Amgen Tour of California ? The Day After

The only thing bad about the Amgen Tour of California, with it’s beautiful scenery, world-class competition, excellent organization and stage selection, is that every year…it has to come to an end.  For a rabid cycling fan, the worst day of most big stage races is the day after it’s concluded.  You wish it could go [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/amgen-tour-of-california-%e2%80%93-the-day-after/

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The Tour de France Opens Dramatically

The Tour de France Opens Dramatically (But the Shack Make a Great Showing) For Team RadioShack supporters the expectation of our favourite team must be immense; the year to date has been a good one for the Team. Latterly Levi Leipheimer took the Tour de Suisse by riding an exceptional final stage time trial, Chris Horner [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/the-tour-de-france-opens-dramatically/

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Featured Bike :: 2012 Kuota K-Factor

As the sharp eyed amongst you may have noticed, it’s been all change at Bike Science recently with our move to not one, but THREE new brands! Here’s the first in a series of blog posts featuring some of our new machines. Specification, pricing, features, and all the best bits. First up it’s the bike we believe [...]

Source: http://blog.bike-science.com/2012/05/03/featured-bike-kuota-k-factor

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Fumiyuki Beppu Profile

Fumiyuki Beppu (born April 10, 1983 in Kanagawa-ken) is a Japanese professional road racer who started his pro cycling career with the Discovery Channel Team in 2005. Known as Fumy, he is an overall rider for Team RadioShack, starting with the 2010 season. Beppu started racing bikes when he was only 9-years old, entering local races [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/fumiyuki-beppu-profile/

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Tour de Suisse ? Levi Leipheimer Laughs Last

The 9-Day, 1,245.9-kilometer (774+ mile) 75th edition of the Tour de Suisse is now in the record books. Traveling through some truly beautiful country, great old cities, serious alpine climbs, 3 countries, and numerous tricky switchbacks and tight turns, Team RadioShack?s members had not been setting many headlines. Sure there were some excellent performances, Andreas Klöden and Levi [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/tour-de-suisse-levi-leipheimer-laughs-last/

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Brain concussion & collarbone fracture for Jani Brajkovic

6 July 2011 ?Team RadioShack?s Jani Brajkovic (27) suffered a race-ending injury in a day filled with more than ten crashes in Wednesday?s stage 5 of the Tour de France. Brajkovic touched wheels with another cyclist on the narrow roads of northern France and came down hard on the pavement, appearing to be momentarily [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/brain-concussion-collarbone-fracture-for-jani-brajkovic/

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How to Read Adventure Cycling Maps Video


Back in the day when Tom Robertson was a staff cartographer here at Adventure Cycling, every spring he would organize a Map Reading Clinic for staff, especially helpful for those fielding phone calls and greeting cyclists. These were informative gatherings that allowed him to review what symbols meant, how to read the narratives, how to use point to point mileages, and highlight anything new since the prior year.

When Tom decided it was time to leave us and start a new phase in his career, we convinced him to record the clinic on video before making his departure. We had him do this in the hope we could post it on the website for cyclists benefit. Unfortunately, that video ran long -- really long in today's terms -- right around the 25 minute mark. The video went on the shelf due to a lack of time to edit it down to a manageable length.

Cue Media Department, Spring 2012 ...

Winona Bateman, Adventure Cycling Media Director, added a line in her 2012 budget to bring this project back to the forefront. Yippee! Though there was some good material in Tom's video, the last few years have included a number of changes in features and symbolization on the maps leaving the content a little stale. Winona asked me to review Tom's original clinic script and point out the most pertinent details and add changes where necessary.

Meanwhile she made contact with Michelle and Ryan at America ByCycle -- bicycle traveling friends and journalists turned videographer duo -- whom she'd already had experience working with on some other video projects. They are avid users of our maps and were psyched to give them the royal treatment.

The four of us chatted multiple times about the material and how to get everything in there in a coherent, fun way in under 10 minutes. Winona and I reviewed first cuts, offered feedback and watched in awe as Ryan and Michelle took it all in stride, producing a terrific, 8:41 video packed with information in an articulate yet entertaining fashion.

Feedback from staff so far has been "two thumbs up." Julie Huck, Adventure Cycling Membership Director says, "What a fun and quick way to find out all the details about our maps! "

So sit back, turn up the volume and check out our How to Read Adventure Cycling Maps video. And don't worry if you missed something or need to hear it again, that's one of the joys of video, right? You can pause, rewind and replay as many times as you wish! (For future reference, you can always find the video at www.adventurecycling.org/readingourmaps.)

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GEOPOINTS BULLETIN is written by Jennifer 'Jenn' Milyko, an Adventure Cycling cartographer, and appears weekly, highlighting curious facts, figures, and persons from Adventure Cycling's Route Network with tips and hints for personal route creation thrown in for good measure. She also wants to remind you that map corrections and comments are always welcome via the online Map Correction Form.

Source: http://blog.adventurecycling.org/2012/06/how-to-read-adventure-cycling-maps.html

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