Well the sceptic in me would suggest the follow I believe the Adidas/British team are going to be hard to beat, as one of the primary sponsors to the games I’m pretty sure the win was written into the sponsorship agreement and the incredibly low prices at the Adidas store will surely give them the competitive edge. Of course you can’t discount the Westfield/Australian team, the...
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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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Ok guys turn away now, nothing to see here, but for the girls, this might be of interest and just in time for the Tour de France. Recently my wife started creating a range of bracelets and I thought these might be of interest for the cycling types out there. All bracelets are lovingly hand made. If you...
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