes the Story of a Bay Area Cyclist Who Finished the 2006 L’Etape du Tour
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThanks to my friend Frank Steele at TDFblog.com, I’ve read another account of the experience of riding this year’s L’Etape du Tour that finished at the end of the Road to Nowhere– on Alpe d’Huez. I’ve talked about wanting to participate in L’Etape du Tour previously on Operation Gadget, but this…
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Why Floyd Landis May Have Bonked on La Toussuire
Reading Time: 2 minutesThePaceline.com has what I think is an excellent article from Chris Carmichael offering a possible explanation why Floyd Landis bonked on the lower slopes of La Toussuire at the end of Stage 16 of The Tour de France. Carmichael suggests that the absence of other Team Phonak riders in the lead group…
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Is George Hincapie’s Tour de France Performance Being Hampered by Low Body Weight?
Reading Time: 2 minutesI think I was one of the many American viewers of The Tour de France who wondered why George Hincapie lost over 20 minutes to the General Classification leaders in the Pyrenees. I wasn’t convinced that he would be able to stay with Floyd Landis, Denis Menchov, Cadel Evans, and some of…
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Introducing RinkAtlas.com
Reading Time: 2 minutesRinkAtlas.com is a new Google Maps mashup that I’ve been building over the past few weeks. [ Image: RinkAtlas.com ] A few Operation Gadget readers have been asking why I’m not writing as much about The Tour de France as I have in past years. The reason is that I’m building a new Google…