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| Oct 31 |
 Jonathan Tiernan-Locke
has revealed that he may not return to racing as a professional rider
when his two-year ban for a UCI Biological Passport violation ends on
December 31, 2015.
Speaking to Cyclingnews after attending the Exmoor Beast sportive event near his home in Devon, the British rider reveals the personal anguish he has gone through as he tried to fight his case. (cyclingnews.com) October 21, 2014  The
2014 Six Days of Amsterdam Track Cycling (6-Daagse van Amsterdam or
Zesdaagse van Amsterdam) are being held October 20-25. There
will once again be live streaming video.
Live streaming video: 7:15pm CET (1:15pm U.S. Eastern). (cyclingfans.com) October 21, 2014  American
sprinter revels in track roots: US Elite criterium champion Daniel Holloway
could be hard to get in touch with this week; his schedule for the next
five evenings is booked. The 27-year-old speedster from Morgan Hill,
California, is competing with fellow American Guy East this week
at the Amsterdam Six Day, which started Monday in the Netherlands.
(cyclingnews.com)
October 21, 2014  Today
Belkin's impressive streak of ten straight wins in the Tour of Hainan
was broken when Moreno
Hofland could only manage sixth in the sprint on stage 2.
However, the young Dutchman was pleased to get rid of the leader's
jersey. (cyclingquotes.com)
October 21, 2014  One
of the most surprising signings of the 2012/13 transfer season was the
move from the US amateur team Californian Giant to mighty WorldTour
outfit Astana by 22 year-old Evan
Huffman from Elk Grove, California.
Huffman produced some startling time trial results in 2012, beating the likes of Tom Zirbel in the McLane Pacific stage race TT and then besting Rory Sutherland at the Tour of Gila TT before taking the US U23 TT title. Californian Giant and Astana share the same bike sponsor in Specialized, who spotted Huffman’s potential and recommended him to the Kazakh squad. (pezcyclingnews.com) October 21, 2014
2014
Races
& Results.
Santos Tour Down Under 2015 - Jan 18-25 (Stages), Giro d'Italia 2015 - May 9-31 (Stages), Tour of Beijing 2015 - Oct 10-14 (Results), Paris - Tours Elite 2015 - Oct 12 (Results), Il Lombardia 2014 - Oct 5 (Results), UCI Road World Championship 2014 - Sept 20-27 (Results), Vuelta a España 2014 - Aug 23-Sept 14 (Results), Tour de France2014 - July 5-27 (Results), Giro d'Italia 2014 - May 9 - June 1 (Results), Octobern 21, 2014  The
Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) will present its 2015 Tour de France
route Wednesday in Paris, but already, enough is known or rumored to
suggest that Italy’s Vincenzo
Nibali will have a chance to defend his 2014 title.
The race will start in Utrecht, Netherlands on July 4 and finish in Paris on July 26. It is due to run counter-clockwise around the country, skirting the north coast before running through the high Pyrenean and Alpine mountains. (velonews.com) October 21, 2014  Live feeds for Wednesday's 2015
Tour de France Route Presentation should get underway at around 11:30am
CET (5:30am U.S. Eastern).
Where will the 2015 Tour de France go after Utrecht in the Netherlands? We'll find out on Wednesday, October 22, 2014. The route presentation will be live on Eurosport and it will be streamed live online as well.(cyclingfans.com) October 21, 2014  Tomorrow,
Wednesday, the 2015 Tour de France route will be announced.
There will be great excitement. And then a few boorish,
negative types will complain that many of the same old roads and host
towns are included, while some of the very best climbs in France are
ignored - yet again. (podiumcafe.com)
October 21, 2014  Oliveira extends
with Lampre-Merida, No news on Horner
for 2015, Cofidis to ride Orbea bikes. (cyclingnews.com)
October 21, 2014  While
Liesbet De Vocht’s fellow
Belgians prepared for the women’s world road championships in
Ponferrada, Spain, she sat on the sidelines, literally. She was unable
to ride due to a debilitating knee injury sustained in September’s
Boels Ladies Tour. “I knew immediately when I crashed, my chances for
worlds were over,” she said. “I was crushed, to say the least. I landed
directly on my knee, cutting it straight through to the bone. They
stitched it up but I wasn’t allowed to bend the knee for the first few
days. After 10 days, the wound was still open and still wasn’t 100
percent.” (velonews.com)
October 21, 2014  Lars Van der Haar
maintained his lead in the UCI rankings following his victory in a
first round of cyclo-cross World Cup held in Valkenburg on Sunday.
