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Letters to Cyclingnews - July 15, 2008
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Tour de France: Stage 3 - The Badger is back!
Thor Hushovd's Look
Riccó uses outdated bike in ITT
Boycott le Tour and Olympics
Astana and the Tour
Romain Feillu
Cascade Cycling Classic accident
LeMond: Cycling doesn't need UCI
Tour de France accident
We Might As Well Win Review
Evans shoe covers
Pure climbers
Why on earth Danielson?
Historical information
Stefan Schumacher loses yellow
Sylvain Chavanel
Yet another...Manual Beltran
Stage 10 coverage was a treat!
Tour de France: Stage 3 - The Badger is back!
Not to take anything away from the riders (specially a great effort by Will Frishkorn), but the highlight of a very exciting stage today was...Bernard Hinault shoving the protester off of the podium! Without hesitation, Hinault shoved that guy clear off the podium and looked like he was going to kill him as two police officers dragged the protester away.
Awesome display of classic Hinault, and a little glimpse into why he won just about every race there was!
Stephan H. Andranian
Costa Mesa, CA, USA
Monday, July 7, 2003
Thor Hushovd's Look
Sorry fellow readers. I can't help myself from being such a Fred. I must comment on a couple of aesthetics regarding the mighty Thor's Look. Thanks to Ben Atkins for his fine detailed photography so that I could nitpick these items.
Firstly, if his mechanics can't find a spacer with the proper wall-thickness, couldn't they at least have smoothed the edge a bit, and perhaps touched it up with magic marker or something? See this.
As for this name tag, give me a break! What, did the Credit Agricole mechanics break out their Dyno Labelmaker?! C'mon! Couldn't they at least stop by the local auto body shop and get it hand-painted?
Minor details that have absolutely nothing to do with the machine's performance. However, if the CA mechanics can't address these aesthetic issues, I hope they're taking care of the mechanics properly!
And this shoe! This is just plain wrong!
Alan Schiff
Snowbird, Utah, USA
Monday, July 7, 2003
Riccó uses outdated bike in ITT
I wonder why Saunier Duval's main GC contender Riccó did not receive the new Scott Plasma for the ITT, while some of his domestiques did. The new version looks much more slippery.
Gergely Szabo
Budapest, Turkey
Sunday, July 13, 2003
Boycott le Tour and Olympics
In reference to Roland Hermann's comments on the Olympics and "how athletes’ are not allowed to share their faith is they can only bring along their own bible (no more for distribution) and must keep it in their room".
Good! Surely faith is an individual thing and people shouldn't have the right to push their beliefs on anybody else by handing out bibles! The Olympics is about sport, not religion, and as someone once said "Religion does three things quite effectively: divides people, controls people, deludes people".
In a time when sport is under the microscope for deluding people, the last thing people need is their judgment being clouded any further!
Tony Bleasdale
Guernsey, France
Thursday, July 10, 2003
Boycott le Tour and Olympics
Roland,
I can't help but reply to self-righteous banter.
I'll keep the USA in my prayers as well. Slaying China for human rights abuses? Complaining over no more than one bible per athlete allowed? How short of the mark can you get as an American? Wasn't the USA built on slavery of native Africans and slaying of American Indians? Didn't your forefathers enforce religion on these people while you were at it?
Sure, my country is not a saint either. But we, as most do, draw the line at sport being a vehicle for political statements because of that.
One bible per person at the Olympics? Well, it is the Olympics, not a book convention. You should bear in mind the athletes are entering a country that is devoutly atheist (sic), be thankful they allow athletes to carry religious material at all!
World Youth Day is here in Sydney soon, that's where to go if you wish to spread the word. The word in Beijing this summer is sport, and cycling is a sport, get used to it.
I think ASO were right not to admit Astana this year, three strikes you're out I guess. But ASO dropped the ball on booting the other teams with dark integrity clouds over their heads from the last edition as well.
Sport should never be a part of political statements in my opinion.
You would be well served to educate yourself on your country's past before criticising others for their customs, history and culture, and respect them as a result. You will find yourself to be very similar to the Chinese in past and present issues you don't think you were, particularly in this case.
Ryan Sorensen
Sydney, Australia
Friday, July 11, 2003
Astana and the Tour
Firstly, Sammy, the scandals surrounding Astana at last year's Tour de France extend beyond two riders (I assume you mean Alexandre Vinokourov and Andre Kashekin). Matthias Kessler was found for testosterone use after Fleche Wallone and Eddy Mazzoleni has since been suspended for his participation in the Oil for Drugs circus.
