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| Oct 31 |
 After
a successful year racing for UnitedHealthcare in the U.S. and
internationally, Alison
Powers will retire from professional cycling. She plans to
focus on her coaching business, ALP Cycles Coaching.
Looking back on her career, Powers said, “It has been a pretty amazing career! I have won or been part of a team that has won almost every single race in the United States. All of my cycling goals have been accomplished and I feel very satisfied leaving the sport. I’m proud to have won the Tour of the Gila criterium in 2006, my first year doing NRC races, and then to have won it again this year, my last year racing.” (velonews.com) October 23, 2014  Team
LottoNL-Jumbo, which is the 2015 iteration of the Belkin team, was
officially presented Thursday. Key team staff and athletes such as Robert Gesink, Laurens ten Dam, and
Wilco Kelderman
were on hand to introduce the team’s new look.
Belkin was involved with the cycling team for only a brief period — it’s sponsorship began mid-2013, and it announced it would withdraw from the sport earlier this year. In 2014, the team won stages at notable races such as Paris-Nice, Volta a Catalunya, Tour de France, and the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah. (velonews.com) October 23, 2014  Rolling
course will produce fast rides: Taylor
Phinney checked out the Elite men's individual
time trial course for the 2015 UCI Road World Championships in Richmond
on Wednesday. The American was in town as an attendee at a USA Cycling
camp being held to give riders a chance to preview several of next
year's race courses. (cyclingnews.com)
October 23, 2014  Chris Froome will
have to evaluate the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France routes, the
first two grand tours of 2015, to determine which path he will take
next year. The Tour, which takes place on July 4 to 26, carries more
prestige, but the Giro, May 9 to 31, offers more time trials and a
chance to return later in the season to race the Vuelta a España.
“The team and I will have to give it some careful consideration,” Froome said yesterday after the Tour presentation. (cyclingweekly.co.uk) October 23, 2014  Julien Antomarchi took
the biggest win of his career when he won stage 4 of the Tour of
Hainan. Having been part of a three-rider breakaway, the Frenchman
managed to hold off the peloton by just a single second but it was
enough to take both the stage win and the leader's
jersey. (cyclingquotes.com)
October 23, 2014  Nibali on his future
and the 2015 season, Le Tour in numbers. (cyclingnews.com)
October 23, 2014  What
a difference a couple of weeks can make. Round four of the SoCalCross
Prestige Series took place at the same location as Round four, two
weeks prior. It may as well have been in a different time zone. The
temperature was set to defrost instead of broil, the course was
radically revamped, and both the Men’s and Women’s Elite A results were
completely rewritten. (cxmagazine.com)
October 23, 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 23, 2014  BikeRadar
verdict: 4.5 out of 5
stars. "Whether on tarmac or trail, the Mares AX 3.0 is fast, fun and
full of innovation." (bikeradar.com)
October 23, 2014  CyclingWeekly
verdict: 9 out of 10
stars. "Without trying to reinvent the wheel, it has managed to help
change the way we look at styling, as well as which materials we use in
the helmet industry. Lightweight construction with subtle aerodynamic
properties and outrageous styling and colours to choose from, what’s
not to like?" (cyclingweekly.co.uk)
October 23, 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 23, 2014  Saturday's Saitama
Criterium will be broadcast live on Eurosport starting at around 3pm
local time in Japan (8am CET, 2am U.S. Eastern). There should
be live streams.
(cyclingfans.com)
October 23, 2014 October 22, 2014 October 22, 2014 October 22, 2014 |  The
2015 UCI world championships in Richmond, Virginia, are still nearly a
year away, but the initial reviews of the road and time trial courses
are in.
Top contenders for the U.S. world championship team gathered in the Virginia capital on Wednesday and Thursday to take a first tour of the road and time trial courses, hold team meetings, and build the foundation of the nation’s first home-field advantage in nearly three decades. (velonews.com) October 23, 2014  UCI
president Brian Cookson
believes Team Sky has abandoned one of its original pledges of seeking
to develop young British riders.
Cookson was a member of the operating board of the team’s owners, Tour Racing Limited, from its inception in 2010 until he was elected into his current position last September. But during an interview for CW’s sister magazine, Cycle Sport, Cookson bemoaned the team’s changed position on blooding home-grown talent. (cyclingweekly.co.uk) October 23, 2014  Christian Prudhomme,
the director of the Tour de France suggested that cycling and the Tour
de France has become 'swag' (a French term meaning cool) after the
spectacular start in Yorkshire and the dramatic racing at the 2014
edition of the race. (cyclingnews.com)
October 23, 2014  "The
Tour de France 2015 route announcement has certainly met with mixed
reaction, with the absence of any meaningful individual time trial and
a clear focus on the mountains not to everyone’s taste.
Chris Froome has already raised doubts over his own participation, saying the course does not suit his characteristics as a rider, though chief rival Alberto Contador is relishing what he admits will be a difficult race." (roadcyclinguk.com) October 23, 2014  At
the unveiling of the 2015 Tour de France route in Paris, race organiser
ASO confirmed a change to the green jersey points classification for
the nine flat stages of 2015 race.
Race director Christian Prudhomme hinted that there would be changes in an interview in September after Peter Sagan dominated the competition during the last three editions of the Tour. (cyclingnews.com) October 23, 2014  Austrian
Matthias Brändle
will attempt to beat Jens
Voigt’s hour record on October 30.
