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VeloPress Book
Graham Watson's Tour de France Travel Guide

The Complete Insider's Guide to the Tour!
by Graham Watson
Each July hundreds of thousands of fans head to France to watch its great annual bike race. But unless they’ve planned carefully, they’ll arrive to find full hotels, blocked routes, overpriced food, chaotic roads, and endless frustration as they try to get close to the race they’ve come to see.
Graham Watson’s Tour de France Travel Guide provides the ultimate insider’s access from one of the Tour’s most experienced old hands. In his 31 years of following and photographing the race, Watson has mastered the Tour’s daily challenges—where to eat, where to sleep, how to get around, how to see and photograph the race, and most of all, how to enjoy the greatest show on two wheels.
Now Graham shares it all in his beautifully illustrated guidebook. Featuring hundreds of Graham’s award-winning photographs along with full-color maps, travel tips, checklists, and travel resources, this book presents a fresh and unique strategy for getting around the Tour’s many daily obstacles to find a front-row seat for all the action.
Presented in a durable Flexibound binding, Graham’s guide also includes a clever menu decoder for quick reference when the waiter is tapping his pad, tips on how to meet the riders, a glossary of French cycling terms, historical perspective on each region of France visited by the Tour, and a special chapter on how to photograph the Tour like a pro. For the Tour’s legion of fans, Graham Watson’s Tour de France Travel Guide contains everything they need to watch, follow, and enjoy the Tour de France in style. Paperback with color photos, maps, charts, and tables throughout. 5 5/8" x 7 7/8"

De-feet TDF Classico Wool Socks

The Classico has a unique retro style design. Made with Merino wool, it has several unique features that separate it from others. Wool is a staple of the DeFeet line. They source the highest grade wools on the planet. Combined with DeFeet construction, the result is the finest wool sock that you can buy. The DeFeet wool line is continually innovating. Wool has attributes that can't be found in other fibers. DeFeet wool socks stay cooler in the heat because of the construction of the mesh. They stay warmer when they are wet and in cooler temperatures because of the amazing thermal properties of wool.

Tour de France Cycling Cap

Wear this one under your helmet or off the bike. It features cool wicking material and an internal sweatband.

2011 Tour de France DVD

Sometimes, just sometimes, in the biggest bike race on earth the script gets ripped up from the word go. When was the last time a Tour de France favorite loped out of the pack on an Alpine stage with 62 kilometres to go ? to win? Or that on the first day, the outstanding favorite lost nearly two minutes? This was the Tour 2011, a race where Andy Schleck singlehandedly rolled back the years with a spectacular long-distance mountain breakaway - and where three-times defending champion Alberto Contador was in serious trouble from day one. The Tour 2011: where an avalanche of horrific crashes blighted the first two weeks; where US team Garmin took their first ever Tour victory, and then could not stop winning; where France discovered its most courageous cycling hero since Laurent Fignon; and where America's Tyler Farrar netted the biggest victory of his life - for his best friend. The Tour 2011: a race where for three spellbinding weeks, each and every stage was steeped in uncertainty and saw favorites hopes raised and dashed and raised again. The Tour 2011: our only regret is that it couldn't have been longer.

Spring Classics

VeloPress Book
The Spring Classics Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races

Philippe Bouvet, Phillipe Brunel, Pierre Callewaert, Jean-Luc Gatellier, and Serge Laget
Clattering through agrarian hamlets on roughly paved routes carved from the hills more than a century ago, the spring classics test cycling’s toughest riders with the worst conditions imaginable—sucking mud, choking dust, leg-numbing sleet, and Europe’s narrowest, most bone-grinding roads.
These one-day races evoke spectacular superhuman efforts as riders devote body and soul to earn a place in cycling’s most glorious and meaningful history.
The Spring Classics delves deeply into the rich stories of these great events with insightful text from L’Équipe’s top writers and hundreds of rare and newly restored photographs. With an encyclopedic embrace, The Spring Classics also celebrates the essential one-day races that round out the cycling year.