Previous to last year, Astana weren't able to participate in the Tour due to a large proportion of the team's riders being named as Operacion Puerto suspects. Even further back in 2005, Roberto Heras 'won' the Tour of Spain, only to found guilty of EPO use. So you see, the problems at Astana have been about for a while.
Rabobank, Cofidis and Columbia all caused a stir at the '07 Tour, however their offences are largely limited to last year’s Tour. In fact, in Rabobank's 12 year history, only one rider of that team has tested positive - Rory Sutherland.
ASO also said that it had no problem with Alberto Contador as such, and that should he change teams he would be free to ride in the Tour. I also realise that the management at Astana has changed from last year to now. But that was the same line spun by the team in ‘07, and look what happened - the most popular rider in the world was sent home in disgrace.
To belittle the ASO for not wanting a title sponsor associated with doping over many years is just wrong.
Lachlan Morley
Thursday, July 10, 2003
Astana and the Tour
To Sammy Evens who watched the Tour for 10 years and Lance was her hero and then she had no hero only to then have Discovery fill the hero void with Contador. If Contador is your new ‘hero’ then perhaps cycling isn't the sport for you or maybe you just aren't watching, ‘cause clearly you're not getting it.
Yeah, that whole Garmin team - what a bunch of idiots, especially that Danny Pate guy. George Hincapie in his 13th Tour - what is old man time thinking? Columbia and its domination - who does this American team think they are? Robbie McEwen and Cadel Evans going for green and yellow on a budget about a third of Discovery Channel - get some new bikes you losers! The inevitable total gear stomping put on by Jens Voigt and Fabian Cancellara - I could ride like too if someone paid me.
Sammy claims she's not watching the Tour this year on principal. I say good to that, ‘cause this ignorance is all too common in Lance-era American-based fans. Good riddance I say.
P Mac
Groton, CT, USA
Thursday, July 10, 2003
Romain Feillu
I assume this was written with tongue firmly in cheek or was written awaiting a bite? Romain stayed clear of the peloton for 206 km with the other guys in the break and made it stick.
The guy must have been completely spent and it reaffirms my belief in a clean peloton when he has no chance of defending the yellow jersey the next day. Romain deserved his day in yellow so please Cyclingnews stop allowing such complete rubbish to be posted on what I consider a knowledgeable website.
Dave Morris
UK
Thursday, July 10, 2003
Romain Feillu
It is a shame that Alan Schiff (Snowbird, Utah, USA Tuesday, July 8, 2008) felt that Romain Feillu’s time trial was flat out embarrassing. Obviously he didn’t watch the footage, that kid absolutely busted a gut, he gave everything and finished 169th behind probably 168 guys that didn’t spend 208 km out in front in a breakaway the day before. This is why The Badger shook his hand!
I say great job for a 24 year-old in only his second Tour, a feat we all could only hope to achieve. Another armchair expert aye? It is tough for some to understand if it’s not Lance.
Jeff Thompson
Australia
Thursday, July 10, 2003
Cascade Cycling Classic accident
It sounds like there wasn't anything covering the guards in this race. If that's the case, I'm absolutely appalled. We have a triathlon where I'm at (Miyako Island, Okinawa, Japan) called the Strongman Triathlon that has numerous grates covering drains that aren't nearly as big as the ones used for cattle crossing and those are all covered in rubber and taped down for the race.
I can't believe they let them race over cattle guards that aren't covered. I'd be afraid of riding over one myself. Surely they can cover half a dozen cattle guards.
I hope Ben Brooks has a speedy recovery.
Jeff Cummings
Miyako Island, Okinawa, Japan
Thursday, July 10, 2003
LeMond: Cycling doesn't need UCI
Bravo Greg! Greg is absolutely right the UCI has no part to play in the future of cycling. They have had 15 years to sort out the doping problem within cycling but instead at best have ignored the issue completely and at worst been complicit in hiding the scale of the problem from the public.
Whilst ignoring the major problems they have introduced ridiculous rules around equipment and continually talk about the so called mobilisation of the sport, but to no effect.
Greg is so right, cycling isn't the UCI, it the great races and the riders that make this sport, not the officials who have governed it so poorly this last two decades. With the UCI gone and a zero tolerance approach to doping who knows, we one day may actually see clean riders competing and winning the tour, and see a spectacle we can all truly believe in.
