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October 26, 2014




Photo: Chloe Hosking will help bolster Wiggle Honda's sprinting prowess (SportfotoNL).
The 25-year-old sprinter joins Wiggle Honda after two years with Hitec Products.
“Over the last two seasons I've watched Wiggle Honda become one of the biggest, most professional and strongest teams in the women's peloton and to join an outfit like that is both exciting and motivating," said Hosking.
“I've raced with, against and for (Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling Managing Director) Rochelle Gilmore since I entered the senior ranks in 2009 and to now race on her team is actually something really special," said Hosking who won the bronze medal in the 2010 Commonwealth Games road race in Delhi behind Gilmore. (sbs.com.au)

October 26, 2014





Julien Antomarchi (La Pomme Marseille) in the lead at the Tour of Hainan.
Photo: © Tour of Hainan.
Already the winner of stage 4, Julien Antomarchi of La Pomme Marseille doubled up in Wuzhishan as he claimed the queen stage ahead of Astana’s Andriy Zeits, while Niccolo Bonifazio finished in third place with a deficit of 39 seconds. Antomarchi moved back into the lead with a high chance of winning the ninth Tour of Hainan overall. (cyclingnews.com)

October 26, 2014





Photo: Mike Garrigan broke away early and maintained a strong ride throughout the day. © Andrew Reimann.
Catharine Pendrel and Mike Garrigan won maple leaf jerseys on a blue sky, cool and windy afternoon in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
In both elite races the strongest riders established front groups early. Pendrel gained the lead in lap two and maintained it, holding off teammate Maghalie Rochette and British Columbia’s Sandra Walter after Stan’s NoTubes Mical Dyck washed out on a grassy off-camber corner that challenged the men’s elite field as well. The men’s race came down to a nail-biting finish as hard-chasing Geoff Kabush and Winnipeg’s Michael van den Ham nearly caught Garrigan who led from early in the first lap. (cxmagazine.com)

October 26, 2014






Erica Zaveta solos in for the win on day one of the 2014 Gateway Cross Cup. Photo: Matt James.
A hot day and a new course saw Jamey Driscoll and Erica Zaveta  come out on top Saturday in round one of the 2014 Gateway Cross Cup. (velonews.com)

October 26, 2014




2014 Races & Results.

Santos Tour Down Under 2015 - Jan 18-25 (Stages),

Giro d'Italia 2015 - May 9-31 (Stages),

Tour de France 2015 - July 4-26 (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 France 2014  - July 5-27 (Results),

Giro d'Italia 2014 - May 9 - June 1 (Results),


Octobern 26, 2014





Greg Saw battles on - defended his lead during stage six.
Photo: © Crocodile Trophy / Regina Stanger.
Imogen Smith and Greg Saw are the Elite Champions of the 2014 Crocodile Trophy. The 20th edition of the hardest mountain bike stage race in the world finished today at the breathtakingly beautiful Four Mile Beach in Port Douglas. The final stage 9 was a time trial race from Weatherby Station via the infamous Bump Track to Port Douglas. (cyclingnews.com)

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Photo: Now enjoying retirement after crowning his career with a new hour record, Jens Voigt chatted to Cycling Weekly about his 17 years in the peloton .
There’s much more to Mr Voigt’s career than a smiling face and gutsy breakaways. The five-time winner of the Critérium International and two-time winner of the Tour of Germany was instrumental in Carlos Sastre’s 2008 Tour de France victory, and ‘Jensie’ himself has enjoyed mhis own share of glory in La Grande Boucle.
On retirement: "Maybe I could be on an American series like CSI where I get shot and play a dead body. Nobody would hear my accent and think, “Look at that stupid German.” I can just lie there with my tongue hanging out and then they could cut me open and say: 'Ah, look at his liver, he must have really liked alcohol during his life!'” (cyclingweekly.co.uk)

October 26, 2014




Jean-Christophe Péraud (Ag2r) had a crash and was forced to chase back on
Photo: © Tim de Waele/TDW Sport.
The dearth of time trialling was the biggest surprise when the route of the 2015 Tour de France was unveiled in Paris on Wednesday, and the initial feeling in the Palais des Congrès was that the innovative parcours favours the chances of young French talent Romain Bardet rather than his veteran Ag2r-La Mondiale teammate Jean-Christophe Péraud, who finished second overall this year. (cyclingnews.com)

