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Italy’s
Luca Paolini
has spoken out about the level crossing incident during Sunday’s
Paris-Roubaix, insisting that rider safety should always be a priority
and that trains should be stopped for such an important race.
The 38-year-old Katusha rider and recent Gent-Wevelgem winner took to Twitter late on Monday night to give his opinion. Paolini has often taken a stand for rider safety. He is not an official rider representative but is respected for his experience and consideration for rider and race safety. April
14, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
 Philippe
Gilbert (BMC) is aiming for his third win in a row at Brabantse Pijl on
Wednesday. Photo: Tim De Waele.
With
John Degenkolb
and the rest of the cobble-bashers cooling their jets following two
weeks of hard racing across the pavé, a different profile of rider
steps to center stage — leaner, lighter, and faster for when the grade
pitches upward. It’s time to switch gears into the Ardennes classics.
Sunday’s Amstel Gold Race is backed up by Flèche Wallonne on Wednesday, and Liège-Bastogne-Liège, the “doyenne” of the hilly spring classics, the following weekend. To ease the transition from cobbles to the hills is Wednesday’s Brabantse Pijl, a one-day battle geographically located, appropriately enough, between Flanders and Wallonia. Two-time winner and defending champion Philippe Gilbert headlines a solid start list that blends WorldTour and second-tier teams. April
14, 2015 (velonews.com)
 Mark
Cavendish and Tom Boonen will race together at the Presidential Tour of
Turkey at the end of April. Photo: Tim De Waele.
A
little over one month ago, Tom
Boonen found himself out of Paris-Nice, in a hospital in
Blois, France, with a dislocated shoulder joint.
Etixx Quick Step’s aging classics star had to scratch his plans to race his beloved spring races, notably Ronde van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders) and Paris-Roubaix. From that disappointment has sprung a new opportunity: He’ll race the Giro d’Italia for the first time in his 16-year career. “I haven’t ridden much in Italy during my career because it didn’t fit in with my main goals,” said Boonen. April
14, 2015 (velonews.com)
2014-15
Races &
Results.
De Brabantse Pijl - Apr 15 (Start List), Amstel Gold Race - Apr 19 (History), Giro del Trentino - Apr 21-24 (History), Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey - Apr 26-May 3 (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), Paris Roubaix - Apr 12 (Results), Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco - Apr 6-11 (Results), Circuit Cycliste Sarthe - Apr 7-10 (Results), Scheldeprijs - Apr 8 (Results), Tour of Flanders - Apr 5 (Results), GP Miguel Indurain - Apr 4 (Results), Tirreno-Adriatico - Mar 11-17 (Results).  Photo:
Philippe Gilbert (BMC) won the 2014 De Brabantse Pijl.
Wednesday's La
Flèche Brabançonne departs Leuven at 12:36pm CET (6:36am U.S. Eastern)
and is expected at the finish at Overijse at around 5:36pm CET (11:36am
U.S. Eastern).
La Flèche Brabançonne live streaming video should get underway at around 3:10pm CET (9:10am U.S. Eastern, 6:10am Pacific). April
14, 2015 (cyclingfans.com)
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Chris Horner (Airgas) got to blow off the TT cobwebs for todays stage
(Jonathan Devich epicimages.us).
Chris Horner may own
the Redlands Bicycle Classic, as he told Cyclingnews before
the season started, but the four-time winner had to lease it out to Phil Gaimon last
week as the Optum-Kelly Benefit Strategies rider took his second
overall win at the Southern California race.
Horner, who won here in 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2004, finished seventh overall this year, 1:01 behind Gaimon's winning time. Despite failing to come away with his record fifth win, Horner said there were no surprises with his performance this week at the opening event of USA Cyclng's National Racing Calendar. April
13, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
Mara
Abbott and Phil
Gaimon
collected the overall titles at the Redlands Bicycle Classic as Coryn
Rivera and Sebastian
Haedo
closed out the National Racing Calendar kickoff with victories in
Sunday’s Sunset Road Race.
For Rivera, who pronounced herself “super stoked,” it was a second consecutive sprint win, this time ahead of Brianna Walle and Katherine Hall in the 61.8-mile women’s finale. It was likewise a second stage win for Haedo, who out-kicked Travis McCabe and Dion Smith at the end of the men’s 94.1-mile race. April
13, 2015 (velonews.com)
|  Taylor
Phinney has been on the mend since a career-threatening crash last May.
Photo: Tim De Waele.
BMC
Racing scored a podium at Paris-Roubaix with Greg Van Avermaet,
but the team was missing the rider whom many believe could win a
cobblestoned classic one day: Taylor
Phinney.
Far away from the drama of the pavé, Phinney continues his rehab in the wake of his career-threatening crash at last year’s U.S. national championship road race. It’s a slow road, but Phinney is back on the bike, making steady progress. He’s been riding for hours in the mountains around Boulder, Colorado. BMC officials told VeloNews they are cautiously optimistic the two-time Olympian can return to racing before the end of the 2015 season. “We’re not putting a date or a number on [a comeback], but he continues to make progress,” BMC general manager Jim Ochowicz told VeloNews. “According to the trainers, he’s able to put out more watts, more hours on the bike. He’s on the road, not on the turbo-trainer. We’re hopeful if he continues the way he’s going, we’ll see him racing before the end of summer.” April
14, 2015 (velonews.com)
 Armstrong
rode to her second career Olympic gold in London. Photo: Stefano
Rellandini | AFP.
Two-time
Olympic gold medalist Kristin
Armstrong will come out of retirement, starting her 2015
season at the Pan Am Continental Championships individual time trial in
early May, marking a return to the American national team after a
three-year hiatus.