What will make cycling the truly global sport that it deserves to be is the great riders riding clean in the greatest races once more. What is so wrong with that?
Ricky Hall
Bedworth, UK
Thursday, July 10, 2003
LeMond: Cycling doesn't need UCI
Dear Editors,
I agree with Greg LeMond that cycling can do without UCI. This has become an organisation about power and money with personal fiefdoms for its executives. It places itself first and the real interests of cyclists further down the list.
Contrary to some of the opinions often met with here, cyclists need organisations which put cyclists' interests and the interests of cycling first. ASO actually does this far more effectively than UCI.
Much of the brouhaha at the Tour de France last year was due to neglect by the UCI. Excluding Astana, more than other teams, was the right thing to do in view of its shady past affairs with Liberty Seguros & the doping scandals of past US Postal cyclists who rode with Lance Armstrong. It is false to compare other teams non-exclusion from France with this team's - they are scarcely comparable.
Further, ASO's interests in the Vuelta will bring it greater prestige as a calendar event and this will benefit cyclists in the long term. Also, being firm with Astana demonstrates to other teams what will happen if they fall foul of the current doping regime. Neither, UCI, Johan Bruyneel, Astana or any other individual or organisation is greater than the sport itself.
It is time for UCI to wake up and stop playing the great dictator. It is time to put the emphasis on the cyclists and the events themselves, to promote a clean sport and to invest in the grand tours and classics with promotions of some less well known meets, so that cyclists desire to compete in them all.
Hugh MacCamley
Thursday, July 10, 2003
LeMond: Cycling doesn't need UCI
Cyclingnews friends,
It’s great to see Greg LeMond back at the Tour. He’s been speaking painful truths for some time, and now we’re beginning to find out that he’s largely right.
Greg’s not always been the most diplomatic speaker, but calling him a whiner or bitter is completely inaccurate. This is a man who lived through being shot – and much, much worse as a child, as we learned last year – and later saw his career evaporate as EPO entered the peloton, never to complain or blame others.
Today he’s active with various charities, spending time away from his family to support causes that he cares about.
Welcome back, Greg!
Michael Fee
Oakland, CA, USA
Thursday, July 10, 2003
LeMond: Cycling doesn't need UCI
Dear Mark,
Who are you to disrespect one of the largest cycling icons in American history? Greg LeMond is somebody. Mark, have you ever won the Tour De France?
Then I think you’re the one that needs to be quiet. I support Greg for speaking out because the sport we love is being tarnished with drugs. Greg LeMond will always be a hero and you don't know what you’re talking about.
Jimmy Ling
New York City, NY, USA
Friday, July 11, 2003
LeMond: Cycling doesn't need UCI
Greg LeMond, self serving? Read the entire story before you make such an inane assertion. Greg, unlike other former champions, is willing to go on record and call out the pretenders. He only said publicly what most of us who follow cycling have understood for a very long time.
The UCI serves no purpose but to rubber stamp cycling events and legitimize a sport that lost its direction years ago. The UCI does little or nothing to protect the interest of event organizers, riders or teams. It is an impotent organization that issues hollow threats and ultimately backs down.
LeMond is right. We don't need the UCI. We need to see something more liken to what is in place in US Professional Football. You have owners and player's unions and together they chart the course and establish policy. Each entity has to have a say in the future or there won't be a future.
That means riders, owners, organizers etc. need to come together. Representative from all factions of the sport need to be included and I can think of no one better the Greg LeMond - who isn't afraid to take a stand - to be part of a new and better governing body.
Lets stop the mud slinging!
Miloman
Friday, July 11, 2003
Tour de France accident
I’ve read everything (and watched everything) I could get hold of but I can’t find anything about either the rider involved in this particular accident or the woman he hit in yesterday’s stage.
She looked in pretty bad shape, in the few seconds we saw her on TV. Do you know what happened to either or both?
Marc Abelanet
Thursday, July 10, 2003
We Might As Well Win Review
Just wanted to say having read We Might As Well Win I agree whole heartedly with the review. My biggest disappointment was that the “controversies” of the Armstrong years along with the Basso signing was not discussed in detail.
Being a fan of Lance Armstrong, I believe when he says he raced clean and that his detractors have other agendas or grudges. I think a chapter on these two items would have been sufficient, and the little bit of attention given to them only wetted our appetites.
