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March 2013
March 14, 2013



Photo: ASO announces Evans.
VeloNation: Strong line-up for two day Corsican race.





Races & Results.
Milan-San Remo - Mar 17 (Start List),
Volta Ciclista a Catalunya - Mar 18-24 (Stages),
Paris - Nice - Mar 3-Mar 10 (Stages & Results),
Tirreno - Adriatico - Mar 6-Mar 12 (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: Daniele Bennati (Saxo-Tinkoff), Bob Jungels (RadioShack Leopard Trek) and Astana's Simeone Ponzi (Sirotti).
SBS: The RadioShack Leopard Trek rider averaged 41.199km/h on a 187.5km course of five circuits north of Milan to win in 4hr 33min 04sec.





Photo: Though Tyler Farrar finished the 2012 Tour de France (151st place), his race was marked by crashes, not podiums.
Bicycling: The American sprinter talks 2013 training, loving the Classics, and his season-ending concussion.





Photo: Chris Froome, Tirreno-Adriatico 2013, stage seven.
CyclingWeekly: Sky team principal David Brailsford's principles are under scrutiny. Criticism of the team's tactics has been building since last year's Paris-Nice, when Bradley Wiggins started his winning run that culminated in victory at the Tour de France.





Photo: Peter Sagan won two stages at the recent Tirreno-Adriatico, and he enters this weekend's Milano-Sanremo as a favorite to win the 298-kilometer race.
VeloNews: Slovakian Peter Sagan (Cannondale) will be among the big names to watch when Milano-Sanremo kicks off the season of major cycling classics this weekend.





Photo: The Troll is based on Surly’s 1x1 singlespeed frame.
DirtRag: Surly has long created simple, utilitarian, steel bikes built to do their jobs without complaint, like the Moonlander, the Cross-Check, and the Long Haul Trucker.







Photo: 2013 Milan-San Remo.
CyclingFans: 2013 Milan-San Remo videos from a variety of sources will be listed, as available.





Photo: The happy Cannondale trio of Angelluci, Corsetti, and Magni (photo from the Liquigas Cannondale team page).
Cyclismas: A run-down of just some of the more notorious doctors currently earning a living in the sport of cycling.





Photo: Tejay van Garderen has made it no secret that he wants to win a GC title. He'll have many chances this season to do so.
VeloNews: Maybe it’s a sign of how high expectations have become for Tejay van Garderen (BMC Racing) that finishing fourth at Paris-Nice is viewed by some as a disappointment.





Photo: Bouhanni Out of MSR.
PodiumCafe: From which there was much taunting of Italy. And Belgium. And a preview of a race in the Loire Valley.





CyclingNews: The "fool proof" biological passport will control the doping menace.






Photo: Tour of Flanders: Nick Nuyens (Saxo Bank-Sungard) was on cue at the Ronde..
CyclingNews: Cobbled classic victory unlikely for former winner.












Photo: Andy Schleck (Getty Images).
SBS: French politician Pierre-Yves Le Borgn has apologized to 2010 Tour de France champion Andy Schleck after alleging he had seen the 27 year old drunk in a hotel in Munich.





Photo: Taylor Phinney's solo ride during the Tirreno-Adriatico on Monday..
WSJ: This is a story about a guy who finished last. Taylor Phinney. USA. Finishing time of six hours, twenty-two minutes, fifty-four seconds. One hundred-and-ninth place. Last. But this story is better than that.





Photo: Richie Porte's 2014 transfer stock rose after his Paris-Nice win, but will he leave his apprenticeship at Sky?
VeloNews: Richie Porte’s dramatic victory at Paris-Nice on Sunday not only confirmed his talent, but could also see him swapping teams for 2014 in a push for grand tour success.





Photo: Special dispensation to exceed the UCI maximum distance of 250km.
InnerRing: Among the Spring classics Milan-Sanremo is the odd one out. The Italian race starts in Milan, right in the heart of the city too with a start in front of its gothic cathedral. It’s also the longest one-day race in the world.








Photo: The climb of the Cipressa comes with around 30 minutes to ride.
PEZ: Milano-Sanremo; is all you expect it to be. It's chilly outside the Castello Sforzesco partenza in Milan - the team buses and bikes are never shinier than they are for the start of the Primavera. 'Primavera' is Italian for spring time - the race is also called the 'Classicisima,' or Classic of all Classics.





Photo: With 3.5 months until the big show begins in Corsica, what can we learn from the past week of racing?
PodiumCafe: Paris-Nice used to be the first look at the major Tour de France contenders racing together, but this year that role shifted to supposedly sunny Italy as five recent Grand Tour winners and podiums descended on the race of the two seas.





Photo: Frame & equipment: Radical design with all-Italian kit.
BikeRadar verdict: 4.5 out of 5 stars. "A bike that loves to be pushed, and we've loved pushing it as hard as we can."





Photo: Handbuilt in Detroit.
BikeHugger: Bikes and watches both require amazing craftsmanship and they are both items that have not been made at scale in this country in sometime, so Shinola is going to change that.







Photo: Dave Brailsford has hit back about criticism of Team Sky's dominant race tactics.
CyclingNews: Innuendo and insinuations are unfair, team principal says.





road.cc: The man who looks after Tirreno Adriatico winner Vinenzo Nibali, among others, talks through his day.





























Photo: The UCI headquarters in Aigle, Switzerland.
SBS: The International Cycling Union is a global organization that does more than make the headlines when things go wrong in the sport. Here are 10 things you may not have known about cycling's world governing body.



















Photo: Lance Armstrong walks back to his car after running at Mount Royal park with fans in Montreal .
Reuters: Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong has been personally urged to make a full confession of all his involvement in doping by the founder of the lobby group Change Cycling Now.





Photo: Warner Brothers is said to have snapped up the film rights to Tyler Hamilton’s book.
road.cc: Two Armstrong films slated for production as media fascination with 'flawed hero' continues.






Photo: World champion Philippe Gilbert (BMC) dejected after stage 3 of Paris-Nice.
CyclingNews: BMC rider clarifies comments from Humo interview.






Photo: The RCA frameset builds on Cervélo's famed R5ca frameset and reduces the frameset weight to a mere 667g.
RoadCycling: Groundbreaking hand-made Cervelo RCA frameset merges category-defining light weight with aerodynamic competencies. [and it only costs $10,000US!]





Photo: revised SRAM Red group.
RedKitePrayer: I’m finding the new generation of Red brakes to be rather finicky. Keeping them perfectly centered while balancing left/right side spring tension isn’t as easy as with any of the competing dual-pivot calipers.










Photo: President Bill Clinton emphatically denies having a sexual relationship with former White House intern.
WashingtonTimes: Disgraced Lance Armstrong said in an interview that the public will soon forget about him being the biggest dope cheat in cycling’s history, just like they did former president Bill Clinton for his affair with an intern.













Photo: Emma Pooley.
CyclingWeekly: Emma Pooley has called for a women's Tour de France to be held alongside the men's race when it comes to Yorkshire next year, believing a women's Tour is the ‘only real hope' she can see for her sport.





Photo: With Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico done, an update to the team victory rankings.
InnerRing: OPQS now lead thanks to recent wins from Sylvain Chavanel and Tony Martin, a sign that the Belgian team can win on almost every front, with the probably exception of the high mountains and the overall classification of grand tours.






















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