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| Jul 31 |
 Tom Van Asbroeck
continued his excellent season by taking the biggest win of his short
career when he beat race leader Gianni
Meersman in a photo finish on the fourth stage of the Tour
de Wallonie. After an aggressive race, the stage was decided in a
sprint from a 50-rider group where the young Belgian emerged as the
strongest while a fourth consecutive second place for Meersman allowed him
to extend his overall lead. (cyclingquotes.com)
July 29, 2014  Having
taken over the leadership role from Philippe
Gilbert, Silvan
Dillier continues to shine in the Tour de Wallonie. Today
the neo-professional sprinted to fourth place and goes into the queen
stage in third place in the overall standings. (cyclingquotes.com)
July 29, 2014  Now
the dust has settled on Vincenzo
Nibali's emphatic victory it's time to look back at the
best - and worst - performances of the 101st Tour de France.
(uk.eurosport.yahoo.com)
July 29, 2014  Part
1: Nibali, Contador, and Team
Sky. (cyclingnews.com)
July 29, 2014  “You
can accept the critics, but there are people who think that everything
is easy, that everything comes easy, but that’s not all,” Valverde
said. “A lot of these critics have not ever ridden a bike, let alone
raced … They have no idea.” (velonews.com)
July 29, 2014  Giro
d'Italia organizer RCS Sport has announced that the 2015 edition of the
Italian Grand Tour will begin with an 18-kilometer team time trial to
Sanremo on a special cycle path along the Ligurian coast.
July 29, 2014
2014
Races
& Results.
Tour de Wallonie - July 26-30 (Stages & Results), Tour de Pologne - Aug 3-9 (Stages), Tour of Utah - Aug 4-10 (Stages), USA Pro Challenge - Aug 18-25 (Stages), Vuelta a España - Aug 23-Sept 14 (Stages), Tour de France - July 5-27 (Results), La Course Tour de France - July 27 (Results), Giro d'Italia Femminile - July 4-13 (Results), Giro d'Italia - May 9 - June 1 (Results), UCI Road World Championship - Sept 20-27 (Stages). July 29, 2014  It’s
finally all over. The barricades are long gone and the riders are off
to various parts of the world before the next big thing. But for three
weeks in July, the riders knock into one another every single day,
gentle, or not, reminders of a line, a wheel. And who better to ask
about the experience of a Tour de France than an eyes-wide-open rookie?
(velonews.com)
July 29, 2014  With
everything focussed on Alberto
Contador winning this year’s Tour de France, Nicolas Roche’s
Tinkoff-Saxo team had to come up with a whole new game plan when their
Spanish leader crashed out with a broken tibia on stage 10.
(stickybottle.com)
July 29, 2014  Richie Porte failed
to turn Team Sky’s perfect plan B into a successful campaign, but
squad’s principal Dave
Brailsford firmly stood behind his rider, claiming that
the 29-year old Australian has what takes to become a grand tour leader
when all significant elements will fall into right places.
(cyclingquotes.com)
July 29, 2014  Even
though there were some strong indications given that Bradley Wiggins
would continue his road career as Team Sky rider, apparently his recent
return to the track racing at the Commonwealth Games has changed his
perceiving and the four time Olympic gold medalist put such scenario
under a question as he aims to focus completely on Rio 2016.
July 29, 2014  As
with last year, only the final 3 stages (Monday to Wednesday) are being
broadcast live on television. Live
streaming video: 2:45pm CET (8:45am U.S. Eastern).
(cyclingfans.com)
July 29, 2014 |  Kirchmann third at
La Course; Vos'
winning sprint captured on video. (cyclingnews.com)
July 29, 2014  Christopher Horner’s
ability to recover following his serious training crash in May
surprised even his own team, as well as his gradually increasing
disposition during the 101st edition of the Tour de France, where he
thought back bronchitis to underline his presence in Pyrenean mountain
stages. (cyclingquotes.com)
July 29, 2014  Emma Pooley has
announced that she will retire after Sunday’s Commonwealth Games road
race. The 31-year-old British rider and former World Champion made the
announcement on rouleur.cc. (cyclingnews.com)
July 29, 2014  Overall
Tour de France winner Vincenzo
Nibali, and quadruple stage winner Marcel Kittel made
the 300km trip from Paris on Sunday to the post-Tour criterium in
Aalst, Belgium Monday night, but it was the country's native star, Greg Van Avermaet
who stole the "win." (cyclingnews.com)
July 29, 2014  This
year’s Criterium du Dauphine daring winner and one of the most
interesting pre-Tour de France podium contenders, Andrew Talansky, is
set to line-up at the Vuelta a Espana in a supporting capacity after he
was forced out of the French grand tour as a consequence of two
crashes. (cyclingquotes.com)
July 29, 2014  Sicilian
claims he, Wiggins
and Froome
are the new faces of the Tour de France. (cyclingnews.com)
July 29, 2014  If
you search the Internet for training advice, you’ll find more than just
a few words of wisdom about how to get faster. But for the sake of
consolidating it all for you, the consensus out there is that, to get
faster, you have to go harder. (competitivecyclist.com)
July 29, 2014  Is
weight loss truly greater (for the same time expended) when exercising
at moderate (say, 60 percent of maximum capacity) versus more intense
levels (85 percent of maximum capacity)?