I did enjoy the rebuttal to comments made by Floyd Landis in his book, regarding how riders were asked to conserve energy or how they didn’t all get the same gear. I was reluctant at first to buy the book due to the high price and relatively low page count, but once I did the amount of detail more than made up for any perceived disparity.
This is definitely a must for any Armstrong fan and hopefully we’ll get more books from Johan in the future with much more detail.
Chris Wright
Dover, New Hampshire, USA
Thursday, July 10, 2003
Evans’ shoe covers
Cadel does wear shoe covers, they are made to resemble his regular shoes, printed with the patterns of his normal shoes.
Aidan mouellic
Le Crotoy, France
Thursday, July 10, 2003
Pure climbers
Fear not, Scott! Carlos Sastre still rides, as does Mauricio Soler (though not in the Tour), Leonardo Piepoli, and Maxime Monfort! Maybe Trent Lowe will turn into one in a few years!
Amos Meyers
San Angelo, TX, USA
Thursday, July 10, 2003
Pure climbers
Well Scott, you do still have Emanuele Sella, winner of this year's Giro d'Italia mountains competition to cheer for. I watched the Giro from start to finish this year and it was absolutely unbelievable to watch the little 120 pound guy roar up all of the major mountains, win himself three stages, and absolutely dominate the mountains competition.
Not only was he the only rider in the entire Giro to even wear the Mountains jersey, but also amassing himself a whopping 136 points, a full 73 points clear of his closest competitor Vasil Kiryienka.
Now that is a pure climber. Not to mention that he also finished second in the "Sprinters" points competition thanks to his three stage wins and sixth overall.
Jimy
Thursday, July 10, 2003
Why on earth Danielson?
Cyclingnews,
Why on Earth are we still talking about Tom Danielson? He might be a nice guy and all and suggests some great coffee blends, but when it comes to obtaining results in races he just hasn't had them lately, like over the last three years.
Sure, he's proven himself to be a team player and support rider, but why is it that riders like Christian Vande Velde and Chris Horner worked hard, generated excellent and consistent results with Continental teams but then languished in anonymity for so long? In the meantime, Danielson doesn't seem to be able to get enough media exposure where he does nothing but cook up excuses as to why he's not performing to expectations.
He's missing The Tour because he doesn't deserve to be in The Tour. Jonathan Vaughters seems to be the only one with no illusions when it comes to Danielson and has already acknowledged that Danielson isn't the next Greg LeMond or Lance Armstrong.
Perhaps the best thing for Tom Danielson would be for the media to leave him alone so he doesn't continue to dwell on all his problems, anxiety, and the expectations other people put on him.
Dillan Ballard
Arlington, VA, USA
Thursday, July 10, 2003
Historical information
Hi
I am searching for the profile of stage 13 in TdF 1997. I have searched the internet for days now without success. Any chance Cyclingnews or it's readers can help me?
Dag Arne
Friday, July 11, 2003
Stefan Schumacher loses yellow
Poor, poor Stefan Schumacher. Boo hoo! Get over it! He shouldn't have been in the Tour de France anyway if the ASO weren't such hypocrites.
Let's not forget that thing called "Karma". Schumacher was handed the overall victory even though he took down the race leader, George Hincapie, in the sprint of the final stage at the 2006 Eneco Tour.
You'll get no sympathy here, Schumie. Now get back in the gruppetto and quit your bitchin'!
Kevin
Friday, July 11, 2003
Stefan Schumacher loses yellow
Dear cyclingnews.com,
Many readers here seem to want to attack ASO for different standards but when it comes to Stefan Schumacher and Tom Boonen, we see different cases, so different outcomes. Schumacher was caught well in the past now and has since apologised. More importantly for ASO, he has been monitored by his team and now there is an acceptance that he made a one-off mistake at a party.
With Boonen allegations have been made that he not only uses cocaine, but that he has been acting as a dealer. Given the news came out just before the Tour de France, there's little chance he could be said to be over any habit. For his own sake it is probably better that "Tommeke" gets over his problems and stays out of the media spotlight.
Too often this letters page is filled with personal attacks against a range of personalities within our sport and I think it says more of some readers' rapid-fire rantings and their prejudices than it does of their victims!
Mark Burton
Reading, UK
Thursday, July 10, 2003
Stefan Schumacher loses yellow
All I can say is what goes around comes around eh Stephan? Remember Eneco Tour last in 2006? It's total karma, or whatever you want to call it, coming back on you. George Hincapie, Kim Kirchen, Colombia, deserve the win. So no whining!
