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September 12, 2014






Adam Hansen (Lotto-Belisol)
Photo: © Tim de Waele/TDW Sport.
Adam Hansen scored a canny victory on stage 19 of the Vuelta a España after slipping away from the peloton on the final uncategorized climb on the run-in to Cangas do Morrazo. (cyclingnews.com)

September 12, 2014




Adam Hansen (Lotto-Belisol)
Photo: © Tim de Waele/TDW Sport.
A perfectly timed late-race attack by Adam Hansen netted the Australian the Vuelta a España stage 19 win ahead of the chasing peloton at Cangas do Morrazo. (cyclingnews.com)

September 12, 2014





Dave Brailsford (Team Sky)
Photo: © Sirotti.
With two crunch stages left in the Vuelta a España, Sky manager Dave Brailsford is adamant that Chris Froome, having moved up to second on stage 18, can now battle for the overall win. (cyclingnews.com)

September 12, 2014




Chris Putt joins his older brother on the team this year, and is expected to do well on the climbs.
Photo: © Casey B. Gibson.
The U23 development team owned by Axel Merckx will return for 2015 with the same mission but a new structure and several new sponsors, the former pro from Belgium told Cyclingnews this week at Interbike in Las Vegas. (cyclingnews.com)

September 12, 2014




2014 Races & Results.

Vuelta a España - Aug 23-Sept 14 (Stages & Results),

Tour of Britain - Sept 7-14 (Stages & Results),

GP Cycliste de Québec - Sept 12 (Start List),

GP Cycliste de Montréal - Sept 14 (Start List),

UCI Road World Championship - Sept 20-27 (Stages),

Santos Tour Down Under - Jan 18-25 (Stages),

Tour of Alberta - Sept 2-7 (Results),

Tour de France - July 5-27 (Results),

Giro d'Italia - May 9 - June 1 (Results),


September 12, 2014




Photo: Peter Sagan has been winless since taking the Tour de France green jersey in July.
Peter Sagan‘s form heading into the Ponferrada World Championship road race on September 28 appears in doubt after he abandoned the Vuelta a España on Saturday. The Slovak star of team Cannondale won the green jersey at the Tour de France for a third time this year, but has been quiet since. (cyclingweekly.co.uk)

September 12, 2014




Photo: Struggle street... Richie Porte. (AAP).
Richie Porte has ruled himself out of the upcoming UCI Road World Championships, in Ponferrada, Spain, after admitting he’s still struggling to overcome an illness that’s plagued the Australian since the start of the year. (sbs.com.au)

September 12, 2014




Photo: Faustino Muñoz Cambron has been Alberto Contador’s personal mechanic since the five-time Grand Tour winner turned professional in 2003.
Alberto Contador is in his 12th year as a professional cyclist and one man has been near ever-present at his side – the five-time Grand Tour champion’s personal mechanic, Faustino Muñoz Cambron. (roadcyclinguk.com)

September 12, 2014




Photo: The key moment of the race – Nys hopped while van der Haar ran, creating the final gap. © LasalaImages.com.
When we asked third-place finisher Jeremy Powers to explain what happened at the front of the race before Sven Nys dug in, he answered: “I made a move earlier on. Then Sven made a few attacks, jumped over the barriers and went as hard as he could. Lars went as hard as heI could, and I went as hard as I could… and Sven won.” (cxmagazine.com)

September 12, 2014




Photo: New from Look for 2015 is the KeO 2 Max Blade pedal, which incorporates the company's novel 'Blade' leaf spring concept to create a sleeker and lighter design
James Huang / Immediate Media.
Look has trickled its novel 'Blade' leaf spring concept downstream to 2015, adding it to its workhorse KéO 2 Max pedals to create the KéO 2 Max Blade. (bikeradar.com)

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Photo: Stage 20 Profile.
Saturday's Vuelta a Espana Stage 20 live streaming video should get underway at around 4:00pm CET (10:00am U.S. Eastern).  (cyclingfans.com)

September 12, 2014




Photo: Do wacky looks translate to a winning aero design?
BikeRadar verdict: 2 out of 5 stars. "So fast but so flawed." (bikeradar.com)

