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April 2013
April 16, 2013




Photo: The 2013 Giro del Trentino.
CyclingFans: Wednesday's Giro del Trentino Stage 2 departs Sillian (Austria) at 9:10am CET (3:10am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Vetriolo Terme at around 2:42pm CET (8:42am U.S. Eastern).  Giro del Trentino live streaming video should get underway at around 1:30pm CET (7:30am U.S. Eastern).






Photo: Team Sky power to victory in the Giro del Trentino team time trial.
CyclingNews: Cerny moves into overall lead.






Photo: Maxime Bouet (Ag2r-La Mondiale) wins the three-man sprint.
CyclingNews: Frenchman beats Cerny and Rodriguez in Lienz.





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: After years of progress, Dan Martin could find himself on the top step in the Ardennes this week.
VeloNews: Daniel Martin is poised for an Ardennes break out this week. The 26-year-old Irishman roars into the hilly Belgian classics in the best form of his life.





Photo: Roman Kreuziger, Marco Marcato, and Giampaolo Caruso bridge to the breakaway on the penultimate climb of the Cauberg.
VeloNation: In the aftermath of Sunday's thrilling race, we have seen the best racing in Amstel gold in recent memory. But can we credit the course changes that moved the finish 1.8km past the Cauberg and added two more climbs?





Photo: Jasmin Glaesser (TIBCO) climbs Metcalf.
Podium Insight: On paper, the main difficulty of the 19.6-mile (31.6-km) stage in San Jose seems to be the final strenuous, three kilometer climb up Metcalf Road where the riders will gain nearly 1,000 feet in elevation and attack several pitches with a grade of 10 percent or more.





Photo: The neutral roll out at the AntiEpic, a 160-mile gravel race across eastern Colorado, where the author (in the lead) learned a thing or two about suffering. There may have been moist eyes at the start due to the cold temperatures; there were tears of pain at the finish.
VeloNews: After nine hours of pedaling, navigating, and aching, we were suddenly lost. Somewhere, smack dab in the middle of nowhere, the tracks we had been following were not to be found.





Photo: The new frame is stiffer and more aerodynamic than the prior model.
BikeRumor: The new Cervelo P3 borrows the Aero Zone technology and plenty more from the P5 introduced in January 2012, all for enough Benjamins less to get you into a few Ironmans.





Photo: A two-time and reigning MTB Downhill World Champion, Oakley’s Greg Minnaar.
MBAction: Much evolution went into a new innovation that completely reinvents protection: Oakley Airbrake™ MX goggles.





Photo: What does the future hold for Loopwheels?
BikeRadar: "When BikeRadar attended last week's Bespoked Bristol show the last thing we thought we'd come across was someone who had reinvented the wheel. How wrong we were..."






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











Photo: Fleche Wallonne Profile.
CyclingFans: Wednesday's Fleche Wallonne departs Binche at 11:50am CET (5:50am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Huy at around 5:04pm CET (11:04am U.S. Eastern).  Fleche Wallonne live streaming video is scheduled to get underway from around 2:55pm CET (8:55am U.S. Eastern).





Photo: Team Sky's Richie Porte at the Paris-Nice in March (Getty).
SBS: Australian Richie Porte has hit back at detractors of cycling's dominant Sky team as he prepares for a pair of rare one-day classics starts.






Photo: He is suspected of being the rider codenamed ‘Huerto’ in the doping list of Eufemiano Fuentes.
VeloNation: Rider has not competed since last September, currently placed on inactive status by team.







Photo: The updated men's Flèche Wallonne course departs Binche for the finish circuits around Huy .
VeloNews: There will be no gimmicks or novelties for the 77th Flèche Wallonne. The “Wallonne Arrow” is old-school, hard-man (and woman) Belgian hill racing in its purest form. And it’s all about one climb: the Mur de Huy.





