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June 2014
June 17, 2014




Photo: © Sirotti.
Mark Cavendish won stage four of the Tour de Suisse in Ossingen, ahead of Juan José Lobato and Peter Sagan. (cyclingnews.com)

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Photo: Tour de Suisse Stage 5 Profile.
Wednesday's Tour de Suisse Stage 5 departs Ossingen at 12:29pm CET (6:29am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Buren an der Aare at around 5:05pm CET (11:05am U.S. Eastern).  Tour de Suisse live streaming video should get underway at around 3:30pm CET (9:30am U.S. Eastern). (cyclingfans.com)

June 17, 2014




Daniele Ratto (Cannondale)
Photo: © Bettini Photo.
Team Cannondale confirmed today that its rider Daniele Ratto suffered a compound fracture of the right collarbone in a crash during the neutral roll-out of stage 4 of the Tour de Suisse. (cyclingnews.com)

June 17, 2014





Photo: The final podium of the 2013 Tour of Alberta: Rohan Dennis, Brent Bookwalter, and Damiano Caruso. Photo: Casey B. Gibson | www.cbgphoto.com.
Cannondale, Orica-GreenEdge, and Giant-Shimano round out a list of 13 additional teams announced for the 2014 Tour of Alberta, held September 2-7. Those teams join previously announced UCI ProTeams Garmin-Sharp and Belkin. Ten additional teams were also announced, including Pro Continental team UnitedHealthcare, as well as a composite professional Canadian National Team. (velonews.com)

June 17, 2014




Peter Sagan (Cannondale) wins stage 3 in the Tour de Suisse
Photo: © Tim de Waele/TDW Sport.
Peter Sagan won a trademark sprint on stage three of the Tour de Suisse, looking impressive and fit as he fine-tunes his form for the Tour de France. Sagan's uphill sprint win in Heiden was his sixth win of 2014. (cyclingnews.com)

June 17, 2014




2014 Races & Results.
Tour de Suisse - June 14-22 (Stages & Results),
Critérium du Dauphiné - June 8-15 (Results),
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 17, 2014




Photo: Omega Pharma-Quickstep will build their Tour de France team around both Mark Cavendish and Michal Kwiatkowski (pic: ©Sirotti).
Omega Pharma-Quickstep will build their Tour de France team around both Mark Cavendish and Michal Kwiatkowski, the Belgian super team has confirmed. (roadcyclinguk.com)

June 17, 2014




Marcel Kittel (Giant-Shimano) won the rain-soaked first stage.
Photo: © Tim de Waele/TDW Sport.
Marcel Kittel has recovered from the fever which forced him to withdraw from the Giro d'Italia and enters the Ster ZLM Toer off the back of a period of high-altitude training. The 25-year-old repeats his Tour de France preparation from last year with his appearance at the race and will again look to win a stage as he did in 2013. (cyclingnews.com)

June 17, 2014




Photo: NINER BSB 9 RDO – BLOOD, SWEAT, BEERS...
It’s been teased, and people have been building AIR9 Carbon hardtails with drop bars for years. And there’s enough Niner employees that race ‘cross that it needed to happen. After all, the RLT9 gravel road bike proved they could translate their mountain bike heritage into something new. (bikerumor.com)

June 17, 2014




Photo: Aggressive tube butting and other weight shaving keeps the Equinox’s aero frame weight competitive .
BikeRadar verdict: 4 out of 5 stars. "Distinctive, effective and decent value, there’s much to like about the Equinox." (bikeradar.com)

June 17, 2014




Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com.
"I found that Campagnolo Record EPS levers worked fine with TRP Parabox cable/hydraulic disc brakes. But the brakes faded on steep corners on hot days — fine for CX, but not good for the road!" (velonews.com)

June 17, 2014




Photo: Easily mounted on the hood of your car, the convex mirror allows you to easily check to see if your bike (or anything else) is still securely mounted.
If you’ve ever regularly opened your sun roof or craned your head out of the window to check the contents of your roof rack, then you might be excited about the Roof Scope. (bikerumor.com)

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Photo: Does Froome have a Therapeutic Use Exemption for that?
What started as an authoritative two-stage salvo on the Critérium du Dauphiné fast descended - Bradley Wiggins-esque - into a litany of blows for Chris Froome. (uk.eurosport.yahoo.com)