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Brandle in action
Photo: © Rob Lampard.
Dowsett moves into yellow on dramatic day. (cyclingnews.com)

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Photo: I want to thank my teammates. They gave their hearts to keep my leader's jersey. In the end it didn't work, but we still have three stages to go. It's not over...
Michal Kwiatkowski and Omega Pharma-Quick Step were the big losers in today's stage of the Tour of Britan when the early break stayed away and Alex Dowsett took the leader's jersey off Kwiatkowski's shoulders. However, the Pole is still optimistic ahead of tomorrow's very hard stage. (cyclingquotes.com)

September 12, 2014




Photo: Alex Dowsett (Movistar Team) smiles for the camera
Photo: © El Pedal de Frodo.
Alex Dowsett could hardly have imagined that he would be donning the yellow jersey at the Tour of Britain when he rolled out of Bath for stage 6 on Friday morning. That morning Dowsett wasn’t even in the top 20, sitting 1:25 behind race leader Michal Kwiatkowski, now he leads the Polish rider by 34 seconds. (cyclingnews.com)

September 12, 2014




Diego Ulissi (Lampre-Merida)
Photo: © Bettini Photo.
The Lampre-Merida team is awaiting formal confirmation from the UCI that Diego Ulissi can return to racing following his adverse analytical finding for salbutamol at the Giro d’Italia. (cyclingnews.com)

September 12, 2014




Michal Kwiatkowski has racked up several wins and podium finishes this season. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com.
Michal Kwiatkowski is closing in on the Tour of Britain overall win and is continuing to prove he is a star in the making. “This is only my second race back from my long break after the Tour de France,” Kwiatkowski said. “I can time trial and I should be ready for [the overall win].” (velonews.com)

September 12, 2014




Photo: Sam Bennett had an expletive laced exchange with Bernie Eisel, but the Irish man tells us here he quickly pulled his horns in.
"Having felt unwell for the past few days I was kind of glad to be told by the team doctor last night that blood tests after the stage revealed that my white cells are low and my body is still fighting the virus I got after the Tour of Norway." (stickybottle.com)

September 12, 2014




Jan Bakelants (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) signs autographs for some young fans
Photo: © Tim de Waele/TDW Sport.
Jan Bakelants will ride for Ag2r-La Mondiale for the next two seasons, the team has confirmed. The Belgian, who is leaving Omega Pharma-QuickStep, expects to have more freedom to ride for himself and to concentrate on the Classics.

September 12, 2014




Adam Blythe (NFTO) is the day's winner
Photo: © Peter Goding.
Adam Blythe should return to the WorldTour next season. After leaving BMC at the end of 2013, Blythe has spent the last season racing for NFTO at Continental level. He spiked the interest of a number of top teams when he won RideLondon last month. (cyclingnews.com)

September 12, 2014




Photo: Although only available in Australia, we’re amazed by the value of this dealer-direct model from Cell Bikes.
Featuring Niner, Bontrager, Shimano and more. (bikeradar.com)

September 12, 2014




Photo: The Canyon Ultimate CF SLX 80 SuperLight weighs just 5.6kg.
Canyon has entered the ring in the Road Bike Weight War by unveiling the Ultimate CF SLX 80 SuperLight – a 5.6kg featherweight machine with a huge price tag. (roadcyclinguk.com)

September 12, 2014






Photo: Stage 7 Profile.
Saturday's Tour of Britain Stage 7 live streaming video should get underway at around 1:00pm BST (8:00am U.S. Eastern). (cyclingfans.com)

September 12, 2014




Photo: For 2015, the Casco SPEEDairo adds a Photochromatic lens, which adapts to light conditions.
Aero-vent balance, MIPS and bright shells all trending updwards. (bikeradar.com)

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Photo: Daily Distraction.

