SF News Cycling: Stage 7 Closes out Strong Despite a few anxious laps during the climactic Stage 7, wire-to-wire overall race leader Levi Leipheimer (Discovery Channel) found just enough energy to fend off a cheeky breakaway from Danny Pate (Slipstream) and
SF News Cycling: Stage 6 Belongs to CSC Levi Leipheimer successfully defended his gold leader's jersey yesterday in Stage 6 of the 2007 Amgen Tour of California (TOC), but it was Team CSC that commanded everybody's attention. Refusing to concede a
SF News Cycling: Stage 5 Separates the Field It's one thing to sit in a team's slipstream or ride the momentum of the peloton, but the truest measure of a cyclist is how he (or she) performs in an individual time
SF News Cycling: Stage 4 Drags Down the Pace Snoo-zer. Aside from the final five seconds of the race, the most exciting part of Thursday's Stage 4 in the 2007 Amgen Tour of California was the scenery. Relatively undistinguished topography and the
SF News Cycling: Elevation Profile like an EKG in Stage 3 It was poetry in motion out there in Stage 3 of the Amgen Tour of California, like a ragged stream of consciousness. Hills, . . . hills-hills mark the stage most crucial to date, elevation profile
SF News Cycling: Stage 2 Delivers Capitol Thrills Let's face it, in the peloton of American spectator sports, cycling got cracked off the back on the first climb out of town and is just now working its way back into the
SF News Cycling: Stage 1 Ends with a Walk-off Homer Stage 1 of the Amgen Tour of California (TOC) started out in the brilliant sunshine of Sausalito but ended 156.2 kilometers (km) later under a cloud of controversy in downtown Santa Rosa.
SF News Cycling: The Prologue Sets the Stage Clip in sports fans, between the weather and the Amgen Tour of California (TOC), it's going to be a great weekend for cycling in the Bay Area. Whether you're tackling Mt.Tam on
Arts & Entertainment Cycling: Papa! Papa! The Italians, They are Coming! That's right Cutters, the Italians are coming, along with the French, the Spaniards, the Americans, the Germans, the Dutch-- yeah, even the Dutch. They're all going to be in the City this weekend
Arts & Entertainment Cold Climbin' it Cali' Style was the Prologue of the inaugural 2006 Amgen Tour of California, a 1.9-mile individual time trial from Pier 1 to Coit Tower. The morning air was crisp and the streets glistened with
