Home  |    Fitness   |   Archive   |   Tips & Safety  |    Store   |   Quotes   |   Links   |   About   |   Facebook   |   Twitter     


Support The DougReport: Ride a bike
doug report logo
Jan 08
Jan 09
Jan 10
Jan 11
Jan 12
Jan 13
Feb 08
Feb 09
Feb 10
Feb 11
Feb 12
Feb 13
Mar 08
Mar 09
Mar 10
Mar 11
Mar 12
Mar 13
Apr 08
Apr 09
Apr 10
Apr 11
Apr 12
Apr 13
May 08
May 09
May 10
May 11
May 12
May 13
Jun 08
Jun 09
Jun 10
Jun 11
Jun 12
Jun 13
Jul 08
Jul 09
Jul 10
Jul 11
Jul 12
Aug 08
Aug 09
Aug 10
Aug 11
Aug 12
Sep 08
Sep 09
Sep 10
Sep 11
Sep 12
Oct 08
Oct 09
Oct 10
Oct 11
Oct 12
Nov 08
Nov 09
Nov 10
Nov 11
Nov 12
Dec 08
Dec 09
Dec 10
Dec 11
Dec 12
Dec 07

Jul  1 Jul  2 Jul  3 Jul  4 Jul 5 Jul  6 Jul  7 Jul  8 Jul  9 Jul  10 Jul  11 Jul  12 Jul  13 Jul  14 Jul  15
Jul  16 Jul  17 May  18 May 19 May  20 May  21 May  22 May  23 May  24 May  25 May  26 May  27 May  28 May  29 May  30 May  31

Jun 1 Jun 2 Jun  3 Jun  4 Jun 5 Jun  6 Jun  7 Jun  8 Jun  9 Jun  10 Jun  11 Jun  12 Jun 13 Jun 14 Jun 15
Jun  16 Jun  17 Jun  18 Jun  19 Jun 20 Jun 21 Jun 22 Jun 23 Jun 24 Jun 25 Jun 26 Jun 27 Jun 28 Jun 29 Jun 30


July  2013
July 17, 2013




Photo: 2013 Tour de France Stage Live Online Coverage Guide .
CyclingFans:  Thursday's Tour de France Stage 18 departs Gap at 12:20pm CET (6:20am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Alpe d'Huez at around 5:34pm CET (11:34am U.S. Eastern).  Tour de France live streaming video should get underway at around 12:15pm CET (6:15am U.S. Eastern).







Photo: 80-percent chance of rain and hail!
Peloton: There are fears that the sinister, sinuous descent of the Col de Sarenne on Thursday’s 18th stage of the 100th Tour de France will prove a disastrous pick by race director Christian Prudhomme.







Photo: Alberto Contador (Saxo-Tinkoff) set the fastest times through the three intermediate splits, but would have to settle for second place on the day to Chris Froome.
CyclingNews: Contador, Kreuziger now second and third on Tour de France GC.







Photo: Christopher Froome (Sky) goes into the final TT still in the race lead.
CyclingNews: Maillot jaune withstands wet roads to stand firm in race lead.





Photo: Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha) had one of the best time trials of his career to finish 3rd on the day in Chorges.
CyclingNews: Rodríguez now focussed on Alpe d'Huez victory.





Photo: Radioshack-Leopard's Andy Schleck.
VeloNation: Luxembourger and team-mate Monfort take top 15 places.







Photo: Bauke Mollema will ride through Dutch Corner twice on Thursday en route to targeting the final Tour podium. Photo: Graham Watson.
VeloNews: That the cycling hopes of a notoriously flat nation have become so intertwined with a single storied mountain in France is one of cycling’s great contradictions, but over the past 30 years, Dutch fans have nevertheless made the hairpins of Alpe d’Huez their sovereign territory.





Races & Results.
Tour de France - June 29-July 21 (Stages & Results),
USA Pro Challenge - Aug 19-25 (Stages),
Vuelta a España - Aug 24-Sept 15 (Stages),
UCI Road World Championships - Sept 22-29 (Races),
Giro d'Italia - May 4-26 (Results)






Photo: CyclingNews: Annemiek van Vleuten.
VeloNation: Second place is enough to hold race lead for Emma Johansson.







