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September 2012
September 17, 2012


Elite Women Individual Time Trial Profile (24.3km)
CyclingFans: Tuesday's UCI Road Worlds Elite Women 24.3km Individual Time Trial gets underway at 2:30pm CET (8:30am U.S. Eastern) with the departure of the first rider.  Road Worlds live streaming video should get underway at around 3:00pm CET (9:00am U.S. Eastern).





Francisco Mancebo (Competitive Cyclist) chases the leaders on the descent
CyclingNews: Mancebo wins men's title, Competitive Cyclist top team.





Ted King and Timmy Duggan (Liquigas) training together
CyclingNews: September is a very good time of year for US professional Ted King. The 29-year-old from Brentwood, New Hampshire, wrapped up his 2012 racing obligations to Italian ProTeam Liquigas-Cannondale earlier this month at the WorldTour races in Québec and Montreal, and now he's capping off his season with a few choice events near home.





Oskar Svendsen Merida
InnerRing: Norway’s Oskar Svendsen is the new junior time trial world champion. Who knows what the future holds for him now but it seems he could well become a force to be reckoned with in the senior ranks in the years to come. Why? Because it turns out the time trial is a good measure of talent.







2012 U23 time trial podium (L-R): Rohan Dennis (Australia), Anton Vorobyev (Russian Federation) and Damien Howson (Australia)
CyclingNews: Australia's Dennis, Howson complete podium.






[World Champinships - Junior mens TT] Oscar Svendsen is the new world junior time trial champion. Photo: Graham Watson | www.grahamwatson.com
VeloNews: Norway’s Oskar Svendsen won the men’s world junior time trial title on Monday.





[Uran: I didn't sell the Olympics] Rigoberto Urán says Alexander Vinokourov didn't buy gold in London. Photo: Miguel Medina | VeloNews.com
VeloNews: Rigoberto Urán never expected to be caught up in the middle of an intense post-race Twitter-storm, when just about everyone and their uncle assumed the Colombian sold the gold medal to eventual winner Alexander Vinokourov.





Peter Sagan, World Championships 2012
CyclingWeekly: Peter Sagan (Slovakia) says that it is unlikely he will put on the rainbow jersey on Sunday in Valkenburg, Netherlands. After a long season, that included winning the green jersey at the Tour de France, he believes that he is not among the World Championship favorites.





Lards van der Haar leads a European sweep of the 2011 CrossVegas podium © Cyclocross Magazine
CXMagazine: Can you hear it, cyclocross? The clanging of cowbells, the pumping of tires, the soft stampede of feet thumping over the barriers – the 2012/13 season is here. Already racers across the States have begun putting their early season fitness to the test in local and UCI C2 events, but it is to Las Vegas, Interbike, and the sixth edition of the Clif Bar CrossVegas that we turn, anxious, to unleash the season.





Races & Results.
UCI Road World Championship -  Sept 16-23 (Races & Results),
Tour of Britain -  Sept 9-16 (Stages & Results),
Vuelta a España -  Aug 18 - Sept 9 (Stages & Results),
Tour of China -  Sept 7-13 (Stages & Results),
Mountain Bike Championships - Aug 31 - Sept 9 (Races),
CyclingNews: More...





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With a succession of sharp climbs, the Valkenburg courses at the 2012 world road championships favor the attackers. Photo: Graham Watson | www.grahamwatson.com
VeloNews: The famous steeps of the Cauberg climb in the heart of the hilly Dutch country around Valkenburg set the stage for what should be wildly unpredictable racing this week at the UCI Road World Championships.





The peloton on stage 3 of the Tour of Beijing
CyclingNews: The 2012 Tour of Beijing's second stage has been forced to undergo change due to a section of a key mountain road being washed away in severe storms which devastated the Chinese capital in late July.






Chris Froome at finish, Vuelta a Espana 2012, stage 17
CyclingWeekly: Chris Froome has withdrawn from Wednesday's World Championship individual time trial, and will instead concentrate his efforts on Sunday's road race.





