Team RadioShack Aim for Win in Tour of California

Next week Team RadioShack will start in the Amgen Tour of California (May 15-22) with the clear ambition to win the overall classification. Three-time winner Levi Leipheimer and Chris Horner will start as the leaders of the Team. From the beginning of the season the Tour of California has been one of their big [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/team-radioshack-aim-for-win-in-tour-of-california/

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Team Radioshack Line-up in Tour of Austria

Team Radioshack is ready to ride in the 63rd edition of Tour of Austria (Internationale Österreich Rundfahrt), which takes place July 3-10, 2011. Team Radioshack will start with a team of relatively young riders: Matthew Busche, Robbie Hunter, Ben King, Michal Kwiatkowski, Geoffroy Lequatre, Tiago Machado, Gregory Rast & Jesse Sergent Director: José Azevedo Go Team Radioshack, Go!!!

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/team-radioshack-line-up-in-tour-of-austria/

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Team Boardman Cycling Plus ? Sean Lacey

Team Boardman Cycling Plus  will be updating you each week with the highs and lows of their training as part of the team. This week Sean gets a BMX boost? Sean Lacey Lives: Shropshire Age: 40 Height: 1.88m Weight: 93kg Reasons to ride: mid-life fitness crisis and to make my 71-year-old roadie grandfather proud! Weaknesses: [...]

Source: http://magazine.bikeradar.com/2011/10/26/team-boardman-cycling-plus-sean-lacey-9/

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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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An unusually fine November day for a bike ride

As fall becomes winter in the Pacific Northwest, I keep expecting the permanent overcast skies to roll in and bring the drizzle that keeps me in rain gear all winter long.

We've had our share of nasty days already, but Saturday was not one of them. Clear skies and temperatures in the low 50s coaxed me outside on my bicycle. ...

Source: http://www.bikingbis.com/blog/_archives/2011/11/5/4933802.html

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Map Feature: Matchlines

Preferred placement of a matchline on
Section 1 of the Underground Railroad
Detroit Alternate Route.
If you've ever used an Adventure Cycling map to navigate our network, you may remember seeing those brilliant pink lines that cross the route on the map panels. Those lines indicate where the narrative directions begin and end. In other words, before you can travel from map panel to map panel, you must first travel from matchline to matchline.

Our use of matchlines began with the very first editions of the TransAmerica Trail maps as indicators of where one map panel ended and the next began, without regard for physical landmarks. Over time we have refined their placement to be more useful (we hope!).

A matchline in the middle
of nowhere on Section 2 of
the Western Express Route.
Today, as we lay out the map panels on every map section, we endeavor to place matchlines on features that exist on the ground. Roads signed and unsigned, paved or gravel can work -- particularly at intersections; signed county and state lines work well, too, as do water crossings signed and unsigned and summits of mountain passes. The more information we have about a spot, the more likely it is to be considered a viable option for use as a matchline.

However, there are places on our routes -- like on stretches of the Western Express Route -- where this simply isn't possible, as no prominent landmarks exist. In those situations we do our best to get an accurate distance from a prior physical location to place the matchline symbol.

Map images courtesy of Routes & Mapping.

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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/2011/11/map-feature-matchlines.html

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