June 17, 2014





Bradley Wiggins (Team Sky)
Photo: © Tim de Waele/TDW Sport.
If Bradley Wiggins wanted to earn a chance to show himself to the Team Sky leaders with a stellar Tour de Suisse performance ahead of selection for the Tour de France, he wasn't helped by his fortunes. After falling ill and losing 2:25 on stage 3's hectic finish, a crash on today's fourth stage set him even further back. (cyclingnews.com)

June 17, 2014




Mauro Santambrogio (Fantini Vini - Selle Italia)
Photo: © Roberto Bettini.
Mauro Santambrogio is expected to serve an 18-month ban following his positive test for EPO at the 2013 Giro d'Italia, after becoming the first Italian rider to confess to the UCI's Cycling Independent Reform Commission (CIRC), according to Gazzetta dello Sport. (cyclingnews.com)

June 17, 2014




Photo: It ain’t no game! Itsa ammonia smell from your stinky underparts!
"How come you such a stinker? I washed onna your bikin’ undershirts three times and still onna nasty old stale ammonia stinky underparts." (pelotonmagazine.com)

June 17, 2014




Photo: Bradley Wiggins is the first case. A study in bio-mechanical perfection in the Tour of California where he seemed to ride for a week without moving his upper body once.
The Dauphiné brought great racing with the top contenders for the Tour de France in Alpine action. The Tour de Suisse promises more of the same but also racing of a different kind with riders struggling to be themselves, competing for the eye of their managers and with whole teams in racing against time to save their future. (inrng.com)

June 17, 2014




Photo: So of course we have ambitions in both races. They are not just training. We chose to split up Alberto and Roman to give them both a chance of creating results.
In the Tour de France, Roman Kreuziger will be the most important domestique for Alberto Contador but the pair have not been racing together in the build-up to La Grande Boucle. While Contador finished second in the Criterium du Dauphiné, Kreuziger is trying to win the Tour de Suisse. (cyclingquotes.com)

June 17, 2014




Photo: Ashleigh Moolman before Flèche Wallonne 2014 - Patrick Verhoest.
"I really only started competing in cycling in 2008, which is really not so long ago, in my twenties, which is quite late in professional sport." (podiumcafe.com)

June 17, 2014




Photo: Simply being competitive in the bike market requires manufacturers to think in fresh and creative ways.
Last week Mavic announced the opening of la Maison Jaune (the Yellow House) in Newbury Park, California. The facility sits just down the road from Giant’s U.S. headquarters in Ventura County at the very edge of Los Angeles’ massive sprawl. (redkiteprayer.com)

June 17, 2014




Photo: Each device will capture material for digital and TV distribution.
Team Belkin have been trialling camerras for a while now with some spectacular footage. Each device will capture material for digital and TV distribution through the weekly inCycle TV show, digital partners and relevant team websites. Produced by IMG, inCycle was launched in spring 2014 and is currently distributed throughout 35 countries reaching 450 million households (wednesdaylegs.wordpress.com)

June 17, 2014




Photo: Get happy with the special lenses from Spy Optics. © singletrackworld.com.
After seeing The Cutter frames from Spy Optic back at Interbike this year, we knew we wanted to get our hands on them to test them out. They may not look like the sportiest set of sunglasses around, but the Happy Lenses intrigued us, and frankly, the glasses looked cool. (cxmagazine.com)

June 17, 2014




Photo: Road pedals have varying degrees of 'float' or built-in pivoting. Speedplay pedals are well known for their ice-like slippery feel, which some riders love but others do not. Most pedals have more subdued float .
Find a clip-in pedal that's right for you. (bikeradar.com)

June 17, 2014




Photo: The Maya sports five vents on the front and seven vents in the rear. Kali firmly believes that exhaust ports are more important than intake vents. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
The Maya's large visor holds a camera or light. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
It may not look like much, but that white material is the Nano technology lining this Kali Viva prototype. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com .
Kali Protectives is a relatively new brand in the cycling helmet market, but the Morgan Hill-based company is helping to pioneer the push for safer helmets. Kali’s newest product incorporates a material that is capable of withstanding over 10 impacts — a new feature in the helmet world. (velonews.com)

