iPad Secret Bike App to Debut with Team Sky at Paris Roubaix

Published January 29th, 2010 in Cycling News, Humor
Somewhere on a secret test track in Germany, Apple engineers are putting the final touches on an application that didn't make it to yesterday's iPad launch. Rumor has it that Jobs was uncharacteristically restrained from pressuring the team to deliver the project, code named Colossus for the main stage presentation. Charles Forbin Jr. who heads [...]

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Rapha Condor on the Road with New Partners

Published July 30th, 2009 in Cycling News
Rapha Condor continue to keep it graphically simple and attractive as they add Sharp Electronics (Sharp4Prostate Campaign), Paul Smith Jeans and Malmaison Hotel Group to their sponsors for the remainder of 2009. The new kit will debut at the Tour of Ireland. Cool. Note to Radioshack: this is how you do it.

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No Shortage of Stories to Tell… Eventually

Published May 11th, 2009 in Cycling News
The last few days have been a whirlwind of activity and photography which explains why there have been so few words posted since the Cat's Hill Race. Thursday I spent an illuminating three hours with Phil Wood & Co shooting their stellar products for an upcoming Embrocation magazine feature, Friday I was in Morgan Hill [...]

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Updated: Bringing Velodramatic Up to Speed

Published January 7th, 2009 in Cycling News

Most of the heavy lifting on the site is done. The net result looks quite similar but under the covers it’s leaner and meaner. There are still a few optimizations to go that promise even more improvement in loading speed for those of you reading Velodramatic regularly. A new gallery and comprehensive archives will follow [...]

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Happy New Year to All

Published January 2nd, 2009 in Cycling News

As you no doubt noticed I’ve been taking a break from publishing these past couple of weeks. Lots of holiday-related chores to catch up on, two new kittens (we now have five cats), dental and medical checkups… in other words life in general needed a little extra attention.

Yesterday I made my annual New Year’s day [...]

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Lance Leaves Door Open to 2009 Tour Appearance

Published October 22nd, 2008 in Cycling News

Latest Press Release from the Armstrong Camp.

The route of the 2009 Tour de France strikes me as innovative and very interesting. From its start in Monte Carlo with a 15k time trial, to the reinstatement of the team time trial, to stages in my old hometown of Girona all the way to another visit to [...]

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Armstrong responds to Bodry’s proposal to retest 1999 samples

Published October 1st, 2008 in Cycling News, Races

I just received a press release from Lance Armstrong’s Manager Mark Higgins concerning Pierre Bodry’s proposal to retest samples from the 1999 Tour de France. While conspiracy theorists on either side of the issue will have a field day whatever the results, Lance issued the following statement today.

Today, Mr. Pierre Bodry, the new head of [...]

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Lemond crashes Armstrong press conference

Published September 25th, 2008 in Cycling News, Cycling Photography
  This morning’s press conference with Lance Armstrong, Don Catlin and Taylor Phinney took an unexpected turn when Greg Lemond, seated in the front row (two seats to my left) opened the question period with a hardball aimed straight at Lance. The tension broke over the room like a giant wave as all cameras swung in [...]

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