Photo: Evelyn Stevens did what many thought was impossible when she beat back Marianne Vos on the Mur in 2012.
VeloNews: Defending champion Evelyn Stevens (Specialized-lululemon) will not start Wednesday’s Flèche Wallonne Féminine, her team confirmed on Monday in a statement on its website.





Photo: Joaquim Rodríguez was second at Flèche Wallonne twice before acing the Mur de Huy for victory in 2012.
VeloNews: Perhaps no one in the contemporary peloton knows the Mur de Huy better than Joaquim Rodríguez.






Photo: Joaquim Rodriguez has played down his chances of winning the Flèche Wallonne.
VeloNation: Catalan says Amstel crash has affected his form, but hopes to be back in top shape for Liège.






Photo: The narrower seat post diameter, 25.4mm, is immediately noticeable.
Peloton: Grand fondos, dirt riding, the Strade Bianche, Battenkill, Rouge Roubaix, - as these styles of riding have risen to prominence the endurance category.






Photo: This week SRAM officially took the wraps off of two new key products, hydraulic disc brakes and a new 11 speed drive train.
BikeHugger: SRAM says they sent test riders down the Stelvio wearing 150 pound packs for a total weight, with bikes, of more than 250 pounds. As they told the assembled media at the 22 launch, they did this repeatedly with no boiling or fade.





Photo: Downtube as big as a 40.
BikeHugger: Look closely and notice it’s actually a Tarmac SL4 with Roubaix legs. Sure you can buy what the pros ride, as the industry’s marketing will tell you, but really what they ride is uniquely laid up for them and from the “special” molds.





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: 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: Injury has forced Laurent Jalabert to resign from his coaching rule with the French cycling federation (Getty Images).
SBS: Former French cycling great Laurent Jalabert has resigned from his role as coach of the French road cycling team due to injuries he sustained in a riding accident.

















Photo: Vaughters. Running out of motivation?
TwistedSpoke: To put it another way: has Garmin-Sharp team manager Jonathan Vaughters throw in the towel?







Photo: UCI President Pat McQuaid at the UCI headquarters in Aigle.
CyclingNews: Only member of Cycling Ireland to vote against McQuaid steps down.





Photo: Cycling Australia.
VeloNation: Unhappy with end of Independent Commission, believes McQuaid needs to show transparency.





Photo: Could Armstrong's 1999 Tour victory.
CyclingNews: UCI concluded tests showed no systematic doping use.





Photo: The doping control van isn't hard to miss.
CyclingNews: BCR-Pizza Hut-Powerade squad "thanked" local media for "respecting the due process."






Photo: Richie Porte will be at the start of Wednesday's Flèche Wallonne and Sunday's Liège–Bastogne–Liège.
VeloNews: Red-hot Richie Porte and Chris Froome will give Sky an extra shot of horsepower for the Ardennes classics as the U.K. team tries to salvage its spring campaign with a final-hour win.





Photo: Alberto Contador at the recent Vuelta al Pais Vasco (AAP).
SBS: Two-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador will return to battle after a last minute decision to ride the Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège.





Photo: Moreno Moser took the biggest win of his career at February’s Strade Bianche. (Courtesy Cannondale).
Bicycling: Hailing from one of cycling’s greatest families, the young racer aims to make a name for himself.





Photo: What type of gear puller would you need to remove just a crank?
VeloNews: I’m a lawyer and I don’t file my lawyer tabs. The reason is the crash I witnessed during a Roubaix-style road bike race when the rider three bikes ahead of me heard a clanking noise and upon lifting up his front wheel to check it, pulled the wheel right out of the fork, which yes, had its lawyer tabs filed. He no longer has any of his original front teeth.





Photo: It’s like the owners combined everything they’re into in one place and did it for the cycling community in Calabasas.
BikeHugger: "After watching powerpoints and test riding SRAM 22 and Hydro (11 speed drivetrain and hydraulic road disc brakes), we dined at Pedaler’s Fork. That’s a bike shop, restaurant, coffee roaster, Moots Boutique."





























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.










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