Mike S.
Sunday, July 13, 2003
Stefan Schumacher loses yellow
How fitting that Schumacher got flicked out of the yellow jersey, and by George
Hincapie's team-mate no less.
Craig Bottcher
Falls Church, VA, USA
Friday, July 11, 2003
Stefan Schumacher loses yellow
Please. Stefan is griping about losing yellow because Kim Kirchen made him crash? Does anybody remember what happened in Plouay?
MJW
Auburn, AL, USA
Friday, July 11, 2003
Sylvain Chavanel
Greetings,
I read your web page every day and enjoy it immensely. The last several days I have been reading the diary entries of Sylvain Chavanel and have found him to be a most engaging person.
His perspective is very refreshing and enlightening to me and I've been following bicycle racing for 40 years! I never really paid much attention to him during the Tour in the past but this year I'm cheering for him every time he's in a breakaway.
I just hope he is in a break that will survive and that he gets the win.
James Harding
Friday, July 11, 2003
Yet another...Manual Beltran
Well, kids, I don't know about you, but I have about had it with the professional cycling thing. I have felt pretty unenthusiastic about Tour de France 2008, given last year's debacle, but thought that if it were to run clean, then I might be inclined to care about TDF 2009.
We're all waiting for the next positive test, and if that's what being a fan of this sport is about, I want none of it. I wonder about my fellow fans' thresholds and moral resistance levels.
What say you, cycling fans, had enough of it? Or, let's put it this way: personally speaking, I would rather spend my time on a $500 fixed gear then dressed up with the bike and any kit that reflects the sport I have come to distrust. Such behavior does not bode well for the Cervelos, SRAMs, or even Cyclingnews.coms of this world.
In other words, who agrees with me that this sport is slipping away, and who might be willing to let it slip.
Patrick Hartigan
Portland, Oregon, USA
Friday, July 11, 2003
Yet another...Manual Beltran
Dear Editor,
The evidence mounts concerning routine abuse of EPO by the former US Postal and Discovery Channel team as one after another of their team members is caught. ASO were absolutely right to ban Astana this year because they have substantial links with Liberty Seguros, US Postal and Discovery Channel.
The longer this story continues the more one can perceive the deceptions that have been going on behind the scenes. The finger points strongly in one direction. The whole truth has time on its side.
Hugh MacCamley
Saturday, July 12, 2003
Yet another...Manual Beltran
Surly a "professional" with all his years of experience such as Manual Beltran would realize that they conduct doping tests when you compete in a bike race like the Tour de France? You would think by now these racers would get the idea that maybe, just maybe you will get tested and caught!
Chris Branch
Asquith, NSW, Australia
Saturday, July 12, 2003
Yet another...Manual Beltran
Manual Beltran, Floyd Landis, Tyler hamilton, Roberto Heras is there a common link?
Greg
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Sunday, July 13, 2003
Yet another...Manual Beltran
So now Beltran has tested positive for EPO. If memory serves that means that now four members of Lance's old team (Postal/Discover Channel) have tested positive since leaving the team. Roberto Heras (EPO), Tyler Hamilton (blood doping) and Floyd Landis (testosterone).
If as the saying goes, once is happenstance, twice is coincidence and thrice is war, what is the fourth? Does anyone really believe that they only started doping after leaving Lance's team? If they do they must be unbelievably nïave.
Gareth Speechley
Sunday, July 13, 2003
Stage 10 coverage was a treat!
I simply must comment on the excellent live coverage of Stage 10! Short of watching this on live TV (sadly, there is not extended coverage in the states any more after the Lance years), Cyclingnews’ live coverage is the best!
It was quite a treat to be privilege to the comments of such a class rider like Bobby Julich. If you make any changes to the live coverage, I'd love to see more pro riders lend their insight. In fact, I'd love to see even more live comments. It’s the highlight of my day reading the live coverage, and its hard to wait through a rest day for more.
Keep up the great work CN!
