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February 2013
February 18, 2013


Photo: Stage 2 finishes in Montilla, a small hill town in Córdoba.
SteepHill: Stage 2 start time: Tuesday 12:00 CET (3:00:00 AM PST); Approximate finish: 16:58 CET (7:58:00 AM PST).





Photo: The holy grail of doping?
CyclingTips: All of these drugs – erythropoietin (EPO), human growth hormone, “peptides” – could well become obsolete in years to come.





Photo: Truly there is no more highly anticipated weekend of racing in the entire year.
PodiumCafe: Glory, glory hallelujah! It's Omloop Het Niuwsblad-week everyone. The weekend brings the start of classics season with the Omloop on Saturday and the red-headed stepchild Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne on Sunday.






Photo: Jonathan Hivert wins stage 1 ahead of overall leader Alejandro Valverde. Photo: VeloNews.com.
VeloNews: Frenchman Jonathan Hivert (Sojasun) won the first stage of the Vuelta Andalucía Ruta Ciclista del Sol (Tour of Andalusia) in Spain on Monday, a 164km ride from San Fernando to Ubrique..






Photo: Roma Maxima launch.
CyclingWeekly: The one-day Giro del Lazio has been reborn as the 'Roma Maxima' after being absent from the race calendar since its last edition in 2008.






Photo: Joe Dombrowski, Team Sky, Tour of Oman 2013.
CyclingWeekly: Joe Dombrowski accomplished his first task as a neo-pro, assisting Team Sky in winning the Tour of Oman and finishing the race. The American did the leg-work that contributed to Chris Froome's overall win on Sunday in Muscat.





Photo: Tony Martin turned his attention on Sunday from the coast of Portugal to Italy's Two Seas.
VeloNews: With one stage race already in the bag, Tony Martin (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) is now taking aim at Italy’s Tirreno-Adriatico.





Races & Results.
Andalucia Ruta Del Sol - Feb 17-20 (Stages & Results),
Volta ao Algarve - Feb 14-17 (Stages & Results),
Tour of Oman - Feb 11-16 (Stages & Results),
Giro d'Italia - May 4-26 (Stages),
Tour of California - May 12-19 (Stages),
Tour de France - June 29-July 21 (Stages),
Vuelta a España - Aug 24-Sept 15 (Stages),





Photo: In 2012, Andrea Guardini, racing for Farnese Vini-Selle Italia, won six of the ten stages. He'll be back.
SteepHill: Stage 1 starts out flat as the peloton heads down the west side of Malaysia starting from the far northwest part of the country in Kanger.  Start time: Wednesday 10:00 MYT (6:00:00 PM PST).  The race starts Thursday in Asia and Europe, but Wednesday evening in North America.





Photo: Winner of the most aggressive rider competition in the Tour of Oman Bobbie Traksel.
VeloNation: American trio of Lewis, Beyer and Butler lead team for Tour de Langkawi.





Photo: the Argos-Shimano rider is at home, nursing a broken collarbone.
CyclingTips: Koen's been good enough to answer some more questions about life as professional cyclist and about his injury and what it means for his 2013 season.





Photo: the wheels are plainly durable and, despite weighing in at 1655 grams (claimed), they handled some short, punchy climbs with little trouble.
RBAction: The new Zipp 60 wheel combines the stopping familiarity of an aluminum braking surface with one of the brand’s hybrid toroidal carbon rim profiles..





Photo: Revised and updated for 2013 to include all the latest information on dates, distances, costs and courses.
VeloUK: The press release says “This unique annual handbook covers every type of road cycling in Britain, from road racing and time trials to Sportives, Audaxes, CTC, Charity events and Leisure rides.”





Photo: The new suspension offers a new and improved function.
DirtRag: Marin Bikes have long stood out from the rest of the pack due to the innovative Quad-Link rear suspension designs. What’s important to recognize here is that the Rift Zone 29er XC7 sports the third-generation version.


























Photo: Team Katusha time trials.
CyclingNews: The UCI has confirmed that they will allow 19 teams in the WorldTour this year. The news comes after Katusha won their case at Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), having previously been denied WorldTour status by the sport's governing body.






Photo: Basso, Ivan pre Giro 2012.
VeloNation: WADA president Fahey pushing for all sports concerned to be investigated.





Photo: Brian Holm has added a proven winner in Mark Cavendish and taken the pressure off classics king Tom Boonen. .
VeloNews: Omega Pharma-Quick Step manager Patrick Lefevere reconfigured the Belgian squad over winter, and it worked. New recruit Mark Cavendish won the overall at the Tour of Qatar, including four stages, earlier this month and Tom Boonen dealt with less pressure ahead of the classics.





Photo: Cycling Australia logo.
road.cc: Giverning body considers following Australian Olympic Committee's lead for penalties for those who lie.





Photo: Thor Hushovd (Team BMC).
CyclingNews: Thor Hushovd is angry with his former friend Lance Armstrong, saying he has “dragged (cycling) down into the mud and destroyed all credibility for us who remain."