2011 Paris Roubaix DVD
Two Disc Set!

2011 Paris Roubaix No-one expected his triumph. Not even the winner. Paris-Roubaix, the Queen of the Classics, lived through an authentic people?s revolution in 2011 as giant sized team worker Johan Van Summeren left the favorites behind in a cloud of dust and the race?s fearsome cobbles. Where exactly were the opposition, like Belgian champion Tom Boonen? Crashed, punctured - and crashed again. Double Roubaix winner Fabian Cancellara? Outwitted. World Champion Thor Hushovd? Like the rest of the field, out powered, and outclassed. By a total outsider. All this, on a day when the odds of success could never have slimmer for the victor. On a day when low cunning and high gambles conspired successfully in the most arduous, life-and-limb threatening event on the calendar. On a day when one of the most fascinating Classics of the season gave fans worldwide a race - and race result - to talk about for a decade. Then when Johan Van Summeren raised his cobblestone trophy high in Roubaix velodrome, it was a victory for cycling?s working class dreamers everywhere. Commentary by Phil Liggett & Paul Sherwen. Approx. 240 min

Documentary

Chasing Legends

There is no greater sporting event in all of cycling than the Tour de France. Chasing Legends touches on the rich history, passion and true grit of The Tour as seen through the eyes of Team HTC Columbia along with commentary from Phil Liggett, Paul Sherwen, Eddy Merckx, Lance Armstrong and some of the sports most prolific heros. With a stunning array of HD cameras, poignant and touching interviews, "Chasing Legends" highlights the greatest heroes in professional cycling with a dramatic show of teamwork and panache from Team HTC-Columbia through the 2009 Tour de France. The film takes viewers on an absolutely epic ride into the race action. Using a multitude of high tech, high definition cameras mounted on bikes, motorcycles, helicopters and team cars. It also includes historical race footage and an artistic travelogue of the European countryside villages.

Race Across the Sky DVD

The story of the 2009 Leadville Trail 100 Mountain Bike Race will inspire you to 'Dig Deep'. At 10,000+ feet, against the misty backdrop of a former mining town, Leadville, Colorado, 1228 cyclists start the grueling 100 mile race. This epic mountain bike race was captured with 10 HD cameras throughout the course including a helicopter and an off-road motocam. Racers include seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, six-time defending champion Dave Wiens and three-time World 24 hr Champion Rebecca Rusch. It's not only about getting up close and personal with the top racers but about all the racers and their inspirational stories. You'll laugh, you'll cry and if you don't get on a bike you'll do something amazing after watching this film!
Main Feature: 73 minutes
Special Feature: Panel Discussion

A Ride with George Hincapie DVD

Reministant of My Dinner With Andre, but it takes place on a training ride to Caesar's Head, South
Carolina. Spanning his early years as a junior to the disappointment of 2009 Roubaix, this unadorned everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-the-guy portrait puts a microscope on the silent man of cycling, George Hincapie. Ride along with George as he shares his joys and inspirations, his fears and frustrations, his anger (or lack thereof), his hopes and dreams, his strengths and weaknesses, and his plans for the future as he gives us a unique peak into his private world. A Ride with George Hincapie is a feature-length film that provides an unprecedented look at the man behind the athlete.
A Ride with George Hincapie was lensed by Sundance Award winning director, Chusy Jardine.
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The Original Donut Ride DVD

It’s just a training ride, but it’s been going since 1974. On any given Saturday and Sunday cycling enthusiast from racing pros to weekend warriors of all ages push pedals on The Donut ride. Featuring interviews with Mike Barry, Barry Hastings, Roger Keiley and many others from the rides past and present.