“I am delighted that a young rider is interested,” UCI President Brian Cookson said in a press release. “This proves that the Hour Record has again become a dream for athletes, including those of the new generation, as well as for cycling fans. “I am convinced that in the future many other riders will attempt to add their names to the prestigious list of legendary Hour Record holders.” (velonews.com) October 23, 2014  One
of cycling’s elder statesmen is retiring from professional racing after
a successful career spanning three decades. Karsten Kroon turned
pro in 1997 with Rabobank. He rode for Team CSC from 2006-2009, then
BMC for two season, and wrapped up his career with Tinkoff-Saxo from
2012 to present.
Kroon rode his last race in Sunday’s Japan Cup, and after returning home, he confirmed that it was the right decision. (velonews.com) October 23, 2014  A
Spanish lab gave a group of amaters a combo of caffeine and
carbohydrate gel and has found they rode significantly better than
others who had smaller doses or none at all. The big hit of caffeine
gave them staying power.
But how big was the hit? The scientists from the Unversity of Alicante gave the volunteers measured amounts of caffeine for every kilo of their body weight. The doses were taken 70 minutes before the experiment. (cyclingweekly.co.uk) October 23, 2014  BikeRadar
verdict: 4 out of 5
stars. "Light, fast and relatively easy to handle, but wet braking
isn't great and hard dry braking can cause squealing." (bikeradar.com)
October 23, 2014  We
first spotted the work of SaiTong
Man at this year’s Cycle Show in Birmingham. He's the
individual behind Cambridge firm Satoma Cycles. The frame Man had on display
showed exceptional attention to detail – sat on a floor dominated by
mass-produced bikes, it was impossible to ignore.
Man’s story is quite remarkable. He was formerly a successful video games designer, but decided to step away from the screens and pursue his passion for hand-crafted work. Man also used to produce hand-built wooden furniture, but has now dropped that craft in favor of frame building. (bikeradar.com) October 23, 2014  You
have to keep riding in winter if you want to consolidate your summer
fitness gains. Riding outdoors can be treacherous when it's dark and
icy, which is why indoor trainers are a boon to cyclists, especially
those who want to use their own bikes rather than go to a
gym. (bikeradar.com)
October 23, 2014 October 22, 2014 | October 23, 2014  Vincenzo Nibali has
described the recent positive doping tests at Astana as "isolated",
arguing that the team should not be held responsible for the
"stupidity" of some of its riders.
Brothers Maxim and Valentin Iglinskiy both tested positive for the banned blood booster EPO in August, the former having helped Nibali to victory at the Tour de France the previous month. (telegraph.co.uk) October 23, 2014  Both
the World Anti Doping Agency and the UCI have decided to fight the
decision taken last month by the Czech Olympic Committee to clear Roman Kreuziger of
anomalies in his biological passport, with the bodies confirming that
they will bring the matter to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
(cyclingtips.com.au)
October 23, 2014  Alternate
realities? String theory, perhaps, where near-identical universes thrum
alongside each other, where other variations of you live out their
existence doing the same stuff but with different outcomes? Or the
confirmation that the world has truly gone bat-shit crazy?
Whatever it is, George Hincapie and his cheery band of fellow travelers have somehow managed – again – to write their own histories. Hincapie IS NOT a drug cheat. he is in fact a good ol’ boy who gave and still gives a whole load of something back to cycling. God bless him and the flea-bitten horse called Hypocrisy he rode in on. (crankpunk.com) October 23, 2014  Tour
de France champion Vincenzo
Nibali reacted to the recent doping cases in his Astana
team by saying they are “ugly” but “isolated.”
In the last two months, three Kazakh cyclists, brothers Maxim and Valentin Iglinskiy, and Ilya Davidenok tested positive for banned drugs. “The first reaction when learning of this is rage,” the Italian said at 2015 Tour presentation yesterday, according to France’s Le Monde. (cyclingweekly.co.uk) October 23, 2014  "The
organizers of the biggest bike race in the World have announced the
route of the 2015 French Grand Tour. It’s a tough parcours with a lot
of climbing and very little time trialing, but the sprinters do get
their opportunities. Our first thoughts; tough but fair."
(pezcyclingnews.com)
.. October 23, 2014  In
response to three positive doping tests by Kazakhstan riders, the
country’s National Anti-Doping Centre along with the Kazakstan Cycling
Federation will introduce biometric passport monitoring of domestic
professional cyclists from 2015. (cyclingnews.com)
October 23, 2014  Riders
competing in the Canadian Cyclocross Championships in Winnipeg on
October 25 will face extreme obstacles on the course at The Forks.
Obstacles make races harder, but they have other uses, and a rich
history in the sport.
“I believe there used to be a phrase in the UCI rulebook: ‘Cyclocross shall not require feats of gymnastics,’” notes Brook Watts, race director of CrossVegas. (cxmagazine.com) October 23, 2014  "When
the weather is good, riding to work is the best possible start to the
day (unless something bad happens such as running into a yapping dog
who makes a play for your trouser leg, or catching a bug in your gob).
That's not so much the case when it's tipping it down. In fact, I tend
to give the bike miss on those occassions and get the train instead,
wimping out due to an old wound." (bikeradar.com)
October 23, 2014  Kristof Retezár, an
industrial design student from Vienna, Austria, says his invention
collects the moisture in the air and condensing it into drinkable
water. The mechanism is solar-powered, and can collect up to a
half-liter of water per hour. (bicycling.com)
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