Thanks to Jessie for taking pictures for us in San Fran for the Tour Of California…

By Jeremy Arnold Let’s go to the tapes for a look back at the Stage 7 coverage of the Tour of California brought to us from the helpful, yet confused Versus Channel. As I warm up the old VCR (still haven’t made the leap to TiVo yet…dang), I am mentally preparing myself for the oncoming [...]

Mike Jones Giving props for my Site! weeee

By Jeremy Arnold Hey there race fans. Instead of recapping all of the race action from Stage 6 of the Tour of California from Santa Barbara to Santa Clarita (which you should all know by now anyway), I will attempt to analyze some of the more interesting elements of what turned out to be a [...]

By Jeremy Arnold The beautiful city of Santa Barbara played host to the Tour of California on Saturday as Stage 6 began within a stone’s throw of the Pacific Ocean. Well…maybe not a stone’s throw exactly, unless you have a REALLY good arm, but pretty close nonetheless. The beachfront park along Shoreline Drive gave spectators [...]

By Jeremy Arnold Solvang– Danish for “sunny field”– was founded in 1911 on 9,000 acres of former Spanish land grant. The current English translation means “tourist trap where lots of cyclists and winos go.” For reference, both definitions are perfectly accurate. Made recently famous by the movie “Sideways”, Solvang may now be better known in [...]

By Jeremy Arnold Stage 4: Reigning World Champion Paolo Bettini edges Ciolek and Haedo in San Luis Obispo. Overall GC remains unchanged. How’s that for a concise recap? Unfortunately it is going to have to do because I just flew into Santa Barbara and boy are my arms tired. Sorry. Beautiful sunset flight west though [...]

By Jeremy Arnold Okay…the Amgen Tour of California site is actually up and running on my computer so we’ll give this a shot. I have made every effort to clear my work schedule and can only hope I don’t get a call in this afternoon. Fat chance…but we’ll see what we can get away with [...]

By Jeremy Arnold Before we tackle Stage 2 of the Tour of California, let’s take one final moment to reflect on Monday’s beautiful but deadly stage into Santa Rosa with a Top 5 list of observations and…other things. 1) Dave Zabriskie needs to start keeping a rabbit’s foot or 4-leaf clover in his jersey pocket [...]

By Jeremy Arnold “Alright, alright, alright.” As a tribute to the world-renowned growing regions of Northern California (I mean grapes and Redwood trees of course) featured during today’s stage of the Tour of California, I will begin today’s post with a little help from one of my all-time favorite movie characters, David Wooderson (Lancelebrity Matthew [...]

By Jeremy Arnold Hello Race Fans and welcome to the Tour of California coverage from my living room in Boulder, Colorado. I am going to attempt to log a running diary of the OLN – er Versus coverage of the ToC prologue in San Francisco but I have no idea how hard this may be. [...]

By Jeremy Arnold It is not often that you have the chance to see a ton of random celebrities at a bike race. Other than famous bike racers…but we know enough of them already. However, the Tour of California offers viewers a chance to watch some great racing and do a little star gazing as [...]