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For your consideration. The first week of the Grand Tours are usually grand bores. Two modifications could liven them up from start to finish. Shorter stages and limited substitutions. Read more here: http://www.ivvelo.com/media/managed/The_Grand_Tours_of_Cycling_need_reform.pdf Brian...

Sagan showed speed today Today was the first day that I saw Sagan really give full gas. And he passed both Greipal and Goss. He's very savvy for 22, so why go maximum effort against cocky Cavendish when he can pick his battles over the long haul. He will be better than Cav but perhaps not...

The Rider by Tim Krabbé The Rider, by Dutch chess champion and writer Tim Krabbé is one of the all time classic cycling books. It's about one amateur race interspersed with musings about life, the great cyclists, and races.

Runners and Racers I don't know about Spain, but in Mexico, they ask "Vas a correr?" Are you going to run? when they're talking about a bike race. Sometimes, one has to clarify that one likes to "correr a pie" (run on foot) to avoid confusion with racing a bike. For sprinters, they...

Spanish for "racers" I don't know about in Spain, but Mexicans say "corredores" or "runners" for racers in cycling. They just use the word "sprintear" for sprinting.

video camera for photo finish I've seen mainstream video cameras (not proper photo finish video cameras) used effectively for bike races. But I don't know which ones would be suitable. The guy I saw use one said his could pick up 800 frames per second, and that was enough for a sprint finish.

What is your recommendation for a camera to certify the finish at races? Hopefully not a full-fledged state-of-the-art photo finish camera, but a reasonably priced one.