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It’s Not About the Book, Except When It Is

Occasionally, Cyclismas will feature the work by guest contributors with timely and topical observations. This piece is by twitter pundit @jasenthorpe. People’s Anti-PaperCut Society Threatens Existence of ...
On July 16, 2011 / By admin
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The Overlord’s Dispatches from the Throne Volume 18

The spectacle that is the third greatest cycling event on the calendar behind the World Championships and WorldTour Team Selections never fails to provides massive third place style ...
On July 16, 2011 / By admin
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A Brighter Shade of Yellow – The man inside the jersey is the jersey

by Joshua Hunt Thomas Voeckler will not ride into Paris wearing the final leader’s jersey of the ninety-eighth Tour de France, but the host nation’s favorite son has ...
On July 15, 2011 / By admin
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Two Weeks of the Tour – An Outsider’s View

Let’s face it, I’m a cycling fanboy. I cut my teeth on a generation of Americans who followed in the footsteps of Jonathan Boyer, the grandaddy of Americans ...
On July 14, 2011 / By admin
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The Overlord’s Dispatches from the Throne Volume 16

This is one of the most exciting times of the year for me. Christmas, my birthday, my anniversary – nothing compares to the week before the Tour De ...
On July 12, 2011 / By admin
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Stages of Grief: Has a clean peloton missed the time cut?

This year’s edition of the worlds biggest bicycle race has opened with nine stages of strife, struggle and splendor. While crashes and injury have dominated media coverage, largely ...
On July 11, 2011 / By admin
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The gladiators of the road

When do we draw the line on when a gladiator of the road is picked back up and returned to the arena? As you know the Tour’s first ...
On July 10, 2011 / By admin
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The Tour – the nervous first week

The first week of le Tour has given us some of the most exciting racing I’ve seen in ages, as well as the worst blows to several GC ...
On July 9, 2011 / By admin
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Blood is thicker than water

Judging by the headline, you might expect this article to be about doping. I don’t stigmatise, as doping has been connected with professional cycling since the “break of dawn.” ...
On July 8, 2011 / By admin
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BREAKING NEWS Tour de France edition: Source of Stage 5 crashes traced, isolated.

VFNS, Paris, France – 7 July 2011 A joint special Task Force formed by ASO & UCI officials undertook a massive overnight operation to find and rectify the ...
On July 7, 2011 / By admin

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