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June  2013
June 11, 2013




Photo: Tour de Suisse Stage Profile.
CyclingFans: Tour de Suisse live streaming video should get underway at around 5:10pm CET (11:10am U.S. Eastern).





Photo: Stage 5 ends with two loops on a 26.5 km long circuit.
InnerRing: Peter Sagan probably didn’t read the road book for Stage 4 as he was caught up in the middle of the peloton heading into the last corner.







Photo: Arnaud Demare surged to the front of the race with 200 meters left to win stage 4 at the Tour de Suisse. Photo: Graham Watson.
CyclingNews: Frank retains yellow leader's jersey.





Races & Results.
Tour de Suisse - June 8-16 (Stages & Results),
Nature Valley Grand Prix - June 12-16 (Stages),
Critérium du Dauphiné - Jun 2-9 (Stages & Results),
Giro d'Italia - May 4-26 (Stages & Results),
Tour de France - June 29-July 21 (Stages),
Vuelta a España - Aug 24-Sept 15 (Stages),











Photo: Stage 3 winner Liu Hao.
DougReport: The breakaway survived for a third successive day in Korea but this time the bunch was breathing down the neck of Stage 3 winner Liu Hao.





Photo: Team Sky’s Chris Froome and Richie Porte finished 1-2 at the Criterium du Dauphine. They could repeat that in July. (James Startt).
Bicycling: Weekly updates on how the 2013 Tour de France favorites are looking ahead of the June 29 start in Corsica.





Photo: Matt Cooke (Champion System) is second on Gila Monster at 2013 Silver City’s Tour of the Gila.
Podium Insight: Almost one year ago, after climbing his way to the biggest win of his career on the Queen Stage at the Tour de Beauce, Matt Cooke thought that finally everything was coming together for him. On his second year with the UCI Continental squad, Team Exergy, his future looked bright.





Photo: Ivan Basso (Cannondale).
CyclingNews: Italian to skip Tour and build towards Vuelta a España.





Photo: Peter Sagan (Cannondale) wins Stage 3 of the Tour de Suisse.
CyclingNews: Slovakian encouraged by form in the lead in to the Tour de France.





Photo: Carbon Campagnolo Record CT crank on my wife’s lugged steel road bike I built 29 years ago for her. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com.
VeloNews: At the beginning of the Age of Compact Cranks (which we’re still in), Campy made a square-taper compact (i.e., 110mm bolt circle diameter) crankset.





Photo: The new XR2 frame is constructed from UMS40 and CN60 Ultra High Modulus carbon fibres.
road.cc: SRAM Red discs feature on the new Oltre XR2 Disc with more minor modifications further down the range.





Photo: The Slovakian wonderboy won four stages in last year’s Tour de Suisse.
InnerRing: Looking at the stage profile and then looking at the start list, this preview could very well consist of just two words: Peter Sagan.











CyclingNews: Frank takes over Tour de Suisse leader's jersey.






CyclingIQ: Former US National Crit Champion Eric Young (Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies) today banked another Tour de Korea stage win for his Optum team, continuing the legacy of the US squad’s great success at the 2012 edition.







Photo: There’s been a lot of talk about Team Sky and their dominance.
NeilBrowne: Let's not paint everyone with the same brush.







Photo: Pierre Rolland should not have started the final stage of the Dauphiné.
InnerRing: La polémique. Yesterday’s news from L’Equipe.fr that Pierre Rolland should not have started the final stage of the Dauphiné has caused an obvious fuss for French cycling featuring a big name, being weeks from the Tour de France and, like it or not, bringing the suspicion of dopage.







Photo: Fans pack the summit of Lee Hill, in Boulder. Photo: Casey B. Gibson.
VeloNews: The USA Pro Challenge today confirmed the 16 professional cycling teams that will participate in the race from August 19-25.






Photo: Orica-GreenEdge's Stuart O'Grady (left) and sports director Matt White before the start of the Down Under Classic in Adelaide.
CyclingNews: Sports director says team in "good position" heading into Tour de France.





