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Sky beaten in to second, Cannondale-Garmin struck by crash.
Bora-Argon
18 sprang something of a surprise in the opening team time trial of the
Giro del Trentino when they beat Team Sky by just 0.18 of a second to
take the honors and place Italian rider Cesare Benedetti in
the leader’s jersey.
The German-registered squad scorched around the fast, 13.3-kilometer course on the shore of Lake Garda at an average speed of some 56.643kph, but despite that impressive showing, the expectation was that the Sky team of pre-race favorite Richie Porte would have enough quality in their ranks to land the win. April
21, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
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Robin Carpenter attacks the final climb. (Brian Hodes / VeloImages).
The
organizers of the Philadelphia International Cycling Classic have
announced 24 teams will contest the 173km race on June 7.
The race, which finishes at the top of The Wall and features the infamous 17% Manayunk Wall has been won by Kiel Reijnen for the last two years. In 2015, the women's edition of the race has been elevated to World Cup status with the men's race retaining a 1.2 ranking. They will race over 110-miles (173 km) and complete 9 laps of the course with a spectacular finish at the top of The Wall. The one-day competition is a dynamic and selective course best known for the intense elevation on the 17% Manayunk Wall, the most historical climb in U.S. cycling history. April
21, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
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Evelyn Stevens won the 2012 women's Flèche Wallonne. She's always loved
the Ardennes classic and is aiming for more success in this year's
edition with her new team, Boels Dolmans. Photo: Tim De Waele.
"I
love racing Flèche; I loved it even before I won it.
I have some great male and female training partners. One of the benefits of training with strong men (and women) is that you can hop on their wheel, and it is like motorpacing. The best thing is when you find some solid training partners who push you on your rides and also who you have a fun time with on the bike. As professional cyclists we spend so many hours on the bike, so having good company makes your training better! The riding in Nice is wonderful. There is a plethora of great training loops, wonderful climbs, and the views are incredible. The nice Mediterranean weather is a big plus as well. I am very fortunate and have found some wonderful people to train with, a great motorpacer, and a great person for sports massage. Any time you can train hard and recover just as hard, it is always a good recipe for racing." April
21, 2015 (velonews.com)
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...
Romain Bardet
impressed last year when he went on to claim sixth overall at the Tour
de France. His 2015 season hasn’t gone to plan so far with a crash
during the Volta a Catalunya preventing him from contesting the overall
classification and eventually out of the race.
Bardet has picked himself up though and begins a busy two weeks of racing with the Giro del Trentino. Cyclingnews caught up with the Frenchman to discuss his first appearance at the Italian race, targeting success at Liège Bastogne Liège and his preparation for the Tour de France. April
21, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
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The 2015 Fleche Wallonne is being held Wednesday, April 22.
Wednesday's Fleche
Wallonne departs Waremme at 11:30am CET (5:30am U.S. Eastern) and is
expected at the finish at Huy at around 4:51pm CET (10:51am U.S.
Eastern).
Fleche Wallonne live streaming video is scheduled to get underway from around 2:00pm CET (8:00am U.S. Eastern, 5:00am Pacific). April
21, 2015 (cyclingfans.com)
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Nothing but time-trialing and mountains for this four day stage race
featuring the dramatic, picturesque Dolomites.
Stage 1 start time: Tuesday
15:15 CET (6:15 AM PST).
Earliest live video: No live video; Text updates only. Approximate finish: 16:20 CET (7:20 AM PST). April
21, 2015 (steephill.tv)
2014-15
Races &
Results.
Giro del Trentino - Apr 21-24 (Stages & Results), La Flèche Wallonne - Apr 22 (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), Amstel Gold Race - Apr 19 (Results), De Brabantse Pijl - Apr 15 (Results), 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).  Photo:
There’s a lot that can go wrong, and the chances are they’ll go wrong
when you’re at your farthest point from home.
