The longest stage race I have ever ridden starts today. So far, Portugal has impressed. Awesome hotel, good roads for training at least, weather isn’t great yet but that will get better, and a lot of fans. I have heard good things about the number of spectators at this tour, and judging by the crowd […]

As you can tell, I have been experimenting with various riding machines. I own two vintage Mustangs - a ‘66 and ‘68 - and figured I ought to keep the ball rolling on the track. What I have chosen here is a 1950 Chinese Flying Pigeon.
Please notice all its performance features. The basket […]

Christian Vande Velde checks in from China with some answers to a few of your burning questions on the Olympic road race:
What were the conditions like - hot and massively humid? I read that they had cooling jets or something along the course.
CVV: Cooling jets? Hell no! They had some shower heads that reminded […]

It’s August. We are now officially out of July and the Tour is in our rearview mirror. But what an amazing month! And it wasn’t that long ago that many people thought we just might spend July at home in front of the TV instead of racing the Tour. Given that, we ripped the […]

Steven Cozza doing the lead-out thang.
Today was a first for quite a few of us on the team. A lead-out train!
This morning’s short 115 km stage was basically ridden flat out the whole way. Many teams were looking for a sprint, which meant Pat’s 7-man group had no chance despite putting up a good […]

Today was all about just staying cool. Especially when things don’t go to plan. First time up the wall, Tyler got pushed off, with me just behind him. So I ended up riding up through the crowd. I decided to wait for Tyler and helped get him back up front.
I didn’t feel that […]

Today’s stage was a workout alright. The plan for today was to keep Tyler in good position on the finishing circuits and help Dan Martin win the stage. My job was to get in the early move and that’s what I did.
The break of five that I was with had 3 minutes, then […]

It was actually quite a crazy day for Denmark. For the first time ever in Denmark’s history, the flags were not even moving. It was calmer than two bricks laying in a grass field. Because of this, the race got off to a slow start — that is until a group of seven went with […]