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May 2013
May 9, 2013




Photo: 2013 Giro d'Italia Stage Profile.
CyclingFans: Friday's Giro d'Italia Stage 7 departs San Salvo at 12:40pm CET (6:40am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Pescara at around 5:13pm CET (11:13am U.S. Eastern).  Giro d'Italia live streaming video should get underway at around 2:30pm CET (8:30am U.S. Eastern).





Photo: Alison Powers (left) leads the NRC and Shelley Olds (right) is in China for Sunday's World Cup event.
VeloNews: Alison Powers (left) leads the NRC and Shelley Olds (right) is in China for Sunday's World Cup event.





Photo: Mark Cavendish praised his Omega Pharma team after his second stage win in six days at the Giro d'Italia.
VeloNews: After months of speculation and scrutiny over the cohesion of his leadout train, sprint ace Mark Cavendish praised the efforts of his Omega Pharma-Quick Step teammates following his stage 6 win at the Giro d’Italia on Thursday, calling the team’s efforts “100-percent brilliant.”






Photo: Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) celebrates victory on stage 6, his second stage win of the 2013 Giro.
CyclingNews: Paolini retains the leader's pink jersey.








Photo: A thoughtful Bradley Wiggins (Team Sky).
CyclingNews: Brailsford praises Cavendish for slowing peloton.





Photo: you could go for a ride with 100% Italian products.
InnerRing: Cycling is popular in many places but few nations claim a trade surplus when it comes cycling goods. Sure there is China’s mass-production but Italy seems unique with a range of premium brands.






Photo: Wouter Weylandt smiles for the cameras.
CyclingNews: News tidbits from the Giro d'Italia.





Photo: Giro d'Italia 2013 video preview 2.
CyclingWeekly: Former professional Daniel Lloyd previews the second week of the 2013 Giro d'Italia, running through the stages and taking an in-depth look at Saturday's key individual time trial.






Photo: Bradley Wiggins (Sky) .
CyclingWeekly: Bradley Wiggins (Sky) considers the Giro d'Italia's time trial on Saturday a 'huge' opportunity to win the race overall. The 54.8-kilometre test closes the first week and balances well with the Alpine climbs to come - perfect for the Tour de France champion.






Photo: Giorgia Bronzini (Wiggle Honda) put the disappointment of the previous day’s eleventh place to take victory.
VeloNation: Chloe Hosking takes second and moves into the lead.





Races & Results.
Giro d'Italia - May 4-26 (Stages & Results),
Tour of California - May 12-19 (Stages),
4 Jours de Dunkerque - May 1-5 (Stages & Results),
Tour of the Gila - May 1-5 (Stages & Results),
Tour de France - June 29-July 21 (Stages),
Vuelta a Espaņa - Aug 24-Sept 15 (Stages),





Photo: I only had about one lap of fight in me before I regretted my decision to put a number plate on my bike.
Sonya: "After Whiskey 50 and all the travel, I took a few days of R&R before Daniel  cracked the whip on me.  Friday and Saturday were pretty big training days, so I decided to unwind a grab a beer at a new brewery in Boulder – Fate Brewing."





Photo: The Bell Super interfaces nicely with a pair of the new Oakley Airbrake goggles. The helmet strap fits neatly beneath the visor, and the goggles nestle below the brow.
VeloNews: The Bell Super helmet is designed with a very specific rider in mind, and for some, this is exciting, but for others, it might be a little confusing.





Photo: cannondale-super-six-evo-black.
road.cc: Bikes like the pros ride from Specialized, Trek, Canyon, Giant, Pinarello and Cannondale... but a bit cheaper.





Photo: SRAM Red 22 HRD.
CyclingWeekly:  Having launched new Red just about a year ago, the news that SRAM has chosen to update its range-topping Red groupset must come as a bit of a blow for those who bought the 2013 version. Sadly, such is the pace of groupset innovation at the moment.