October 26, 2014




Photo: By a good performance on the final day, Terpstra and Havik moved into the lead and defended their position in the final madison.
After six dramatic days of racing, Niki Terpstra and Yoeri Havik were crowned winners of their home Six-Day event in Amsterdam. Performing strongly the final two days, the Dutchmen moved into the lead halfway through the final night and defended their position in the final madison. (cyclingquotes.com)

October 26, 2014




Alessandro Petacchi (Omega Pharma - QuickStep)
Photo: © Bettini Photo.
Froome happy with 2014, Terpstra lands Six Days of Amsterdam, Trott beats Vos in London. (cyclingnews.com)

October 26, 2014




Photo: The team ascends the highway into the Hindu Kush Mountains. Photograph: Deni Bechard .
Six mornings a week Zahra Alizada is on her bike long before 5am, slipping through the grey pre-dawn in a small pack of women savouring the brief peace on Kabul’s normally hectic, dusty streets.
Afghans rise early, and many of them are still scandalized to see a woman in sports kit speeding past on a racing bike. The Afghan women’s cycling team know this because, as the traffic swells towards the end of their morning training at around seven, men and boys start hurling insults and sometimes stones or chunks of rubbish at the women as they ride past. (theguardian.com)

October 26, 2014




Photo: Application is point n' shoot intuitive; shake the container, flick nozzle open and squirt in single bursts from a distance of 20cm.
"Carbon Pro Dri-Shine is a clever detailer designed to keep bikes looking showroom fresh with nominal effort and seems more effective than most I've played with to date. However, mud encrusted cross and mountain bikes will still require a bike wash blow-over and bucket rinse first." (road.cc)

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Photo: is it just me or does this read like JTL wrote the questions?
"Yikes.
The recent all-holds barred, every-punch-pulled interview by Daniel Benson of CyclingSnooze is about as wet as a kiss from your Grandma… who’s lost her dentures.
When did it happen that journalists got told – and complied – to leave their opinions (or personalities even) at the door? Is it just me or does this read like JTL wrote the questions?
And the ‘The Court of Public Opinion‘ and ‘Head Held High’ captions under the images. every so slightly hamfisted there, lads." (crankpunk.com)

October 26, 2014




Richie Porte (Sky) is now his team's GC man after Froome's abandon
Photo: © Roberto Bettini.
After a disappointing campaign in 2014, Richie Porte is looking to bounce back next season. The Australian has confirmed that the Tour Down Under will be his first major objective in 2015 but that his overall ambitions will hinge on his ability to remain healthy. (cyclingnews.com)

October 26, 2014




Photo: In general, the Tour suits him better. In Italy, Froome has an advantage over Nibali in the 60km time trial. Between Contador and Nibali, I don't see much difference.
"He has the engine and the head to give it a try." Those are the words of Paolo Slongo, Nibali's trainer, when asked for an objective assessment of his possibilities of joining the select list of riders who have accomplished the hardest double of the cycling world: to win the Giro and the Tour in the same year. (cyclingquotes.com)

October 26, 2014




Photo: Not everyone can win three World Road Championships like Marianne Vos or four Ironman World Championships like Chrissie Wellington.
Racing ahead of Mark Cavendish’s two autobiographies, American/St.Kitts and Nevis pro cyclist Kathryn Bertine, 37 years old, recently launched her third book. The first covered her career as a figure skater with an ice dancing company; the second was about her attempts to become an Olympic athlete in a range of unlikely sports but The Road Less Taken is a different book again, a series of episodes in her life as a professional cyclist and journalist. In it she travels not just a road less taken but one that leads in surprising directions. (pezcyclingnews.com)

October 26, 2014




The 2015 yellow jersey features an Arc de Triomphe motif on the front
Photo: © Le Coq Sportif.
The 2015 yellow jersey has been designed to celebrate the 40th Tour de France finish on the Champs-Élysées as well as commemorating the 1975 winner's maillot jaune.
The new jersey has a "unique collar and a silhouette with a filigree design of the Arc de Triomphe". There's also the traditional flocked Le Coq Sportif logo and the initials of Tour founder Henri Desgrange. (cyclingnews.com)

October 26, 2014




Photo: All three were still be able to greet their fans one last time at the Saitama Criterium yesterday..
The Japan Cup was the last race of the professional career of Takashi Miyazawa, but he was not the only Japanese star to call it a day there. As reported bybiciciclismo, three other leaders of Japanese cycling have decided to hang their bikes up: Miyataka Shimizu, Taiji Nishitani and Kazuhiro Mori. (cyclingquotes.com)

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