"There’s
no point risking it, because that’s the point when you’ll definitely
need your tools with you on your ride."
April
21, 2015 (cyclingweekly.co.uk)
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The 2015 Tour de Yorkshire is being held May 1-3.
Friday's Stage 1
starts at -- BST (-- U.S. Eastern). Finish at around -- BST (--
U.S. Eastern).
Live video from -- BST (-- U.S. Eastern). April
21, 2015 (cyclingfans.com)
An
International Cycling Union (UCI) commission is expected to rule this
week on whether the doping-tainted Astana team should be stripped of
its license, Brian
Cookson said Monday.
If Astana loses, star rider Vincenzo Nibali could forfeit the right to defend his Tour de France title. “I am expecting a decision this week, I am hoping so. I don’t have a final date, but the sooner the better,” Cookson told AFP on the sidelines of the SportAccord convention in Sochi, Russia. Astana could appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), but legal officials have said Astana would not automatically have the right to carry on racing while the tribunal comes to a decision.. April
20, 2015 (velonews.com)
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Quick release lever being replaced. CPSC photo.
Trek
is working with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to recall
bikes spec'd with quick releases that have a lever that opens greater
than 180 degrees and can be caught in a front disc brake if left in the
open position.
The company said that the issue is not a manufacturing defect on the QR but due to improper use or adjustment. Riders who leave the QR in the open position can potentially have the lever caught in the front disc brake while riding. April
21, 2015 (bicycleretailer.com)
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Vincenzo Nibali before the 2015 Tour of Oman .
Tour
de France champion, Vincenzo
Nibali wasn’t short of words for Brian Cookson when
asked about team Astana’s license situation recently. With a decision
on the team’s license by the License Commission expected as early as
this week Nibali’s
Tour defense hangs in the balance.
Cycling’s governing body requested that its license commission strip the Kazakh team of its WorldTour status following the 2014 doping cases and an independent audit by the University of Lausanne. Following Nibali’s Tour win, two riders from the team failed a test for EPO while three from the continental team with the same Astana name were caught using steroids. April
21, 2015 (cyclingweekly.co.uk)
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It’s all about that finish but there’s plenty of climbing before. (Cor
Vos).
For
364 days of the year the Chemin des Chapelles climbs up the side of
Mont Mosan but on Wednesday the road its renamed the Mur de Huy, the
“wall of Huy”.
The climb is so steep it deserves mural adjective and few races see riders cross the finish line in such obvious agony. But can the race deliver more than a three minute climax? This year’s route includes a new climb right before the end to split up the field and the presence of several star names indicates that this mid-week race matters because because the finish is identical to Stage 3 of the Tour de France. April
21, 2015 (inrng.com)
 Etixx-Quick-Step
boss Patrick Lefevere said Michal Kwiatkowski doesn't have the climbing
legs to win a grand tour. Photo: Tim De Waele .
Reigning
world champion Michal
Kwiatkowski won’t be wearing yellow on the Champs-Élysées
in Paris. According to Etixx-Quick-Step boss Patrick Lefevere, he
has the capacity to win all the classics, but not the Tour de France.
The Pole won his first race in the rainbow jersey on Sunday, the Amstel Gold Race in Valkenburg, the Netherlands. He is now taking aim at the remaining Ardennes classics, La Flèche Wallonne on Wednesday and Liège-Bastogne-Liège on Sunday. In 2014, Kwiatkowski placed fifth in Amstel and was third in both Flèche and Liège. “With his legs, he can win them all. I just don’t think he is my Tour winner,” Lefevere told Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad. “I think the overall in the Tour de France is too much. [Nairo] Quintana will always be better at climbing. April
21, 2015 (velonews.com)
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A book about cycling climbs that transforms into a collection of art
prints.
A
collection of twenty art prints inspired by iconic climbs, with some of
the story of those climbs.
