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It starts on Saturday and should be very exciting. Last year’s winner Danilo Di Luca will be on a smaller team this year instead of Liquigas. After the fiasco of his investigation with the Italian Olympic Committee, he was dropped for fear of being found guilty. But another Italian favorite Alessandro Petacchi was found guilty of abusing an asthma medicine and will be suspended for a year. But other favorites for this race are:

Alberto Contador (he will be in top shape since he will not be participating in this year’s Tour de France)

Gilberto Simoni, 2x winner (01, 03)

Riccardo Ricco (Simoni’s former teammate)

It will be exciting especially as when it kicks off on Saturday, with a team time trial and hopefully Team Slipstream-Chipotle-H30 will win it!

Saw this at the train station today

and now i want to know who it is.

In its 4th year the North American Handmade Bicycle show, shows of talent from around the US with handmade bikes. It makes me drool a lot and lust a lot and resists from claling up some of the local frame builders in the area. Some of my favorite pictures from this year and some oddities. DROOOOOOOOOL (more…)

Ever since the x-prize took off in 2003 with the first un-manned reusable non-governmental spaceship into space for US $10,000,000, I’ve been interested in commercial/civilian spaceflight. As I reported last week with Richard Branson announcing Virigin Galactic to offer private spaceflight. (more…)