Hi All,   I put a post through during the tour where I said I had missed recording the ITV4 special, ''The Science of Lance ARmstrong''  Unfortunately I have been watching the TV schedule for weeks and have not seen it repeated yet.  Does anyone know if it is on the internet or streamable?

I have really enjoyed the podcasts as I rarely get to see the video action. Two requests; please remember some of us don't know what has happened so so more detail, especially on the latter stages when this was really almost entirely missing, would be very useful. Two, what about coverage of the Vuelta? Thanks for a great three weeks of the most ...

Lauren Fignon was the best Le Tour rider I ever did see.  Being English, I hate the French , but Fignon was a great Le Tour cyclist. Nick P.S. Great to see some brief interviews with him on ITV4 too over the last three weeks.

Why is the final stage of the tour processional? The time for drinking champagne is after the race not during! Surely if the final stage were competitive, it would make the entry into Paris far more interesting? Has there always been this acceptance of the result before the race is over?   Isn't it time for one of the new clean teams to ...

lanternerouge:Isn't it to get the riders behind out of your slipstream? In fact it is the otherway around.  The lead cyclists does this, as it helps to see a pending attack and hopefully be able to react 'pre-emptive', and jump the gun first.  The reason all the cyclists follow and all weave about like a shoal of fish is until ...

Ok say Evans gets back the time from Sastre tomorrow and regains the yellow jersey by  1 or 2 seconds from Sastre or Schleck Are you seriously saying that CSC will not try to win the race on the final stage because of tradition To quote the 'official programme' notes Stage 21 'the reward for 3 weeks effort is a stage finish in Paris. ...

They should be made to use 'Fred Flintstone' type cars... Nick 

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

Garmin, the GPS people, are using their Edge 705 GPS enabled bike computers (I have an Edge 605) on their sponsored GARMIN CHIPOTLE team during the tour, and the telemetry data is uploaded each day to the 'motionbased' web site so all can see/use it.  A staggering wealth of information - and staggering data from le tour riders  Nick