A collection of the Pro Tour team jerseys from 2006 onwards. 2012 Updates: Additions:Australia’s first Pro Tour team, Orica Greenedge;The return FDJ to the Pro Tour Deletions: The HTC team is no more; Major Changes: Leopard Trek folded into the Radioshack team to become the Radioshack –Nissan team; Garmin picked up a new sponsor in Sharp;Omega-Pharma Lotto parted ways creating two separate teams with Omega-Pharma...
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Based on my hugely popular UCI Pro Tour Stats post I have now turned the data into an interactive set of graphs using some really cool software called Tableau. Once again this data was taken from the publically available UCI archives. The only thing I have done is to represent the raw point score as percentage of the yearly total to even out the differences...
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I had this come across my desk the other day which I thought was of interest. It is a complete list of Australians who have competed in the Tour de France since 1914. Year Rider Team Final Place Started Finished Final Time* Remarks 1914 Duncan "Don" Kirkham Phebus-Dunlop 17th 145 54 at 11h 53′ 39" 1914 Ivor "Iddo" / "Snowy" Munro Phebus-Dunlop 20th...
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Inspired by Chris from the Vikings Cycling club, “The little Engine that could” and possibly the one of the greatest stages of the 2011 Tour de France, stage 19. I present to you, Cadel, the little red engine. A little red engine had a long train of riders to pull. He went along very well till he came to a steep Col. But then,...
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In my continuing fascination with the Pro Tour it’s time to look at some of the other kit on the bikes and that is the computers each team use. The SRM seems to be the computer of choice for many of Pro teams but at around $1000 it’s going to be out of reach most average riders. While power output is always going to be...
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