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Joaquin Rodriguez (Team Katusha) (velonews.com).
Katusha's Joaquim Rodriguez
won the third stage of the Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco on Wednesday.
The Spaniard won a three-man sprint to the line ahead of Sergio Henao and
Nairo Quintana.
The three riders broke away from the small main field on the steep slopes of the Antigua, with three kilometers to go, and descended together into the finishing area on the streets of Zumarraga. Henao started the sprint but was overtaken by Rodriguez at the line, while Quintana rolled across in third. April
8, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
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Adriano Malori (Movistar Team) stays in the blue leader's jersey
(Fotoreporter Sirotti).
Adriano Malori led a
Movistar one-two in the Circuit de la Sarthe-Pays de la Loire afternoon
time trial, beating teammate Alex
Dowsett in the 6.8km test in Angers.
The Italian covered the course in a time of 7:58 at over 51km/h. Dowsett was nine seconds slower, with Ramunas Navardauskas third in a time of 8:13. It was Malori’s third win of the 2015 season after also winning time trials at the Tour de San Luis and the more recent Tirreno-Adriatico. April
8, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
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I wasn’t sure to win the sprint even though I knew I was the fastest of
us three.
Following
Nacer Bouhanni’s relief as he claimed his first victory at the Circuit
de la Sarthe-Pays de la Loire, his former team FDJ experienced the same
feeling as Anthony Roux
delivered in Angers a long-awaited success for Marc Madiot’s
outfit.
The Frenchman, a former overall winner of the event in 2011, outsprinted Quentin Jaurégui of AG2R-La Mondiale and Europcar’s superstar Thomas Voeckler, who led the trio to avoiding the highly expected mass sprint finish. April
8, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
Women are flooding the sport and they are excited about it, retailers are excited about it and it has this tremendous momentum.
Photography by Drew Dunlop and Chas Mackinnon Cycling
is one of those well-established industries where growth is hard to
come by. Product innovation, savvy marketing and most importantly the
identification of untapped market segments are crucial to keeping sales
and profitability rolling along. As far as underdeveloped market
segments go, it’s hard to go past women’s cycling.
The recognition of the potential of this market as one of the key opportunities for growth in the industry and the sport has led to a growing sophistication in the offering for women, taking it beyond the days of shrink it and pink it where a women’s product was just smaller and prettier than the version made for their male counterparts. So what are cycling companies doing now to deliver women’s products that cater to the specific needs of the gender, to deliver their marketing in a way that makes women embrace the sport and to make sure this opportunity turns into a reality? April
8, 2015 (cyclingtips.com.au)
2014-15
Races &
Results.
Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco - Apr 6-11 (Stages & Results), Circuit Cycliste Sarthe - Apr 7-10 (Stages & Results), Paris-Roubaix - Apr 12 (History), 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), Scheldeprijs - Apr 8 (Results), Tour of Flanders - Apr 5 (Results), GP Miguel Indurain - Apr 4 (Results), Driedaagse De Panne-Koksijde - Mar 31-Apr 2 (Results), Gent - Wevelgem - Mar 29 (Results), Volta Ciclista a Catalunya - Mar 23-29 (Results), E3 Harelbeke - Mar 27 (Results), Milan San Remo - Mar 22 (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:
But there’s no other race like Paris-Roubaix; organisers in Denmark,
England, Brittany and even the USA seek to imitate it but that’s not
possible.
The
‘Hell of the North’ hits the cobbles of Northern France on Sunday.
Sure, there are older races – Paris Roubaix was first held in 1896 when Josef Fischer of Germany won but Liege-Bastogne-Liege (La Doyenne and the fourth Monument) predates that by four years. There are longer races; it’s a mere 257 kilometers from the Paris satellite of Compiegne to the Roubaix velodrome; Milan-Sanremo adds 40 kilometers to that. And there are hillier races; the aforementioned Liege-Bastogne-Liege has 10 classified climbs and hardly one hundred metres of flat road – whilst the Tour of Lombardy (the fifth and final Monument) includes bona fide mountain passes in its parcours. Paris-Roubaix remains steadfastly pan flat. April
8, 2015 (pezcyclingnews.com)
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Stage 4 Profile.
