Operation Gadget
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Japanese Beetle Traps Stop Unwanted Guests from Eating Your Plants and Trees
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe most unpleasant surprise of relocating to Newtown, PA was finding out that the area of town where we live is infested with Japanese Beetles. According to the Japanese Beetle information from the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, these beetles: are not native to the United States, were first found…
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Behind the Scenes at the Tour de France Podium
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAlex Trautwig continues to find and photograph things that Operation Gadget readers want to see at the Tour de France. This time he’s documented the Tour de France Podium and the media area that is immediately behind it. This article is worth reading if you want to see where Craig Hummer…
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Kashechkin Struck by Fan Waving Promotional Items from Publicity Caravan
Reading Time: 1 minuteA video clip showing a spectator striking rider Andrey Kashechkin on the nose was shown on OLN about 22 minutes into the live broadcast of Stage 16. I watched this video clip about 15 times, taking full advantage of my TiVo. The group of spectators who were involved in the incident were…
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Armstrong Making Major Effort to Win Over French Fans
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJerome Pugmire of The Associated Press reports that Lance Armstrong is going out of his way to connect with French fans during his last Tour de France. This effort has included: giving his cap to a couple with whom he spoke at a recent stage start, chatting with motorcycle camera men…
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Liggett and Sherwen Think that Lance Will Not Have a Second Act as a Triathlete
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt was apparent to me as Lance Armstrong fended off attack after attack in the Alps that he was the prohibitive favorite to wear the Yellow Jersey of the Tour de France all the way through to Paris. I began to think about the next move in Armstrong’s athletic career, specifically about…
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2nd Week of July 2005 Workouts
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere’s a quick summary of the workouts that I did last week: Monday, July 11: Mowed lawn for 2 hours 7 minutes. Biked 10.1 miles in 55 minutes. Tuesday, July 12: Worked around the house. Wednesday, July 13: Worked around the house. Thursday, July 14: Worked around the house. Friday, July…
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July 11 – 17, 2005 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the second week of July 2005. I’m experimenting with a weekly summary so that readers who want to receive a periodic email with Operation Gadget headlines can receive the links to all of the articles published each week. I will post a mechanism…
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Hincapie Wins the Queen Stage of the 2005 Tour
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI haven’t focused on stage results in covering the The Tour de France this year, but I wanted to salute George Hincapie who won his first ever Tour de France stage today at the summit of Pla d’Adet. As many others have said, he’s the only rider on the Discovery Channel…
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Anger Can Focus or Distract Riders from Their Larger Goals
Reading Time: 2 minutesMartin Dugard has picked up on the antipathy that exists between Lance Armstrong and some of his American challengers. In a posting from today, Dugard said: I�ve written quite a bit about the fractured relations between the American riders. But as the Tour marches on its merry way to Paris, the schism…