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February 2012

February 26, 2012

Cavendish Delivers in Kuurne...

Cavendish repeats...

Cavendish kills it...

Mark Cavendish makes sprinting look easy as he takes Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne.
Mark
VeloNation: World champion powers to victory after Team Sky controls a race littered with breakaways.



Greipel left frustrated in Kuurne...

Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne Roundup.
Kenny Van Hummel satisfied with third place
VeloNation: Greipel frustrated with poor positioning in sprint finale, capping rough weekend for Lotto-Belisol.



CyclingNews: Races & Results.
Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne (Results),
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Elite Men (Results),
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Elite Women (Results),
Le Tour de Langkawi (Stages & results),
Women's Tour of New Zealand (Stages & results),
Vuelta a Andalucia (Stages & results),
Rutas de América (Stages & results),
Amgen Tour of California (Stages ),
More...



Bests Borut Bozic (Astana) and Roger Kluge (Project 1t4i)...

Bling Matthews sprints to Clasica de Almeria victory.
Bling Matthews
VeloNation: Young Australian fast man takes Rabobank’s long-awaited first win of 2012.



Eros Capecchi solos to victory...

Capecchi tops Cunego in Lugano.
Eros Capecchi (Liquigas-Cannondale) wins in Lugano
CyclingNews: Italian Eros Capecchi (Liquigas-Cannondale) scored his season's first victory in the GP Citta di Lugano, sneaking away in a chaotic finale to claim the race win over Damiano Cunego (Lampre-ISD) and Enrico Battaglin (Colnago-CSF Inox).



Di Luca starts campaign with Acqua & Sapone.
Danilo Di Luca signs an autograph
CyclingNews: Danilo Di Luca has finally signed on the dotted line with Acqua & Sapone and will get his 2012 campaign underway on Sunday at the GP Lugano in Switzerland.



Training crash for Bontrager-Livestrong.
Connor O'Leary and the Bontrager Livestrong team
CyclingNews: Several riders from the Bontrager-Livestrong development team took an unexpected trip to a California hospital Friday after crashing during a training ride outside of Solvang with team director Axel Merckx and owner Lance Armstrong.



Niko Eeckhout enjoys breakaway day in Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne.
Niko Eeckhout
Belgian veteran ultra-aggressive as usual for Sean Kelly’s team.


 
Sep Vanmarcke outsprints Tom Boonen to take Omloop Het Nieuwsblad.



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Beginners' cycling questions answered
Pre-Ride Safety Check
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How To Be A Good New Rider
‘How to pee’  - for women
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Video: Farrar left behind by Cavendish at Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne.
American Tyler Farrar on the cobbles at Flanders
CyclingNews: The American found himself out of contention after the peloton came through the last corner of the race, and was unable to mount a challenge as Mark Cavendish (Team Sky) went on to win the race.



Guardini claims second consecutive stage victory...

Beats Raymond Kreder (Garmin Barracuda) and Anuar Manan (Champion System)...

Guardini wins again in Parit Sulong.
Jose Rujano (Androni Giocattoli) is looking up, up as high as Genting Highlands on stage six until he makes his move in the tour.
CyclingNews: Andrea Guardini (Farnese Vini-Selle Italia) scorched to his second consecutive stage victory at the Tour de Langkawi in Parit Sulong on Sunday, holding off the challenge of Raymond Kreder (Garmin-Barracuda) and Anuar Manan (Champion System) in the bunch sprint. David Zabriskie (Garmin-Barracuda) retains the overall lead.



Villumsen wins final stage...

Evie Stevens wraps up tight Tour of New Zealand.
Evie Stevens wraps
VeloNation: Day of breakaways sees local former-Danish rider escape alone; time bonus for Shara Gillow makes overall as close as possible.



Lee Rodgers: Langkawi Stages 1 & 2.
Langkawi Diary: Stages 1 & 2
"At these tours you quickly learn to take a serious dislike to eating, because it isn’t for pleasure anymore, but rather for the basic purpose of refueling. Like geese being force-fed to produce foie-gras, we sit there and stuff ourselves every chance we get, on bad pasta, dry rice and copious mounds of bread, the likes of which haven’t been seen on a plate since the Eastern Bloc fell."



