We were proud to be part of the content crew covering the inaugural USA Pro Cycling Challenge.  Our responsibilities included producing daily pre and post race video interviews and features for VeloNews.com.  Personal favorite places included Crested Butte, which looked like a Tour de France finish town, Steamboat Springs and the finish in Aspen.  Here are some of the videos that were produced and broadcast on VeloNews.com during the race:

2011 marked the 6th year we have produced daily online video content at the Tour de France.  This year was a little different in that we only attended the 1st half of the race with the VeloNews crew. After the start of stage 11 we headed to the train station on route to Paris and flew back to Colorado the following day.  All told it was a very exciting first 10 stages of racing.  Much of the content we shot and edited can be found on the VeloNews site  – http://velonews.competitor.com/category/tour-de-france  Here are a few videos from our daily list, which included a daily diary with HTC – Highroad rider Bernie Eisel and a post race wrap with Ben and Andy:

Stage 1 Highlights

Stage 2 Highlights

Stage 3 Highlights

Stage 4 Highlights

Stage 5 Highlights

You can find the individual rider interviews posted on the UCH Pro Cycling YouTube page – http://www.youtube.com/user/UHCprocycling#g/u

Here is a collection of shots from 2-days of training is Tucson.  Elements of this video were used in a TV commercial that was broadcast during the 2010 Amgen Tour of California.

The 2009 Colorado State Cyclocross Championships were held on December 5th at the North Area Athletic Complex in Arvada, CO.  This is the third year in a row OnSight Media has covered the event for televised broadcast.  This year we raised the bar by premiering the show on Altitude with a 6-show run.  The program will then move to Comcast CET after January 13th for a minimum of 20 additional airings.

The Altitude schedule is as follows:

Thursday, December 17, 2009 7:00 PM
Sunday, December 20, 2009 1:00 PM
Friday, December 25, 2009 4:00 PM
Sunday, December 27, 2009 2:30 AM
Monday, December 28, 2009 1:00 PM
Thursday, December 31, 2009 2:30 PM
Saturday, January 02, 2010 2:30 PM
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 4:30 PM

A big shout out to our sponsors who made this production possible.  Please support these folks when you can.
Old Chicago
Boulder Running Company
Retul
Rotor
Boulder Cycle Sport
Centurion Cycling

Here is the trailer

Fans on the Col du Petit Saint-Bernard climb in Italy

2009 seemed to be the tipping point in online video coverage of the Tour de France. Looking at the following link shows the vast number of outlets for live (over 30 live video feeds) and archived video featuring everything and anything Tour related.  http://www.steephill.tv/tour-de-france

VeloNews TV raised the bar for the 2009 edition and produced a daily show highlighting each stage.  VeloCenter, which was hatched in February at the Tour of California, had grown from a small team on location to a two pronged approach with field production at the race and a desk show, editing and publishing being handled in Denver, CO.  Futuristic Films provided an additional location camera crew and handled all of the post production in their Denver studio.  The workflow hinged on being able to deliver video assets via FTP from France to Denver in a timely manner.

Post race production and editing

The first week was all about learning and perfecting the workflow while managing the constant logistical mess that is the Tour.  Our motto became “nothing is guaranteed until your head hits the pillow”.  By the second week everything was coming together and VeloCenter blossomed with its tight format of race highlights, rider interviews, analysis and in show features.  Here is an examples of a show feature that was produced by the team on location during the race:

One of the most impressive accomplishments was John Wilcockson’s award for covering 40 Tours de France.  The 2009 event was actually his 41st Tour, but organizers presented him his 40-year award this year before the start of stage 10 in Limoges:

By the end of the race the video team had produced 24 episodes of VeloCenter.  The following episode from stage 17 represents the capability and effort of everyone involved in the project:

Two days of UCI cyclocross racing came to Boulder on November 1st and 2nd.  Strong fields for both men and women elite races showed up at the Boulder reservoir on Saturday and again at Harlow Platts park on Sunday.

We captured the action via video for VeloNewsTV, which included race highlights of both men’s and women’s elite races both days and interviews with a variety of pro riders.   Congratulations to DBC Events for putting on a great set of events.

click here to view videos from both days of the 2008 Boulder Cup

Another Tour de France has come and gone and for the third straight year we have accompanied the VeloNews team and captured the behind the scenes action as it unfolded.  This year’s adventure began with a preview of the Garmin-Chipotle team at their training camp in Girona, Spain.  Memorable videos from this part of the trip were the re-branding of the team cars & buses – http://www.velonews.tv/?Art_ID=2177 – and a front row seat for a Garmin-Chipotle team training ride including Team Columbia riders George Hincapie & Michael Barry – http://www.velonews.tv/?Art_ID=2174.

Once the Tour kicked off in Brest, France, we were in full throttle production mode for the duration of the race.  VeloNews setup daily rider diaries with Garmin-Chipotle’s Magnus Backstedt and Team Columbia’s Geaorge Hincapie prior to the start of the Tour.  Magnus did not make the time cut on stage 7 and left the Tour the following day.  New Zealand national champion Julian Dean filled in for Magnus for the rest of the race.

George Hincapie syndicated the VeloNews video player on his own website, providing his fans with daily video content from the Tour de France – http://www.georgehincapie.com/video.aspx

Rocky Mountain Sports magazine also syndicated the VeloNews TV video player on the main page of their website – http://www.rockymountainsports.com

Here is a list of some of our favorite videos from this year’s edition of the Tour de France:
Stage 9: Post race – making sense of the chaos

Stage 10: Post race report from the Hautacam

Peloton Poll: Astana’s exclusion from the 2008 Tour

Stage 9: Pre-race with Caisse d’Epargne’s Alejandro Valverde

LeMond at the Tour, part 1: Solutions for the future of pro cycling

Stage 6: Stage winner – Sauner Duval-Scott’s Ricardo Ricco

Finish line press scrum with Garmin-Chipotle’s David Millar & Silence-Lotto’s Cadel Evans

…and of course the outtakes video:

We completed a 4-part series on gluing tubular tires to a rim for VeloNewsTV. Here are the individual links:

Part 1: Tools, preparation and removing the old tire.

Part 2: Cleaning the rim and stretching the tire.

Part 3: Prepping the tire and applying the glue.

Part 4: Mounting the tire to the rim.