Arguably the most renowned rider in the discipline, Sven Nys, is
currently second, while Francis
Mourey, Kevin
Pauwels and the Superprestige series leader Mathieu Van der Poel
complete the top five. (cyclingquotes.com)
October 21, 2014  "I’ve
been on some good form the past few weeks. The whole pedaling a bike
for an hour hard has been going well. Unfortunately, the results sheet
has not always really reflected that." (pelotonmagazine.com)
 A
good road bike saddle needs to be many things, but the most important
thing is that it's comfortable. However, what's comfortable for one
cyclist might not be comfortable for another, and that makes the merits
of a saddle largely subjective. (bikeradar.com)
October 21, 2014  Everyone
enjoys the camaraderie, competition, and excitement of a group
ride—until you get dropped. Here's how to keep the pace. (bicycling.com)
October 21, 2014  First
unveiled at Eurobike back in 2012, Carrera’s foldable helmet is
inspired by the “leather-sausage” that “protected” the heads of the
peloton through the 1970s. The new collaboration between Carrera and
Brooks England sees the retro dialed up to eleven with a generous
helping of leather and tartan detailing from the famous Black Country
manufacturer. (cyclingweekly.co.uk)
October 21, 2014 |  This
weekend, at a gran fondo in Greenville, South Carolina, several members
of the former U.S. Postal Service team will ride together again.
Four members of the USPS team that won the 1999 Tour de France - Lance Armstrong, George Hincapie, Christian Vande Velde, and Kevin Livingston - will reunite at the October 25 Gran Fondo Hincapie. Former Postal/Discovery Channel team members Michael Barry and Tom Danielson will also be attending. Though initially listed as a participant, former USPS rider David Zabriskie has said he will not be able to make the trip. (velonews.com) October 21, 2014  "Once
we start riding through all the months ending in ber, professional
cyclists get a giddy feeling. For the first time all year, our training
plans extend past the date marking the end of just one more session of
intervals. The necessity to complete another muscle-searing training
effort will soon be (or already is) behind us, and now we can head out
onto the road for the simple love of the ride. This freedom is
invigorating." (bicycling.com)
October 21, 2014  After
the World Tour last week now for a look at the full pro calendar. The
World Tour might have retreated from China but there are 48 days of
racing in the country, more than the USA, Britain and Australia…
combined.
The wider calendar bas all the .HC and .1 rated races around the world on the UCI Europe, America, Asia, Oceania and Africa Tours as well as the World Tour, so the Tour de France, the spring classics but also the Tour of Langkawi and more. There are 194 races – a grand tour counts as one race – with a total of 606 days of racing. (inrng.com) October 21, 2014  With
2014 coming to a close, there are several riders without contracts for
next season. Grand Tour overall and stage winners, an Olympic Champion
and the 2010 Dauphiné victor remain searching for a team.
(cyclingweekly.co.uk)
October 21, 2014  Vuelta
a Espana director Javier
Gullén has sais that the Spanish Grand Tour is to emulate
the Tour de France and will hold a one-day women’s race prior to last
stage in Madrid next September.
The women’s event will be held on the Paseo de la Castellana boulevard in central Madrid, which will return to hosting the last stage of the Vuelta in 2015 after this year's finish in Santiago de Compostela. (cyclingnews.com) October 21, 2014  Sébastien Hinault
who has just ended his professional career at the age of 40, will be
sports director at Bretagne-Seche Environnement in 2015. He will work
alongside athletic director Roger
Trehin and coach Franck
Renimel under the leadership of general manager Emmanuel Hubert.
