Team RadioShack Moves 3 into Paris-Nice Top 10 after Stage 6

In Friday’s race of truth, the individual time trial at the 69th running of Paris-Nice, Tony Martin of HTC-Highroad, as expected by many, laid down a devastating effort over the 27 kilometer course, beating the next competitor by a full 20 seconds and scrambling the general classification from the previous day’s posting. However, Team RadioShack [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/team-radioshack-moves-3-into-paris-nice-top-10-after-stage-6/

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Machado Rides Strong at Tirreno-Adriatico

The 7 stages of this year?s 45th running of the Tirreno-Adriatico, are now complete. After 1,075 kilometers (668 miles) the ?Race of The Two Seas? was decided on the last day, March 15, in the time trial by an 11 second margin. Cadel Evans of BMC ended up besting Robert Gesink of Rabobank for the [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/machado-rides-strong-at-tirreno-adriatico/

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The Hungry Cyclist Podcast June 2011 - The White Swan, Hunagrian Restaurant, London

H is for Hungary, and for our eighth visit on our tour of London's global cuisine we headed to the White Swan in North London. To listen to what happened plug in your headphones, find a comfy chair and enjoy.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/thehungrycyclist/~3/PgiCgRqb01o/the-hungry-cyclist-podcast-june-2011-the-white-swan-hunagrian-restaurant-london.html

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The Odd Science of Cycling

Interesting article and video here at the Guardian [link]. A guy with Parkinsons lost the ability to walk, but he could still ride a bicycle . The explanation is something to do with something how the brain functions. It made me think of a slightly tangential point about how cycling can make you feel like [...]

Source: http://cyclinginfo.co.uk/blog/6498/cycling/the-odd-science-of-cycling/

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The Faces of Bicycle Travel #4


People. The true treasures of bicycle travel. 


Cuba, 1998

It is 2:00 am in the little town of Remedios. The Las Parrandas festival has been raging since early evening. The contest pits the two main barrios in town (San Salvador and Carmen) against each other in a show of pageantry, music, lights, and fireworks. Thousands of people have crammed into the town square for the festivities, and Kat is somewhere on the other side of the square with my recorder and microphone collecting sounds.

I have just dodged a flurry of homemade bottle rockets (one glancing off my cap). This woman is standing on a float decorated in the theme of Alice in Wonderland, which is about to be towed by a diesel tractor to the cheers and shouts of the crowd. The party will rage on until the sun rises.

United States, 2001

We met this man outside a Piggly Wiggly supermarket in Georgia. He took one look at us on our loaded-down tandem and asked if we?d like to join him and his buddies at their cabin on a lake nearby. How could we refuse?

A crisp, cool morning finally gave way to the warmth of a sunny Sunday. Both Kat and I were given fishing poles and tried our luck. I didn?t catch a fish but did manage to catch this portrait of a man and his dog. We all sat around the campfire late that night, eating Slim Jims and sipping bourbon.


Turkey, 2003

It is early morning in eastern Turkey. We are camped in a rocky canyon surrounded by high cliffs, not a tree in sight. It is an old tourist area with ancient caves long abandoned due to years of conflict between the Kurds and the Turkish army. We hear sheep and goats (their baas and bleats and the tinkling of the bells around their necks). They must be up there somewhere, 1,000 feet above us. But the sound echoes confusingly off the steep rock walls. As we cook breakfast in the early morning, a Kurdish shepherd appears and sits on his haunches near our campsite.

We invite him over and fix him a cup of chai. He is so pleased with our gesture that he grabs one of his ewes and milks her right into our stainless steel camp pot. He never spoke a word, but his eyes told us we were welcome there.

Photos: By Willie Weir

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SIGHTS AND SOUNDS is posted every other Friday. Willie Weir is a columnist for Adventure Cyclist magazine. His latest book Travels with Willie: Adventure Cyclist will inspire you to hit the road and just might change the way you approach bicycle travel. He lives in Seattle with his wife Kat. You can read about their adventures at http://yellowtentadventures.com/.

Source: http://blog.adventurecycling.org/2012/11/the-faces-of-bicycle-travel-4.html

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Johan Bruyneel Sums Up the Tour de Crash

In a post-race interview with Eurosport after Thursday?s Stage 12, Team RadioShack?s Director Johan Bruyneel summed up the frustration and disappointment felt by the entire team and its fans with the numerous calamities that have befallen the group so far at this year?s Tour de France. With the months of preparation and hard work every [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/johan-bruyneel-sums-up-the-tour-de-crash/

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