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Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha) takes the win (Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com).
Katusha's
Joaquim Rodriguez
took his second consecutive stage win during stage 4 at the Vuelta
Ciclista al Pais Vasco on Thursday.
The Spaniard was a part of a select group of climbers that formed on the steep slopes of the late-race climb over the Usartza, and following a fast two-kilometer descent into Arrate, he out-sprinted his rivals at the finish line. Bauke Mollema was second in the sprint and Simon Yates was third. April
9, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
 Manuele
Boaro (Tinkoff-Saxo) takes a bow, winning stage 3 after mistakenly
saluting on the previous stage for second place (Bettini Photo).
Rolland, Hivert topped by
Tinkoff-Saxo Italian.
April
9, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
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Stage 4 Profile.
Friday's Tour of the
Basque Country Stage 5 departs Eibar at 1:15pm CET (7:15am U.S.
Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Aia 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
9, 2015 (cyclingfans.com)
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:
Few one-day bike races capture the imagination quite like
Paris-Roubaix. The cobbles, the dirt, the mud, the crashes; it truly is
one of the hardest races on the calendar. (Cor Vos)
The
2015 edition of Paris-Roubaix is 253km long and takes the riders from
Compiègne to Roubaix. Along the way they’ll face 27 cobbled sectors of
varying degrees of brutality, for a total of 52.7 cobbled kilometers.
Alexander Kristoff goes into the race as one of the big favorites, not least because of an incredible run of form in recent times. In nine days, Kristoff managed no fewer than six wins, including Scheldeprijs on Wednesday and last Sunday’s Tour of Flanders. April
9, 2015 (cyclingtips.com.au)
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It took more than a year to complete the project.
Originally
designed by Lodovico
Falconi in 1984, this magnificently restored Alan Super
Record CX, found a second life rather serendipitously.
In a moment of luck, the Netherlands-based framebuilder, Junior Hoefsloot, found the Alan in all places – a metal scrap yard. From there, Hoefsloot brought it back to his workplace, and began the process of bringing it back to life. Both a philanthropic foundation and a workshop, Hoesfsloot’s Villa Boerebont MOER, trains underprivileged youth in the life-long skills of woodworking, bike mechanics, farming, and baking. Together, he and his students, turned the Alan into this glorious fixed-gear bike. April
9, 2015 (capovelo.com)
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The new Ultralight uses a different carbon layup schedule than the EVO
but shares the same molds and geometry as its lighter-weight sibling.
Building
on its 695-gram Ultralight EVO high-end road frameset (MSRP: $3,999),
Spain's BH Bikes has added two midseason complete bikes to the
Ultralight line.
The 2015.5 Ultralight climbing frame drops the EVO name, weighs 840 grams, and is available in Shimano Ultegra and Dura-Ace builds. "Our new (non-EVO) Ultralight offers similar category-topping performance and weight, but at a more modest price," said Gene DiMenna, BH's national sales and brand manager in the U.S. "We borrowed liberally from design, engineering and manufacturing advancements gained during the EVO project, but back in Vitoria (BH's headquarters in Spain's Basque region) and here in the U.S., there's an immense amount of pride in delivering near-EVO level performance in a more affordable package." April
9, 2015 (bicycleretailer.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
9, 2015 (cyclingfans.com)
 Photo:
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)
 Photo:
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)
|  Photo:
Jolien d'Hoore (Wiggle Honda) wins (Bert
Geerts/dcp-bertgeerts@xs4all.nl).
Jolien D'hoore claimed
the first stage of the Energiewacht Tour in a sprint finish ahead of Barbara Guarischi
and Trixi Worrack.
Anna van der Breggen finished fifth, and retained her overall lead in the race. On a calm, sunny day with the wind that usually characterizes the Energiewacht Tour absent, all the teams were predicting a bunch sprint, though two breakaway riders nearly rewrote the script. Just 14 kilometers into the race, Winanda Spoor attacked, taking Marijn de Vries with her, and with the bunch hesitant to chase, they stayed away through the run-in from Wedde to Ter Apel, and into the first of four 13.9km laps. April
9, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
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Sebastian Haedo (Jamis-Hagens Berman) takes the win over Travis McCabe
(SmartStop). (Jonathan Devich/epicimages.us). (cyclingnews.com).
Alison Jackson and Sebastian Haedo claimed
wins in the first stage of the Redlands Bicycle Classic, the Highland
circuit race, held Wednesday.
Jackson won a sprint from a small group, coming across the line ahead of former national champion Mara Abbott at the finish of the 41.3-mile race, a hilly affair in the foothills outside San Bernardino, California. Brianna Walle was third. The men’s race saw action from the start with a number of different groups attempting to get away from the peloton on each three-mile lap. About halfway through the 58.1-mile stage, a rider from Jelly Belly Pro Cycling and Astellas Cycling finally managed to escape from the peloton, creating a gap of 40 seconds quickly. Brendan Rhim bridged the gap across and then rode away from duo. April
9, 2015 (velonews.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.
