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Riders use corticoids to “lean out” i.e. to lose weight quickly, and
keep it off, without losing power.
Speaking
about a misuse of cortisone which was highlighted in the Cycling
Independent Reform Commission (CIRC) report, Brian Cookson has
said that the UCI is concerned by the use of this and other grey area
products and will try to eliminate any abuses.
The CIRC report looked into historic and current doping practices and while it concluded that there was evidence that the widespread use of hard substances were reduced nowadays due to elements such as the biological passport, it highlighted various concerns. April
3, 2015 (cyclingtips.com.au)
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2015 Volta Limburg Classic (Hel van het Mergelland).
Saturday's Volta
Limburg Classic departs Eijsden at 12:00pm CET (6:00am U.S. Eastern)
and is expected at the finish at Eijsden at around 5:00pm CET (11:00am
U.S. Eastern).
Volta Limburg Classic live video streaming should get underway at *2:45pm CET (*8:45am U.S. Eastern, 5:45am Pacific). *Like last year, they will be live with a preview/teams presentation at 11:15am CET and through the race start. Then live with the race for the final 2 hours or so. April
3, 2015 (cyclingfans.com)
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After a strong 10-rider break had been caught inside the final
kilometre, Feillu bested Bouhanni and Dupont.
Romain Feillu
confirmed that he still has the speed to win big bunch sprints when he
emerged as the strongest in the uphill sprint in the Route Adelie
Vitré. The Frenchman denied Nacer
Bouhanni his first win for his new team by
beating him into second while Timothy
Dupont completed the podium.
In a magical 2011 season, Feillu seemed destined for a big future as he achieved several top results, including a very solid performance in the Tour de France. Since then, however, the fast Frenchman has been unable to get back to the same level and he has been forced to drop down from the WorldTour level. April
3, 2015 (cyclingquotes.com)
 Evelyn
Stevens (left) and Megan Guarnier joined Boels-Dolmans for this season.
Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com.
When
round three of the Women’s Road World Cup begins at the Ronde van
Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders) Sunday, this year’s top performing team,
Boels-Dolmans, will be marked women. The Dutch squad has dominated this
season, taking six victories and the general classification at the
Ladies Tour of Qatar. Those wins have been achieved by four of the 10
riders on the roster.
One of the athletes to win is American Megan Guarnier. Born in upstate New York but now living the European dream with her husband in France, the 29-year-old won the first edition of the women’s Strade Bianche last month. She has been joined on the team this year by three-time U.S. time trial champion Evelyn Stevens, further strengthening the Dutch outfit. April
3, 2015 (velonews.com)
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Geraint Thomas on his way to winning E3 Harelbeke.
(Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com).
Five
years after they launched, Team Sky have finally come of age on the
cobbles and are enjoying their best classics season to date. Ian Stannard kicked
off their successful spring in early March, with a second consecutive
victory at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, and Geraint Thomas
ramped it up last week, triumphing at E3 Harelbeke and finishing on the
podium in Wevelgem two days later.
Thomas was Team Sky’s best finisher at the Tour of Flanders last season in eighth place – his best result at the Flemish monument. Following his blistering start on the cobbles, the Welshman has jumped up to second favorite for victory this weekend with the Belgian bookmakers behind Sep Vanmarcke. April
3, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
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The Cobbles and the Climbs: it’s all about positioning and everyone
wants to be at the front.
The
greatest one day race in the world takes place on Sunday. Giant crowds,
fierce climbs and await. This year’s race promises an open edition with
no particularly rivalries, instead a long list of contenders and
pretenders.
Similar to last year the route heads south across Flanders to Kortrijk and then the Tiegemberg starts the first of the hellingen, the climbs and the route then resembles a bowl of spaghetti as it loops back and forth across the area in order to pack in as many climbs as possible. This matters twice over, the obvious point is the concentration of climbs but the secondary factor is the twisting route where being well-place for the right corner matters. April
3, 2015 (inrng.com)
2014-15
Races &
Results.
