Ironstring Communications: Writing and Photography

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Argyle Armada, our book on a year with the Garmin pro cycling team, is now available!

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Photos: Image Search • Portfolio • Photo a Day • Cycling • Surfing • Special Gallery: Bird's-Eye View on Pro Cycling

Words: In VeloNews: Can Lance Armstrong Save Pro Cycling? • Historians Christopher Thompson on 100 years of the Tour de France and John Hoberman on Doping • Truth and Reconciliation for Pro Cycling • Does Pro Cycling Need a Marvin Miller? • Marvin Miller interview • Cycling head injuries • Tour of Flanders with the US National Team • Gold Medalist Kristin Armstrong • UCI President Pat McQuaid • Exergy women train in Mecca • A Day in the San Diego Wind Tunnel • Coryn Rive ra profile • Ch ris Horner World Bicycle Relief • Ina Teutenberg • Garmin service course • Raleigh Boys Reunion • In 2009 an unknown named Evelyn Stevens • Party on Palomar • A Day in the Garm in Car

More publications: Articles on Garmin-Cevélo's Tour de France soigneurs, Ramunas Navardauskas, mobile chefs, Eric Van Lanker, Peter Stetina, Emma Pooley, wrenching at the Spring Classics, their preseason training camp, the Tour of Flanders and more.

From the past: 1993 VeloNews article on bike touring for racing fitness—still applies! Remember the Vandedrome? Here's a 1995 piece we wrote on the track built by the father of Garmin-Barracuda rider Christian Vande V elde.

In Ride Cycling Review: The Business of Pro Cycling, Chinese National Champ Gang Xu, The State of US Cycling, Armstrong's Dark Legacy, Ghent's Eddy Merckx Velodrome, Vuelta a España, USA Pro Challenge, San Diego Velodrome, Chris "Macca" McCormack, Rory Sutherland, San Diego cycling culture, Fly V Australia , Chris Horner profile, Girona's Hotel Historic, Speedplay history, Dave Zabriskie profile, the business of pro cycling sponsorship, Spanish nationalism and bike racing.

Argyle Armada book Reviews: Red Kite Prayer, Bostonia, Pez Cycling News, Cyclismas, Washingmachinepost Watch Mark Johnson discuss writing and shooting the book at VeloNews.com plus author interviews on KUSI TV, NBC TV, Cyclismas and SoCalCycling.

Argyle Armada blog, Facebook page, and @argylearmada Twitter feed.

Previously in Competitor:

Read our pieces on California's Junior Lifeguards, San Diego's Swamis Cycling Club, the Slipstream pro cycling team, and Jittery Joe's pro cyclist Neil Shirley • Our article on San Diego's swimming scen e and San Diego sea life in Del Mar Scene magazine. Check out Dave Zabriskie's DZ Nuts in a shop near you. We did the web site and product photography.
Read our five tips for better cycling photos.We shot the studio and concert photography for Celino Romero's The Art of Spanish Guitar, written by one of the world's finest classical guitarists.

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