Tour Tracker Pro Cycling - Live race coverage & insights

WORLD'S #1 RATED PRO CYCLING APP

This award-winning application provides live updates for major events such as the Tour de France, Vuelta a España, Giro d’Italia, and 30 other notable classics and World Tour races. Events include Strade Bianche, Paris-Nice, Milan-San Remo, Gent-Wevelgem, Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix, Amstel Gold, Flèche Wallon, Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Critérium du Dauphiné, Tour de Suisse, Tour of Lombardy, and the World Championships.

Tour Tracker boasts over 100 unique features, including...

• Live multimedia commentary from acclaimed reporters.

• GPS tracking on dynamic, animated course maps and profiles.

• Real-time results for intermediate climbs, sprints, and time trials.

• Forecasted arrival times for climbs, sprints, and finishes.

• Weather updates directly from the route.

• Comprehensive results and standings for every climb, sprint, stage, and jersey competition.

• Unique rankings of riders and teams based on time spent in the lead.

• In-depth written recaps and video highlights when available.

• Integrated Fantasy Cycling competitions featuring private, national, and worldwide leagues.

• A Time Machine feature that allows users to pause, rewind, and fast-forward during live coverage to match with race videos.

• Alerts for significant race events and updates—without any spoilers!

• Curated news feeds featuring top cycling articles and blog posts from across the web.

The Tour Tracker team consists of enthusiastic cycling supporters dedicated to delivering exceptional coverage year-round without advertisements. We rely on the backing of the cycling community, and we invite you to consider becoming a PRO or TEAM member after trying our app for a few days!

** Please be aware that the app does not provide live video of races; however, the Time Machine feature can synchronize with any televised or online video feed.

** Our race schedule may vary each year depending on the overlap of events and reporter availability.

Women's Cycling Coverage, Part 2

Allan Padgett

Jan 17

Clara and I wanted to share some information about the state of women's coverage in our Tour Tracker Pro Cycling app. This is a topic we discuss every season, and a topic our users ask about often.

To start, let us say that we do care about women's cycling and have provided coverage of the women's peloton in some form for the last 10 years. That has included providing free custom apps for women's races, providing an app for Tour de France Femmes in select countries, and when possible including coverage within our main app. We have both have close friends who race, and Clara is past US national champion cyclist.

The challenge, however, is resources. Tour Tracker is just Clara and me. I do the development. She covers the races. And while I can do my part in adding more races to the calendar, ultimately Clara is just one reporter working crazy hours to cover the races we can. And even if she could duplicate herself, as mentioned in a previous blog entry, getting the detailed data our apps need has proven impossible for most women's races.

For 2025 we thought we had an ideal solution and have been working on it since the middle of last year. Specifically, we agreed to build a dedicated women's app for a group that intended to cover the entire women's season. We were doing this at no charge, and the app was looking great. But in December they backed out and we were left with a beautiful app with no data.

So for this year we are going back to what we have been doing for the past 4 years and covering the races that provide good data and for which Clara is available. We know this isn't the answer people want to hear, but it is the best we can achieve with our very limited resources. We will continue to look for partners who want to use our platform, however.

Thanks for reading this and thanks for your support.

Allan & Clara

Coffee For Clara

Allan Padgett

Aug 7, 2023

Anyone who has used Tour Tracker Grand Tours knows Clara Beard. She has been doing the live commentary for the app since the beginning. Clara's insightful play-by-play of every race we cover is the heart and soul of the app.

Unfortunately as we have expanded from 3 races to over 20, the cost of the purchasing and distributing the data the app needs (routes, rosters, GPS, results) has gone up correspondingly, while the number of paying customers has not. So Clara is working 7x harder without the app bringing us any more money at the end of the day...

So as of today, I have added a feature to the apps called Coffee For Clara. It is a chance for users to voluntarily send Clara a small thank you as often as they like. 100% of the profits of this will go to Clara for coffee, beer or however she wants to hydrate herself. Or a taco.

Of course most users understandably feel they already pay for the app, and please don't feel obligated to do anything. But if you love what she does and think that we charge a reasonable amount for what the app does, send her a coffee occasionally!

As an added incentive to show Clara some love, I'm going to raffle off some of my - unused - jerseys I have collected from races I have worked with. To enter, email a screenshot of your phone showing the "purchase complete" message to info@thetourtracker.com!

Thanks, Allan

BTW, Clara is on Twitter here https://twitter.com/Ferncoyote

And here is a photo of your favorite cycling reporter on the job!