The 2012 USA Pro Challenge final podium (L-R): Tejay van Garderen (BMC), Christian Vande Velde (Garmin-Sharp) and Levi Leipheimer (Omega Pharma-Quickstep)
CyclingNews: Tejay van Garderen (BMC Racing) admitted that his excitement on the Cauberg may have cost BMC the chance of winning the Worlds team time trial in Valkenburg.





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Cyclismas: "It’s the story of a sport so corrupted by its own mythology that it has lost all touch with reality and seems incapable of heeding the warnings given to it."





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Bicycling: A look at the stop-and-go ascent of a radically different type of urban bicycle.





Look 675
road.cc: Integration is key to Look's new long haul speed machine which we rode at Eurobike.





Yeti's Carbon Superbike: The SB-66 recieved
MBAction: Yeti is a small company nestled at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in Golden, Colorado. Their roots go all the way back to mountain biking's infancy, when they built some of the fastest race-bikes for the likes of John Tomac  and Juli Furtado. Today, their focus remains the same: build the bikes that you're passionate about.







Specialized-lululemon en route to victory in the team time trial.
CyclingNews: The favorites delivered in the women’s team time trial at the World Championships with Specialized-lulemon taking gold ahead of Orica-AIS and AA Drink - Leontien.NL Cycling.





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doping, cycling, lance armstrong, the conversation
SBS: What can the Armstrong case tell us about anti-doping regulation in cycling and in sport more generally? Is there too much focus on punishment for “dopers” and too little focus on prevention? And perhaps more importantly, what are the effects of prioritising punishment?






Yates and Philou Maire
Cyclismas: "We understand there were photos showing Sean Yates and one of our team vehicles in front of the bike shop owned by Philou Maire, as revealed on Facebook."





Valverde says yes to reconciliation.
TwistedSpoke: Top Spanish rider Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) has given his own opinion on the idea of a Truth & Reconciliation commission to address the widespread doping in the 90′s.






While to the casual onlooker the stages cycling stageone power meter looks to be simply a plastic box glued to a crankarm, readers should be reminded that the strain gage array is applied directly to the crankarm surface. the plastic enclosure then seals everything in and contains the battery and electronics:
BikeRadar: Boulder, Colorado-based company Stages Cycling is launching a new direct-measurement power meter at Interbike that weighs just 20g and costs as little as $699.





[2012 Alpine Odyssey ] Lance Armstrong's presence at the Alpine Odyssey caused a stir, but the star did not change the race standings. Photo: MillerPerspectives | MillerPerspectives.Squarespace.com
SingleTrack: Whether the presence of one of most controversial cyclists was intended as a publicity stunt, or whether it increased registration for the race or not, his presence seemed a moot point for the majority of the 300 people in the corral who were far more concerned about tackling the 62 mile course with 8,800 feet of climbing than the last-minute presence of Armstrong on the front line.





BMC, men's TTT, World Championships 2012, team time trial
CyclingWeekly: Despite a ban from the Italian national team, three cyclists went ahead and raced the World Championships at the weekend. Alessandro Ballan, Daniele Pietropolli and Alessandro Petacchi raced in the team time trials yesterday in Valkenburg, Netherlands, with their trade squads.





Bell may have been slow in introducing the Gage - the successor to the long-running Sweep - but it's a worthy successor that's not only sleeker and lighter but better looking, too
BikeRadar verdict: 4 out of 5 stars. "Great ventilation and sleek styling but could still use some tweaking in places."






Melbourne considers elevated 'Veloway' for cyclists.
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road.cc: Similar to designs mooted in London.




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PodiumCafe: The Cycling Gods had a pretty good one in store for the home crowd at today's opening day of the Limburg World Championships, stuffing both the men's and women's Rabobank teams in favor of teams from neighboring Belgium and Germany. Yup, because if a Dutch team can't win, you know the locals were quite happy to see their nearby neighbors seize the honors instead.





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