What happened!!!!!!!!,anxiously watching the final few seconds of the race on interactive tv when the screen reverted to  the message'' catch the uninterrupted coverage of the Tour de France here each weekday'' What is the point of watching it if they don't show the the final seconds of the race when the leader goes over the line. To say I ...

Cycling fans increasing in number by the minute - well by the month........ Always nice to know you are not alone! I've been trying to find out what times ITV4 will be showing Tour 09 highlights - I'm about to depart to USA for a month (so will miss the first week or so) and would like to set the video.......anyone any ideas on this or is this ...

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

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?

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 

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