June 17, 2014




Photo: Rolling the flats seems effortless sometimes because of how efficient the C50 rotates.
"From the sheer bravery felt in corners to the power driven to the ground in a sprint, these wheels throw down. In any weather the C50 never lets up and as for the road surface, it’s perfectly capable of withstanding a beating." (socalcycling.com)

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Photo: Robert Gesink (center) and his teammates model the 2013 Tour de France kit for Belkin, the team known as Blanco when it was without a title sponsor. Photo: Casey B. Gibson | www.cbgphoto.com.
Belkin riders woke up to the shocking news Tuesday morning that title sponsor Belkin is abandoning the team at season’s end. (velonews.com)

June 17, 2014






Sep Vanmarcke (Belkin) on the podium
Photo: © Tim de Waele/TDW Sport.
When Sep Vanmarcke woke up this morning his only thoughts were about today’s fourth stage of the Tour de Suisse. However, that all changed for the Belkin rider and his teammates when they found out that their title sponsor would be pulling out at the end of the year. (cyclingnews.com)

June 17, 2014




Photo: Following surgery and the first few days of rest, the team medical staff and coaches along with Ratto will determine the best path for full recovery and a return to racing...
Peter Sagan's quest to score more stage wins in this year's Tour de Suisse has suffered a huge blow. One of his most important lead-out men Daniele Ratto crashed in the neutral zone in today's stage and left the race with a broken collarbone. (cyclingquotes.com)

June 17, 2014





Photo: He announced unilaterally that he will not do the Tour without complying to the agreements with the team and the sponsors...
Today Ag2r-La Mondiale selected 8 of the 9 riders that will line up at the 2014 Tour de France and as expected Carlos Betancur was not on the list. Team manager Vincent Lavenu claims that it was a unilateral decision by the Colombian not to do the race and that he can expect some kind of sanction. (cyclingquotes.com)

June 17, 2014




Another stage win for Arnaud Démare (FDJ)
Photo: © ASO.
Marc Madiot already has sprinter Arnaud Démare and climber Thibaut Pinot pencilled in as his Tour leaders, but is now mulling over if and how he can accommodate Giro d’Italia points champion Nacer Bouhanni among his nine starters in Yorkshire on 5 July. (cyclingnews.com)

June 17, 2014




Photo: John Kelly poses with the Kelly Benefit Stratgies/LSV Elite Cycling Team (far right). .
John Kelly was born into the business of healthcare, but cycling was a love affair that grew over time. As the son of the founders of Kelly Benefit Strategies (KBS), he was in the unique position to direct the company as it grew over the years. This allowed him to invest in cycling, including the pro men’s and women’s team that has grown into one of the largest in the U.S., Optum Pro Cycling p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies. (diamondback.com)

June 17, 2014




Photo: Mount St. Helens to the west, Mt. Hood to the south, Mount Adams to the east, and right in front of us, our next destination, Mount Rainier.
My most memorable rides involved a challenge and friends. We came up with a goal, and then we set out, as a group of friends, to achieve that goal. What followed was a magical ride full of seamless teamwork. (janheine.wordpress.com)

June 17, 2014




Photo: Race-ready fork for wealthy weight weenies.
BikeRadar verdict: 3.5 out of 5 stars. "Pin sharp accuracy and light weight give a giggle-inducing ride." (bikeradar.com)

June 17, 2014




Photo: Lezyne earned it’s reputation as an accessory manufacturer on the strength of it’s hand pumps.
Due to the wide spread adoption of tubeless technology, the scourge of untimely flats has largely been eradicated from the trail scene. But no matter how smooth the rider, or fancy the setup, sometimes bad luck favors the bold, and then you need a mini pump. (bikerumor.com)

June 17, 2014




Photo: A set includes one straight, one hook and one 90-degree pick. MSRP for the set is $29.99. The Park Tool model number is UP-SET.
The three picks feature aluminum handles with a magnet on the end. The picks are replaceable, cold formed, heat treated and polished high carbon steel. (bicycleretailer.com)

June 17, 2014





Photo: The Climbs and Finish of Stage 1.
Stage 1 starts at 11:10am BST (12:10pm CET) (6:10am U.S. Eastern). Finish at around 4:31pm BST (5:31pm CET) (11:31am U.S. Eastern). (cyclingfans.com)

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