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April 2013
April 23, 2013



Photo: Tour of Turkey Stage 4 Profile.
CyclingFans: Wednesday's Tour of Turkey Stage 4 departs Gocek at 12:45pm EEST (local) (11:45am CET or 5:45am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Marmaris at around 4:22pm EEST (local) (3:22pm CET or 9:22am U.S. Eastern).  Tour of Turkey live streaming video should get underway at around *3:00pm EEST (local) (2:00pm CET or 8:00am U.S. Eastern).






Photo: Chris Froome (Sky) jumped away for a Team Sky 1-2 over Richie Porte in Criterium International.
CyclingNews: Sky man spells out hierarchy.







Photo: Natnael Berhane (Team Europcar).
CyclingNews: Eritrean impresses on Gögübeli climb.





Races & Results.
Tour de Romandie - Apr 23 -28 (Stages),
Tour of Turkey - Apr 21-28 (Stages & Results),
Liège - Bastogne - Liège - Apr 21 (Results),
Giro del Trentino - Apr 16-19 (Stages & Results),
La Flèche Wallonne - Apr 17 (Results),
Amstel Gold - Apr 14 (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: Natnael Berhane (Team Europcar).
CyclingNews: First win by sub-Saharan African at UCI HC event.





Photo: Chad Haga (Optum) riding during the crit..
CyclingNews: USA Cycling series continues in Arkansas.





Photo: Daniel Martin (Garmin-Sharp) reached a new level in his professional development, winning Liege-Bastogne-Liege).
CyclingNews: Praises rider on anti-doping stance.





Photo: The grippy areas extend across the saddle.
BikeRadar verdict: 4 out of 5 stars. "A genuinely non-slip surface and its comfort is up there with the best."





Photo: The chainring choices of our René Herse cranks are not limited by dedicated shifting ramps.
Off The Beaten Path: Modern chainrings have ramps and pins on the backside below the teeth. The ramps and pins are located where there is an optimal path for the chain from one ring to the other.





Photo: To me it seems the engineering stopped at the head tube.
BikeHugger: The front end is unbalanced and twitchy with that high of a head tube, like steering a bus or flying an MD-80 in turbulence. Keep the gas on into a corner, so it doesn’t forget which direction you were pointed.





Photo: Elisa Longo Borghini before the Flèche Wallonne - Sarah Connolly.
SBS: Interview with Hitec's Elisa Longo Borghini, who came second, and Lotto Belisol's Ashleigh Moolman who came third, just after the race, when they'd sprinted neck-and-neck behind winner Marianne Vos.



















Photo: Tour de Romandie Stage 1 Profile.
CyclingFans: Wednesday's Tour de Romandie Stage 1 departs Saint-Maurice at 12:57pm CET (6:57am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Renens at around 5:19pm CET (11:19am U.S. Eastern).  Tour de Romandie live video streaming should get underway at around 4:00pm CET (10:00am U.S. Eastern).







Photo: Chris Froome (Sky) in action in the time trial..
CyclingNews: Sky rider becomes first race leader - beats Talansky by 6 seconds.





Photo: Talansky. 2012 Tour of California. photo twisted spoke.
TwistedSpoke: The 7.45k time trial in the foothills of Verbier, France was a challenge for many top riders. World time trial champion Tony Martin (Omega Pharma Quick Step) fell to 16th, 29 seconds down on Froome.





Photo: Marianne Vos (Rabobank) was following every move in the XC race, followed closely by Trek's Annie Last.
CyclingNews: Road and 'cross world champ to race at World Cup season opener.





Photo: Mark Renshaw (Blanco) in the Tour Down Under Village.
CyclingNews: Blanco rider travels to Netherlands for surgery after Tour of Turkey crash.





Photo: The BioLogic Bluetooth Heart Rate strap can make for some robust training data in your jersey pocket.
BikeRadar: While ANT+ is the primary wireless standard for cycling computers, Bluetooth is the common currency for smartphones. Now, with many cyclists using their phones as computers on the bike, Biologic has introduced a Bluetooth Smart Heart Rate Strap.





Photo: To adjust a Campy Super Record EPS front derailleur, press the mode buttons and then move the derailluer left or right using the shifting lever.
VeloNews: "Your journey reminds me one of my favorite sayings, that life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. And of course, you are the living example of the Zen/Zinn philosophy, that the path is more important than the goal."





Photo: Thomas Voeckler (Europcar)).
CyclingNews: Training resumes on weekend, racing in two weeks at Rhône Alpes Isère Tour.





Photo: There's nothing quite like the Crocodile Trophy (Regina Stranger).
SBS: Australia's iconic Crocodile Trophy mountain bike stage race will feature the world's longest individual time trial in the 2013 edition.






Photo: Headphones on the trail? Please don't.
BikeRadar: I love music as much as anyone. But like anything, there's a time and a place for it, and singletrack isn't it.





CyclingNews: AOD-9604 makes it out of clinical trials into athlete community.













Photo: Lance Armstrong of the USA riding for the US Postal Service team in the final climb to La Mongie during Stage 12.
NBC: Lance Armstrong violated his contract with the U.S. Postal Service and "unjustly enriched" himself by cheating to win Tour de France titles, the Justice Department argued in a lawsuit against the cyclist filed on Tuesday.




















Photo: Independence is one of those things like motherhood, ice cream and apple pie.
InnerRing: An independent anti-doping agency for pro cycling? It sounds likes a great idea, no?





Photo: 1907 - Checking to see that all the riders are riding the correct course.
PodiumCafe: Written by Francoise & Serge Laget, Philippe Cazaban and Gilles Montgermont, Tour de France - Official 100th Race Edition tells the history of the Tour through a mix of words and pictures.






Photo: Alessandro Petacchi announces retirement.
VeloNation: “The Gentleman” of sprinters calls a halt on his 18-year career.





Photo: To Seven, to Boston, to the world -- Peace, normalcy, and more bikes…please..
CompetitiveCyclist: Damien Gaudin has the ugliest form on a bike since Fernando Escartin traversed the Alps in his carcass-picking bird crouch -- proving that Velominati.com is the best road site on the whole internet.





Photo: A replacement for the Armstrong poster.
NeilBrowne: It’s been hanging on my wall for a couple of years, the Nike “What am I on…” Lance Armstrong poster. Today I took it down.





Photo: The most important part of training for a race — in this case a time trial — is the build phase.
VeloNews: Of the six common training periods (Prep, Base, Build, Peak, Race, Transition) the most important one for the outcome of the race is the Build.





Photo: The Rumor was designed from the group up for women as small as 5 feet tall.
DirtRag: The Rumor uses Specialized’s M5 alloy frame with 110mm of travel front and rear with a tapered head tube, internal cable routing, a super low standover height and somehow still manages to fit a water bottle. In a size small, the standover is just 706mm.




















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