|
Home
|
Fitness
| Archive
| Tips
& Safety |
Store
| Quotes
| Links
| About
| Facebook
| Twitter
|
|
| June 1 | June 2 | June 3 | June 4 | June 5 | June 6 | June 7 | June 8 | June 9 | June 10 | June 11 | June 12 | June 13 | June 14 | June 15 |
| June 16 | June 17 | June 18 | June 19 | June 20 | June 21 | June 22 | June 23 | June 24 | June 25 | June 26 | June 27 | June 28 | June 29 | June 30 |
| May 1 | May 2 | May 3 | May 4 | May 5 | May 6 | May 7 | May 8 | May 9 | May 10 | May 11 | May 12 | May 13 | May 14 | May 15 |
| May 16 | May 17 | May 18 | May 19 | May 20 | May 21 | May 22 | May 23 | May 24 | May 25 | May 26 | May 27 | May 28 | May 29 | May 30 |
| May 31 |
 Sky's
Chris Froome
won the second stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné, 156 kilometres from
Tarare to the Col du Béal, ahead of Alberto
Contador and Wilco
Kelderman on Monday. (cyclingnews.com)
June 9, 2014  Those
hoping for a close Tour de France likely breathed sighs of relief
Monday morning as it was very clear that Alberto Contador was
back to his old, fleet self. (velonews.com)
June 9, 2014  Astana
general manager Alexandre
Vinokourov writes to team after lack of results - Vincenzo Nibali
rumored to be moving to another team after 2014. (cyclingweekly.co.uk)
June 9, 2014
2014
Races
& Results.
Critérium du Dauphiné - June 8-15 (Stages & Results), Tour de Suisse - June 14-22 (Stages), Tour de Luxembourg - June 4-8 (Results), Giro d'Italia - May 9 - June 1 (Results), Baloise Belgium Tour - May 28 - June 1 (Results), Bayern Rundfahrt - May 28 - June 1 (Results), USA Pro Road Championships - May 24-26 (Results), Tour de France - July 5-27 (Stages), UCI Road World Championship - Sept 20-27 (Stages). June 7, 2014  Handley relieved
overnight leader Grega
Bole of the yellow jersey after the British rider and
Korean pro Sung Baek Park
managed to keep away from the chasing pack. Handley out-paced his
fellow escapee in the finale to take the victory. (cyclingweekly.co.uk)
June 9, 2014  After
completing the Tour of Luxembourg in 9th place overall, Fränk Schleck now
has his sights set on the Tour de Suisse, where he will aim to secure
his berth in the Trek Factory Racing team for next month’s Tour de
France. (cyclingnews.com)
June 9, 2014  Bradley Wiggins and
defending champions Mark
Cavendish and Lizzie
Armitstead will all compete at the British National Road
Championships this year, British Cycling has announced.
(roadcyclinguk.com)
June 9, 2014  Every
cyclist has his or her own race
day ritual, but more often than not, taking good care of
the skin is often left out – we hastily shave our legs in our cheap
hotel room and then absentmindedly roll to the line without leg warmers
or sunscreen because we forgot them in the car. (bikerumor.com)
June 9, 2014  So
long as you’re combining their Freeza rotors with the Ice-Tech finned
brake pads, Shimano recommends 140mm
rotors for all rider sizes/weights. Despite my initial
skepticism, they proved to be plenty powerful and held up to dragging
on long descents. (bikerumor.com)
June 9, 2014  Monday's
Criterium du Dauphine Stage 2 departs Tarare at 10:35am CET (4:35am
U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Pays d'Olliergues-Col du
Béal at around 2:51pm CET (8:51am U.S. Eastern). Criterium du
Dauphine live streaming
video should get underway at around 1:15pm CET (7:15am
U.S. Eastern).
(cyclingfans.com)
June 9, 2014
Contador takes second, Talansky
finishes fourth. (cyclingnews.com)
June 8, 2014 Chris Froome may
have taken first blood in the opening time trail at the Criterium du
Dauphine but Alberto
Contador talked a positive game after finishing second,
eight seconds down on the British rider in Lyon. (cyclingnews.com)
June 8, 2014 |  The
25-year-old Colombian will remain with the team until the end of 2016. Arredondo joined the
new team over winter. He thrived early on in the season, taking two
stage victories in San Luis, and went on to animate the race in Flèche
Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège. He rode a stellar Giro d’Italia,
claiming stage 18 and taking the Mountains’ classification.
