VOLUME 12 NUMBER 5 FFRREEEE JULY 2004 cyclincyclingg utahutah IT’SIT’S TOURTOUR TIME!TIME! •Zabriskie Takes National Title - p. 24 •Park City Cycling Festival Preview - p. 6 •Calendar of Events - p. 16 •Beaver Creek Trail - p. 3 •Lost Art of Wheelbuilding - p. 7 •Pedal Powwwder - p. 14 •Results - p. 18 •High Uintas Classic - p. 13 TOURINGTOURING •State MTB Championships - p. 12 RACINGRACING •Tour de France Preview - p. 2 DIRT •Monument Valley Tour - p. 23 DIRT •An MPO Primer - p. 4 PAVEMENTPAVEMENT •Packing for a Tour - p. 9 ADVOCACYADVOCACY •Summer Games - p. 5 MOUNTAIN WEST CYCLING JOURNAL MOUNTAIN WEST CYCLING JOURNAL •Big Cottonwood HC - p. 9 2 cycling utah.com JULY 2004 SPEAKING OF SPOKES Levi Leipheimer to him. He won a mountaintop stage of the tough Route du Sud stage Lead Rabobank in race at Plateau de Beille en route to Tour winning the race overall. He then TheThe TTourour dede FFrancerance 20042004 subsequently reinforced his position By Tom McCall with the superb performance in his first Tour de France to finish eighth TheThe FFavorites...avorites... Levi Leipheimer (Rabobank) has overall. had a hard time over the last year. After this result, he had great To succeed in pro bike racing in the By Dave Ward By Tom McCall miles) in duration, and it will rep- self-belief, and with the agreement resent around 40 minutes of sheer European arena, you need talent, of Rabobank he prepared specially Publisher strength of character, and an ele- This year, the Tour de France hell, even for the top men. The for the 2003 Tour. He maintained a ment of luck. Leipheimer has talent I am psyched. My wife, will commence in Liege in the major flat time trial of 55kms gradual build-up in the spring with and strength of character in abun- Karma, and I had such a great Walloon (French-speaking) area of (about 35 miles) is very late in the the aim of achieving peak fitness for dance, but he has been deserted by time at the Tour de France last Belgium on July 3rd, and it will race this year on the penultimate the Tour. He was twelfth in the pro- wind its way anti-clockwise round day. lady luck. logue Time Trial, underlining his year that we are going again. It is difficult to try to read the Leipheimer burst into the scene This year, we will following the France, through Normandy and good form, but it all came to a halt Brittany, passing through the minds of the organizers in their in 2001. Having spent some time at the end of the first road stage . race through the Alps and in to semi-mountainous area called the quest for an “open” Tour this year, with the United States based Saturn Paris. We are traveling once He was unfortunate to run into a Massif Central before reaching the but I have put my interpretation team, he moved to the US Postal mass pile up in the final 500 meters again with the English company, on it. Throughout the first half of Pyrenees. Only a short time after Service team, and it was during the of the stage, just out of sight round Graham Baxter Sporting Tours. that, it will pass through the Alps the race, there is no major obsta- 2001 Tour of Spain (Vuelta a cle that could open up large time a sharp bend leading into the finish- We signed up for a tour that will on its route back to Paris where it España) that he achieved a sensa- gaps between the major players. ing straight. He hit the ground hard, be staying just under one kilo- finishes on July 25th. tional result. He was there primari- It will be a Tour like no other, Correspondingly, the tough roads and he was unable to continue, hav- meter from the top of L’Alpe ly to work for US Postal’s Roberto ing fractured his hp and his pelvis. d’Huez, and plan on cheering for a number of reasons. Lance in the Massif Central could stimu- Armstrong will be attempting to late some breaks that would shuf- Heras, but Heras was not going Pro bike racing is an unkind Armstrong on to his sixth Tour fle lesser-known riders up the gen- quite well enough to win. business at times, and Leipheimer victory. become the outright record man with six wins. Correspondingly, eral classification, with the teams Leipheimer, however, had been rid- has spent the best part of the last Last year, the ride guide for because of the design of its route, of the top riders keeping close ing so strongly that he was up with year wondering about what might our tour group was Tom it will be the most open Tour in watch on each other. This means the leaders, and in the time trial on have been. However, he was com- McCall. Tom is a seasoned years. The only time trial which that a less-expected rider may be the penultimate date, he produced a peted well in the tough early season “Veteran Leaguer”, as the age- will feature in the first half of the in yellow as the Tour reaches the sensational ride, finishing second by events in the South of France, and, challenged racers in England are race will be the team time trial on just fourteen seconds to Santiago once more, he is looking forward to Continued on page 8 called. I was impressed with stage 4, but the Tour Organizers Botero, who was to go on to win the the Tour de France. Coincidentally, Tom’s understanding of the Tour have brought in a ground breaking World Time Trial Championship. one of the Pyrenean stages of this and familiarity with the racers. new regulation. No team will lose This ride meant that Leipheimer any more than 2 minutes 30 sec- year’s Tour finishes at Plateau de As such, I asked Tom to write leapfrogged over his teammate, and Beille, and he will be thinking of his an exclusive preview to the Tour onds on the day, meaning that Cover Photo: Charlie there will be no big deficits for the he ended up on the podium in third previous triumph there in the Route for cycling utah, and we are climbing teams when they reach Gibson (Racer’s Cycle place overall. du Sud, and wondering if lady luck glad to present that to you. Tom the Pyrenees. Ignoring the moun- Service) on his way to vic- This ride brought him to the will be finally on his side. also graciously wrote a short tain time trial finishing at Alpe tory in the Pro category of attention of the powerful Dutch out- article on one of our local d’Huez, there are only two at the Chris Allaire Utah fit Rabobank, and they offered him -Levi rode for Mi Duole and a contract, as they could see him as favorites, Levi Leipheimer, summit finishes this year - in the Open State Brackman’s in Salt Lake City in the which we have included as well. Pyrenees, back-to-back on stages a potential Tour de France rider. Championships at Solitude early nineties prior to making the Enjoy Tom’s articles, root for 12 and 13, at La Mongie and 2002 was a dream transition year for jump across the pond. 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