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April 2013
April 15, 2013


Photo: The 2013 Giro del Trentino.
CyclingFans: Tuesday's Giro del Trentino Stage 1 is divided into two half stages, a morning stage and an afternoon team time trial stage.  There will only be live television coverage for stages 2-4.






Photo: Bjarne Riis has been conspicuously absent from most races this season.
VeloNews: Roman Kreuziger’s solo victory in Sunday’s Amstel Gold Race comes at a good time not only for him, but also for beleaguered Saxo-Tinkoff boss Bjarne Riis.






Photo: Sagan confirms for Flèche Wallonne .
VeloNation: One more race before a break for Slovakian rider.





Photo: Alberto Contador (Team Saxo-Tinkoff) finished third overall at Tirreno-Adriatico .
CyclingNews: Spaniard lists Rodriguez, Gilbert and Valverde as favorites.





Races & Results.
Giro del Trentino - Apr 16-19 (Stages),
La Flèche Wallonne - Apr 17 (History),
Amstel Gold - Apr 14 (Results),
Castilla y Leon - Apr 12-14 (Results),
De Brabantse Pijl - Apr 10 (Results),
Paris-Camembert - Apr 9 (Results),
Paris - Roubaix - Apr 7 (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: Bradley Wiggins (Sky) reconnoitres the Tre Cime di Lavaredo.
CyclingNews: Team Sky leader quietly confident before the race.





Photo: Two-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador returns to the race this summer for the first time since serving a doping ban after being stripped of his 2010 Tour title .
VeloNews: Tour de France hopefuls Alberto Contador (Saxo-Tinkoff) and Chris Froome (Sky) will compete at one of the grand tour’s main tuneup events, the Critérium du Dauphiné in June, organizers said on Monday.





Photo: Inexperience and knee pain will keep Joe Dombrowski out of the Giro d'Italia in May.
VeloNews: Joe Dombrowski will watch Sky teammate Bradley Wiggins try to win next month’s Giro d’Italia on TV. Even if he won the amateur version of the race, Dombrowski and the team decided that the grand tour would be too much, too soon.





Photo: It's not the route but the riders who make a race.
VeloNews:  Hyped-up changes to the Amstel Gold Race proved yet again that it’s not the course that makes the race, it’s the riders.






Photo: The Sea Otter Classic starts this Thursday and events run through Sunday.
MBAction:  Located at the Mazda Raceway outside of Monterey, California, the Sea Otter Classic host all types of racing and will serve as the unofficial 2014 model intro for many bike and product companies.







Photo: Roman Kreuziger (Team Saxo - Tinkoff)Photo: © Roberto Bettini.
CyclingNews: Saxo-Tinkoff rider holds off the chase after Cauberg.


















Photo: UCI president Pat McQuaid announces the governing body will strip Lance Armstrong of his Tour de France titles .
CyclingNews: No “cover-up” of positive doping controls.





Photo: George Hincapie rode in a record 17 Tours de France during his 19-year career that ended last August when he retired .
VeloNews: After 19 years spent traversing the globe, George Hincapie has discovered the simple joys of home, and soon he’ll be inviting fans to come and experience them with him. Hincapie and his brother plan to open a bed and breakfast in Travelers Rest, South Carolina, this August.







Photo: And there is no difference in shift operation with the Hydro levers .
PEZ: "Tough to call which will be the bigger deal for most of you… Is it Disc and Hydro that should get top billing or is it the jump to 11 speed that should get top billing?"





Photo: SRAM's Hydro R hydraulic road rim caliper and disc caliper.
BikeRadar: What is a hydraulic road brake? How well do they work?  And how much do they weigh?





Photo: Dan Martin may have crashed yesterday, but he is hopeful of a result by the time the week is out.
StickyBottle: Daniel Martin (Garmin–Sharp) has had a difficult start to his hilly classics campaign as he crashed out of Amstel Gold yesterday. Prior to the race he had been hopeful of a good result as he indicated that he was feeling good and just needed a bit of luck.





Photo: Joaquim Rodriguez at 2013 Katusha presentation (source Katusha Team).
road.cc: Spaniard's team says yesterday's Amstel Gold crash puts him in doubt for rest of Ardennes Week.





Photo: Once more at the front, this time chasing the break, Carmen Small (Specialized - lululemon).
CyclingNews: Four women selected to American team.





Photo: Lauren Stephens won the women's race in Charlotte and has assumed the top spot of the NCC women's standings.
USACycling: The USA Cycling National Criterium Calendar (NCC) took a three-week respite before the riders contested the Presbyterian Hospital Invitational Criterium in Charlotte, N.C., on April 13. After the evening of racing was finished, the women's individual and team standings were shaken up, while the men's leaders remained the same.





Photo: British Sports Minister Hugh Robertson (L).
CyclingNews: From pin-pricks to the Biological Passport.





Photo: Handlebar height, Handlebar feature.
CyclingWeekly: Discomfort is the fear widely associated with riding on handlebars placed too low. Riders are fearful, perhaps, of pulled hamstrings or displaced rotundity; few older riders will complain of discomfort if their bars are high and close, so that's where they so often end up.





Photo: Schleck looking forward to Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
VeloNation: Luxembourg rider states non-finish was due to crash and circumstance rather than fitness level.




































Photo: four Costa Rican riders have tested positive .
VeloNation: UCI confirms Vargas Barrantes, Mudarra Segura, Morales Castillo and Villalobos Azofeifa provisionally suspended.






Photo: Paul Kimmage .
CyclingNews: Change Cycling Now "hasn't worked, it's been a lot of hot air".





Photo: Raymond Poulidor is 77 today .
InnerRing: Often portrayed as a loser his list of wins is impressive with the Vuelta, Milan-Sanremo, double wins in Paris-Nice and the Dauphiné, the now defunct Grand Prix du Midi Libre, 11 stage wins in the Tour. He stood on the Tour de France podium in Paris eight times.





Photo: Johan Van Summeren and Garmin-Sharp have only collected one top-10 finish in this year's classics season, a sixth-place result by Tyler Farrar at Scheldeprijs.
VeloNews:  Team Garmin-Sharp came to the classics with high hopes, fielding a roster that included 2011 Ronde van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders) winner Nick Nuyens, 2011 Paris-Roubaix winner Johan Van Summeren, 2010 Scheldeprijs winner Tyler Farrar, 2012 Giro d’Italia winner Ryder Hesjedal, and a strong supporting cast capable of producing impressive results on their own as well.





Photo: Richie Porte World Recce YouTube still.
road.cc: Australian says climb to Fiesole on closing loop tougher than anything he's seen in a World Championship...





Photo: The world champion Philippe Gilbert is one of a group of riders at ease climbing the final ascent up the Mur de Huy.
VeloUK: Can the World Champion Philippe Gilbert succeed on home roads or will Peter Sagan bounce back and win again in the 77th Flèche-Wallonne.





Photo: It is too much bike for smooth, rolling trails, but take this baby to the rough world of big mountain riding.
MBAction: There seems to be an unwritten mountain biking law that says if you ride a Kona with over 4 inches of travel, you are expected—no, required—to abuse it beyond reason.





Photo: The Leaf Speed's ride quality is said to be unique but akin to carbon.
BikeRadar: Woodelo, manufacturers of high performance wooden road bikes, saw off stiff competition from steel specialists to win the Best New Builder award at Bespoked Bristol 2013.













Photo: Kreuziger is in a tuck and turning on the power.
InnerRing: With 7km to go Roman Kreuziger ditches his breakaway companions to ride away for a solo win in the Amstel Gold Race. We expected a Slovak and got a Czech.






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