HOWTO: Ride your bike in the Tour de France

Google Tech Talks
May, 14 2008

ABSTRACT

Google's own Dylan Casey will be speaking about his experience riding the TdF with the Lance Armstrong and the US Postal Team.

Check out http://www.dylancasey.com/ for more info about Dylan.

Speaker: Dylan Casey
Dylan Casey maybe best known for his prowess on the road these days, but he's also quite accomplished on the track. In 1998, Casey became just the third U.S. cyclist in history to win national championships in both disciplines, winning the time trial event in the National Road Championships and the pursuit event at the National Track Championships.

In 2000, Casey became an Olympian when he competed in the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. The year before he won a gold medal in individual pursuit at the 1999 Pan Am Games.

Casey has stage wins from the 1997 Tour of Ohio and 89er Stage Race and the 1998 Tour of Tucson, which he also won overall. In 1999, Casey came in third overall at the Tour of Holland, sixth at the First Union Invitational and competed at the Tour of Spain. Stage wins in 2000 included one each at the Redlands Classic, the Tour of Luxembourg, and the Four Days of Dunkerque.

Born in raised in California, Casey graduated from Las Lamas High School in Walnut Creek, CA in 1989. He then went on graduate from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a B.S. in communications information systems in 1994.

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[elephantini]

An excellent presentation. Hugely enjoyable and informative. Even though I immersed myself in cycling for years this was indeed a breath of fresh air. Thank you.

[ZQPYU]

Excellent contribution here. Thank you...

[OTBPhoto]

I always wondered if there was a doping problem in cycling, thanks for clearing that up Dylan. I didn't realize the press made it all up, guess our Jr's have nothing to worry about after all.

[mml8w88]

Pretty awesome interview - thanks for sharing!

[kenmarr0w]

thumbs up if you watched the whole thing

[c15688]

Very interesting. Thank you.



[Alneraths]

When I first looked at noticed how long it was..... I changed the page! But I came back and watched it and must say.... I LOVED IT. Pretty sure you just made late to work

[YEfrem88]

Very enjoyable video!

[redalf]

Wow. Cyclist who works at Google. Cool.

[04LightningFan]

Dylan, this is a great presentation. I learn a few things. I would like to know more about your career.

at 0:45:31 I though I heard you say "tourmalet." I don't think the tour organizers could be that cruel, so either I am wrong or you misspoke. Maybe you meant to say the telegraph. I looked up the climbs for stage 10 of the 2001 TdF and they were the Madeleine, the Glandon, and the famous Alpe d'Huez..

[ArmenFirman01]

@Sunray28 Soigner is the verb, soigneur stands for a trainer in cycling where it involves massaging. It could mean a physical therapist.

The guy is right.

[jaydpee7]

Excellent. It was very good of Google to support this presentation. Listening to Dylan Casey speak of what it was like to be part of a very big sports 'machine' was quite interesting.

Many have raced, but very few have raced at that level.

PS - ignore the detractors, they've a lot of spare time figuring out all the details of everything, after actions have already occurred.

Thnx, JP