Once you've read the details, you can frame the prints and hang them on your wall. April
21, 2015 (podiumcafe.com)
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This Santa Cruz Stigmata (the new, just-released model) got a twist on
the standard color palette with this coffee-colored scheme. The Santa
Cruz logo is masked and stenciled, not a decal.
Sometimes
the most interesting product isn’t a product at all, but a service.
Walking the Sea Otter Expo, we spied several eye-catching frame paint
jobs at an exhibitor and walked over to inspect.
Joe’s Carbon Solutions does carbon frame repair, but also has a solid business in custom frame painting. The company started out painting for Kestrel and Calfee 25 years ago, and several years back hung out their own shingle. They paint new or used frames, metal and carbon. You can have a new, custom-made frame sent to them for finishing or send them a restoration job. Simple, single color paint jobs start at $400, although customs can reach much more. April
21, 2015 (bicycling.com)
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The Velocio Superfly's rear zipper and stretchy fabric make peeing
while wearing bib shorts a breeze.
"I’m
not really a tech-head, but there’s one development I’ve been watching
closely for the last couple of years: the pee-break-friendly bib short.
In case you haven’t been following this game-changing apparel revolution, I’m talking about bib shorts that are specifically designed to make nature breaks easier for women. So instead of maneuvering out of your sweaty jersey, vest, jacket, or whatever else you’re wearing up top, you can drop trou and go. As an apparel category, they don’t seem to have a name. Around the office we’ve nicknamed them dropper bibs, potty bibs, pee-friendly bibs, squatter shorts. For women who like the comfort and smooth lines of bib shorts, dropper bibs solve a legit problem." April
21, 2015 (bicycling.com)
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The 2015 Tour of Croatia is being held April 22-26.
Wednesday's Stage 1
starts at -- CET (-- U.S. Eastern). Finish at around -- CET (-- U.S.
Eastern)
Live video from -- CET (-- U.S. Eastern)... April
21, 2015 (cyclingfans.com)
The
Partnership for Clean Competition (PCC) and World Anti-Doping Agency
(WADA) announced a multi-year anti-doping research partnership on
Tuesday.
The partnership will involve the creation of two collaborative research funds totaling $6 million to be administered by both organizations; $1.5 million of the funds will be matched by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), as part of the special IOC-WADA Anti-Doping Research Fund. “This partnership will enable us to support the highest quality international anti-doping research and to implement the results of that research in WADA-accredited labs. This is a great win for anti-doping, PCC members, and for our researchers,” said PCC executive director Michael Pearlmutter. April
21, 2015 (velonews.com) | April
21,
2015
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Medical check done and greenlight is on for training. Happy about my
first ride today without pain. (Credit: Cor Vos)
Having
been forced to miss the spring Classics due to the transverse process
fractures he suffered to two vertebrae bones of the lower back at the
end of March, Fabian
Cancellara has been able to resume training.
The Trek Factory Racing rider fell heavily in the E3 Harelbeke race on March 27, being forced to retire from the event. X-rays and CT scans subsequently confirmed the damage and made participation in the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix impossible. “There is nothing you can do with this injury – no cast, no surgery – but just biting the pain,” said Cancellara at the time. There was better news for the Swiss rider on Tuesday. April
21, 2015 (cyclingtips.com.au)
 The
peloton will climb the Mur de Huy three times in Wednesday's Flèche
Wallonne. Photo: Tim De Waele.
The
Amaury Sports Organisation is often accused of being stodgy, out of
touch, arrogant, and, if you believe the complaints of team owners
trying to get a piece of their TV revenues, the main impediment holding
back the evolution of cycling.
But the owner of the Tour de France and a mix of one-day and week-long stage races has done more than its fair share to prop up cycling, saving such races as Paris-Nice and the Critérium du Dauphiné from oblivion. For 2015, ASO is tweaking the formula at Flèche Wallonne in a bid to add another layer of surprise, the Cote de Cherave with 5km to go, into what’s become a predictable road map to the approach to the decisive Mur de Huy. April
21, 2015 (velonews.com)
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"Finished!! The @brabantsepijlofficial was our last spring classic!