GP Miguel Indurain - Apr 4 (Start List), Tour of Flanders - Apr 5 (Start List), Giro d'Italia 2015 - May 9-31 (Stages), Tour de France 2015 - July 4-26 (Stages), Vuelta a España 2015 - Aug 22-Sept 13 (Stages), UCI Road World Championship 2015 - Sept 20-27 (Stages), Driedaagse De Panne-Koksijde - Mar 31-Apr 2 (Results), Gent - Wevelgem - Mar 29 (Results), Gent - Wevelgem Women - Mar 29 (Results), Volta Ciclista a Catalunya - Mar 23-29 (Results), E3 Harelbeke - Mar 27 (Results), Tour de Taiwan - Mar 21-25 (Results), Milan San Remo - Mar 22 (Results), Nokere Koerse - Mar 18 (Results), Tirreno-Adriatico - Mar 11-17 (Results), UCI Track World Championships - Feb 18-22 (Results), UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships - Jan 31-Feb 1 (Results).  Photo:
Fabian
Cancellara won the 2014 Ronde van Vlaanderen. Due to injury,however, he
will not be able to defend his title.
Sunday's Tour
of Flanders departs Brugge at 10:15am CET (4:15am U.S. Eastern) and
isexpected at the finish at Oudenaarde at around 4:47pm CET (10:47am
U.S.Eastern, 7:47am Pacific).
Tour of Flanders live streaming video should get underway at around *9:30am CET (*3:30am U.S. Eastern, 12:30am Pacific). April
3, 2015
(cyclingfans.com)
Tinkoff-Saxo
are heading into Sunday's Tour of Flanders all-in behind leader Peter Sagan, who the
team says is benefiting from continually improving form as the Classics
season hits full stride.
Sagan took his first win for Tinkoff-Saxo during the penultimate stage of Tirreno-Adriatico in March, but he has failed to crack a podium since in the traditional build-up to the Classics. He was fourth in the bunch kick at Milan-San Remo, and then he mysteriously dropped from the lead trio of E3Harelbeke in the final kilometers, eventually fading to 30th. Most recently he was 10th at Gent-Wevelgem. April
2, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
Bradley Wiggins won
his last ever time trial in Team Sky colors, with an aggressive,
powerful ride during the 14.2km final stage at the Three Days of De
Panne.
Triple stage winner Alexander Kristoff won overall, after favorite Stijn Devolder failed to snatch victory from the Norwegian. Kristoff was 18 seconds slower than Wiggins but one second faster than the Belgian and so Devolder finished 23 seconds down in the final overall classification. Wiggins storming up the classification to take third place at 42 seconds. April
2, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
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"I enjoy sport. I just don’t understand the win at all costs mentally
at all."
The inclusion of Lance
Armstrong in a pre-Tour de France charity cycle ride in
July has cost the event its sole female participant.
Nicki Aitken, the 36-year-old long distance athlete from Reading, felt she had no option but to withdraw after the organizer, ex footballer and cancer survivor Geoff Thomas, revealed that Armstrong would be riding beside her in France. “I realized I didn’t want to be in something that’s associated with the most tainted man in sport,” she said. April
3, 2015 (sport.bt.com)
 Steven
de Jongh will manage the group of sport directors at Tinkoff-Saxo.
Photo: Tim De Waele.
The
Tinkoff-Saxo team of two-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador has
added Dutchman Steven de
Jongh to its management team after the sacking of manager Bjarne Riis.
The team owned by Russian millionaire Oleg Tinkov officially fired Riis last weekend. De Jongh was named as head of the group of sport directors, charged with the strategic, long-term planning of the team and its race program. Riis’ workload will be shared between de Jongh and general manager Stefano Feltrin, who “will assume a more active role in the team’s sports operations,” the team said in a statement. “We will not rush and turn everything upside down right now. That would not be wise at this stage,” added de Jongh. April
3, 2015 (velonews.com)
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Wilfried Peeters, Zdenek Stybar, Niki Terpstra and Patrick Lefevere.
(Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com).
In
the absence of spring classics specialist Tom Boonen the
Etixx-QuickStep team from Patrick
Lefevre will be riding in support of Zdenek Stybar and Niki Terpstra at the
Tour of Flanders.
At the press conference in the Unilin flooring headquarters in Wielsbeke, Boonen played down the high expectations and ruled out his participation for the Ronde and Paris-Roubaix, aiming to come back instead at the Tour of Turkey in May. April
3, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
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"Tour of Flanders for Women" for those of you that have not adopted
Flemish as your language for the weekend
We
may not see it on TV (yet?) but this is the biggest day on the women's
cycling calendar. Hopefully in a not too distant future this will be
the first weekend in a massive double header as we get to watch first
the womens Tour of Flanders and then a week later the women's
Paris-Roubaix.
The way things are moving right now it's not that far fetched an idea. Roubaix is the number one race on the top women riders' wishlists and I'm guessing in a few years it will be a reality, nay-sayers or not. For now the women's Ronde van Vlaanderen will mainly be a party for the ones lucky enough to see it from the roadside. The morning start in Oudenaarde is a huge party as the town is the center of all the events on Sunday and out on the big viewing spots at the Kwaremont and Paterberg the riders will be cheered on by thousands and thousands of fans already assembled there. The atmosphere there is magic and the fans this year may be in for a cracking race. April
3, 2015 (podiumcafe.com)
 After
an accident that nearly ended her career, the Brit is back in the
game... and she’s on a mission. Photo: Andy Jones.
Dani King has been
busy lately: a training camp in Belgium, dressing up as a sumo wrestler
to cheer on her team-mates, and she has now ridden her first race of
the season — claiming victory with boyfriend Matt Rowe in the
Port Talbot Wheelers two-up 25-mile time trial.
“Physically I’m in really good shape, and it’s nice to be out here with the team,” said King during a recent interview at the Wiggle-Honda team launch. April
3, 2015 (cyclingweekly.co.uk)
 Without
its two perennial favorites, Sunday's Tour of Flanders is anyone's race
to win. Photo: Tim De Waele.
It’s
rare that an entire nation embraces the sport of cycling as fervently
and passionately as Belgium. In the Flanders region, cycling is nothing
short of an obsession. The sport thrives, the fans line the roads, and
the winners are lionized as gods. The Belgians hoist a beer to what
they call “cycling’s cultural heritage.”
Add in some mud, wind, cold, and rain, not to mention miles of bumpy cobblestones and spirit-busting bergs, and the ingredients set the stage for one of cycling’s most compelling and intriguing races. The Tour of Flanders, called the Ronde van Vlaanderen by the locals, is the best of what competitive cycling has to offer. April
3, 2015 (velonews.com)
 Giro’s
Empire ACC has an old-school vibe and a modern Easton EC90 ACC carbon
fiber sole.
(Photo courtesy of Giro).
Long
before Velcro, buckles, and dials, laces were it because, well, laces
were it.
Tie-up cycling shoes are currently back in vogue partly because they look cool—and also because they offer unparalleled comfort. "With eyelets down the whole shoe, laces offer the best customized foot fit - snug without any unwanted pressure points," says Chris Hutchens, design and development director at Lake Cycling. But comfort is only part of the equation. April
3, 2015 (bicycling.com)
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FUSO stainless steel custom. KVA hourglass stays, Reynolds 853 seat
tube, Dura ace 9000 derailleurs and downtube shifters, TPR mag brakes
and drilled levers.
A
custom painted stainless steel bike with retro style downtube shifters
and drilled out brake levers.
It’s made by RE Bikes in Seattle of KVA stainless with design by Dave Lieberman of FUSO. It’s a painted Stainless Steel bike that features hourglass stays, BB30 for the Rotor cranks, tapered headtube with Liebo cups and ENVE fork. Legendary builder Dave Moulton’s company, carried on by Russ Denny, are builders who designed the Ritte Snob and agreed to the build of stainless steel with ISP, BB30 and tapered headtube. April
3, 2015 (pezcyclingnews.com)
April
2, 2015 (velonews.com)
|  Vincenzo
Nibali wrote to the UCI, asking the governing body not to pull Astana's
racing license. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com.
