I've just been reading Ric Stern's analysis of the Tour de France stage results for this year and last year. It's quite interesting and good stuff. But the...
Well Richard, it turns out that I had this year the same fate as you last year . I rode a while with Carol Rasmussen on the first pass, telling her that the...
Thanks, I was wondering about that, but I figured that if I took the time to check, I would never send it. Cheers François ________________________________ ...
Hello KOM. Wild West Cycling Adventures, a new bike touring company located in the western U.S., is presenting Pick the Podium! - a free internet cycling game...
For years now I have used the Michelin (yellow) maps covering the French Alps which I have found to be a most useable scale for spotting cycling routes. ...
Hi folks, I haven't been away, just "incommunicado" due to the fact that mail sent to my biciveneto address was being bounced by the server that it was being...
Here's something to fire the imagination! http://www2.dolomiti.it/ita/geografia/dx.htm It's a wonderful panoramic map of the Dolomites. You can click on the ...
I've got a couple of timetables for the bus services to Arabba (for the Giro's garnfondo even at the end of the month). Has anyone used these bus services...
Hello, just joined this group, am English and live in Zurich, have climbed most hills in the Alps. Regarding the infamous Monte Zoncolan in northeast Italy,...
I've been try to access April's website (http://www.biciveneto.it) and get a message "The file or directory is corrupt and non-readable." Is it off-line for...
Charly Gaul died on Tuesday. For me he was with Federico Bahamontes the greatest of the climbers over the last 50 years. I took up cycling in 1956 in a club...
On a hill when changing to my lower chainring today I was surprised by my chain unshipping I used my gear lever to bring my chain on the wheel but after...
I see that the Etape du Tour will climb Izoard, Lautaret and Alpe d'Huez. It sounds like an interesting opportunity to climb l'Alpe with legs more or less...
I'm re-sending this message as it hasn't appeared in yahoogroups. Hi Brian Velo magazine comes out around 28-31st January 2006 with coupon for Etape entry. I...
As we've opened up the discussions again I was wondering if anyone also felt like I that it was a shame that the TDF had practically deserted the once often...
Thanks to a message from Richard I went to the Titsey Hill Climb on Sunday, where we chatted. Titsey is a 600m climb rising about 80metres. (Is that really a...
Another great climb I've been waiting to see revisited by the Tour (but no doubt this will never happen due to finish area space and finance) is the Col du...
Hi Nigel, Darren This message I sent an hour ago got lost in the web somewhere! Thanks for some good articles. The most useful for new information I found was...
All that talk of hours in the saddle is making me jealous! I'm trying to think about how to tackle next season as my last two 'comeback' years have ended...
We here in Italy also had perfect weather for the Maratona. It was my first time (due to that mysterious previous leg condition) and I was enthralled. There...
Hello, I am new to the KOM group. By way of introduction, I'm 42 (almost 43) I live in Washington DC where it's about a five or six hour ride to any decent...
For those that have powerful enough PCs running Windows, you may want to try running Google Earth (free download). This gives you streamed access to satelite...
Congrats Francois and Olivier Has anybody a forecast of weather for Marmotte or a 3/4/5 day forecast website for that area of the Alps with temperature, rain,...
Hi, Participating Giro delle Dolomiti (www.girodolomiti.com) is one of my next summers maybe-plans. Looks really interesting, 'stage' event for full amateurs! ...
... Oh. What are they doing to the tunnels? Having an ongoing battle with vertigo (which was acting up horribly last summer and forced me to ride the brakes...
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