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January 2013
January 9, 2013


Photo: our de France champion Greg LeMond.
BrowneEye: Three time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond posted this open letter on his Facebook page.





Photo: Lefevere in the next issue of CN HD.
CyclingNews: Patrick Lefevere’s Omega Pharma-QuickStep team were one of the most successful squads of 2012. This didn’t stop them being caught up in the USADA case at the tail end of the year, which resulted in the sacking of Levi Leipheimer.





Photo: Mega Esmerelda.
InnerRing: What’s a ferry got to do with the Tour de France? Well the Mega Esmerelda will be the headquarters of the Tour de France during the grand départ in Corsica.





Photo: Huang En’s “historic” Tour of Vietnam victory.
CyclingIQ: “Before Huang, it was impossible to find any trace of a Chinese victory in a UCI stage race outside China."





Photo: Iljo Keisse who attacked.
VeloNation: Late charge tactic secures title.






Photo: Luke Durbridge won his second Australian TT title in a row on Wednesday.
VeloNews: Luke Durbridge (Orica-GreenEdge) and Shara Gillow (Orica-AIS) repeated their Australian time trial national championships on Wednesday in Ballarat.





Races & Results.
Jayco Herald Sun Tour - Jan 3-6 (Stages),
Giro d'Italia - May 4-26 (Stages),
Tour of California - May 12-19 (Stages),
Tour de France - June 29-July 21 (Stages),





Photo: The handlebars of road bikes have always been wrapped with some kind of tape.
CyclingTips: Handlebar tape serves as a critical contact point on the bike, and as such, deserves a little extra attention. In this post, I take a look at the range of tapes available, handlebar plugs, some options for customisation, and offer a few tips for wrapping your bars like a pro.





Photo: Paniagua EPO coffee (syringe not included…)
BikeRadar: EPO coffee is handcrafted using a cast iron Probat roaster, by award-winning artisans Extract Coffee Roasters. The 100 percent Arabica goods are said to be ethically sourced and feature a blend of Brazilian Daterra and Costa Rican beans honey-processed to deliver a sweeter and fruitier taste – "sweeter than a solo breakaway on the Ventoux" as Paniagua put it.





VeloNews: In a series of interviews with the U.K.-based Global Cycling Network (GCN), Irish journalist David Walsh, recent winner of the British Journalism Award as the 2012 Journalist of the Year, spoke at length about what has become the defining story of his career — the imposing rise and calamitous fall of Lance Armstrong.





Bicycling: Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Lotto Belisol) has admitted to visiting the doctor at the center of a Belgian doping investigation but insisted that his consultations were for purely medical reasons.







CyclingNews: Katusha and NetApp-Endura miss out, MTN-Qhubeka invited to Milano-Sanremo.





Bicycling: It’s only January, but there’s much to look forward to in the world of cycling over the next few weeks.















Photo: David Walsh says that without an admission, Lance Armstrong doesn't have a future worth having.
VeloNews: In an interview with Global Cycling Network, recorded prior to Tuesday’s news that Lance Armstrong will appear in an Oprah Winfrey interview next week, Irish journalist David Walsh said he thought a tell-all interview might be Armstrong’s only path out of “purgatory.” 





Photo: Colin Lynch.
Cyclismas: Colin is an Irish Paracycling Team member, C2 Class, where he is the current UCI World Champion in the Time Trial and Pursuit and is working towards Rio 2016.





Photo: Bets taken on the words Lance Armstrong will use during TV interview.
CyclingWeekly: British bookmaker Ladbrokes is taking bets on the words and phrases that Lance Armstrong may - or may not - use during his 'tell all' television interview with veteran broadcaster Oprah Winfrey on Thursday, January 17.





Photo: Curses Menchov!.
TwistedSpoke: Joaquin Rodriguez, the UCI number one ranked rider in 2012, was beaten in the Giro d’Italia by dark-horse Ryder Hesjedal of Garmin-Sharp. Rodriguez was then beaten in the Vuelta a Espana by the return of Alberto Contador.





Photo: The two ex-World champs.
PEZ: Boss Patrick Lefevere must be looking forward to this season with Mark Cavendish, Tom Boonen and World TT champion Tony Martin in the team with lots of BIG guns to back them up.





Photo: Cambridge Consultants.
road.cc: Product development company Cambridge Consultants have made what they claim to be the world’s first wireless automatic gear-changing bicycle. It is controlled by smartphone technology.





Photo: Santa Cruz Bicycles factory tour (ChopMTB).
BikeRadar: "We’ve got a tour of the Santa Cruz factory, an epic ride in Greenland and some all-mountain shredding on the slopes of Mount Etna – Europe’s tallest active volcano!"






VeloNation: “It was a clear conflict of interest for USADA. We had no hesitation in rejecting that offer.”






RoadCycling: He's going to have to crawl through a lot of crap before he sees daylight.







VeloNation: BMC Racing Team denies speculation about contract bid.

























Photo: Is Lance about to cry? When Oprah gets done with him...
PodiumCafe: Lance is supposedly going to bare his soul on Oprah next week. Is that the best choice?





Photo: Alessandro Ballan (BMC) signs on for stage 6..
CyclingNews: Alessandro Ballan has traveled from Spain to Italy but will spend a few more days in hospital in Castelfranco Veneto before finally returning home.





Photo: No explanation needed.
Cyclocosm: "In humor, as in all things, there is a point of diminishing return, and we have long-since passed it."





Photo: Pinarello Dogma 65.1 think 2.
Peloton: This is the 2013 Dogma 65.1 Think 2. It’s a mouthful, but as it turns out, an important one. The Dogma 2 was launched in 2011 as a 2012 model, and now they were revamping it only 12 months later.





Photo: HED's new Stinger 5 FR Center Lock wheels are just about spot on for hitting the barriers.
BikeRadar verdict: 4 out of 5 stars. "Fantastic set of disc-ready carbon tubulars for the mud loving crowd."





Photo: FSA Team Issue wheelset.
road.cc: Do-it-all wheelset transforms your ride, but the braking surface lets them down.





Photo: he tire bed is disappointingly deep and narrow considering the cyclocross intentions.
BikeRadar verdict: 3 out of 5 stars. "Light and reasonably snappy but too narrow for cyclocross."






Photo: Lance Armstrong waved goodbye to his 7 Tours de France.
CyclingNews: Lance Armstrong will give his first interview since being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles later this month when he appears on the 'Oprah's Next Chapter' program on her eponymous US cable television network.













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