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April 2014
April 3, 2014





Photo: Belgium's Guillaume van Keirsbulck of team Omega Pharma - Quick Step celebrates holding his trophy on the podium after winning the Three Days of De Panne.
Bodnar triumphs in final time trial stage. (cyclingnews.com)

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Photo: Guillaume van Keirsbulck (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) on his way to overall victory.
QuickStep rider takes overall victory ahead of Durbridge. (cyclingnews.com)

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Photo: Sacha Modolo (Lampre-Merida) wins for the second day in a row.
Steegmans holds lead ahead of time trial. (cyclingnews.com)

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Photo: Podium. © Danny Munson / DMunsonPhoto.com
First leaders decided in revived stage. (cyclingnews.com)

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Photo: Jim Stemper (Kenda-5 Hour Energy) gets a helping hand from eventual stage winner Rohan Dennis (Garmin-Sharp).
Rider struck by race medical vehicle during opening stage. (cyclingnews.com)

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Photo: The Redlands Bicycle Classic will open the 2014 National Racing Calendar. Photo: VeloNews.com.
The 30th Redlands Bicycle Classic opens Wednesday in southern California, there will be two days of live coverage this weekend. (velonews.com)

April 3, 2014




Races & Results.
De Panne-Koksijde - April 1-3, 2014 (Results),
Tour of Flanders - April 6, 2014 (Start List),
Paris-Roubaix - April 13, 2014 (History),
Amstel Gold Race - April 20, 2014 (History),
La Flèche Wallonne - April 23, 2014 (History),
Liège-Bastogne-Liège - April 27, 2014 (History),
Volta a Catalunya - March 24-30, 2014 (Results),
Gent-Wevelgem - March 30, 2014 (Results),
E3 Harelbeke - March 28, 2014 (Results),
Dwars door Vlaanderen - March 26, 2014 (Results),
Milan-San Remo - March 23, 2014 (Results),
Tour of California - May 11-18, 2014 (Stages),
Giro d'Italia - May 9 - June 1, 2014 (Stages),
Tour de France - July 5-27, 2014 (Stages),
UCI Road World Championship - Sept 20-27, 2014 (Stages).

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Photo: Bradley Wiggins will race the Tour of Flanders on Sunday for the first time since 2005.
Bradley Wiggins will race the Tour of Flanders on Sunday. American team BMC announced former world champion Philippe Gilbert will not, as expected, race the one-day classic on Sunday. (pelotonmagazine.com)

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Photo: Fearless Femme maintains their mission of partnering experienced racers with small business sponsors.
The National Criterium Calender, select USA Crits, and Parx Casino Philadelphia races will be the target events on the 2014 schedule. (cyclingillustrated.com)

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Photo: Decide what material you’re most interested in. You should have a feel if you want steel, ti or carbon fiber.
"During this year’s NAHBS and in the couple of weeks since, I’ve been asked repeatedly how to choose a builder for a custom frame. It’s a fair question." (redkiteprayer.com)

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Photo: Fabian Cancellara and Peter Sagan are among the top favorites for Sunday's 98th Ronde van Vlaanderen. Photo: Tim De Waele.
The bergs and pavé of the 98th Ronde van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders) will play host to a generational showdown Sunday. (velonews.com)

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Photo: Cobbled fever: It's all about the Spring Classics at this time of year (Sirotti). (sbs.com.au)
It’s time for the second big Spring Classic of the season: Ronde van Vlaanderen, or the Tour of Flanders. This year we have all the big favourites on the starting line and we should be in for quite a show. (cyclingtips.com.au) 

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Photo: To win Paris-Roubaix or the Ronde van Vlaanderen during his reign was to beat Museeuw.
As dominant as Cancellara was in 2010, as incredible as Boonen has been, neither of these riders possess the aura of invincibility Johan Museeuw had at his peak. (pelotonmagazine.com)

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Photo: Peter Sagan wins the 2014 E3 Harelbeke .
International cycling news round-up (April 3): Sagan leaves De Panne for Flanders; Women's World Cup picks up sponsor; European Cycling Union moves in with UCI. (cyclingweekly.co.uk)

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Photo: Dirk Demol says his star rider Fabian Cancellara is ready for Sunday's Tour of Flanders. Photo: Tim De Waele .
If there were any doubts about Fabian Cancellara’s condition coming into the spring classics, he erased them during last Friday’s E3 Harelbeke. (velonews.com)