(cyclingquotes.com)
October 21, 2014  A
few days of the rains that Seattle is known for relented and gave way
to near summer conditions for Sunday’s Magnuson Park CX, the fourth
stop in the MFG series. 1,018 racers took to a course that started out
wet, with patches of mud, that had mostly firmed up for the elite races
in the afternoon. The predominately flat course took up a swath of
Seattle’s enormous Warren G Magnuson park and featured a few technical
bits in fields along Lake Washington. (cxmagazine.com)
October 21, 2014  "We've
known about these for a while, but there's been more details announced
this week about the two new women's races for 2015 - the Vuelta a
España final day race, and the Tour of California women's race.... And
breaking news, an announcement we didn't know about - a new round in
the 2015 Road World Cup!"
October 21, 2014  For
the first time in its 80 year history, the Vuelta a Espana will hold a
women’s race on the day of the final stage of the men’s race which
finishes in Madrid.
According to Spanish sports newspaper Marca, organizers of the Vuelta, Unipublic, are already in talks with the UCI over classifying it as top category one-day race in the elite women’s calendar, so they can potentially recruit the best riders in the world to the race. (cyclingweekly.co.uk) October 21, 2014  With
most biographies, the best part of them is the chorus of voices the
author calls upon to add to the story he tells. In The Race Against The Stasi
Sykes
lets his chorus - Wiedemann
himself, friends, family, contemporaries - take center stage, while he
takes himself off to the wings and out of the story. (podiumcafe.com)
October 21, 2014  Snickers: 72
calories, or a 10-minute ride at 10–12 mph.
Reese's Peanut Butter Cup: 80 calories, or a 6-minute ride at 16–20 mph. Almond Joy: 91 calories, or an 8-minute ride at 14–16 mph. Milky Way: 76 calories, or a 4-minute ride at more than 20 mph. M&M’s: 90 calories, or a 19-minute ride at 10 mph. (bicycling.com) October 21, 2014  4iiii’s
$399 Precision ANT and Bluetooth power meter built into this little
unit comes with a glue kit for the user to attach it to the left
crankarm. The installation kit includes a jig that plugs into the pedal
hole to ensure it’s placed in the correct location. After gluing it on
with epoxy and leaving it for six hours, the user hangs a 10+ pound
weight from three different points on an included load cell spindle.
This is done just once for an aluminum crank, but it should be done
annually with a carbon crank, since 4iiii says its flex characteristics
can change over time. (velonews.com)
October 21, 2014  Trek
has limited the 2015 Madone range to the top-end carbon 7-series and
aluminium 2-series bikes, giving greater prominence to this entry point
to the Madone pedigree. This follows the introduction of the
ultra-light Trek Emonda and Trek's continued emphasis on the distance
friendly Domane. (bikeradar.com)
October 21, 2014  Roland Cattin, the
founder of Time Sport International, died on Sunday morning near his
home in Paris, following a bicycle ride he had taken with his wife. The
cause was a heart attack, said Gilles
Lalonde, sales manager for Time Sport USA. Cattin was 65
years old. (velonews.com)
October 21, 2014 October 20, 2014 | October 21, 2014  Orica
GreenEdge rider Daryl
Impey can continue his career uninterrupted after the UCI
and WADA have declined to appeal his probenecid case verdict to the
Court of Arbitration for Sport.
The CEO of the South African Institute for Drug Free Sport (SAIDS), Khalid Galant, confirmed that no appeal had been lodged against its earlier decision to allow the rider to return to racing. The permitted timeframe for appeals has now lapsed. (cyclingtips.com.au) October 21, 2014  The
6.8-kilogram (14.99-pound) weight limit imposed by current UCI
regulations is on thin ice, but hasn’t fallen through just yet.
“I understand why that rule was brought on in the first place, though I think that technology has moved on,” UCI President Brian Cookson said to VeloNews in a phone interview. (velonews.com) October 21, 2014  American
ex-pro Bobby Julich
and Sean Yates
look to be heading to Tinkoff-Saxo in a major, behind-the-scenes
shakeup at the team for next season.
According to reports in the French daily L’Equipe, the pair will join Tinkoff-Saxo’s sport director staff for the 2015 season. At the same time, Philippe Mauduit and Fabrizio Guidi, two long-time sport directors who’ve been with the team since 2011, are out. (velonews.com) October 21, 2014  The
Tour de France race director, Christian
Prudhomme, will reveal the route of the 2015 edition of la
Grande Boucle on Wednesday, October 22. Before it happens, though, he
agreed to traditionally share his reflections on a current and future
picture of the discipline and currently hottest topics in sports media,
including investigation on Astana, Oleg
Tinkov’s proposal or a revival of cycling in France in
Germany. (cyclingquotes.com)
October 21, 2014  On
November 17, 2006, Mike
Friedman, 24, felt an excruciating pain rip through his
torso. “I’ve never been so short of breath,” he said. “It was like a
dull knife ripping apart my chest.” In the middle of watching the movie
“Cars,” he turned to his date and said, “We need to get to a hospital.
