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BMC Racing Team
BMC Racing continues to field a strong team with the likes of Cadel Evans, Philippe Gilbert, Thor Hushovd, and future champion Tejay van Garderen. And their bikes continue to be top notch, with the...
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Orica GreenEdge Cycling
This Australian team was probably best known last year – its first season in the WorldTour – for their online video rendition of pop artist Carly Rae Jepsen’s Call Me Maybe hit song. It was a great PR...
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Sojasun
Sojasun are a French wild-card team for the 2013 Tour de France. They’ll ride on Spanish-made BH G6′s for the next two years. The riders to watch: Stéphane Heulot and Anthony Delaplace.
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Euskaltel Euskadi
Spanish team Euskaltel Euskadi in their well-recognized orange livery rides on with the Orbea Orca equipped with Shimano components and wheels. In order to maintain its UCI World Tour status, the...
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FDJ
Predominantly French FDJ rides the French Lapierre Xelius, and of course, the title sponsor FDJ is the French lottery. They won a couple of stages at last year’s TdF, including the first stage win by...
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Lotto-Belisol
Lotto-Belisol is the Belgian version of French team FDJ: Primarily Belgian riders, sponsored by the Belgian lottery and Belgian corporate sponsor, riding, of course, Belgian Ridley’s. They took three...
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Team Europcar
Another wildcard team for this year’s Tour de France, this might be the last year that the team rides under the Europcar banner, a French rental car company. Last year Thomas Voeckler became a media...
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Cool Read: 100 years of TdF bikes
Here’s a cool blog read on Gizmodo highlighting the evolution of the Tdf race bike, such as, before derailleurs were introduced, in 1937, riders would have to get off their bikes to switch gears; and...
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The Amazing Race –“Tour de France” 1928 edition
If you’re a fan of TV’s “The Amazing Race”, then you’d know its host, Phil Keoghan, is a bit of an adrenaline junkie. Next week, as a tribute to TdF’s forgotten heroes, he and a few friends will be...
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Tour de France – Google edition
If you’re anything like us, the TdF has been PVR’d, and inbetween our work, rides, and family, we’ve watched it as intently as time would allow. Near the beginning of the Tour, we stumbled upon this...
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