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July  2013
July 3, 2013





Photo: Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma Quick Step) wins stage 5 of the Tour de France.
CyclingNews: Yellow jersey stays with Orica-GreenEdge.






Photo: crosses the line with plenty of time to celebrate!
PodiumCafe: After yesterday's lumpy stage and brutal finish, Stage 4 of the 2013 Giro Rosa was the longest of the race - 137km, longer than the UCI's usual limit for stages.





Photo: Mathias Frank (BMC) wins stage 4 of the Tour of Austria.
CyclingNews: BMC scored its second consecutive stage win in the Tour of Austria, with Mathias Frank following up the victory of Thor Hushovd in a solo effort to Alpendorf.










Photo: Simon Gerrans retained the yellow jersey of race leader.
VeloNation: “I think we're more than capable of doing that for the next couple of days.”





Races & Results.
Tour de France - June 29-July 21 (Stages & Results),
Giro Rosa - June 30-July 7 (Stages & Results),
Tour of Austria - June 30-July 7 (Stages & Results),
USA Pro Challenge - Aug 19-25 (Stages),
Vuelta a España - Aug 24-Sept 15 (Stages),
UCI Road World Championships - Sept 22-29 (Races),
Giro d'Italia - May 4-26 (Results)





Photo: Jurgen Van Den Broeck is the team's leader in the grand tours.
CyclingNews: Froome is Merckx' top favorite.





Photo: Reigning time trial world champion Tony Martin (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) en route to victory in the German TT championship.
CyclingNews: World time trial champion Tony Martin has been fined 1621 Euros for having the world champion rainbow stripes on his bike yesterday.





Photo: Argos Shimano - Felt F1 FRD 01.
road.cc: Updated Felt F1 FRD road bike was victorious on the opening stage of the Tour de France.





Photo: Paul Kimmage in his pomp, riding the Tour de France with RMO in the 1980s.
StickyBottle: Thieves broke into their campervan on the morning of the opening stage, stealing three Apple Macbooks and an SLR camera.





Photo: The sprint on Stage 5 may resemble the one from two days prior. - Fotoreporter Sirotti.
PodiumCafe: After leaving Corsica behind, the Tour still keeps the theme of hills before a possible sprint. It looks like a day for a heartier version of sprinter.








Photo: 2013 Tour de France Stage 2 Live Online Coverage Guide .
SteepHill: Stage 5 start time: Wednesday 11:45 CET (2:45:00 AM PST); Earliest live video: 13:50 CET (4:50:00 AM PST); Approximate finish: 17:26 CET (8:26:00 AM PST).









Photo: Argos-Shimano rides in the Tour de France team time trial.
CyclingNews: Gerrans takes the maillot jaune with second stage win.

































Photo: Christian Vande Velde (Garmin Sharp) on the ground after a crash.
CyclingNews: Bouet out, Bouhanni and several others left battered and bruised in Marseille.





Photo: Images from motorcycle and helicopter cameras are transmitted via VHF links to relay helicopters .
CyclingTips: There's a fascinating technical solution and a detailed production plan that brings it all to your living room.





Photo: Green jersey Peter Sagan (Cannondale).
CyclingNews: Cannondale rider continues his run of placing in Marseille.





Photo: Cadel Evans is clear that his BMC Racing Team didn’t do enough.
VeloNation: Lelangue agrees, but says there’s still plenty of racing ahead.





Photo: Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank manager Bjarne Riis.
CyclingNews: Riis said to be the center of the investigation.





Photo: spirit of the body.
TwistedSpoke: Esprit de Corps is one of those charming French terms that’s worked its way into the global sporting vernacular.





Photo: The Plutonite lens offers amazing clarity.
BikeRadar verdict: 3.5 out of 5 stars. "Possibly the best goggles we’ve ever tried – though you’ll need deep pockets to afford them."





Photo: 2014 Orbea Orca Race.
CompetitiveCyclist:  It made a mockery of the UCI weight limit, and maneuvered, particularly on high speed descents, with an easy sureness. It exceeded the best-handling bike I've ridden to date. Talk about unexpected. The new Orca is a showstopper.





Photo: Jose Meiffret 1961 record attampt video still.
road.cc: José Meiffret would pass 200kph the following year, riding behind a Mercedes-Benz 300SL.





Photo: The Lezyne Energy Caddy is a small bag that fits to your bike's top tube.
road.cc: Compact no-fuss top-tube bag. Slim, neat and fairly priced. Not big, but that's its plus point.






Photo: Chris Froome said he was happy to avoid yellow on a day that he took time on his GC rivals. Photo: Graham Watson.
VeloNews: Tour de France favorite Chris Froome (Sky) and the man tipped to be his closest challenger, Alberto Contador (Saxo-Tinkoff), both declared themselves satisfied with their performances in Tuesday’s fourth-stage team time trial around Nice.


























Photo: I suppose they could have made this stage more pancake flat had they tried.
PodiumCafe: Finally! A straightforward sprint stage!
























Photo: 30-year-old Tour debutant Ted King.
Blazin'Saddles: Curmudgeonly race officials showed no mercy on Tuesday after kicking out 30-year-old Tour debutant Ted King because he finished seven slender seconds outside the official cut-off point.





Photo: Former pro roadie Udo Bolts and Andreas Strobel are sitting in second place for Masters 80+ (combined team age 80 years or more).
CyclingNews: Fear of no new contract or not riding the Tour de France were contributing factors.





Photo: Desgrange once said that the ideal Tour would be one in which only one rider finished.
Paved: Tour de France founder Henri Desgrange was a stubborn old cuss who didn’t suffer fools gladly, and carved a sporting event into infamy out of the same granite resolve he wielded on riders, team managers, sponsors and manufacturers from 1903 to his death in 1940.





Photo: the caravan had already started its journey around 1:30PM.
PEZ: The caravan of promotional vehicles stretched out over a kilometer or two, with hundreds of people involved in the daily procession. There were people dressed in every kind of costume, handing out everything from hats, to cookies, to full loaves of bread.





Photo: Dauphiné stage 3 winner Edvald Boasson Hagen (Sky).
CyclingNews: Norwegian pleased with second place after getting chance to play his own card





Photo: An unhappy Frank Schleck during the Giro d'Italia.
CyclingNews: Schleck tested positive for the banned diuretic and masking agent Xipamide during last year’s Tour de France in an anti-doping control after stage 13, and received a 12 month ban.





Photo: Cannondale SuperSix SRAM Red.
CyclingWeekly: When you compare the build of a sprinter against that of a climber it's instantly obvious that they are going to need a different bike - how do we put this politely... because there's just more of them.





Photo: Tuesday was even crueler than Saturday for American rider Ted King.
PodiumCafe: The fight is on to restore Ted King to the Tour de France.






































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