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The Tour de France is good for cycling


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Published Aug. 5, 2007 at 7:49 p.m.

Velo News has done a rough analysis of the very positive numbers coming out of this years Tour de France - fortunately not the positives we usually think about - it was all crowd numbers, television audiences and print media, all of which appear to have experienced solid increases, and in the case of bike sales there is anecdotal evidence that, doping or not, the Tour is good for anything connected to cycling ... I was also very interested in web viewing numbers, knowing that my own blog stats

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Just tell me when it's over...


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Published July 28, 2007 at 11:29 p.m.

I'm pretty sure I'm not the only person in the cycling industry who is kind of looking forward to this year's Tour de France being over. The marquee event in the world of cycling has become the proving ground for new products and a bicycle industry marketing circus. Even companies who have no product in the event benefit from the overflow of attention given to the sport and by extension the industry itself. It's been a great ride, in many ways, for the US cycling industry as well ... It began in

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Training for the Tour de Fear


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bike, cycling, mountain bike, race, training

Published July 11, 2007 at 1:19 a.m.

With six months to train for Europe's toughest mountain bike race, it should have been a simple journey from trembling sack of flab to whittle-thin cycling machine. It wasn't ...

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Bike Show / Scooterworks Tour De France party: 6-7 July


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bike, tour, tour de france

Published July 4, 2007 at 6:33 p.m.

Join us for Tour de France festivities in sunny Waterloo on Friday and Saturday of Le Grand Départ in London. The Bike Show is teaming up with Scooterworks for a two-day bonanza of bicycles, music and fun. All will take place at 132 Lower Marsh, London SE1 8SP, just across the river from the Prologue [ ... ] ...

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The SWOBO interview; Tim Parr and Sky Yaeger


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bianchi, bicycle, bike, bike shop, bike, art, clothing, commute, fixed gear, o, road bike, swobo, time

Published July 2, 2007 at 11:43 p.m.

SWOBO is one of those brands in the bike industry that poses a cult-like following of fanatics. They've pretty much always had that following, even during the 5 years that the brand was gone. SWOBO is known to most people as a clothing brand- which they are- but they are also branching out into a bike brand as well. The brains behind the bikes is none other than Sky Yaeger, formerly the brains behind the bikes at Bianchi for so many years. Tim Parr, one of the original SWOBO-ites and one of the

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2 July 2007: The Lowdown on Cyclosportives


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campagnolo, Condor, condor, continental, cycling, rapha, tour

Published July 2, 2007 at 12:27 p.m.

In conversation with Julian Bray, a journalist and rider with the Rapha Condor team. Julian came to competitive cycling after falling in love with the continental tradition of the cyclosportive: mass-participation road races of historic or cultural significance, such as the annual Etape du Tour and the Gran Fondo Campagnolo. We discuss the appeal of [ ... ] ...

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25 June 2007: Flandrien


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cycle, johan museeuw, paris-roubaix

Published June 25, 2007 at 7:21 p.m.

Preview of a new exhibition of stunning photographs by internationally acclaimed photojournalist Stefan Vanfleteren that capture the essence of Flemish cycle racing. Interviews with Vanfleteren and with British former world champion Tony Doyle and three times Paris-Roubaix winner Johan Museeuw aka ‘The Lion of Flanders’. Live music from the sensational Orchestre International du Vetex. If [ ... ] ...

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The Bike Show featured in Momentum Magazine


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Published June 18, 2007 at 4:26 a.m.

Alongside articles on bikes at Burning Man, Cherokee spoke cards and a penny farthing race, the summer edition of the excellent Momentum Magazine features an interview with Jack Thurston, presenter of the Bike Show. Momentum (the magazine for self-propelled people) comes out of Vancouver in Canada but is read around the world. It is free [ ... ] ...

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Bikes Belong to Launch new tradeshow?


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critical mass, cycle, cycling, expo, interbike, sea otter

Published June 14, 2007 at 11:41 p.m.

The fine folks at Bikes Belong, the cycling industry advocacy group and trade organization, has announced that they are in the planning stages of developing a new tradeshow to rival and compete with the hallowed Interbike. Sound familiar? We've covered this kind of news a few times here already ... Eurobike tried to launch what was dubbed Eurobike-Portland back in October of '06. That ended up getting shelved and then Eurobike teamed up with Sea Otter to create what was being billed as the

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28 May 2007: Graeme Fife’s life in cycling


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cycling, kent, tour, tour de france

Published May 30, 2007 at 5:33 p.m.

This week features a ride in the hills of north Kent hills with writer, broadcaster and cyclist Graeme Fife. Graeme is the author of several of the best English language books about cycling and Le Tour de France. His new book has just been published. It’s a very personal memoir entitled The Beautiful Machine: A [ ... ] ...

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