I've had a long time passion for bicycle racing. I have followed the Tour de France since Miguel Indurain was winning his record five victories in a row. At time the only following was a daily show on ESPN2. We watched the Saturday night races at the Encino Veldrome in the late 1970's.
Following the 2010 Amgen Tour of California by Ron Parker, May 16-23,2010.
2010 Route Details
Stage 1-Nevada City to Sacramento
May 16, 104.2 miles, start time 11:45am
May 17, 109.5 miles, start time 11:00 am
Stage 3: San Francisco to Santa Cruz
May 18, 113.3 miles, start time 11:15 am
May 19, 121.5 miles, start time 11:00 am
Stage 5: Visalia to Bakersfield
May 20, 121.5 miles, start time 10:45 am
Stage 6: Palmdale to Big Bear Lake
May 21, 132.8 miles, start time 9:45 am
Stage 7: Los Angeles Individual Time Trial
May 22, 20.9 miles, start time 1:00 pm
Stage 8: Thousand Oaks/Westlake Village/Agoura Hills Circuit Race
This stage has four loops of the Rock Store Ride.(It stays on south side of Freeway)
May 23, 83.5 miles, start time 12:30 pm
Climbs of the 2010 ATOC by Williams Cycling
Pro Cycling Web Links
Now a good source of live streaming cycling videos is available at Cyclingfans.
(It helps if you are fluent in Flemish, French, German, Spanish and Italian)
A good source of English coverage of races is at cycling.tv some free 2 view but others paid(It has most of the Spring Classics)
(Most European races finish the day between 8am and 9am pacific time.)
Universal Sports came through last year by having both Giro de Italia and Vuelta de Espana on daily coverage.
If you like a good blog on cycling, I Recommend
Podium Cafe.
A Northern California site I recommend is cycleto. It has some good interviews and articles on Levi.
Team Radioshack Fan Site.
Johan Bruyneel Blog.
For Official results of Southern California Racing.
For Official Results of Northern California Racing.
Versus TV schedule for 2010
Updated by Versus.com on 6/21/2010
Tour de France Preview: Friday June 25th
Tour de France: July 3-25, LIVE AM Broadcasts. TimesTBD
Paris Tours: October 10, 5-6pm ET
*All times subject to change








2010 USA Cycling National Race Calendar