Rob Tandy
Monday, July 14, 2003
Recent letters pages
Letters 2008
- July 10: Stefan Schumacher, LeMond: Cycling doesn't need UCI, Excellent article - ASO v's UCI, Insulting comment, Romain Feillu, Pure climbers are they a thing of the past?, Evans and shoe covers, Evans to wear number one in Tour, Djamolidine Abdoujaparov, Experience with UST Mountain Tires, Boycott le Tour and Olympics, Astana and the Tour, Riders stuck in the middle, Oval bars, Landis decision
- July 4: WADA, Inconsistent Lab Analysis, and Landis, Rabobank and the Tour, ASO and past Tour winners, Landis decision, Teenager mauled by bear in Anchorage, Evans to wear number one in Tour, Experience with UST Mountain Tires, iPods while riding, Erik Zabel, Oval bars, ASO's hidden agenda, Joe Magnani, Djamolidine Abdoujaparov, Giro, ASO's world domination, Ban Boonen?, A Hollow Tour Victory
- June 26: ASO's hidden agenda, ASO's world domination, Ban Boonen?, Gilberto Simoni, Giro d'Italia, iPods while riding, Oval bars, Tour without minimum bike weight rule?, What about Friere
- June 19: ASO and the Vuelta, ASO's world domination, Ban Boonen?, Ban Boonen? Beware the inquisition, Boonen, Boonen vs. Petacchi, Boonen's Tour exclusion, Giro d'Italia, iPods while riding, Oval bars, Road rage incident, Tom Boonen exclusion from Tour de Suisse
- June 13: Tom Boonen and his nose, Apologies from Montreal, Chantal's Philly win, Gilberto Simoni, Boring first week of Grand Tours?, Giro d'Italia, iPods while riding, ASO and the Vuelta, Road rage incident, Astana chain choice
- June 5: Apologies from Montreal, Astana chain choice, Bennati and race radios, Race radio?, Gilberto Simoni, Giro winner, Good result in road rage court case, Helmets in the Giro, Lemond vs. Armstrong, Millar, No, no, you can't take that away from them, Oval bars, Review error, Ricardo Ricco, Road rage incident
- May 29: Bennati and race radios, Helmets in the Giro, Review error, LeMond vs. Armstrong, Losing something in the translation, Millar, Petacchi, Race radio?, Road rage incident, Weight work on the bike
- May 23: Road rage incident, How much will it take?, Paralysed cyclist, Fausto Exparza, David Millar, Basso gets a contract, Weight work, CAS and Petacchi, Shortest TdF, Petacchi & Piepoli
- May 15: Sydney road rage incident, Steegmans lashes out at UCI, Steve Hogg's article, World Cup #3 XC, Where is Chris Horner, Slipstream, Astana and Le Tour, Giro stage 5!, US time trial Champion?, Basso gets a contract, Race radios, CAS ruling on Petacchi, Hamilton's integrity? Dude!, Weight work
- May 8: Race radio?, Ridiculous ruling, What a farce!, CAS ruling on Petacchi, Basso gets a contract, Hamilton's integrity? Dude!, French riders had to give up their jerseys?,
- May 1: Race radio?, Basso gets a contract, Advise needed for Alpe D'Huez, LeMond vs. Armstrong, Bottles, Scars of war, ProTour in Russia! China? Ahem... America?, LeMond's 1989 TdF, Mayo?, Stuart O'Grady Team CSC Cervélo R3 Paris, Have any French riders had to give up their jerseys?
- April 25: Just shut up and ride, ProTour in Russia! China? Ahem...America?, Bottles, LeMond's 1989 TdF, New format for the Vuelta? , Scars of war, LeMond v. Armstrong, No tour for Astana #1, Rock Racing rip off #1, Advise needed for Alpe D'Huez, Stuart O'Grady Team CSC Cervélo R3 Paris
- April 18: Just shut up and ride, USA Track Cycling, Paris-Roubaix, Little Indy 500 - Women's Race Article, Stuart O'Grady Team CSC Cervélo R3 Paris-Roubaix, What's happening to road tubeless?, Thanks Cyclingnews, Bottles, Just think?, Tour of Georgia - Lame, Colavita, No tour for Astana, Clever tactics by McQuaid expose ASO, Suggestions for the little bullies, Rock Racing rip off, LeMond Vs. Trek
- April 10: Suggestions for the little bullies, Pat McQuaid, Clever tactics by McQuaid expose ASO, Just think, Trek vs. LeMond, Rock Racing rip off, Homepage overhaul, Some praise, USA track cycling, Team car order just the first gamble, Come on Greg & Lance, LeMond vs. Armstrong