July 29, 2014  Team
Sky’s outrageous F-Type TT team car, cooling vests and
more. (bikeradar.com)
July 29, 2014  When
heart surgeon Shyam
Kolvekar singled out butter and full-fat milk as
contributors to blocked arteries, suggesting that up to 3,500 lives
could be saved a year, many wrongly assumed he was saying milk was bad
for you. (bikeradar.com)
July 29, 2014  The
Chrono II is fully UCI approved across all five sizes (XS to XL). Vitus
says it has been designed with maximum aerodynamics at its heart, while
integral moulding process for the high-modulus, uni-directional T700
carbon means the top tube, down tube, head tube and seat tube are all
produced in a single step, which helps improve
stiffness. (bikeradar.com)
July 29, 2014  Biking
in Seattle can be less than mellow with all the hills, traffic and
especially that rain. But those things are exactly what inspired the
Teague team of bicycle designers to build the Denny bike for the Oregon
Manifest bike design project.
July 29, 2014  Anna
Weltman: "I
am looking for participants to be in a Research Study that I am
conducting for my Master's thesis in Sport Psychology. My thesis is on
cyclists who crash
and what it takes to get them back on the bike after they have
recovered. Please email me to volunteer" (dougreport.com)
July 29, 2014 | July 29, 2014  F1
star Fernando Alonso
is still moving forward with plans to create a professional cycling
team, according to his manager Luis
García-Abad. In an article published by AS today, he
confirmed that the application process with the UCI is on schedule.
(cyclingnews.com)
July 29, 2014  Ninth
overall impressive result by Belkin team rider. (cyclingtips.com.au)
July 29, 2014  Mountain
biking made its return to the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday with Canada
and New Zealand coming out on top at the Cathkin Braes course in
Glasgow. The event was dropped four years ago when the event was held
in Dehli. (velonews.com)
July 29, 2014  There’s
more than one way to go big at the Tour. (bicycling.com)
July 29, 2014  Brian Smith has been
appointed the new interim general manager of the South African Pro
Continental team MTN-Qhubeka. Smith
will step into the role with immediate effect, until the end of the
year, and will be responsible for signing new riders and appointing a
new general manager for next season. (cyclingnews.com)
July 29, 2014  The
bigger tire size reduces rolling resistance, and that will make more
difference on the tire that is supporting more weight — the rear tire.
The 25mm tire also gives you more traction, assuming you’re running
lower pressure in it than in the 23mm one. (velonews.com)
July 29, 2014  Some
cyclists these days seem to be concerned what their bike is, not what
it does. One camp will never ride anything but lugged steel frames. For
another, it’s carbon or nothing. Some will never ride narrow tires,
others would never consider a tire wider than 23 mm.
(janheine.wordpress.com)
July 29, 2014  Although
some mainstream media have quoted ‘experts’ saying this ‘isn’t normal’
and even mentioned it is a result of doping, it is not uncommon among
Tour riders. The pronouced viens are a long term result of increased
capillary density (common in elite endurance athletes), exaggerated by
dehydration after a long day in the saddle and low body fat levels
experienced towards the end of a three week grand tour.
(cyclingweekly.co.uk)
July 29, 2014  "Why
I’m 90-percent sold on road disc brakes." (bikeradar.com)
July 29, 2014  "Devinci
Cycles’ LEO SL is built for fast gran fondo style riding, has proven
itself on the UCI pro circuit, and has been under some long term
scrutiny at PEZ HQ – truth is I was having so much fun riding this
bike, I was in no hurry to send it back." (pezcyclingnews.com)
July 29, 2014  Aero
speed machine with vibration damping technology. (bikeradar.com)
July 29, 2014 July 28, 2014 |
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