Postal Wins the Team Time Trial and “Victor Hugo Pena has become the first Colombian ever to wear the yellow jersey of the Tour de France.”

That’s so awesome!

Also, Tyler Hamilton, still riding with a broken collarbone, finishes the Team Time Trial with his CSC Tiscali team mates for a 10th place finish.

Amazing! Go Tyler!

Amazing! — Tyler Hamilton has started stage two of the Tour De France with a broken collarbone, which he suffered during yesterday’s massive crash at the end of stage one!

“The second stage of the Tour de France is now underway and it appears that Tyler Hamilton, after Sunday’s devastating crash, is going to tough it out and try to ride today’s 204.5km route between La Ferte-sous-Jouarre and Sedan. “(via VeloNews)

This year being the 100 Anniversary of the Tour and (potentially) Armstrong’s 5th consecutive win, next only to Miguel Indurain, I’m eagerly awaiting the start of today’s prologue and live coverage on OLN TV.

It also looks like VeloNews will again be blogging Live Tour Updates, which in past years has been extremely valuable given the time difference.

Go Postal!

I was looking forward to an epic Memorial Day ride today, but the current downpour seems to have put a damper on the plans. Perhaps I need one of these for the trails. (Thanks for the link Ed!)

Ahh, looks like a great day for a spring mountain bike ride! I went yesterday, but
today it seems like the trails are just screaming for me to come back!

This is very sad indeed … I just leared via Jeff Veen’s blog that cycling great Andrei Kivilev died yesterday after a fall during the third stage of the Paris-Nice bicycle race.

Andrei “burst onto the international scene when he finished fourth behind Lance Armstrong, Jan Ullrich and Joseba Biloki at the 2001 Tour de France.”

Registration for Bike NY 2003 is now open. Last year was a blast — The best out of the 5 times I’ve ridden in “The Great Five Boro Bike tour”.

Hopefully we’ll be able to assemble another good group of people to ride with.

Register early to get the discount! More info here

If you’re interested in riding with us … feel free to comment on this post.

With the current North East cold spell, here’s something to put in perspective …

“Adventurer Doug Stoup is preparing to be the first person to cycle to the South Pole.”

“Stoup, a 37-year-old from sunny Florida, is currently in Antarctica testing a custom-built ice bicycle he hopes to use for a run at the pole next year.”

However, that’s a sweet ride!

About two weeks ago Ted and I demo’d a Cannondale Scalpel 2000 and Cannondale Jekyll 2000. Personally, I didn’t care for the plush-ness of the Jekyll. I suppose this is mainly due to the fact that I still ride and love my Gary Fisher Mt. Tam with the Genesis Geometry. Nothing climbs like it.

I rode the Jekyll with the rear locked-out in many of the flat sections and climbs. I didn’t get a chance to ride the Scalpel, but Ted was a different rider on that bike. Scary in fact. So he’s sold on the Scalpel; without riding it, I think I am too. That’s why I didn’t push to ride it [yet].

Next year I’d like to see Lance roll into Paris with these :-) …
Hokey Spokes are transparent “blades” that attach to your bicycle spokes. As these blades spin during riding, a computer inside the blades modulates the internal LED lights so that design images and text appear.” (via SlashDot)