Friday's
Stage 2 is divided into a morning Stage 2a Team Time Trial and an
afternoon Stage 2b. There is a live feed for Stage 2b only.
Friday's Energiewacht Tour Stage 2b gets underway at 2:00pm CET (8:00am U.S. Eastern) and is expected to finish at around 4:48pm CET (10:48am U.S. Eastern). Energiewacht Tour live video streaming should get underway at 2:00pm CET (8:00am U.S. Eastern, 5:00am Pacific). April
9, 2015 (cyclingfans.com)
 On
Thursday, Sep Vanmarcke (LottoNL-Jumbo) was out training on the
Paris-Roubaix cobblestones, eager to put the disappointment of Ronde
van Vlaanderen behind him. Photo: Tim De Waele.
Belgian
Sep Vanmarcke
says that bad moments come and go in cycling and that Sunday’s Ronde
van Vlaanderen performance was one that already went. He now looks
ahead to Paris-Roubaix.
In northern France this Sunday, he wants to do something similar to 2013 when he placed second to Swiss Fabian Cancellara — or better. The result would help wash clean the dirty spot that was ‘De Ronde,’ four days ago in Belgium. In front of a home crowd and one of the pre-race favorites, Vanmarcke failed. His yellow LottoNL-Jumbo jersey was noticeable not because it was in the group of favorites with eventual winner Alexander Kristoff, but because the television cameras kept showing the home star chasing desperately to make up ground. April
9, 2015 (velonews.com)
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THE COBBLESTONES OF WALLERS-ARENBERG Credit: Graham Watson.
Niki Terpstra is the
king of Strava when it comes to the pavé sections of Paris-Roubaix,
holding 12 of the 28 sectors, but there's plenty of amateurs on the
list too
The Etixx-Quick-Step rider holds the record on 12 of the 28 sectors on the route, four of which were set in the 2012 race, the rest were picked up in 2013 when he raced to third place. But those stats get you down; 10 of the other sectors are currently led by amateurs, including the treacherous Arenberg section, which Frederic Gronier dominated in a 44km ride last June. April
9, 2015 (cyclingweekly.co.uk)
 Troisvilles
is the first cobbled sector of this year's Paris-Roubaix, measuring
2.2km. Photo: Tim De Waele.
Each
pavé sector is a chapter in the 113-year tale of Paris-Roubaix. There
are no easy cobbles, which exist on a scale from merely difficult to
hellish, and on race day there is no escape — barriers and crowds line
the route and cut off access to the dirt paths and concrete gutters
that one can glide onto any other day of the year.
Each stone tells a story of tires flattened, races ruined; tales of rearing up and, with the slightest touch, ripping a sidewall or sending a wheel skittering sideways like a frightened cat. None should be underestimated. Any sector, any stone, can alter the history of the day. This year, Paris-Roubaix will tackle 27 sectors, totaling 52.7 kilometers. The entire race is 253.5km long, and all the pavé comes in its latter two-thirds — the first 98km are smooth, rolling pavement. April
9, 2015 (velonews.com)
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Niki Terpstra wins the 2014 Paris-Roubaix.
The
2015 northern classics draw to a close on Sunday with Paris-Roubaix,
arguably the toughest and most prestigious one-day race on the calendar.
With former winners Fabian Cancellara and Tom Boonen out of the race with injury, could we see Niki Terpstra successfully defend last year’s victory? Or will man-of-the-season Alexander Kristoff make it a Tour of Flanders/Paris-Roubaix double? April
9, 2015 (cyclingweekly.co.uk)
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"I tend to do most of my hard training sessions solo because it means I
can focus on what I have to do and make sure I get it done."
"Quite
a bit has happened since my last post. We have had our first couple of
races in Europe, as well as quite a bit of good training in preparation
for some heavy race blocks coming up. We also enjoyed some great
Italian coffee and food of course, but more on that in a moment.
The little town we live in, Gavirate, is quite nice but there isn’t a whole lot going on. There’s a gelato shop just down the road from the team apartments as well as two coffee shops we go to quite often. We call one the ‘Cobbled Street’ and the other the ‘Courtyard’." April
9, 2015 (cyclingtips.com.au)
April
8, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
April
8, 2015 (stickybottle.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)
|  Much is at stake for the U.S.
government in the case against Lance Armstrong. The ferocious legal
wrangling behind the scenes indicates as much. Photo: Tim De Waele.
The U.S. government has successfully blocked Floyd Landis’ proposed settlement with associates of feuding former teammate Lance Armstrong; a federal judge nixed the $600,000 deal on Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper acknowledged that it “might seem unfair” for the government to force Landis to continue litigation against William Stapleton, Armstrong’s former agent and president of Capital Sports and Entertainment Holdings, Inc., and CSE vice president Barton Knaggs, since the government was not part of the court action against them. April
9, 2015 (velonews.com) April
9,
2015
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Elisa Longo Borghini (Wiggle Honda) gets emotional as she approaches
the line (Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com).