Photo: Mary Thompson and Peter Root (source Vimeo).
road.cc: A couple from the UK whose video of part of their round-the-world cycle ride was recently chosen to feature in the annual Filmed By Bike festival have been killed by the driver of a pick-up truck in Thailand.





Photo: Tanner Putt, center, is a new recruit to the Bontrager development team, which launched in Waterloo, Wisconsin, last week.
VeloNews: Though only 10 years old at the time, when Tanner Putt saw his first bike race, a criterium in his hometown of Park City, Utah, he knew he had found his sport.





Photo: Sanremo is one of the most difficult races on the calendar, I am only 23 years old and don’t expect too much.
IrishPeloton: Cavendish may want all of his rivals to believe that Milan San Remo is not a season goal of his, but the facts tell a different story – that he has never been in better shape at this stage of the season.





Photo: Lars Boom (Team Blanco) wins the final stage of the Tour du Haut Var.
CyclingNews: Lars Boom is more than happy with his stage win at the Tour du Haut Var. It was a big day for the Blanco team, with Boom finishing second overall and teammate Laurens ten Dam third.





Photo: 2011 Giro della Toscana champion Dan Martin (Garmin-Cervelo) on the podium..
CyclingNews: Garmin climber aims at Ardennes.





Photo: The EMX-1 is part of Merckx’s Performance range rather than its Pro line-up.
BikeRadar verdict: 3.5 out of 5 stars. "Brilliant frame means some spec compromises to get down to this price."





Photo: What’s going on in your gut can mean the difference between a good day on the bike and a bad one.
Bicycling: When a battle in your belly threatens to disrupt your ride, probiotics are key to calling a truce.






Photo: Wiggins is expected to play a supporting role to help 2012 Tour runner-up Froome .
CyclingTips: Bradley Wiggins has spelled out his objectives for the season, with the British cycling star focusing on a debut win in the Tour of Italy rather than a defence of his Tour de France title.





CyclingIQ: It has taken a little while longer to make a full roll call of the global peloton, but we can now take a look at where all* the riders are from.







































Photo: The Danish cycling federation will be watching closely on Tuesday when Tyler Hamilton testifies in the Operación Puerto trial.
VeloNews:  Tyler Hamilton and Alberto Contador will be star witnesses this week in the ongoing Operación Puerto trial, but they are expected to offer dramatically different testimony.





Photo: The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency is not commenting on Johan Bruyneel's outstanding arbitration hearing.
VeloNews: His name has come and gone during the bonfire of Lance Armstrong. He was someone intertwined with the Texan’s seven wins perhaps more so than anyone else, but Johan Bruyneel’s day in arbitration has yet to come. Will it ever?






Photo: Rodriguez Staying put?
CyclingNews: The sport after the Court of Arbitration ruled last Friday that the Russian teams should go back in World Tour. The ruling might have left the team celebrating their good news but there’s still a smoky veil of uncertainty over what comes next and a headache for the UCI and others.





Photo: Begin with one person wearing something on their head dancing mildly to Harlem Shake..
CyclingTips: In 2012 it was Gangnam Style. In 2013, it's the Harlem Shake that's gone viral.





Photo: Chris Froome (Sky) flanked by Alberto Contador (Saxo-Tinkoff) and Cadel Evans (BMC)..
CyclingNews: Chris Froome's overall victory at the Tour of Oman may well be go down in the history books as one small step during a long career but the significance of his performance is surely a giant leap forward for his chances of winning the Tour de France in July.





Photo: Detroit Bicycle Company specializes in fixies.
BikeRadar: Detroit was once known as the Paris of the Midwest; a city with tree lined streets, a cosmopolitan and vibrant mix of cultures and a city of innovators and risk takers. That was then.





Photo: Emilie Moberg (Hitec Products) took out the Tour of Zhoushan Island last year.
Emilie Moberg: When it is minus degrees and snow we still do some of the training on our bike, but we use a MTB or a cyclo-cross bike and just to be safe we use tires with spikes.





Photo: Doug Dailey: The original marginal gain.
CyclingWeekly: Great Britain is the best cycling nation on planet Earth. How the hell did that happen? How did Britain emerge from the shadows in little more than a decade?





Photo: Here, Nieters takes the hotly contested win at 2012 Nittany Day 2. Cyclocross Magazine.
CXMagazine: "We finally looked up from our Worlds coverage only to find that the 2013 fall race season was already under seven months away."






Photo: Built for the cobbles.
BikeRadar: This season the Belgian bike brand Ridley Bikes is providing the Lotto-Belisol team with four different bikes: the Noah FAST aero bike, the Helium SL road bike and the Dean time trial bike along with the new-for-2013 Fenix.





Photo: Bringing the VERY good cross wind stability with Firecrest down to a 650 size is a brainer.
PEZ: Tucked away in the Arizona desert, The Zipp/Quarq team gave cycling’s top North American journalists a preseason/release hands on with 4 new products for 2013.





Photo: Simple and effective, it fits well and gets the job done.
BikeRadar verdict: 4.5 out of 5 stars. "Simple, relatively inexpensive, and gets the job done."























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