Thursday's Tour of
the Basque Country Stage 4 departs Zumarraga at 1:05pm CET (7:05am U.S.
Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Arrate (Eibar) at around
5:13pm CET (11:13am U.S. Eastern).
Tour of the Basque Country live streaming video should get underway at around *3:30pm CET (*9:30am U.S. Eastern, 6:30am Pacific). *Eurosport is scheduled to begin at this time. April
8, 2015 (cyclingfans.com)
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The basics of Roubaix are pretty straightforward. It's a 253 km trek
north from what used to be Paris but is now Compiegne. Bryn
Lennon/Getty Image
For
those worried after the discussions about Flanders, there is no new
Roubaix course, no laps, no three passages of VIP sections in the
Forest of Arenberg, the Carrefour de'l Arbre hasn't been taken out and
there's no finish on a freeway outside Roubaix.
Just the same(-ish) long meander through the fields of northern France to find the gnarliest possible cobble roads on the way to the velodrome in Roubaix. Just the way we like it. April
8, 2015 (podiumcafe.com)
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2015 Paris-Roubaix Profile and Cobblestone Sectors.
Sunday's
Paris Roubaix departs Compiegne at 10:20am CET (4:20am U.S.
Eastern)
and is expected at the finish at Roubaix at around 4:50pm CET (10:50am
U.S. Eastern).
Paris Roubaix live streaming video should get underway at around *12:45pm CET (*6:45am U.S. Eastern, 3:45am Pacific). *Eurosport's coverage is scheduled to begin at this time. April
8, 2015 (cyclingfans.com)
April
7, 2015 (velonews.com)
|  Photo:
She was a student at the University of Nevada-Reno, majoring in
nutrition and dietetics, set to graduate this spring, and was recently
engaged to cyclist Nick Schaffner.
©Kristy Morrow The
staff of the Redlands Bicycle Classic and the cycling community are
grieving the tragic loss of Erica
Greif, a 24-year-old cyclist en route to race in the
Redlands Bicycle Classic who was killed in an auto accident on Tuesday
night.
Redlands Bicycle Classic President Bob Peppler had consoling remarks for the ZOCA-Halo Sports Hedrick racing team cyclist, who called the tragedy heartbreaking. April
8, 2015 (cyclingillustrated.com)
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Alexander Kristoff (Katusha) (Getty Images Sport).
Scheldeprijs
followed the recent form guide with Alexander
Kristoff winning ahead of Edward Theuns and
Yauheni Hutarovich.
The race was marred by a huge crash inside the final two kilometers with the majority of the field caught out. However, that mattered little to Kirstoff who opened a commanding sprint inside the final 150 meters to follow up on his Tour of Flanders success. April
8, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
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...
The
gaping empty road behind the 12 riders who survived to sprint for the
win in today’s Scheldeprijs pro race tells the tale of the huge crash
on the home straight.
Thevideo shows Irish rider Sam Bennett in 4th place with around 1km remaining. A little further up the road, an Astana rider leans on Bennett and that movement appears to cause the crash. Bennett was one of the first victim’s of the Astana rider’s move, falling hard. April
8, 2015 (stickybottle.com)
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"The organizer shall ensure that the race course or the competition
grounds include no places or situations that could constitute a
particular safety risk to anyone." (www.thetop7.com)
Monday’s
crash in the finish of the Tour of the Basque Country was horrific, the
bunch was speeding inside the final kilometer, rounded a bend into the
finishing straight to find two narrow iron bollards topped with traffic
cones in the way.
The first riders came around the corner just tight enough to avoid trouble, behind others could not see the obstacle. Some swerved at the last minute prompting the first falls before others hit the metal poles at full speed. Racing is dangerous enough and there are safety rules and guidelines to protect riders. Only they’re vague because it’s too hard to set down firm rules for events that exploit open roads. April
8, 2015 (inrng.com)
 Marcel
Kittel (Giant-Alpecin)
has had a tough run in the first few months of 2015. The German
sprinter hopes to overcome a virus that has sidelined him to be ready
to race full-gas at the Tour de France. Photo: AFP PHOTO | MARK GUNTER.
