Operation Gadget
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ThePaceline.com Publishes a Great Interview with Cycling.TV Host
Reading Time: < 1 minuteChris Brewer of ThePaceline.com published a great interview with Anthony McCrossan of Cycling.TV. This is the website that provides streaming video access to many of the smaller road cycling events that don’t make it on to U.S. television. I think it’s great that The Paceline is coming out with articles like…
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Mobile Broadband Services Only Being Used by a Select Few Notebook Users at the Moment
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday Martin O’Donnell sent me an article that reported wireless broadband services offered by Verizon, Cingular, and Sprint Nextel are being adopted by some road warriors, but that adoption has been mainly limited to outside sales people, building contractors, insurance claims adjustors, and first responders. There are a lot of other businesses…
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How Will the European Critics Treat Floyd Landis Now?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen I heard the news about Floyd Landis’ chronic avascular necrosis condition in his right hip, I was shocked. A moment later I thought, “the European nay-sayers claimed that Lance Armstrong had an advantage because he learned how to use EPO in an undetectable manner while he was fighting cancer. What…
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Unusual Time Trial Shakes Up General Classification
Reading Time: 2 minutesDid 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. He…
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Bike Maintenance Guide Published by BBC Sport
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI don’t know if this is true for you, but I always get more motivated to ride my bike during the Tour de France. I also worry a bit more about getting a flat or breaking my chain on the road because I don’t have a team car following me. BBC…
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ABC and ESPN Hammered by Some Long-Time Soccer Fans for Americanizing Coverage of The 2006 World Cup
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Wall Street Journal reports that ABC and ESPN are being criticized by some hard core soccer fans for “Americanizing” its coverage of The World Cup. This criticism comes amid mounting evidence that ABC and ESPN are succeeding in attracting more English-speaking American viewers to The World Cup than ever before. According…
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Doping Scandal, Injuries Taking Their Toll on Cycle Sport’s Cover Boys
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCycle 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 America…
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OLN Highlighting Telemetry from Polar and SRM Gadgets On Board TdF Bikes
Reading Time: 2 minutesOLN 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 technology.…
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LeTour 2006 Version 2.0 Adds Rider and Team Lists, Fixes Treo Problems
Reading Time: 2 minutesDeepweb 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 inclusion…