“I am honored to have been selected as a member of the U.S. Pan American Championship team and am thrilled to be representing team USA in my first race back,” she said in a USA Cycling press statement. “Let the journey begin!” Armstrong, 41, ended her professional career on a high note, successfully defending her Olympic time trial title in London. However, last fall, at the Interbike trade show, she hinted that she may pin on a number again, and the news of her inclusion on the Pan Am team confirms those intentions. April
14, 2015 (velonews.com)
 Photography
by Simone Guiliani, Fondo and @gillogical.
Normally
on a Sunday morning in Melbourne the roads, bike paths and single track
are teaming with male cyclists. Female cyclists are overwhelmingly
outnumbered. However, last Sunday in Victoria was not a normal day.
It was a day for female cyclists to make their presence felt as the first ever women’s specific mass-riding event in Victoria saw an influx of women joining large welcoming female bunches, meeting new riding buddies and exploring different ways of enjoying time on the bike. Around 2000 women joined The Women’s Ride, taking part in the 53 rides and 13 events around the state put on by a wide range of clubs, bike shops and riding groups. April
14, 2015 (cyclingtips.com.au)
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Back to winning ways in 2015.
When
he turns 30 in May, Mark
Cavendish will already be, by most estimates, the finest
sprinter that professional cycling has ever seen.
The question on the eve of the 2015 season was whether the Manxman was also nearing the end of the road. Even in a career that Mark Cavendish conducts like a religious crusade, there have been moments when both the Manxman and the cycling Gods have seemed to bow before the enormity of their undertaking. April
14, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
 Richie
Porte (AUS) Team Sky 303 pts. photo credit @ Team Sky
With
ten WorldTour races already finished this season, Ritchie Porte
remains at top of the individual rankings as the only rider to have
accumulated more than 300 points.
Meanwhile, John Degenkolb’s recent Paris-Roubaix victory, moved the German rider up into third place, while this month’s Tour of Flanders winner, Alexander Kristoff, holds onto second place. In the meantime, last week’s Vuelta al Pais Vasco winner, Joaquim Rodriguez, gave his Katusha team a boost in the overall standings, which now occupies third spot. April
14, 2015 (capovelo.com)
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This design allows the unit to be easily installed by basically anyone.
The
power meter is pretty much unlike anything else currently on the
market.
Though, there are elements of it that can be seen in products long since passed (i.e. Ergomo). The nameless unit (seen above) slides into your bottom bracket. In this case, it simply screws in by slightly expanding the cap when you tighten the bolt. They are targeting consumer delivery early 2016 with a sub-$500 price point. Of course, they were also aware that power meter pricing continues to drop, so they may need to re-adjust plans there depending on the market. April
14, 2015
| April
14,
2015
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Roman Kreuziger claims he passed a lie-detector test (roman kreuziger).
The
Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has confirmed in an announcement
on its website that Roman
Kreuziger’s appeal hearing will take place on June 10.
The Tinkoff-Saxo rider was cleared by the Czech Federation of a Biological Passport violation last September after a 15-month case but the UCI decided to appeal the case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, convinced that a clear violation exists. He has always maintained he is innocent, with his explanation for his unusual blood values centred around a claim that he used the substitute hormone L-Thyroxine as treatment for an under-active thyroid. L-Thyroxine is not on the WADA banned list and does not require a therapeutic use exemption. April
14, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
 Disc
brakes are coming to the road in a big way. Photo: Eric Wynn | Shimano.
The UCI’s long-time ban on disc brakes in professional racing will be
partially lifted in August and September of this year, when all
professional teams will be allowed to test discs in two events of their
choice.
Testing will continue through 2016, when teams will be allowed to test discs in all professional road events. If testing goes well, discs will be formally introduced to the pro peloton in 2017, with the goal of eventually bringing the technology to all levels of road racing. The decision comes after years of deliberation between the UCI and the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI), a group that represents cycling industry interests, which was seeking to bring discs to road racing. April
14, 2015 (velonews.com)
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"The Giro remains the toughest race in the world’s most beautiful
place."
With
just under a month to go until the 98th edition of the “Fight for Pink”
gets underway, the official 2015 Giro d’Italia program has become
available online.
April
14, 2015 (capovelo.com)
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Alex Edmondson made his WorldTour debut at the Tour Down Under with the UniSA wildcard team in 2015 (Getty Images Sport).
As
Alex Edmondson
prepared to watch Paris Roubaix on Sunday, the Australian had reason to
feel a special buzz that was different to what anyone else probably
shared.
Why? On Saturday, the track endurance turned road racer, who is less than a month into his road season on the Australian Jayco-AIS World Tour Academy team, became the first Australian to win the under-23 Tour of Flanders by outsprinting Italian Gianni Moscon from Italy, while in third place at seven seconds was Norway’s Truls Korsaeth. April
14, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
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At their new facility in San Luis Obispo, California, SRAM unveiled a
genre spanning ‘1x Road’ groupset system available this summer.
SRAM,
the American groupset manufacturer, has unveiled a new single ring
groupset system, which it’s calling 1x Road.
The 1x Road system (pronounced ‘one-by’) is essentially an expansion of two of its original groupsets, the second tier Force and third tier Rival, and so now offers a single ring setup option for both, with either mechanical or hydraulic disc braking. The Force 1 option replaces last year’s successful CX1, cyclocross specific groupset, and now, with a large expansion of ratios, will cover a vast range of riding styles from criterium racing to adventure touring. The Rival 1 option is all-new however, and offers many of the benefits at a more competitive price. April
14, 2015 (cyclingweekly.co.uk)
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