(pelotonmagazine.com)
June 9, 2014  Chris Froome showed
that he is in a class of his own after a gritty and determined victory
on the second stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné. (sbs.com.au)
June 9, 2014  After
days of media and fan debate about whether or not Bradley Wiggins
should be part of Sky’s Tour de France team, a topic brought to the
fore when Wiggins said that he had been told he wouldn’t be racing,
team principal Dave
Brailsford has now said the team will not be
decided until later this month. (cyclingtips.com.au)
June 9, 2014  André Greipel
showcased his pre-Tour de France form by taking a surprise solo win on
the final stage of the Tour of Luxembourg on Sunday, the first such
victory of his career. (cyclingnews.com)
June 9, 2014  Geraint Thomas will
lead a strong Welsh Cycling team on the road at the 2014 Commonwealth
Games in Glasgow while Becky
James bids for success on the track. (roadcyclinguk.com)
June 9, 2014  A
cycling novel set in the early years of the Tour de France, when
the world was black and white and the racing very, very colorful.
(podiumcafe.com)
June 9, 2014  "I
had the opportunity to ride a favorite classic René Herse again
recently. This is the bike that started the current trend of 650B bikes
in North America. It’s the bike that made us re-evaluate front-end
geometries and wide tires. It’s truly the ancestor of the bikes we ride
today, and it has been hugely influential." (janheine.wordpress.com)
June 9, 2014  The
race bike Trek
is expected to formerly launch at the Tour de France was being tested
by riders at the Critérium du Dauphiné today. (bikeradar.com)
June 9, 2014  Sold
in 7 different sizes, only the 13.5 and 15.5″ Marlin frames will use
27.5″ wheels. Meanwhile the 17.5, 18.5, 19.5, 21.5, and 23″ frames will
run the larger wheels – which should offer frame sizes to fit most
riders. The new Marlin will be available in three models – the 5, 6,
and 7. (bikerumor.com)
June 9, 2014 |  After
two impressive days of racing in the Critérium du Dauphiné, Andrew Talansky sits
in fourth place overall, 33 seconds behind race leader Chris Froome.
(cyclingnews.com)
June 9, 2014  Hincapie was the
very embodiment of the term “super-domestique” during cycling’s
drug-soaked era of the late 1990s and 2000s. He became a respected
tactician and road captain on a number of successful teams, and helped
pilot not only Lance
Armstrong, but eventually also Alberto Contador and
Cadel Evans
to victories in the Tour de France. (velonews.com)
June 9, 2014  “I’ve
never trained at altitude. Maybe I’ll do it later in my career, but
right now, I’m sticking to what works,” said Kwiatkowski, 11th
overall in the Tour last year. (cyclingweekly.co.uk)
June 9, 2014  "You
look at the Tour last year, and the only guy that was climbing anywhere
near Froomey
consistently was Quintana
and he’s not going to be there." (sbs.com.au)
June 9, 2014  Silca have been the
benchmark inflation company for decades. Starting in 1917, they’ve made
pumps and tools that have been in use for what seems to be the entire
time… How many companies in cycling have been around long enough that
you don’t remember “back when they started”? (pezcyclingnews.com)
June 9, 2014  "Long
miles are always challenging, put them in a foreign land and the
unknown gets added to the list of challenges. With a few foreign fondos
under our belt, at the invitation of Eddy Merckx Bicycles
we headed to Italy to ride the 2014 Granfondo Eddy Merckx, and began to
put together our goods for the big day – 139km with almost 10,000’ of
climbing in the Veneto region near Lake Garda." (pelotonmagazine.com)
June 9, 2014  Photographers
Paul Berriff
and Michael Dunne
persuaded the ladies section of the Cappuccino Cycling Club to change
gear - by donning upmarket lingerie in aid of the Yorkshire Air
Ambulance. (darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk)
June 9, 2014  I’m
not a scientist, but I know this much—you can’t stop global warming by
showing strangers your genitals. I suppose that sounds obvious, but
over the past decade thousands of people around the world have given
the above proposition their very best shot. (bikemag.com)
June 9, 2014  BikeRadar
verdict: 2.5 out of 5
stars. "Delivers on the basics for a high-end TT/tri saddle; longer
nose might put off some." (bikeradar.com)
June 9, 2014 June 8, 2014 |
| June 1 | June 2 | June 3 | June 4 | June 5 | June 6 | June 7 | June 8 | June 9 | June 10 | June 11 | June 12 | June 13 | June 14 | June 15 |
| June 16 | June 17 | June 18 | June 19 | June 20 | June 21 | June 22 | June 23 | June 24 | June 25 | June 26 | June 27 | June 28 | June 29 | June 30 |
| May 1 | May 2 | May 3 | May 4 | May 5 | May 6 | May 7 | May 8 | May 9 | May 10 | May 11 | May 12 | May 13 | May 14 | May 15 |
| May 16 | May 17 | May 18 | May 19 | May 20 | May 21 | May 22 | May 23 | May 24 | May 25 | May 26 | May 27 | May 28 | May 29 | May 30 |
| May 31 |
|
|
