Click the following link for a complete list of the teams and riders in the 2007 Tour de France:

As I mentioned on this week’s show, we are now taking reservations for our first-ever FredCast listener cycling tour. The tour is called The FredCast Famous Climbs of The Tour de France. Here is some information: DATES: September 2 – 9, 2007 LOCATION: French Alps & Provence HIGHLIGHTS: Alpe d’Huez & Mont Ventoux PRICE: $2,500 […]

Listen now by clicking here: [audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/thefredcast/The_FredCast_73.mp3] For The Week of June 11, 2007 Sponsored by Cambria Bicycle Outfitter Click here to learn how to get free shipping on your next order! IN THE NEWS THIS WEEK: Greg LeMond’s Mother Passes Away Frank Vandenbrouke Attempts Suicide Doping News: Three Giro d’Italia Riders Test Positive Belgian Stage […]

Several of you have asked me a variation of the following question: If SlipStreamz are so great at reducing wind noise, why aren’t more pro teams using them so that they can hear their team radios better? That’s a great question and one for which I’ve never had an answer. Today I got a press […]

The 2007 edition of the Dauphine Libere is now underway. This is the traditional warm-up for the Tour de France and all of the ProTour teams are here testing out their best riders and deciding who will race in the Tour next month. Click here for a complete list of team rosters:

Interbike announced today that it is going to be the presenting sponsor of the World Criterium Championship, to be held in Las Vegas, Nevada the night of Thursday, September 27, 2007 – day two of Interbike’s international bicycle expo. The World Criterium Championship is the final race in the 10-city 2007 USA Crits Championship Series […]

A FredCast listener who is very involved with the American Diabetes Association‘s Tour de Cure sent along the following text from a recent letter they received about Greg Lemond (including a quote from Greg himself). I don’t have independent confirmation of the validity of this news, but the source is usually very reliable. It is […]

Check out the contest ongoing right now over at the Cyclelicious blog. Find the best cycling related picture and post a link in the comments field of this post. The picture can be of a bike shop, someone riding down the street, or even a cycling sculpture. You can find a few cities on StreetView […]

Here is a list of the teams that have been invited to participate in the 2007 Tour de France: AG2R Agritubel Astana Barloworld Bouygues Telecom Caisse d’Epargne Cofidis Credit Agricole CSC Discovery Channel Euskaltel Francaise des Jeux Gerolsteiner Lampre Liquigas Milram Predictor-Lotto Quick Step Rabobank Saunier Duval T-Mobile

As predicted last night on The FredCast #71, Bjarne Riis held a press conference today and admitted to the use of the performance enhancing drug EPO from 1993 through 1998 including his stint racing on the German Telekom team and his victory in the 1996 Tour de France. According to Agence France Press, Riis was […]