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Photo: Zdenek Stybar continued his rapid rise in the peloton at Milano-Sanremo with a solid seventh-place finish. Now he's looking toward the stones of Paris-Roubaix. Photo: BrakeThrough Media | brakethroughmedia.com.
Zdenek Stybar (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) loves talking about racing, loves talking about what makes him tick. His name is bandied about now in cycling as the next “it” rider. Or, we should say, the next star on the road. He’s already a cyclocross king, a three-time world champ, and the discipline’s current bearer of the rainbow stripes. (velonews.com)

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Photo: Veteran Luca Paolini hopes to find an elusive Tour of Flanders victory this weekend. Photo: Tim De Waele.
Luca Paolini can afford to relax on Katusha’s red Skoda car. He already helped the Russian team win Milano-Sanremo with Alexander Kristoff. (velonews.com)

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Photo: The Razor Carbon jersey uses a range of technical fabrics in its construction.
New pro-level kit as used by Lampre-Merida. (cyclingnews.com)

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Photo: Chris Boardman, face of the new Ordnance Survey cycling app Ordnance Survey.
That most venerated of cartographic specialists, Ordnance Survey, has produced an app to enable cyclists to ride every single meter of road that the Tour de France has covered since it first visited the UK in 1974. (bikeradar.com)

April 3, 2014




Photo: Nicolas Frantz on the way to winning the 1928 Tour de France in a photo from The Competition Bicycle.
Traditional handlebars have generous curves that support your hands well. They offer a multitude of hand positions for long-distance comfort. (janheine.wordpress.com)

April 3, 2014




Photo: Ride, work, ride, repeat. It's a scientifically proven system. In a recent study in the Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, scientists found that people scored higher on tests of memory, reasoning, and planning after 30 minutes of spinning on a stationary bike than they did before they rode.
It's no secret that cycling makes you fitter. It also sharpens your thinking and melts away stress. Now researchers are discovering why—and exactly how you can maximize the cognitive benefits of a good ride. (bicycling.com)

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Photo: Daily Distraction.

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Photo: OPQS have had a great start to the season but it’s the next 10 days with the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix that matter most to the team.
We’re one quarter of the way through the cycling season already. 25% of the season’s racing days have been ridden. As we go into the peak classics season Omega Pharma-Quick Step and Giant-Shimano lead. (inrng.com)

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Photo: they have some astonishing figures to prove it.
Not for nothing are the cobblestoned spring Classics feared and revered by the pros who race them. (cyclingweekly.co.uk)

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Photo: Alberto Contador came in second. © Tim de Waele/TDW Sport
Spaniard looks to carry form into race. (cyclingnews.com)

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Photo: The Tour of Flanders peloton departs from the square in Bruges.
Karel Van Wijnendaele is hailed as race’s founding father, but his partner’s role was just as critical. (cyclingnews.com)

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Photo: Too early to start thinking about a November ride in sunny Mexico?
Looking forward to, and training for a gran fondo is the ideal incentive to cap your season with your best fitness, and enjoy the reward of a great ride in a tropical location when the days turn cold back home. The GFNY Cozumel fits the bill perfectly. (pezcyclingnews.com)

April 3, 2014




Photo: The 2014 Trofeo Alfredo Binda podium (L-R): Elizabeth Armitstead (Boels Dolmans), Emma Johansson (Orica - AIS) and Alena Amialiusik (Astana BePink).
Sign of commitment to develop and grow women's racing worldwide. (cyclingnews.com)

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Photo: Ellen van Dijk on the ITT podium, 2013 Road World Championships - Luk Benies /Afp/Getty Images.
Ellen van Dijk was one of the most exciting riders of 2013, winning the Individual Time Trial World Championships after a stunning season where she won the Boels Rental Ladies Tour, Lotto Belisol Tour, the Energiewacht Tour and pretty much every ITT anywhere, and lit up the Spring Classics. (podiumcafe.com)

April 3, 2014




Photo: Hövding has launched a scathing attack on EU cycle helmet performance.
The bike helmet industry has come under strong attack from an unusual source: a fellow manufacturer. (bikeradar.com)

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Photo: Bicycles and pedicabs along a dedicated bike lane in Austin, Texas.
For years, cyclists have faced long odds in Texas, where sprawling highways teem with trucks. Dallas was ranked , several years in a row. But in recent years, the two-wheeled form of transportation has begun to gain ground. (npr.org)

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