Photo: Hard to look past... Chris Froome looks the likeliest candidate to take the Stage 17 time trial tonight finishing in Chorges. (Getty Images).
SBS: Wednesday's 17th stage of the Tour de France is a short but challenging individual time-trial that could prove to be another very significant day in the general classification.





Photo: Michael Albasini (Orica-GreenEdge) proved his climbing abilities on the punchy stage to St. Vallier.
CyclingNews: Dehaes, Devolder, Albasini and ten Dam in the news.





Photo: Don’t expect to see much of the actual race by being there.
CyclingTips: "If you’ve never been to the Tour de France, it really should be on your bucket list. But in order to fully enjoy the experience, it's important to manage your expectations and bear a few things in mind."





Photo: Peter Kennaugh, Richie Porte, and Chris Froome took a feed on Mont Ventoux after officials extended feeding on the stage. Photo: Graham Watson.
VeloNews: Sky’s eyebrow-raising feed on the upper slopes of Mont Ventoux was legal.







Photo: Rui Costa (Movistar) wins stage 16 of the Tour de France.
CyclingNews: Movistar rider drops break on Col de Manse.













Photo: Yukira Arashiro (Europcar) leads the chase.
Robert Millar: Why Rodriguez will be a man to watch.







Photo: It's not fair to blame someone without evidence against him.
VeloNation: “It’s only in cycling where it’s quite normal to investigate and tarnish the image of athletes of the present and of the past.”






Photo: Chris Froome dominated his rivals to win th Stage 17 time trial (AAP).
SBS: Team Sky's Chris Froome added to his Tour de France lead with another decisive victory in the 17th stage time trial.





Photo: TDF 2013 jerseys.
road.cc: Bauke Mollema of Belkin, in second place overall this morning, was overhauled by two-time Tour winner Alberto Contador of Saxo-Tinkoff, whose team vows they will fight for the yellow jersey and who also now have Roman Kreuziger placed third.






Photo: A crusiy spin for Richie Porte (Getty Images).
SBS: Two of Australia's top time trialists deliberately finished well down the table in the Tour de France's final race against the clock into Chorges.





Photo: Pierree Rolland (Europcar) .
CyclingNews: Frenchman looking for a stage win in the Alps.





Photo: Contador says he will continue to fight.
DougReport:  Chris Froome may have tightened his grip on the yellow jersey but his capacity to deflect everything the Tour de France throws at him in the coming days, including treacherous weather and technical descents, could be key to overall victory in Paris.





Photo: Jakob Fuglsang (Astana) lost a bit of ground on stage 16.
CyclingNews: "I went the wrong way round a roundabout, it turned out to be the long way around and I dropped back 100 places in the field."







Photo: Jean Christophe Peraud (Team Ag2R La Mondiale).
CyclingNews: Frenchman's race could be over after cracking his collarbone.





Photo: Sacha Modolo wins his fourth stage at the Tour of Qinghai Lake.
CyclingNews: Keough comes close on stage 9.





Photo: The new alloy Zone sits alongside their two carbon Zone models.
road.cc: New entry-level carbon and alloy road bikes, an updated carbon CX model and the Rove Ti gravel grinder debuts.





Photo: At low speeds this thing doesn’t countersteer; all steering requires just that, steering.
RedKitePrayer: The Enduro veers from the outer reaches of trail bikes into all-mountain—better known to some as freeride. It features 29-inch wheels, 165mm of travel, weighs less than a fair-size dog (25.9 lbs.).






Photo: the new Camber FSR Expert Carbon EVO 29.
DirtRag: These bikes are the “trail” models, sitting between the cross country Epic and the all mountain Enduro.


























Photo: UCI Presidential candidate Brian Cookson.
CyclingNews: UCI Presidential candidate supportive of expanded Oceania calendar.





Photo: Alberto Contador (Saxo-Tinkoff) puts in an effort on the finale to Gap.
CyclingNews: Saxo-Tinkoff, Movistar need to be aggressive.





Photo: The winner of this year’s Tour of Turkey, Mustafa Sayar.
VeloNation: Says irregularities in testing procedure took place, and that French lab may be trying to ensure rider from that country wins.





