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August 5, 2014





Michael Schär (BMC)
Photo: © Tim de Waele/TDW Sport.
BMC rider solos to win after 130 mile day-long breakaway. (cyclingnews.com)

August 5, 2014




Moreno Moser (Cannondale)
Photo: © Bettini Photo.
Eight riders under contract with Amadio may move to Garmin-Sharp. (cyclingnews.com)

August 5, 2014




Photo: Powers edged out Schneider for the win in Cedar City. Photo courtesy Tour of Utah..
Reigning national road, criterium, and time trial champion Alison Powers won the Zappos.com Cedar City Grand Prix, held in conjunction with stage 1 of the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah. (velonews.com)

August 5, 2014




Photo: Tom Danielson has yet to turn in a top result this season. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com.
Tom Danielson is one of the favorites to win the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah. Maybe the favorite. (velonews.com)






2014 Races & Results.
Volta a Portugal em Bicicleta - July 30-Aug 10 (Stages & Results),
Tour de Pologne - Aug 3-9 (Stages & Results),
Tour of Utah - Aug 4-10 (Stages & Results),
USA Pro Challenge - Aug 18-25 (Stages),
Vuelta a España - Aug 23-Sept 14 (Stages),
Clásica San Sebastián - Aug 2 (Results),
Tour de Wallonie - July 26-30 (Results),
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).

August 5, 2014




Marra Abbott (UnitedHealthcare) takes home the race winners bowl
Photo: © Jonathan Devich/epicimages.us.
"I recently competed in the Giro Rosa with my UnitedHealthcare team in hopes of defending my 2013 title. I finished fourth. Here is my story of the also-ran, complete with advice from swim coaches, yoga instructors, and little kids playing hide and seek, and with the conclusion that it's really quite a privilege to be the owner of a slightly broken heart." (cyclingnews.com)





Yauheni Hutarovich (Ag2r-La Mondiale)
Photo: © Tim de Waele/TDW Sport.
Sprinters have no secrets for Yauheni Hutarovich, who captured the first stage of the Tour of Poland on Sunday. The Belarus rider is one of the riders who scrutinizes bunch sprints on videos, sometimes dozens of times a day. (cyclingnews.com)

August 5, 2014




Photo: Crashes in the Tour de France often send riders hurling to the road. Credit Doug Pensinger/Getty Images
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)

August 5, 2014




Photo: Specialized's new S-Works Turbo Cotton road clincher tire is a supreme performer...
BikeRadar verdict: 4.5 out of 5 stars. "Ultra-fast, superb grip, and a truly sublime ride." (bikeradar.com)

August 5, 2014




Photo: It looked like Matthews thought the peloton had caught all three escapees, particularly when his fellow sprinters began jockeying for position in the run towards the finish.
Michael Matthews from Orica-GreenEDGE celebrated the stage 2 Tour of Poland win(Torun to Warsaw ) the other day, unfortunately a malfuctioning radio meant that he didn’t get the message that Czech Petr Vakoc had already crossed the line 21 seconds earlier. (wednesdaylegs.wordpress.com)

August 5, 2014




Photo: Few other texts do such a good job of explicating a complex subject, pro cycling in the age of EPO, with such lucidity and humanity, while simultaneously telling a fascinating story about a singular personality.
Matt Rendell’s The Death of Marco Pantani is one of the best cycling books you will read. (redkiteprayer.com)

August 5, 2014




Photo: he crank arm is exactly the same as the full version of the Rotor power system.
Lightweight, lower cost, single-leg power meter arrives. (bikeradar.com)

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Photo: Tom Danielson (Garmin-Sharp) won the 2013 Tour of Utah.
Tuesday's Tour of Utah Stage 2 departs Panguitch at 10:15am MDT and is expected at the finish at Torrey at around 3:45pm MDT.  Tour of Utah live streaming video should get underway at around 10:10am MDT. (cyclingfans.com)

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Theo Bos won stage three of the Tour of Poland (pic: Sirotti). (roadcyclinguk.com)
Mezgec overhauled at the line. (cyclingnews.com)

August 5, 2014





Photo: For the second time in the Volta a Portugal, Bauhaus showed his immense sprint potential by easily passing Vigano in the bunch kick on stage 6; Veloso enjoyed an easy day and retained his lead... © www.wort.lu
After five days of suffering in the mountains, sprint talent Phil Bauhaus was back in the spotlight in the Volta a Portugal when he claimed his second stage win in the 10-stage race. Having positioned himself perfectly on Davide Vigano’s wheel, he easily passed his rivals sprinter to take the win while Gustavo Cesar Veloso enjoyed an easy day in the saddle to retain his overall lead. (cyclingquotes.com)

August 5, 2014





Photo: Dear @tinkoff_saxo fans, do you want me to close the deal with Peter Sagan? If i get 1000 retweets, i will do it!
Blazin' Saddles looks at the drunken antics of Tinkoff-Saxo owner Oleg Tinkov and his ongoing quest to conduct all his team's private business on the most public platform of all: Twitter. (uk.eurosport.yahoo.com)

August 5, 2014




Photo: Focusing too much on threshold or sub-threshold work has perhaps lead to a underperforming anaerobic ability like you had previously.
Stephen Gallagher and the team at Dig Deep have selected a handful of questions to answer in detail. The team will also be answering a whole bunch of questions in an upcoming webinar. (cyclingtips.com.au)

