Millar is my cycling sporting hero, I got into cycling purely because of him - and channel 4 first covering the tour.  I remember thinking the polka dot jersey was the coolest thing around (heck, i still do) and would discuss the race with the only other boy in my art class who had a clue what i was going on about.  Millar was a class ...

Anyone know who has secured the UK rights to publish the Official guide in the UK?

Basically it is fitness.  The more training you do, the bigger gears you can pull at the same cadence - hence go faster ~ but climbs (et al) are still are steep, and still hurt, but you get to the top faster. Every serious cyclist will soon know their own cadence rate that works.  How to push bigger gears at that cadence rate is ...

Yep, that's about right.  Use the formula (UK gradient)*100 - i.e. (1/5)*100==20%, (1/7)*100=14.28% etc.  And you reckon an average 1 in 5 climb over (8km) 4.97 miles is NOT steep Nick

I am watching todays race & the comentators have talked about the danger of descents & also the new tarmac laid over most of this col. I was there, descending into Italy 2 weeks ago from the col du Lombarde & came to a sudden halt with both my bike wheels over the rims in tarmac that was just being laid. Both today's climbs have ...

Hi, Where can I find the amount of ascent in each stage? This would make the stages more interesting for example 30 km to ride with 100 m of climbing to complete. Your thooughts?