I can't pass this one up, a story that involves cycling and Google Earth.

The Tour of California starts on the 18th and some cool technology is coming into play. A handful of riders will be carrying GPS units on their bikes that will transmit location data which will end up used, among other things, on a Google Maps mashup and a Google Earth feed.

I was involved in the first live Google Earth feed for a sporting event while working on the Sydney to Hobart site, so it's fun to watch other events do similar things (albeit with a much bigger budget). Last year this event had a really nice Google Maps integration to track the current stage, but it was manually entered data. This year they have much cooler toys to send realtime data over the mobile phone network.

More details in this Wired article.