Photo: The Stantovelo road rash-protecting arm warmer - will it catch on?.
BikeRadar: The humble arm warmer, usually worn to beat the cold while cycling, has been developed into a road rash protection piece by an entrepreneur now hoping to clinch his first big order for the gear.







Photo: John Degenkolb (Team Argos-Shimano) celebrates the first Giro d'Italia stage win of his career.
CyclingNews: Crash disrupts peloton in final kilometer.










Photo: Tour of Chongming Island: Lucy Garner.
VeloNation: World junior champion comes of age in Chinese race.









Photo: The Tour of Utah peloton begin Stage 6.
CyclingNews: Five ProTeams, two Pro Continental and three Continental teams confirmed.






Photo: Cav chocks up another Giro win.
TwistedSpoke: Elia Viviani is trying to scare Mark Cavendish but it’s not working.





Photo: After taking 25 seconds back on Bradley Wiggins this week, Ryder Hesjedal will reset after Saturday's time trial for the final two weeks of the Giro d'Italia.
VeloNews: Defending Giro d’Italia champion Ryder Hesjedal is preparing for the most important low-altitude test of this year’s race. Before riders reach the mountains of the north, Saturday’s 54.8-kilometer individual time trial has the ability to definitively shape the general classification.





Photo: Sky has shown early in this Giro d'Italia that it intends to try and control the race the way it did in France last July.
VeloNews: Sky’s heavy, controlled style of racing delivered the team a record run through 2012, a Tour de France title, and overall victories throughout the spring, but can that methodology transfer to pink at the Giro d’Italia this month?






Photo: David Zabriskie (Garmin Sharp) back to business at the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya.
CyclingNews: American team will battle for overall and stages.





Photo: Degenkolb was charging like a bull down the finishing straight.
PEZ: There’s not much worse in a racer’s life than seeing the win just ahead of you only to have it fall away at the last minute.





Photo: Race leader Marlon Perez sports bandages from a crash suffered in stage 1..
CyclingNews: Colombia “surprised” at positive doping control from Costa Rica.





Photo: Luca Paolini is the current leader of the Giro d'Italia. (Getty Images).
SBS: This week's Cycling Central Podcast gets in depth with the Giro d'Italia, Matt White's purported return to Orica-GreenEDGE, and the decision of Richie Porte to re-sign with Team Sky.





Photo: Dan Martin video interview.
VeloNation: Irishman takes ‘wait and see approach’ after Ličge success, admits his confidence is growing.





Photo: The Stingray was less a bike than a hot rod with two wheels and pedals.
RedKitePrayer: Al Fritz, the Schwinn employee who invented the Stringray, has died. It was Fritz who noticed in the early 1960s the rise of the muscle-car culture and how that began to bleed into bicycling with kids customizing their bikes.





Photo: Barry Meade took a great win on the first day of the season in Newbridge .
StickyBottle: Barry Meade has said while thrilled with his win the Corkman Three Day A2-A3 race at the weekend, protests about the time gaps from Blarney CC and booing at the prize giving afterwards had taken something of the shine off the win.





Photo: The tread on the Hutchinson Secteur 28 seemed to be just right for our tester.
VeloNews: The Secteur 28 tires were originally produced as an alternative to tubulars for the FDJ racing team for use in the cobbled classics in Europe and were not intended for retail.





Photo: Guru just sent over these renderings of their new patent-pending frame stops for internal routing.
BikeRumor: Hot on the heels of their move to offer complete bikes, Guru just sent over these renderings of their new patent-pending frame stops for internal routing.





Photo: All put together, it’s a pretty good looking bike.
BikeRumor: Culprit’s been teasing the Croz Blade disc brake aero road bike for quite a while now, but they’re finally rolling off the line.





Photo: Sergio Henao gets buffing.
CyclingWeekly: "‘Cycling For Dummies' does exist, I am reliably informed. My apologies to the authors for doubting its existence!"





Photo: The Orica GreenEdge squad roll it in after a tough opening stage in Naples.
CyclingNews: Wind, nerves and crashes leave Orica GreenEdge man-down.