With
Astana facing possible expulsion from cycling, 2014 Tour de France
winner Vincenzo Nibali
wrote to the UCI’s license commission in support of his team.
Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport published a letter the Italian grand tour star wrote via his lawyer, Fausto Malucchi. He sent the letter to the commission, which met with the Kazakh team Thursday in Geneva, Switzerland, to decide the team’s fate. “The team, winner of the 2013 Giro d’Italia and 2014 Tour de France, is a symbol of clean and honest sport,” the letter reads, according to the newspaper. April
3, 2015 (velonews.com)
 Peter
Sagan hopes to be in the winning move at Flanders. Photo: Tim De Waele.
Oleg Tinkov doesn’t
settle for anything less than success; just ask Bjarne Riis, who was
shown the door last week.
Sunday is crunch time for Peter Sagan, who will be under huge pressure from the media and his team owner to live up to his superstar salary and deliver victory at the Ronde van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders). Anything less will be viewed as a disappointment. Yet coming into the 2015 classics, it’s been hard to read Sagan. After a tepid run across the opening northern classics, Sagan will enter Sunday’s monumental bash across the bergs of Flanders as a favorite with something to prove. Unlike most of the other protagonists, Sagan and Tinkoff did not hold a pre-Flanders press conference. Instead, they released a few comments via press releases. Otherwise, it’s hard to gauge the mood inside the team bus. April
3, 2015 (velonews.com)
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In 2013, the Swiss-Italian won the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix.
Last year Cancellara won the Tour of Flanders once more.
Swiss
bicycle racer Fabian
Cancellara has made a promise to return to competing after
he crashed at the E3 Harelbeke.
Cancellara, a member of Trek Factory Racing, crashed last Friday during the early part of the race which was held in Belgium. He was brought to a local hospital where it was discovered that two minor fractures in his lower vertebrae resulted from the fall. The 34-year-old was instructed his injuries would take weeks to recover, taking him out of the Classics season. A day after the fall, Cancellara discussed the incident with a press corp, as well as his plans for the near future. The multiple world time-trial champion and one-day specialist was evidently experiencing pain and refused to specify a comeback date. April
3, 2015 (veloballs.com)
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Starting at 14.30 CEST you can follow the hilly Dutch race on
CyclingQuotes.com/live.
The
entire cycling world is focused on Flanders where the heavy guys
prepare themselves for one of the biggest battes on the cobbles.
Meanwhile, the lighter riders are preparing themselves for the next part of the classics season in the Ardennes and some of them will test their conditon in Saturday's Volta Limburg Classic. Starting at 14.30 CEST, you can follow the race on CyclingQuotes.com/live. April
3, 2015 (cyclingquotes.com)
 Photo: Canyon’s
Ultimate is a great package, but its Mavic rims are noisy.
BikeRadar
verdict: 4.5 out of 5
stars. "The Ultimate is light, superb value, and extraordinarily quick."
.. April
3, 2015 (bikeradar.com)
 Bixby crosses the state line into Arkansas.
(Photo by Mike Minnick).
When
Bixby
was adopted from a kill shelter in Austin, Texas, she had no idea what
kind of adventures lay in store. Now, at the ripe age of five, the
border collie mix is on the cycling trip of a lifetime on a Yuba Mundo
cargo bike with her human, Mike
Minnick.
The two have already pedaled over 8,400 miles through 31 states, starting from Lubec, Maine, heading toward Key West, Florida, and then crisscrossing the country to their current location in San Luis Obispo. Prior to hitting the road with his best canine friend, Minnick, a 39-year-old former bartender, says he was the last person you’d expect to undertake such an epic journey. April
3, 2015 (bicycling.com)
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