Photo: Monte Crostis was crossed off.
InnerRing: Tomorrow’s stage will climb Alpe d’Huez twice but it’s the lone descent of the Col de Sarenne that’s got many talking.





Photo: Jonathan Vaughters says he, like everyone else, hopes Chris Froome and Sky are racing clean. Photo: Caley Fretz.
VeloNews: Jonathan Vaughters just returned to the Tour de France, fresh off finals at Denver University, where the Garmin-Sharp CEO is pursuing an MBA at the University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business.





Photo: Lance Armstrong is a case in point. He was tested in competition and out of competition.
SBS: Sport, at both international and local levels, seems to constantly be in a doping crisis. It may be time to consider legalizing performance enhancers because zero tolerance is clearly not working.





Photo: Alberto Contador won't less Chris Froome out of his sight (Getty Images).
SBS: Chris Froome may have tightened his grip on the yellow jersey but his capacity to deflect everything the Tour de France throws at him in the coming days, including treacherous weather and technical descents, could be key to overall victory in Paris.





Photo: http://cdn.velonews.competitor.com/files/2013/07/WATSON_00003433-060-659x440.jpg.
VeloNews: Saxo-Tinkoff’s Alberto Contador and Roman Kreuziger overtook Bauke Mollema (Belkin) in the Tour de France’s stage 18 time trial on Wednesday.





Photo: Nairo Quintana (Movistar) attacked repeatedly to put pressure on yellow jersey Chris Froome (Sky).
CyclingNews: Movistar manager Eusebio Unzue is optimistic that Nairo Quintana can break even with many of his general classification rivals at the Tour de France on Wednesday’s 32-kilometre time trial from Embrun to Chorges.





Photo: National Champion Gorilla.
Bicycling: Teams and equipment sponsors go to great lengths to personalize bikes, shoes, helmets and other accessories with personal touches or commemoration of career-defining wins.





Photo: Colnago CX Zero disc.
road.cc: New endurance bike designed for comfort, and it’s available with disc brakes.





Photo: The 6.3-inch-travel Slash appears to be redesigned with a lower bottom bracket and slacker head tube.
MBAction: Trek Bicycle just sprung news that the Slash and Remedy lines will be offered in 27.5-inch wheel options in their "technical trail" and "enduro" product lines.





















Jul  1 Jul  2 Jul  3 Jul  4 Jul 5 Jul  6 Jul  7 Jul  8 Jul  9 Jul  10 Jul  11 Jul  12 Jul  13 Jul  14 Jul  15
Jul  16 Jul  17 May  18 May 19 May  20 May  21 May  22 May  23 May  24 May  25 May  26 May  27 May  28 May  29 May  30 May  31

Jun 1 Jun 2 Jun  3 Jun  4 Jun 5 Jun  6 Jun  7 Jun  8 Jun  9 Jun  10 Jun  11 Jun  12 Jun 13 Jun 14 Jun 15
Jun  16 Jun  17 Jun  18 Jun  19 Jun 20 Jun 21 Jun 22 Jun 23 Jun 24 Jun 25 Jun 26 Jun 27 Jun 28 Jun 29 Jun 30

Jan 08
Jan 09
Jan 10
Jan 11
Jan 12
Jan 13 
Feb 08
Feb 09
Feb 10
Feb 11
Feb 12
Feb 13
Mar 08
Mar 09
Mar 10
Mar 11
Mar 12
Mar 13
Apr 08
Apr 09
Apr 10
Apr 11
Apr 12
Apr 13
May 08
May 09
May 10
May 11
May 12
May 13
Jun 08
Jun 09
Jun 10
Jun 11
Jun 12
Jun 13
Jul 08
Jul 09
Jul 10
Jul 11
Jul 12
Aug 08
Aug 09
Aug 10
Aug 11
Aug 12
Sep 08
Sep 09
Sep 10
Sep 11
Sep 12
Oct 08
Oct 09
Oct 10
Oct 11
Oct 12
Nov 08
Nov 09
Nov 10
Nov 11
Nov 12
Dec 08
Dec 09
Dec 10
Dec 11
Dec 12
Dec 07