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Razor's Edge: Shaving Your Legs for Cycling
New York Times Articles
Cycling in America Is One Big Exchange Program – 9/23/2009
Calibrating Tour Dreams for Smaller Glories – 7/21/2009
Pushing the Limit; Blood, Muddy Courses and Air Horns – 11/13/2008
A Fast Day Can Last a Lifetime – 9/29/2008
Pedaling His Way Back to His Passion – 9/12/2008
A Ride Like No Other: Glimpsing China, New and Old – 8/11/2008
Tour de France; In a Time Trial, Drama Occurs When the Clock Stops – 7/26/2008
When the Peloton Doesn't Flow, the Blood Does – 7/22/2008
Big Tour, Little Tour, Everything In Between – 7/15/2008
In the Pursuit of Glory, Far Behind the Leaders – 7/12/2008
Tour de Torture: Who Is Prepared to Suffer the Most? – 7/3/2008
Toronto Star
A glimpse of the Eiffel Tower as the Tour sprints to finish – 7/24/2011
A workshop on wheels: Life as a Tour de France mechanic – 07/24/2011
Saturday’s time trial will be final test for Tour champ – 07/22/2011
Weather can make, or break, a rider’s race – 7/20/2011
Little time to relax on a rest day – 07/19/2011
Behind the scenes of Hesjedal’s 16th stage breakaway – 07/19/2011
Controversial radio use during Tour must be studied – 07/17/2011
Mountain stage of Tour de France turns riders into heroes – 7/15/2011
What a Tour rider puts in his stomach – 7/14/2011
Cycling leads the pack in drug testing. – 7/13/2011
The selfless domestique takes over when the leader crashes. – 7/12/2011
Why the first week of the Tour de France is the most dangerous. 7/8/2011
Team time trial cycling in synch at 60 km/h – 7/4/2011
Pushing the limits in the peloton – 7/4/2011
Training for Tour de France an uphill climb for the lucky few – 6/30/2011
Velonews Diary
Starting Year #13 – 01/18/2011
Bite The Dust Then Reach For The Stars – 8/23/10
A Trail of Pink Around the Boot – 5/26/2010
Highs and Lows- 05/13/10
Cutting the grass in the flowing peloton – 5/6/2010
Using Every Ounce – 3/19/2010
Openers – 02/02/2010
Christmas in Girona – 12/25/2009
An eding looms, along with a new beginning – 9/11/2009
Victory is secondary – 08/26/2009
The time of transition – 08/15/2009
Michael Barry gives an inside view of Monday's brutal Giro stage – 05/26/2009
We will surely fight until the end – 05/12/2009
Waiting in Venice – 05/08/2009
The road to San Remo – 03/24/2009
From Qatar to Cali – 02/26/2009
Together we triumph – 02/10/2009
Wind, Eddy and a victory – 02/05/2009
The Peloton Unplugged – 02/04/2009
Peloton on a plane; Boonen and Cavendish chat on the flight to Qatar – 01/30/2009
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