Lance Armstrong is the big story in this year’s tour – here he is battling it out on the Mount Ventoux moonscape with Matrco Pantini, before letting him cross the line first, giving Jan Ullrich ‘the look‘, and getting all narky at Paul Kimmage (while not *actually* answering the question)
Tour newbies would do well to track down Hell On Wheels, it’s a great intro to just what the hell is going on. Then watch Breaking Away, the Footloose of Cycling films
If your collar bone is still unbroken after the London Alley Cat race, don’t push your luck on the track
Cycled to work a few times? Think you could have a go? Read an amateurs’ experience on the Alpe D’Huez, and ex-pro Kimmage taking on the incline. And here’s Duncan Deadball’s live report from France. sportreview = jealous