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Photo: Launching a perfectly timed sprint on the uphill finishing straight, Gerrans managed to pass Dumoulin just before the line to take his second win the GP Quebec. (cyclingquotes.com)
Australian out-sprints Dumoulin and Navardauskas on the Grande Allée. (cyclingnews.com)

September 12, 2014




Zdenek Stybar receives medical treatment after a crash
Photo: © Tim de Waele.
Less than one month on from a dramatic crash in the Eneco Tour, Czech champion Zdenek Stybar is back in action at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec, but upon seeing the same high-footed barriers that lined the course, the same kind that caused his face plant in Ardooie, he was seen discussing the dangerous nature of the course with a UCI commissaire. (cyclingnews.com)

September 12, 2014




Photo: Matteo Rabottini (Yellow Fluo) cornering
Photo: © Tim de Waele/TDW Sport.
On Friday morning Matteo Rabottini was named as one of 16 riders in the Italian squad for the World  Championships. On Friday afternoon he was dumped out of the team after the UCI revealed he had tested positive for EPO in an out of competition test carried out on August 8. (cyclingnews.com)

September 12, 2014




Nacer Bouhanni (FDJ.fr) on the podium
Photo: © Tim de Waele/TDW Sport.
French national team coach Bernard Bourreau has expressed his frustration at FDJ.fr’s decision to pull Nacer Bouhanni from racing for the remainder of his time at the team. (cyclingnews.com)

September 12, 2014




Taylor Phinney (BMC) stays tucked in tight for his winning ride
Photo: © Jonathan Devich/CN.
Reigning US time trial champion Taylor Phinney told Cyclingnews this week that he hopes to recover from injuries suffered in a crash earlier this year at the US pro road race in time to compete in next season's Tour de France and world championships. (cyclingnews.com)

September 12, 2014




Photo: Jens Voigt (Trek Factory Racing) with his Trek bike
Maxime Schmid.
When it comes to embarking on the hour record attempt, timing is of course of the essence but it's not just a factor imposed on the rider - in this case Jens Voigt - but also on the support staff and the bike manufacturer. (bikeradar.com)

September 12, 2014




Mark Cavendish debuted the new Oakley Jawbreaker sunglasses at the Tour de France, but he crashed out of the race in the first stage. Photo: BrakeThrough Media | brakethroughmedia.com.
The big unveiling of Oakley’s new sunglasses, the Jawbreaker, came up just 200 meters short. Mark Cavendish wore the prototype Oakley Jawbreaker on the first stage of the 2014 Tour de France. It was a stage that Cav had been eyeing, with a finish in his mother’s hometown. He was a favorite and a victory would catapult the new shields to the front pages of newspapers and websites around the world. (velonews.com)

September 12, 2014




The Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah is arguably the most difficult American stage race. Race organizers said that the 2014 event had a record-breaking economic impact. Photo: Casey B. Gibson | www.cbgphoto.com.
The Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah confirmed that 275,000 spectators watched the professional cycling event in August, setting a new record. In addition, the race generated a record $20 million in direct economic impact for Utah in a quantitative research study conducted by Event Sponsorship Measurement, LLC. (velonews.com)

September 12, 2014




Photo: Bike Science head fitter Andy Sexton answers BikeRadar readers’ fitting questions. bike-science.com/pages/precision-bike-fitting
Founder and head bike fitter of Bike Science, Andy Sexton was one of the very first Retul-certified fitters in the UK and has helped scores of athletes of all abilities get on better with their bikes, whether they be roadies, MTBers or triathletes. (bikeradar.com)

September 12, 2014




Photo: The Savant is Giro’s first road helmet that will include Mips and will go for only $110.
If you’ve wondered where head protection is headed, Giro showed a few new helmets that demonstrated Mips is going to be a noticeable part of the future of protection. Mips is a ground-up technology; a helmet must be designed from the start to include Mips, which is why you won’t be seeing it as an add-on to the Aeon. (redkiteprayer.com)

September 12, 2014




Photo: Their new 2015 team machine the ‘Aircode’ was getting a lot of attention with its completely redesigned aero fame.
Clothing from Castelli & Sportful, accessories from Ritchey, bikes from Lapierre, Eddy Merckx, GT and more. (pezcyclingnews.com)

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