August 5, 2014




Belkin spent the entire stage working on the front of the field
Photo: © Jonathan Devich/epicimages.us.
Belkin got off to a good start Monday at the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah, controlling the first stage throughout the day and setting up 22-year-old Moreno Hofland for the win in his first race since crashing out of the Tour of California in May. (cyclingnews.com)

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Photo: Stage 4 Profile...
Wednesday's Tour de Pologne Stage 4 gets underway at 10:40am CET (4:40am U.S. Eastern) and is expected to finish at around 4:30pm CET (10:30am U.S. Eastern).  Tour de Pologne live streaming video should get underway at around 3:15pm CET (9:15am U.S. Eastern). (cyclingfans.com)

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Photo: More info and links to come.
Wednesday's Tour of Portugal Stage 7 live streaming video should get underway at around 3:00pm local (10:00am U.S. Eastern). (cyclingquotes.com)

August 5, 2014




Photo: the North American iteration of TrekWorld 2014 is kicking off, showing all 2015 bikes to dealers.
Starting with their biggest road news of the year, the ultralight Emonda greeted everyone with a hanging sculpture of prototype and test frames dangling above the flagship SLR 10. If you recall, that bike has a 10.25lb claimed weight, which comes with the title of World’s Lightest Production Road Bike.” (bikerumor.com)

August 5, 2014




Photo: Campagnolo has announced weights and pricing for the new mechanical Super Record, Record, and Chorus groups..
Campagnolo has provided more details about the new Super Record, Record, and Chorus groups recently announced. (velonews.com)

August 5, 2014




Photo: Five of our favorite bands and bracelets to track all-day activity.—Selene Yeager.
The Garmin vivofit will recalibrate the goals you set if you regularly exceed them or fall short. But don't dally: Sit for more than an hour and a red bar appears on the screen and lengthens until you literally walk it off. (bicycling.com)

August 5, 2014




Photo: Nuseti features the Inner Drive System (IDS), which is a completely encapsulated drive unit designed especially for mountain biking.
Mountain bike racing champion Gregory Zielinski has drawn from his 16 years of racing to design a bike that is unlike any other. (bikeworldnews.com)

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Photo: Daily Distraction.

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Photo: A TeXtreme fabric top layer on a Felt Virtue FRD mountain bike frame not only gives a nice checkerboard appearance, but it resists stresses from all angles. It also sandwiches layers of unidirectional fabric between itself and a similar TexTreme sheet to form the bottom layer that prevents unidirectional fibers from imploding inward in the case of a hard impact. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com.
If I had a dollar for every time I’ve been told, “We’re a small company, and the only way we can compete with the big companies is to make a better product,” I’d be a very rich man. Given the engineering budgets of companies like Trek, Specialized, Giant, and Cannondale, it’s hard to make a bike better than they make. But Felt Bicycles is a small company that surpasses them in some areas. (velonews.com)

August 5, 2014







Photo: Peter Sagan is headed to Tinkof-Saxo for 2015, according to a news report. Photo: Casey B. Gibson | www.cbgphoto.com.
Tour de France green jersey winner Peter Sagan will join Tinkoff-Saxo next season, the Slovak daily Sport said on Tuesday. (velonews.com)

August 5, 2014






Roman Kreuziger (Tinkoff-Saxo)
Photo: © Bettini Photo.
Roman Kreuziger has announced that he will appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in an attempt to overturn the suspension imposed by the UCI due to his ongoing Biological Passport case. The Tinkoff-Saxo rider hopes for a temporary lifting of the ban by CAS before his case is heard so he can to ride the Vuelta a Espana. (cyclingnews.com)

August 5, 2014








Nairo Quintana (Movistar)
Photo: © Tim de Waele/TDW Sport.
The organizers of the Vuelta a España have released the names of riders registered to contest the third and final Grand Tour of 2014, with some of the sports biggest names set to fight for success in late August and September. (cyclingnews.com)

August 5, 2014









Photo: Carlos Betancur (Ag2r-La Mondiale) wins at Fayence.
Photo: © Tim de Waele/TDW Sport.
Carlos Betancur will leave Ag2r-La Mondiale at the end of this season after reportedly reaching an agreement with the French team to release him from his existing contract, which was not due to expire until the end of 2016. (cyclingnews.com)

August 5, 2014




Photo: With the passing of the August 1 deadline, teams can now announce which riders will be riding for them next season.
Team by team list of transfers and who's going where for the 2015 season. (cyclingweekly.co.uk)

August 5, 2014




Photo: Teams are business-like but they are not run for profit – UCI rules constrain this – so there’s no surplus.
What is Team Sky’s budget? The income statement lists the figure in black and white: £22,061,000. ($36.5m / €26.7m.) (inrng.com)

August 5, 2014




Photo: The rhythm was a bit friendly and a little bit less race-specific. And most of all, I see myself running OK. But I see the other guys also riding well and functioning well as a team...
Yesterday Cadel Evans returned to competition after a mid-season break when he finished 13th in the opening stage of the Tour of Utah. The Australian was satisfied with his sensations after a pretty calm day that saw his teammates Danilo Wyss and Rick Zabel sprint to top 10 results. (cyclingquotes.com)

August 5, 2014




Photo: The winning bike is what the Teague x Sizemore team considers an “all in” commuter platform for urban environments like Seattle.
After winning the Oregon Manifest and Levi’s Bike Design Project, Denny is headed on for big things. Denny of course being the bike that was created by the collaboration between TEAGUE design and Sizemore Bicycle. (bikerumor.com)

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