Photo: Racing Team lineup for Tour of California.
VeloNation: Van Garderen and Gilbert head BMC Racing Team lineup for Tour of California.





Photo: Tejay van Garderen will start the Amgen Tour as a top favorite and will look to land his first professional stage race win.
CyclingNews: Tejay van Garderen may be America’s best active stage racer. He finished fifth at the Tour de France last year, and has three podium finishes to his credit at early season stage races this year alone.





























Photo: Doctor Eufemiano Fuentes (R) arrives at a court house in Madrid on January 28, 2013 (Getty).
SBS: The Spanish parliament on Thursday passed a beefed-up anti-doping law that will toughen penalties in order to polish Spain's image as it bids to host the 2020 Olympic Games.





Photo: Peter Sagan (copyright Gian Mattis d'Alberto-LaPresse-RCS Sport).
road.cc: BMC said to be up for all 3 of the year's standout riders to date, Sagan pencilled in for 2015; Spartacus to join Trek venture?





Photo: Just who is the Secret Pro anyway?
CyclingWeekly: "Well, it’s nice to see the omertā is still going strong if 207 professionals doing their thing in Italy won’t out the fiend among them; that the only guy who has the gumption to say something is a chap hiding behind a mask and writing for an Australian cycling website."





Photo: Taylor Phinney signs in.
CyclingNews: Tough opening week for BMC American.





Photo: Chris Froome (Team Sky).
CyclingNews: Froome named as Sky’s Tour leader, but is it that straightforward?





Photo: Belgian champion Tom Boonen leads his Omega Pharma-Quick Step teammates up the Taaienberg..
CyclingNews: Opts for shorter French race instead of Tour of California.





Photo: Tour de Romandie general classification leader Luis Leon Sanchez (Rabobank).
CyclingNews: Blanco Team had suspended Spaniard for alleged links to Dr. Fuentes.





Photo: Richie Porte has enjoyed a purple patch since linking up with Team Sky at the beginning of 2012. He's hoping that will continue with the team over the next two years. (Getty Images).
SBS: It may not have been the easiest decision in the world, but staying with Team Sky certainly wasn't something that Richie Porte had to think too long about, when the team approached him to negotiate a new contract earlier this year.





Photo: Orica-GreenEdge chase, Amstel Gold Race 2013.
CyclingWeekly: Orica-GreenEdge will race through to the end of 2016 thanks to team owner, Gerry Ryan's commitment for three more years.






Photo: Team Argos - Shimano's Cheng Ji exits the Giro d'Italia 2013.
RoadCycling: The first Chinese rider to participate in the Giro d’Italia, Cheng Ji, will not start in stage 6 due to sickness. The 25-year-old became ill during the night and has a fever.





Photo: Tejay van Garderen (BMC) had to settle for third overall and best young rider.
CyclingNews: Gilbert makes US debut.





Photo: Hey! I am now at almost 24% raised and a month away from deadline .
GoFundMe: "Hello, my name is Patrick Sluyter; I am honored to be selected as one of five to be on the United States Deaf cycling team for Deaflympics, and I need help to fund raise and complete my lifelong dream of competing in Sofia, Bulgaria from July 26 to August 4, 2013."





Photo: JJ Haedo won stage four of the Joe Martin Stage Race, downtown criterium with a steep uphill finish..
CyclingNews: US Continental team equipped for climbs and sprints.





Photo: Claimed weight is now 1,295g for the wheels.
BikeRadar verdict: 5 out of 5 stars. "One of the very best non-aero wheelsets around if you're a time triallist, but the price has jumped up."





Photo: Bonded frame is a break from the norm.
CyclingWeekly: When Super Mario was riding he divided opinion and now that he's making bikes he's still at it.















Photo: Freddie Rodriguez (Predator) makes a move..
CyclingNews: "Fast Freddie" to debut at US pro road championship.





Photo: UCI President Pat McQuaid at the UCI headquarters in Aigle.
CyclingNews: Repucom data reveals the value of sponsorship.












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