Ready for some time off! ✌🏼️❤️@liencrapoen #bpl #bpijl
#flandersclassics #springclassics #organisation #exhausted."
By
8am on the morning of the Tour of Flanders, the Grote Markt in Bruges
is already filled to bursting point. The sun slowly emerges above the
medieval belfry, though most have already been warmed by heated
discussion over who will win De Ronde.
Lien Crapoen and Maja Leye survey the Markt with pride. In just over nine hours, they will do their duty as podium hosts to present that winner with a bouquet and an oversized bottle of champagne. Millions will witness the moment Alexander Kristoff accepts kisses from them, but few will realize that 12 months of hard work from these two women have played a major role in the very running of the race itself. April
21, 2015 (cyclingtips.com.au)
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What the Zeeland region lacks in hills it makes up for with wind.
Omloop
van Borsele is the main event in a weekend-long celebration of all
things cycling in the Zeeland town of ‘s-Heerenhoek. As well as the
women’s road race there There are junior stage races for boys and girls
plus an elite women’s time trial.
The women’s road race has taken a step up in classification for 2015 and is now a class one event, putting it on a par with the likes of Strade Bianche and Boels Rental Hills Classics when it comes to those precious UCI points. April
21, 2015 (velofocus.com)
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Richie Porte and Chris Froome rode in the Sky train. (Tim de
Waele/TDWSport.com).
Team
sources have confirmed that Chris
Froome will be on the startline of Flèche Wallonne on
Wednesday, but that he will not, as had been rumored possible, be
taking part in Liege Bastogne Liege on Sunday.
His next race will instead be the Tour of Romandie, which Froome won in 2013 and 2014. The Briton last raced this season in the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya, losing more than 27 minutes on one stage, before heading to Tenerife for almost two weeks of training. Prior to Catalunya, Froome missed out on Tirreno-Adriatico because of a chest infection, but in February he won his first race of the season, the Tour of Andalucia, ahead of arch-Tour rival Alberto Contador. Froome’s previous participation in Flèche Wallonne, meanwhile, was back in 2010, finishing 119th, eleven minutes down. April
21, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
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Time is money. Get $1.00 For Every Hour You Ride.
Just
three weeks after its launch, online retailer Competitive Cyclist has
put the brakes on its Strava partnership, stating that the program,
which rewards cyclists with one US dollar in store credit for each hour
spent riding, must be put on hold in order to restructure the program
to address unexpectedly high demand.
“When we came up with the idea to pay you a dollar an hour to ride your bike through our partnership with Strava, it was pure, it was simple and it represented everything we stand for. Apparently you liked it too, because you signed up by the tens of thousands and told everyone you knew. We had expectations and you blew them out of the water,” stated Competitive Cyclist in a press release issued on Monday. April
21, 2015 (bikeradar.com)
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In the United States of America, cycling.tv will broadcast the race
live, while NBC / Universal Sports will carry race highlights.
TUR 2015 Eurosport Broadcast Schedule (CET*)
Stage 1, Sun 26/04/2015, EUROSPORT, 11:15-14:00, Stage 2, Mon 27/04/2015, EUROSPORT, 12:30-14:00, Stage 3, Tue 28/04/2015, EUROSPORT, 14:00-15:30, Stage 4, Wed 29/04/2015, EUROSPORT, 14:00-15:30, Stage 5, Thu 30/04/2015, EUROSPORT, 12:30-14:00, Stage 6, Fri 01/05/2015, EUROSPORT, 14:00-15:30, Stage 7, Sat 02/05/2015, EUROSPORT , 11:15-12:45, Stage 8, Sun 03/05/2015, EUROSPORT, 10:00-12:00. April
20, 2015 (steephill.tv)
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