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The Good Old Days

Posted on March 3, 2012 by norbs

Every weekend I will try and find a few interesting cycling videos from before the year 2000.The years before Armstrong corporatised sport. First, here is one Jered Gruber Tweeted earlier today. Jered is an excellent photographer as well, have a … Continue reading →

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Friday Video.

Posted on February 17, 2012 by norbs

Less than 6 months to wait until this years instalment. Last years Tour de France was fantastic.

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Vive le Tour, a terrific video.

Posted on August 4, 2011 by norbs

I am not going to say much, just that I wish I spoke French. Check this out. Vive le tour! from Bear Thunder on Vimeo. Many thanks to Cycleboredom for the heads up on Twitter.

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Tour de France, the ads.

Posted on July 28, 2011 by norbs

SBS in Australia does a magnificent job of covering the Tour de France. I plan to do a post about this very subject in the not to distant future. But, the one down side to the 3 week coverage is … Continue reading →

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Where is the Panache? Pt IV – Panache is in the wind.

Posted on July 27, 2011 by norbs

After a well deserved rest day, the riders rolled out for stage 10 of the Tour rested and ready to rumble. Thomas Voeckler is in yellow so expect to see the French flags a waving today. Also, the first real … Continue reading →

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When guts is more important than panache.

Posted on July 23, 2011 by norbs

Twelve minutes past midnight Australian Eastern time (I think that is right, I have read conflicting reports, it could be 11:12PM or 1:12AM) an Aussie cyclist rolls down the ramp and potentially into cycling history. Can Cadel Evans become the … Continue reading →

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Where is the panache? Pt III – Google Panache!

Posted on July 21, 2011 by norbs

Research is the cornerstone of this blog, as you can probably tell. I spend minutes scouring Google, Wikipedia and various cycling web sites looking for facts and figures. I was asked yesterday, what panache actually meant. Well, I let my … Continue reading →

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Where is the panache? Part II – Still no panache!

Posted on July 20, 2011 by norbs

I have had a few people ask me what the title of the previous post means. Well, up until stage 16, there had been a distinct lack of panache in this years tour. There have been flourishes, but it has … Continue reading →

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Excellent TdF Photography

Posted on July 16, 2011 by norbs

Every year, the Big Picture does a couple of specials on the Tour de France. They have just done the first for this year which can be found here   Also, there is always some high quality photos over at … Continue reading →

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