I think I’m having a heart attack.”
Forty minutes later, Friedman was under evaluation at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, not for a heart attack, but for a pulmonary embolism, a potentially lethal blood clot in his lung. (velonews.com) October 21, 2014  The
Olympic silver medallist and Commonwealth cycling champion has urged
the International Cycling Union (UCI) to improve pay conditions in a
bid to help professonalize women’s cycling.
“There have been some good realistic steps and good progression,” Armistead told Sky Sports News. “I think the UCI has put in some good ideas and some good strategies but obviously there’s still a long way to go. (cyclingweekly.co.uk) October 21, 2014  Zzzzz...
whu? Oh, the year in cycling is over? Right! Let's get on this.
First off, this limping to the finish is a lame way to wrap up the season. In what other sport does anyone have to ask "Is the season officially over?" None, that's what. And by the way, I mean men's cycling. The women finish with the Giro dell'Emilia, or maybe the World Championships, depending on how you feel about predominantly Italian fields. In any event, they close out in relative style. The men? The Nationale Sluitingprijs, or the soon-to-be-snuffed out Tour of Beijing. (podiumcafe.com) October 21, 2014  Canadian
cyclocross rider Maghalie
Rochette captured attention across the American racing
scene with a third place finish at Rapha Super Cross Gloucester and
second at Rochester’s Ellison Park Full Moon Vista race. This weekend,
she heads to Winnipeg to vie for a maple leaf jersey in Canadian
cyclocross nationals.
Now in her third and most consistently successful year of UCI ‘cross competition, the 21-year-old Luna Pro Team rider also won The Night Weasels Cometh, a big non-UCI event in New England. (velonews.com) October 21, 2014  Chris Jones took his
second win of the 2014 Cross Crusade series Sunday in Portland after Carl Decker slid
out on pavement in the final corner and had to settle for second. The
women had their third winner in as many races after Beth Ann Orton
powered away from the field in the fast, dry conditions.
(cxmagazine.com)
October 21, 2014  A
week of rain and an early morning frost lead to a very tacky course at
the Chicago Cyclocross Cup’s fourth race, Carpenter Park. Taking
advantage of the ideal cyclocross conditions were Kelli Richter in
the women’s elite race and returning from Wisconsin Joseph Maloney
in the elite men’s race. (cxmagazine.com)
October 21, 2014  One
topic that often comes up during discussions of roadblocks that keep
women from riding is the intimidation factor of walking into a
male-dominated bike shop. To help combat this, and help grow women’s
cycling, SRAM, Liv, Quality Bicycle Products, United Bicycle Institute
(UBI), Pedro’s, and Park Tool have teamed up to fund ten scholarships
for women to attend a two-week Professional Shop Repair and Operations
class at UBI. (bicycling.com)
October 21, 2014  "NAHBS
was talked about for a few years, not as NAHBS though, but as a “get
together” to help out the new builders so they wouldn’t fall into the
same pitfalls or traps most young builders fall into. I felt like it
should be much more than an educational get together, but it needed to
help market the builders “on the cheap.” Bringing in the cycling media
was the plan all along. Without them, the show wouldn’t have grown with
exhibitors and attendees. My entire vision was to bring a spotlight to
this niche and help my brethren secure orders, media articles and
contacts that they may not have made elsewhere." (redkiteprayer.com)
October 21, 2014  BikeRadar
verdict: 5 out of 5
stars. "Aero, airy, light, and comfy – if you're after a new road lid,
we'd urge you to give this a once-over." (bikeradar.com)
October 21, 2014  Cannondale
has revamped the Slice time trial bike, removing the Slice RS used by
the Cannondale team from the UK range and replacing it with a machine
geared towards multi-sport athletes. (roadcyclinguk.com)
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