- April 3: Pat McQuaid, April fools, Carbon Wrap-It System, Sylvain Chavanel, Astana vs. Rabobank vs. Slipstream Chipotle, Cadel Evans, Clever tactics by McQuaid expose ASO, Colavita, Let VDB ride?, Race radios, Rock Racing rip off
- March 27: Riccardo's manner of professionalism, Rock Racing rip off, Chavanel's Paris - Nice shoes, Cadel Evans, Cadel Evans at Paris - Nice, Let VDB ride?, ASO vs. Astana, ASO vs. UCI help me with my memory, Astana vs. Rabobank vs. Slipstream Chipotle, Police kill cyclists,"PRO"cycling teams
- March 20:"Pro"Cycling Teams, AIGCP does have a choice, ASO vs UCI help me with my memory, ASO vs. Astana, Chavanel's Paris - Nice shoes, Kevin van Impe's doping control, Cadel Evans at Paris - Nice, Hamilton, Operacion Puerto, and the ToCA, Paris - Nice: What it could have been, Police kill cyclists, The Astana affair, UCI hypocrisy
- March 13:"Pro"Cycling Teams, ASO vs. Astana, ASO vs. UCI, ASOh well, UCI'll see you later, Cycling fans must let their voices be heard, Denounce ASO's actions for what they are, Hamilton, Operacion Puerto, and the ToCA, Knife between the ribs?, Paris Nice, Police kill cyclists, British track sprinters' helmets?, Rock Racing and Michael Ball, The Astana affair, The real ASO problem, Tour and ASO, UCI - very bad poker players, UCI hypocrisy.
- March 6: Zirbel and the"ride of his life", British track sprinters' helmets, Hamilton, Operacion Puerto and the ToCA, Three grand tours or five monuments?, Rock Racing and Michael Ball, Pro cycling is dead, Paris - Nice, Knife between the ribs?, Doping and the Tour, Astana, the ASO and the UCI, ASO vs. Astana, The Astana affair, ASO vs. UCI vs. AIGCP vs. the non existent riders, The real ASO problem, Denounce ASO's actions for what they are, Sponsorship code of ethics, Where are the other ProTour teams?, ProTour vs. ASO
- February 28: ASO vs. Astana, Passion and sponsorship, Crash or crash through, Pro cycling is dead, Why we must have the ProTour, Rock Racing and Michael Ball, ToC and Rock, The hidden message behind banning Astana, ASO is killing cycling, ASO could be right, The real ASO problem, UCI - draw a line in the sand, ASO has lost the plot, The Astana affair, Astana and ASO/RCS, the Astana decision, Operacion Puerto, Old rider classification
- February 15: Doping controls, Tour of California moving up!, Why I love the Tour of California, Operation Puerto, Astana rejected by ASO, Boycott ASO, ASO - stop the madness, Tour de France, ASO is wrong to exclude Astana, Astana, ASO, and the NFL, Tour de Farce, The hidden message behind banning Astana, Astana exclusion, ASO is killing cycling, Astana out of Tour, ASO has lost the plot
- February 8: Lampre doping controls, Grand Tour Monopoly?, Giro selections, Slipstream Qatar, Allan Davis, Sheldon Brown, Dick Pound to head CAS?, Find out who's leaking lab results, Rock racing
- February 1: UCI vs. Grand Tour war, Best wishes to Anna, The incident, Rock racing & Starbucks, Rock racing Rocks, Rock racing, Landis in NUE, Lance is the best of all time, Sinkewitz logic, Astana for 08 Tour?
- January 25: Rock racing, Time to draw a line in the sand, ASO vs. UCI ProTour, UCI vs. Grand Tour war spills over to European federations, Readers' poll stage races 2007, Cyclist of the year, Team High Road's black kit, Lance is the best of all time, Landis in NUE, Toyota-United abusing USAC team rules?
- January 18: Cadel Evans - returns to training, Cyclist of the Year, DOPING - time to draw a line in the sand, Hincapie in T-Mobile kit, Lance is the best of all time, Readers poll: best stage races 2007, Rock racing, Speaking about Lance, Toyota-United abusing USAC team rules?
- January 11: Armstrong on Landis, Cadel Evans - returns to training, Hincapie in T-Mobile kit, Ivan Basso - why no tough questions?, Reader Poll, Rock & burn racing, Speaking about Lance, Sydor's consistency, The 'Bruyneel philosophy', Toyota-United abusing USAC team rules?