Last
month, after the inaugural Strade Bianche, the UCI sat down with a
number of the top female cyclists to outline their plans for a women’s
WorldTour – a series that would try to mirror the already established
men’s WorldTour. After making several breakthroughs in the past two
seasons, in terms of their calendar, the inception of a WorldTour for
the women would be the first major structural step forward for the
female peloton in some time.
Recent Tour of Flanders victor Elisa Longo Borghini was one of the riders who stayed in Siena to attend the seminar, along with her team manager Rochelle Gilmore. Despite her young years – she’s still only 23 – Longo Borghini already has a wealth of experience at the top level, and she sat down with Cyclingnews to discuss what the UCI’s plans mean for her and the rest of women’s cycling. April
9, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
 In his
first year in the big leagues, Joey Rosskopf is taking his European
experience to heart and looking forward to the Amgen Tour of
California. Photo: Andrew Hood | VeloNews.com.
Getting
thrown into the deep end. It’s part of the story of every young
professional. Sink or swim.
Through his first two months in the treacherous European waters, BMC Racing’s Joey Rosskopf is doing more than keeping his head above water. And he hopes to make his own waves later this season. “Until three weeks ago, I had never raced in Belgium, except as a junior. It’s been an adventure,” Rosskopf told VeloNews last week. “I’ve been trying to figure out [how] to save energy. I am trying to do something helpful in the race. When it gets hard, I get spit out the back, but I can help earlier in the race.” April
9, 2015 (velonews.com)
 Photo:
Geraint Thomas and Bradley Wiggins in the 2014 Paris-Roubaix.
Team
Sky are not favorites for victory in Paris-Roubaix, says sports
director Servais Knaven,
while he also insists that the team have yet to formally select a
designated leader.
Bradley Wiggins is widely expected to lead the team in his last race in Sky’s colours before switching to the track for the Hour Record and 2016 Olympics, but Sky are set to meet today in Kortrijk, Belgium, to discuss strategy for Sunday’s monument. April
9, 2015 (cyclingweekly.co.uk)
 Niki
Terpstra with his 2014 winner's trophy. Photo: Graham Watson.
Is
there a rock more prized than this? Since 1977 the winner of
Paris-Roubaix has been awarded a rough, granite cube on a polished
stone plinth.
It’s a granite sett, a cobblestone, the sort of stone used to pave roads before concrete and tarmac. Roads like those preserved in Northern France, and used for the annual battle across the infamous ‘Hell of the North’. Cobbled roads were part of the first Paris-Roubaix in 1896 because almost every road in Europe was cobbled then. But as time passed, the cobbled roads remained in Northern France. This was largely due to coal mining in the area — the cobbled roads may be rough, but they are very tough and hard-wearing, so suited to the heavy transport used. April
9, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
 The
Giro d'Italia will again kick off with a team time trial, this time
along the Ligurian coast. Tim De Waele.
The
start of the 98th Giro d’Italia is one month away, and on Thursday,
race organizer RCS Sport announced that it has finalized the details of
the race’s 21 stages.
The grand tour, held from May 9 to 31, begins with a team time trial stage that will be held, for the first time in grand tour history, on a cycling path, which traces the Italian Riviera dei Fiori from San Lorenzo a Mare to Sanremo. The race finishes in Milan during Expo 2015. April
9, 2015 (velonews.com)
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Gravel and dirt roads reward riders with dramatically reduced car
traffic and access to remote areas otherwise unreachable.
Gorge
Roubaix returned for its third running at the end of March, 2015, as
racers and gravel grinders alike amassed in The Dalles, Oregon – a
small, 15,000-person city nestled in the Columbia River Gorge at the
end of the Oregon Trail, 85 miles due east of Portland and 36 miles
north of Mt Hood.
Gorge Roubaix features two big-ass races with plenty of climbing and copious dirt/gravel, as well as a new non-competitive “gravel grinder” event on Sunday. Day 1 ranges between 32 miles long with 2,500 feet of elevation gain for beginners and 62 miles and 5,400 feet for Elites, while Day 2 offers 50- and 75-mile courses with 3,400 and 6,120 feet of elevation, respectively. April
9, 2015 (pezcyclingnews.com)
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New Mavic wheel section on a Cannondale team bike. Photo: Gruber Images.
Alexander Kristoff’s
and Luca Paolini’s
recent Belgian winning streak has been on a new U-profiled front rim
supplied by Mavic.
The new front wheel has been spotted being used by the Mavic-sponsored Katusha and Cannondale pro teams in a number of recent races. Unlike previous V-shaped Cosmic Carbone Ultimate wheels this new wheel has a U-shaped section, suggesting that Mavic has warmed to the aero benefits of this profile. April
9, 2015 (cyclingweekly.co.uk)
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8,
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