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...Alps passage of the Tour de France is punishing enough. But American cyclist TYLER HAMILTON went on to tackle the climb of the Pyrenees while continuing to nurse a broken collarbone. Allowed only limited pain medication, Hamilton grimaced through the injury, advancing to fifth overall in pursuit of four-time tour winner Lance Armstrong...
Armstrong has always had an easy ride to Paris because he's never faced real climbers. If we can get him in a trap, we can make him panic. - GILBERTO SIMONI, Italian cyclist...
Wendy, 35, a free-lance editor, and a fellow tagger, Alex, scout a neighborhood of well-kept brownstones for half an hour before they choose their first target: a deep green Toyota Land Cruiser (estimated city m.p.g.: 13). Alex, 39, an avid cyclist and musician, peers up and down the street before peeling off the protective paper and slapping the Toyota's bumper with a sticker that proclaims, "I'm Changing the Climate! Ask Me How!" and gives the website address of Changing the Climate changingtheclimate.com) based in San Francisco. The group has sold 40,000 of the stickers...
...surrounded him in the peloton and provided protection so perfect it came to be known as the Blue Guard and the Lancemobile. "We put this team together specifically for this course, and it's the best team I've ever seen," said Belgian team director Johan Bruyneel, a former cyclist who rode in seven Tours...
...hordes of travelers, most of us 40 and older, who elect to vacation in the saddle, at costs that range from $250 all the way up to $5,000 a week. "The average age on organized tours is going up," says Rick Lovett, author of The Essential Touring Cyclist. "There's an explosion of bicycle tours in every conceivable niche all over the country and the world." Tim Kneeland, whose company, Tim Kneeland & Associates, has produced more than 75 large tours for nearly 17,000 participants, estimates there are from 600 to 700 commercial touring companies worldwide and thousands...