Training

RealRides Presents Race Day DVD

Using bike mounted cameras, veteran pro and coach Robbie Ventura dishes out instruction and motivation while throwing down 500+ watts with his team of elite coaches. From warm-up to cool-down, a unique dashboard displays his heart rate, power, cadence, speed and perceived exertion at all points.
So whether you want to work on race tactics and intensity, build leg speed and strength, develop your sprint and VO2 max, or increase your threshold power, these DVD's will get you there and keep you motivated along the way.
Exciting and Realistic Indoo Training
High Intensity Criterium Racing Simulation
•Innovative dashboard with intensity and power
•Ability to program custom training sessions
•More than 30 minutes of bonus video
•Full control of multiple soundtracks

RealRides Presents Power DVD

Exciting and Realistic Indoor Training
A structured 8-week program to build real endurance and power. Just like Race Day, Power takes you to the velodrome, the road and inside Vision Quest's facility with bike-mounted cameras accompanying Robbie Ventura and his elite coaching staff.
There's Nothing Like the Real Thing
Progressive Training Regiment to Increased Power and Endurance
75 minutes of bike-mounted POV video
You have the ability to create custom sessions
Built around proven VisionQuest principles

RealRides Presents Speed DVD

8 Weeks to Explosive Power and Acceleration
•Progressive 8-week training regiment
•Includes a full Benchmark Threshold Test
•Music On/Off lets you play your tunes or ours
•Ability to create custom training sessions
•Based on proven VisionQuest training principles

RealRides Presents Force DVD

8 Weeks to Better Time Trialing and Climbing
•Progressive 8-week training regimen
•Includes a full Benchmark Threshold Test
•Music On/Off lets you play your tunes or ours
•Ability to create custom training sessions
•Based on proven VisionQuest training principles

Hawaii Rides
Boxed Set of 3 DVDs

Maui Roller
This DVD is a combination of three separate sections of one road – the Hana Highway. If you like to ride on rolling hills, you’ve just found heaven. While there are some longer climbs here, by in large there are plenty of opportunities for recovery and speed. Because of the variability of rolling terrain, this DVD lends itself to multiple approaches in coaching objectives, and each coach has done just that; chosen a different objective. Enjoy one coach’s approach on Monday, and come back Tuesday for a completely different experience on the same roads.
There is also a bonus 30-minute Yoga for Cyclists workout on this DVD!
Oceanside Ride
This DVD is sneaky hard. Yes, it is a lot of flat riding along the oceans, but no, it is anything but a cakewalk if you choose to ride a steady state at a high pace. However, it is true that this DVD offers the greatest range for abilities, since you can do it at a recovery level steady state, or at a time trial steady state – you choose, and our three coaches will help you along the way.
There is also a bonus 30-minute Pilates for Cyclists workout on this DVD!
StrenDurance Hawaii
This DVD combines the elements of a strength ride (one that puts the emphasis on climbing and leg strength), and an endurance ride (one that puts more emphasis on heart rate training and consistency). Each section has a unique flavor, yet each one seamlessly merges into one complete kickin' workout.
There is also a bonus 30-minute Strength Training for Cyclists workout on this DVD!

The Pittsburgh Dirty Dozen
2009 Race DVD

The Pittsburgh Dirty Dozen 2009 Race was concluded on 11-28-09. Global Ride Productions used 4 High Def cameras to shoot the race through all 13 “official” hills, and most of the other hills in between. This DVD is a Livestrong Grass Roots fund raising project. Proceeds go directly to Livestrong account #248779312

This DVD is a bit different than the pure "virtual cycling" rides that Global Ride is known for, but it still has the distinct purpose of training cyclists, and being conducive for indoor cycling or Spinning® classes as well as the individual training at home.

Carmichael Training Systems DVD
Progressive Power Series: 16 Hours of Training!

