‘Tour de France 2011 – the Official Game’ for Android and Blackberry

The Official Tour de France Game for Android and Blackberry

The Official Game of the Tour de France: The global standard for cycling games, is now available to all Android and Blackberry users!

According to the description on the Android Market:

Become the team manager for your favorite team and then become a legend as you lead your team to victory!

Manage the peloton and deal with breakaways, climbs, accidents, loss of form, and more. TAKE CONTROL and take part in the most realistic virtual Tour de France ever seen! Choose the correct racing strategy and the best tactical plans. Expose the weaknesses of your competitors, and attack with your team in full force!

Tour de France 2011 – The Official Game: The best way to experience the race!

Game features include:

The official Tour de France 2011 app

Main screen with plenty of options to choose from

The 2011 Tour de France kicked off this weekend to a great start. Unfortunately not all of us get to work from home during the week and watch it live on TV. So, to make do we use the internet and anything else that can help bring us closer to the race. And this is something the Tour de France organisers, along with sponsor SKODA, have cottoned onto. They have launched the Official Tour de France Application powered by ŠKODA.

According to the Google Android App Store:

Team Lotto Honda – part 2

Team Lotto Honda

I seem to be getting a lot of hits on my first posting on the new women’s Honda Lotto cycling team. Liz Hatch and Veronica Andreasson seem to have created a profile for themselves in the world of women’s professional cycling.

As such, I did a Google search and found that P Magazine out of Belgium also did a photoshoot on the daythat video was done. The girls who take part are Liz Hatch, Veronica Andreasson, Rochelle Gilmore, and Kim Schoonbaert.

Unfortunately, the one thing the team has not done is created a website on who they are and what they do. Somehow think they are missing a trick with that, especially with a rider list such as this.

Here are the pictures from that day (and thanks to P-Magazine for them):

Rochelle Gilmore

Liz Hatch

Liz Hatch and Veronica Andreasson

Kim Schoonbaert

Rochelle Gilmore

Liz and Veronica

Veronica Andreasson

Eddy Merckx at Cycle Show

I know the 2009 Cycle Show has come and gone and that this posting is rather late. But as Tom Boonen is making some noise in the 2010 Tour of Qatar, I thought I would get this post up super quick. Who knows what the Google ranking could do for this blog

Another reason for this hasty post is that Tom and his fellow team mates from the Quickstep cycling team are all riding the new style Eddy Merckx EMX-5. A superb looking machine, which unfortunately you won’t get to see much of in the TV coverage of the TOQ. This is why I am posting the pictures on here so you can see for yourself what all the fuss us about.

Another team that is also riding on the new style Eddy Merckx is in the TOQ the Topsport Vlaanderen – Mercator pro cycling team. If you recall, this team rode in the 2009 Tour of Britain.

Enjoy:

Eddy Merckx EMX-5

Eddy Merckx EMX-5

Eddy Merckx EMX-5

Eddy Merckx EMX-5

The EMX-5 is the top of the range carbon in the Eddy Merckx stable. 2nd in the same line is the EMX

Eddy Merckx EMX-3

Eddy Merckx EMX-3

Eddy Merckx EMX-3

And last but not least is the EFX-1  designed for the ladies:

Eddy Merckx EFX-1

A bit suprised with Giro!

Following my posting on the 11-year old school girl who’s head was run over by a car and survived to tell the tale, I decided to look for more safety stats into the use of helmets. So where to go to first, the helmet manufacturers of course. Yes I know their stats could be biased, but it would be a starting point nonetheless.

So, as I really like Giro helmets, I decided to approach them first. I searched around their website to see if they had any links to to safety stats. I didn’t find any. As a result, I decided to email the company and ask them for any public helmet safety stats.

A month after I sent my email, I received a reply from the company’s European team. Now I won’t mention the name of the person who responded, but this is what they had to say to my request:

“Hi Craig,

Unfortunately I do not have any information available on this subject at this time. Sorry that I cannot help you. I know the debate of to wear or not to wear a helmet is a big one! But with the e-mails I receive from people who have had a near death expediencies as a result of crashes on their bikes I would recommend that everyone wear a helmet.

Sorry I cannot provide more information.

Thank you for taking the time to e-mail us here at Giro.

Kind regards,”

Mmmm -  interesting response to say the least…? Am still not sure how to respond to this. At the very least the company could have pointed me in the direction of where I could find some stats. Was and still am willing to do the searching for it.

But as helpful as they want to be, the sentence: “… with the e-mails I receive from people who have had a near death expediencies as a result of crashes on their bikes I would recommend that everyone wear a helmet” just doesn’t seem to convince me.

I think it’s time to ask my friend Google for some more help in my searches on this topic.