German
Marcel Kittel
dominated the sprints in the 2014 Tour de France, but has struggled to
even race in the 2015 season due to a virus and a
slower than expected recovery.
Team Giant-Alpecin’s top sprinter had to pull out of the Tirreno-Adriatico stage race and skip his title defense in Wednesday’s Scheldeprijs. His hope now is to be recovered in time for the Tour de France, which begins July 4 in Utrecht, Netherlands, but it is a “slow” process. “May 1 in the Tour of Yorkshire? It’s very difficult to say when he can return,” team doctor, Anko Boelens told VeloNews. April
8, 2015 (velonews.com)
 Alexander
Kristoff (r) and Katusha team-mate Luca Paolini at the start of the
2015 Scheldeprijs in Antwerp. Photography by Cor Vos and Shane Stokes.
Tour
of Flanders winner Alexander
Kristoff has made clear it is business as usual in today’s
Scheldeprijs race and Sunday’s Paris-Roubaix, saying that he is
determined to move on after his big success last Sunday.
Some riders bask in the glow of success but he wants to keep his momentum going. While he took three stages plus the overall in the Three Days of De Panne plus the Tour of Flanders in the past week, he is looking forward rather than gazing back. “I feel it [Flanders] was the best win of my career, especially in the way we won, the way I won,” he told CyclingTips at the Scheldeprijs start in Antwerp on Wednesday morning. April
8, 2015 (cyclingtips.com.au)
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Shimano's handlebar-mounted satellite shifters are popular with riders
at the Classics who like to attack the cobbles with their hands on the
tops, they're design to be thumb sized...because you use your thumb to
shift.
SRAM’s
wireless electronic groupset is seemingly edging closer to production
and, while they’re remaining tight-lipped on official details
surrounding the gruppo, we spotted it being put to the test at the
women’s Tour of Flanders.
The wireless setup first broke cover at the 2014 Tour of California, where it was used by the Axeon Cycling team and, having been continually refined since then, Velocio-SRAM’s Lisa Brennauer, a silver medallist at the 2014 World Road Race Championships, was the rider tasked with testing the groupset over the cobbles of Flanders. April
8, 2015 (roadcyclinguk.com)
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Fyxation is now shipping its Six Fyx kit, which converts fixed gear
bikes with 120mm rear spacing to a six-speed derailleur drivetrain.
The
Six Fyx consists of a proprietary bolt-on 120mm rear hub with a 12-26
cassette, a removable derailleur hanger designed for horizontal
dropouts, rear derailleur, indexed bar-end shifter, cables, housing and
a 46-tooth chainring (130 BCD). The kit requires a 9-speed chain that
is not included.
The kit is available with the above parts for $250 retail for customers who want to have a wheel built around the kit's hub. It's also available with a complete rear wheel built with the Six Fyx hub and a black 40mm Fyzation wheel for $300. April
8, 2015 (bicycleretailer.com)
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Is your bike mechanic a Hopeful Pro, True Believer, Kid, or
Retrogrouch?(Illustration by Jason Raish).
How
to get the most from these four bike-shop archetypes.
April
8, 2015 (bicycling.com)
| April
8,
2015
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Anna van der Breggen (Rabo Liv) wins (Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com).
Brennauer, Worrack bested by
Dutch rider.
April
8, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
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The Trek Factory Racing rider was left with a broken collarbone in the
crash as he was sent flying across the road.
Former
Lotto and CSC rider Paul
Van Hyfte was the driver who crashed into the back of the
FDJ car at the Tour of Flanders, while a policeman caused Jesse Sergent to
crash.
Sergent, who was part of a seven-man breakaway, collided with a Shimano car as he turned a corner around the halfway mark of the race. According to Ciclo21.com, the driver of the car was a police officer, who reportedly cannot remember anything about the incident or what caused him to try and pass the New Zealander in such a narrow place. April
8, 2015 (cyclingweekly.co.uk)
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Tejay van Garderen (BMC) waits to sign in for stage 1 at Pais Vasco.
(Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com).
American
Tejay van Garderen
has had a rollercoaster beginning to his 2015 season as he prepares for
his top target, the Tour de France in July. Van Garderen has
twice finished fifth overall in the race – in 2012 and again last year
– and as a reward was given reins to the team as Cadel Evans made his
exit.
But the 26-year-old's tenure as the BMC leader has been a mixed bag. His result in the 2012 Tour signalled his potential for the Grand Tours, and he started 2013 with his first major win at the 2.HC Tour of California. Van Garderen faltered at the Tour de France that year, however, and despite finishing second on an epic stage to Alpe d'Heuz, he came in 45th in the general classification. April
8, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
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Most of the Defy models employ the D-Fuse seatpost as a proper seatpost.
"You’ve
probably seen my review on the TCX SLR 1. It was the first bike in
Giant’s line to use the new D-Fuse seatpost design. A refresher: D-Fuse
is a seatpost that instead of being tubular in shape, has a D-shape
(viewed from the top). The shape is oriented so that the middle of the
flat side of the D sits at 6 o’clock—the rear of the post—and
perpendicular to the plane of the frame.
Jon Swanson, the engineer behind the design walked me through how the shape allows the post to flex rearward while discouraging forward flex. The upshot is that the post moves little, if at all, under pedaling forces but allows some spring when the rider hits bumps. And a ‘cross bike is the natural place to give a post like this a try. Feedback from internal testing was positive enough to make it into production with the Defy, and I can understand why. You’ll pardon me if I was concerned that a aluminum-framed ‘cross bike on rough fire roads might beat me past senselessness and straight into learned helplessness." April
8, 2015 (redkiteprayer.com)
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Tires that never puncture.
Bicycles
in one form or another have been around for nearly 200 years. That’s
plenty of time, you would have thought, for all the niggles and
annoyances to have been ironed out of the road cycling experience.
Of course, over the past two centuries there have been countless cycling innovations and inventions that we now take for granted. Many of them are the work of genius. Yet as technology marches on, new problems present themselves and we’re left wanting for things to be that little bit better. April
8, 2015 (cyclingweekly.co.uk)
 Tanner
Putt jumped into the breakaway at Scheldeprijs at will try to do the
same at his first Paris-Roubaix on Sunday. Photo: Caley Fretz |
VeloNews.com.
There
is no fear in the eyes of Tanner
Putt as he stands on the precipice of
Paris-Roubaix, peering at 51 kilometers of pavé and the biggest race of
his career.
“Not scared. More … excited,” Putt said with a brief pause and a grin, standing outside his UHC team bus at the start of Scheldeprijs Wednesday morning. An hour later, he showed just how excited he is, battling his way into the day’s long breakaway. April
8, 2015 (velonews.com)
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Berthoud handlebar bags are available in three sizes, depending on how
much room you have between your stem/decaleur and your front rack.
"Berthoud
handlebar bags are wonderful, I even wrote once that they were
“unimprovable”. It turns out that they can be improved after all!
The model most riders prefer is the “standard” version, which uses elastic loops to close the pocket flaps. The “luxury” version uses leather straps and buckles, which sounds nice until you try to open them one-handed while riding, or with cold hands while stopped – it’s fiddly and can be frustrating. However, the “luxury” version also has rings and a removable shoulder strap, so you can more conveniently carry your bag." . April
8, 2015 (janheine.wordpress.com)
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The 2015 Energiewacht Tour, an Elite Women's race, is being held April
8-12. There is also a junior edition.
Thursday's
Energiewacht Tour Stage 1 gets underway at 2:00pm CET (8:00am U.S.
Eastern) and is expected to finish at around 4:45pm CET (10:45am U.S.
Eastern).
Energiewacht Tour live video streaming should get underway at 2:00pm CET (8:00am U.S. Eastern, 5:00am Pacific). April
8, 2015 (cyclingfans.com)
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