This is your chance to take part in the immensely-popular and highly-effective training class led by
Chris Carmichael and a team of CTS Coaches twice a week for eight weeks. Research shows that, on average, athletes who complete this series of classes experience a 12% increase in their maximum sustainable power (Klika, et al., 2007), and now we’re making the whole series available to athletes everywhere.
The whole program begins with the CTS Field Test, an essential workout that allows athletes to
accurately determine personal power and/or heart rate ranges you’ll use in each subsequent workout. The 15 one-hour workouts that follow form a comprehensive indoor training program based on CTS’s proven coaching philosophy. Looking for your winter indoor training program? Here it is, all in one package.
For your convenience, you can purchase the entire series at once, or you can purchase each disc of the 5-disc series separately. One CTS Field Test disc is included with each order.
Featuring Chris Carmichael and his team of CTS Coaches, these workouts will keep you motivated and training when you can't get outside.
Nothing makes you faster on a bike then increasing your overall power. Carmicheal Training Systems Progressive Power DVD's are designed to do just that-use them independently, or combine all 5 DVD's to get 16 POWER workouts that studies show can increase your overall sustainable power by 12%.

Carmichael Training Systems DVD
Climbing Strength

In this 60-minute workout, CTS Premier Coach Nick White takes you through a proven series of intervals designed to increase your sustainable climbing strength. Also included on the disc: a detailed description of the CTS Field Test, a special segment on sports nutrition, and a behind-the-scenes bonus feature about Lance Armstrong’s 2008-2009 comeback.
“Climbing strength is not just about riding well on the first ascent of the day, but rather being
powerful on third, fourth, fifth climb, and any beyond that.”
– Chris Carmichael, Founder of Carmichael Training Systems

Carmichael Training Systems DVD
Climbing Power

CTS Pro Coach Lindsay Hyman delivers a high-intensity workout that will develop your ability to surge, attack, and handle pace changes on climbs. Also included on the disc: a detailed description of the CTS Field Test, a special segment on sports nutrition, and a behind-the-scenes bonus feature about Lance Armstrong’s 2008-2009 comeback.“There’s no such thing as a steady climb, and to be a complete climber
you need power for surges, attacks, and changes in pitch.” Chris Carmichael, Founder of Carmichael Training Systems

Carmichael Training Systems DVD
Climbing Speed

In this 60-minute session, CTS Premier Coach Jim Lehman delivers a high-intensity workout that will develop the quickness and “agility” needed to accelerate and hold high speeds on climbs. Also included on the disc: a detailed description of the CTS Field Test, a special segment on sports nutrition, and a behind-the-scenes bonus feature about Lance Armstrong’s 2008-2009 comeback. “To be a great climber, you need more than just strength and power. You also need speed and quickness to get to the summit first.” Chris Carmichael, Founder of Carmichael Training Systems

Carmichael Training Systems DVD
Core Strength for Cyclists and Triathletes

Join CTS Premier Coach Jason Koop, 7x World Adventure Race Champion Ian Adamson, and Fitness Expert and TV Personality, Leah Garcia for a core conditioning workout that targets all the core muscle groups. CTS Core Strength for Cyclists and Triathletes keeps you moving in a dynamic fashion to get the most out of every exercise.
Designed specifically for Cyclist and Triathletes, these workouts will provide you with:
Greater efficiency of movement
Improved body control and balance
Increased power output
Reduced risk of injury
Improved balance and stability
Improved athletic performance!

VeloPress Book
Training and Racing with a Power Meter, 2nd Ed.

Hunter Allen and Andrew Coggan, Ph.D.

In only a few short years, power meters have become an essential training tool for amateur and pro cyclists and triathletes. The first edition of Training and Racing with a Power Meter was largely responsible for popularizing what was once an arcane technology understood by only a few elite coaches and trainers. Now the updated second edition provides significant updates on technology, software tools, training protocols, and workouts, making the benefits of power-based training available to everyone. The new edition provides specific information for triathletes including a complete triathlon training plan. Other significant updates include reviews of the latest hardware, refinements and additions to training plans, additional case studies, more on monitoring fitness and chronic training loads, and new power graphics, charts and tables throughout. Training and Racing with a Power Meter, 2nd Ed., will continue to be the definitive guide to the most important training tool ever developed for endurance sports.Paperback 2-color interior with charts and tables throughout
7 3/8" x 9 1/4", 400 pages.

Spinervals Fitness Series

Troy Jacobson Spinervals
Competition Series DVD

Get more out of your indoor bicycling with these intense workouts on DVD.