Photo: Spray me, please.
TwistedSpoke: Ahh, the Tour de France caravan. Something like 50 to 75 crazy promotional vehicles of all kinds that drive the entire race route each day, playing eye-splitting French dance music and throwing out branded hats, handkerchiefs, candy, key chains, snacks, cleaning product samples, gimcracks of every kind.





Photo: With the Tour de France less than three weeks away.
SBS: With the Tour de France less than three weeks away, teams have begun announcing their long lists.





Photo: Highlights of the 3,360km race include three days in historic Corsica.
RideOn: Supreme bike-riding athletes, stunning scenery, frenzied spectators, dramatic moments of terrible agony and overwhelming ecstasy, and all played out night after night for three spell-binding  weeks; welcome to le Tour de France 2013.





Photo: Richie Porte with Chris Froome (front) in the Dauphiné.
CyclingWeekly: Sky's Richie Porte rode around Annecy, France, this morning in the best possible position ahead of the Tour de France. He is sitting shotgun to red-hot favourite, Chris Froome while gaining experience to win the race for himself in the future.





Photo: Francisco Mancebo (Kenda-5 Hour Energy) moves to the front at the base of the climb.
CyclingNews: Unfortunate for our riders and sponsors, says Andreu.





Photo: The Hobo is part of their Bootleg project.
BikeRumor: Made of butted Columbus Life steel tubing with a triple butted chromoly fork, the new Cinelli Hobo has geometry somewhere between a travel bike and cyclocross bike.





Photo: Colorado’s Mt. Evans, one of the nation’s few 14,000-foot peaks with a paved road to the top, makes for a tell-your-grandkids adventure. (Jamie Kripke).
Bicycling: From climbs over majestic mountain passes to blissful Sunday beach cruises, truly great cycling routes can be found in all 50 states, from Maine to Hawaii. Make plans to ride as many as you can.









CyclingNews: Canadian taken to the hospital after fall during stage 3.



















Photo: Team owner Flavio Becca with Fabian Cancellara.
CyclingNews: There are conflicting reports over whether RadioShack riders and staff have been paid for the month of May.







Photo: Johan Bruyneel and Lance Armstrong in the good old days.
CyclingNews: Former US Postal Service and RadioShack manager Johan Bruyneel has said that he would like to speak publicly about his role in the Lance Armstrong affair but his lawyers have told him not to.






Photo: Sylvain Georges on the attack.
CyclingNews: French rider tested positive for heptaminol at Giro d'Italia.





Photo: London 2012 Anti-Doping Laboratory (picture credit LOCOG).
road.cc: AFLD to co-operate with UCI on this year's 100th edition of Tour - but says final say on storage of samples rests with governing body.





Photo: Mark Cavendish has won 23 Tour de France stages since 2008, and in 2011 he was the points champion. Photo: Graham Watson.
VeloNews: Sagan’s exhibition in Monday’s third stage at the Tour de Suisse, when he made it up and over a challenging first-category climb with the GC favorites, and then finished off the stage by kicking to victory out of a four-man group, only raises his expectations for the Tour de France.





Photo: Bite-sized chunks of information.
PodiumCafe: A beginner's guide to the Tour de France.





Photo: The longest crank is just 6% longer than the shortest one.).
Off The Beaten Path: "Our research isn’t “market research,” but research into how bicycles and components work."





Photo: Express Bar vending machine.
road.cc: Vending machine sells cycling spare parts to get you back on the road.





Photo: The FSA Energy chainset is less stiff than Ultegra’s.
BikeRadar verdict: 4 out of 5 stars. "Rock solid, naturally surefooted speed machine with an excellent frame."















Photo: Pierre Roland to continue in the Critérium du Dauphiné after the French rider was determined to have abnormally low cortisol levels.
VeloNation: “This is completely false and incomprehensible.”





CyclingNews: “Irresponsible” for race organizers to utilize that road.





CyclingNews: Only Evans and Van Garderen assured of spots on the squad.





VeloNews: Several newly crowned national champions, including Tom Zirbel (Optum-Kelly Benefit Strategies), Jade Wilcoxson (Optum-Kelly Benefit Strategies) and Carmen Small (Specialized-lululemon) will be on hand to show their new stars and stripes jerseys at the 15th running of the Nature Valley Grand Prix starting Wednesday.











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