- January 5: Great day for cycling, Sydor's consistency, Hincapie in T-Mobile kit, CA awards misses national series, Thank you, Ivan Basso - why no tough questions?, Cadel Evans - returns to training, Helmets belong on heads, Armstrong on Landis, Will there be a Tour of Missouri?, Roberto Heras, Speaking about Lance, Mayo's B Sample
Letters 2007
- December 27: CA awards misses national series, Armstrong on Landis, Vinokourov's sentence, Vinokourov, Cadel Evans - returns to training, Mayo's B sample to get B test
- December 14: Sydor's consistency, George Hincapie, Helmet straps must be cinched a bit too tight, Will there soon be a sample"C"test?, ProTour, Vino's joke of a suspension, Mafioso McQuaid, Obee and Health Net, Mayo's B sample to get B test, Campagnolo offers its own 'red' shifter, T-Mobile's withdrawal a blow to Jaksche
- December 6: Tschüss T-Mobile, Anquetil, Mayo's B sample to get B test, T-Mobile drop out, Obee and Health Net, Stefano Zanini
- November 30: Anquetil,Mayo's B sample to get B test, Stefano Zanini, Rider's passport, Betting, Jonathan Page, Wake up!!, T-Mobile drop out, Bike design originality
- November 23: Remembering Jacques Anquetil, Done looking back, Mayo's B sample to get B test, Cross crank, Rider's passport, Blood passports and humanity, Fothen's comments on Bettini, Nathan O'Neill , Sinkewitz, Rasmussen blood values, Sponsorship strangeness, Dick Pound better understood, Bike design originality,
- November 16: Nathan O'Neill, Rasmussen blood values, The Crocodile Trophy, Sinkewitz, Drug testing procedures, Rider's passport, The drug issue, Bike design originality , Sponsorship strangeness, Selfishness will ruin cycling
- November 9: The Crocodile Trophy, A little bit of bias here?, Rider's passport, Kasheckin, Positive tests, Drug testing procedures, Marco Pinotti: Engineering a new path, Bike design originality
- November 2: What does this mean?, Le Tour 08, Mayo's B sample, Bike design originality, Trimble, UCI says Mayo case not closed, Drug testing procedures ... and false positives, Kashechkin: controls violate human rights, Drug testing procedures, Mayo, UCI, Kashechkin, et al... Great, now it's coming from both ends, Positive tests, Why even bother with B samples then?, Mayo's positive EPO test, Falling barriers
- October 26: Rider passports & Cadel Evans, Drug testing procedures ... and false positives, Iban Mayo's false positive, Iban Mayo and Landis, Armstrong on Landis, Mayo's B sample, UCI turns Mayo's case into a debaucle, Great...now they hand pick the results, No justice for Mayo, UCI says Mayo case not closed, Bike design originality, 2006 Tour de France, A bad week for cycling, A fitting end to the season
- October 19: 2006 Grand Tour trifecta!, 2006 Tour de France, A fitting end to the season, Armstrong on Landis, Bike design originality, doping in cycling, Doping numbers, Paris-Tours testing mishap, UCI and the lack of testing!, Vino's other Tour stage win, The absolute best?
- October 12: Armstrong on Landis, Bike design originality, Cycling drama, Doping is unfair; but so is discrimination, It’s not doping that's..., Landis case - everyone's a loser, Length and cost of the Landis case, R & R, The Landis decision, Tour of America
- October 5: Cycle drama, It's not doping that's"killing"the sport, Why is VAM a benchmark, Tour of America, The Landis decision, DYNEPO, Worlds, Rock & Republic's CEO Michael Ball, Please explain, Giuseppe Guerini, FICP
- September 28: Tour of America, World champion zany-ness, The Landis decision, ASO v UCI, McQuaid vs ASO vs the riders, Please explain, Why is VAM a benchmark, Giuseppe Guerini, Menchov felt betrayed by Rasmussen, ProTour and Le Tour, Where is the due process
- September 21: Astana's future and Bruyneel, Bruyneel's afterlife, Floyd Landis decision, Why is VAM a benchmark, Lifetime bans, Menchov felt betrayed by Rasmussen, Ungrateful Levi, Spanish cycling, Where is the due process
- September 14: Astana & Bruyneel, Cycling vs. soccer, Cycling will survive, Floyd Landis decision, LeMond's comments, Menchov felt betrayed by Rasmussen, Ungrateful Levi, Why is VAM a benchmark?
- September 7: Cycling vs. soccer, Floyd Landis decision, UCI, ASO, LeMond, et al who cares? Riders, Lawyers in the Landis case, LeMond's comments, Riders taking the fall?, US Postal/Discovery R.I.P.