Funds lacking for Pais Vasco and San Sebastian.
The top three from the final stage blow the lids on some bubbly as the Spanish race comes to an end.
The Tour of the Basque Country (Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco) and the Clasica San Sebastian are in danger of disappearing along with past races in this mountainous region of Spain due to a budget shortfall of 150,000 euros, it was reported this week.



GreenEDGE women continue great form.
GreenEDGE-AIS
SBS: Australia's women's cycling  team GreenEDGE-AIS have continued their exceptional debut, scoring wins in Europe and New Zealand.



Guardini shows speed...

Andrea Guardini claims the blue Sprinter’s jersey...

Le Tour de Langkawi 2012: Guardini gets off the mark in Melaka.



The Daily Distraction.

Cyclismas: 2012 Omloop and KBK David Harmon reads Dutch Translation.

PVCycling: Sometimes it’s hard to swallow your pride.

CyclingTips: Strava – From the Beginning.

SteveTilford: Walburg Road Race – Walburg, TX.

Video: Champion Systems a champion team?



Sunday shorts.
Taaienberg Boonen
InnerRing: We have Lars Boom taking a tumble at the foot of the Taaienberg. That’s Lars Boom, cyclo-cross champion, a rider who can handle his bike. The fight for position is intense in moments like this and Boonen doesn’t give ground. Boom runs out of road, hits the soft earth. Game over.



Freestyling Renshaw caught in Spidertech's web.
Matti Breschel and Mark Renshaw will lead Rabobank
"Some guys from Spidertech, they just don't care and they take risks. That's the way the peloton is right now there's not much respect and everyone wants Cavendish's wheel," he told Cyclingnews.



The Explainer: The next generation.
Introducing kids to cycling is largely a matter of staying relaxed ... for both student and teacher. (Annika and Philip Pelkey in 2004)
RedKitePrayer: If you’re a parent who made the mistake I did and started the kids out on training wheels, there are a couple of ways to wean them off of those things.



Video: Peiper leaning towards Danielson as Garmin-Barracuda’s protected rider.
Garmin Barracuda Director of Competitions Allan Peiper
Says it’s uncertain how race leader Zabriskie will fare on Genting.



Today's Quote
“I’m not hiding it, I didn’t go well. I think I suffered more than I thought I would from my inactivity. But I wouldn’t be putting myself back in the game if I wasn’t convinced I could return to my old levels. You know well that I don’t like just to scrape a living.” -  Danilo Di Luca  CyclingNews



Cannondale SuperSix 6 Apex review.
Cannondale SuperSix 6 Apex
Cannondale SuperSix 6 Apex BikeRadar verdict: 4 out of 5 stars. "Handles brilliantly with gearing that'll help you climb a wall. The frame deserves some better kit, though."



American Frame Builder Profile: David Kirk.
Kirk Frameworks
RBAction: Sweet steel from the mountains of Montana...



Bike Art, by Kiriakos Iosifidis.
Kiriakos Iosifidis Bike Art Publikat
PodiumCafe: "Bike Art" is one of those books that falls somewhere between pro-bike propaganda and bicycle pornography. With contributions from more that 250 contemporary artists the book showcases the way a host of different people, drawn from around the world, view the bicycle today. Purchase "Bike Art" Here



SteveTilford: Racing Early.

Cyclocosm: Why I Love the Spring.



Modolo and Coledan shot at during training ride.



2012 UCI World Road Cycling Calendar App
Cyclingnews: rider transfers 2011-2012, men
Cyclingnews: rider transfers 2011-2012, women
Guide to team training camps and presentations 2011-2012 2012-2013 UCI Cyclocross Calendar
2012 UCI Pro Teams
Shop Talk
Women on Bikes
Men's Pro Cycling on Twitter
Twitter Hashtags For Races
Bike trade tweeps - who uses Twitter.
Store - bikes and accessorie for sale.
Archive - looking? it may be in the archive.
Health and Fitness - also training information.
Tips and Safety - what to watch out for.
Race Reports - Janel Holcomb.
101 Cycling Tips That You Should Know: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII, Part VIII

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