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| Oct 31 |
 American
Ben King
is looking forward to the cycling world coming to his backyard in
September of 2015 when Richmond will host the UCI Road World
Championships. King
lives about one hour away, near Charlottesville, Virginia.
"I think my teammates get sick of hearing me talk all year about how great Virginia is, and so it's pretty exciting for me to have them come here so I can show off my home state," said the 25-year-old King. "I hope they'll have a chance to stay a bit longer and also get to see the mountains." (cyclingnews.com) October 27, 2014  "The
usual rules apply to our Race Day of the Year process: we all make
nominations, and if they're even remotely serious I will open a formal
poll including each one. I hope to open the poll on Wednesday so we can
vote til Sunday, and have our annual gala celebration a week from
today. It's a tight schedule, but when you've rented the Felt Forum and
booked Michael McDonald,
Kenny Loggins
and the Solid Gold Dancers, you just have to make it work."
(podiumcafe.com)
October 27, 2014 Having
lost the overall lead in the queen stage, Niccolo Bonifazio
bounced back in stage 8 of the Tour of Hainan when he won the bunch
sprint on the penultimate day. Holding off Jonathan Cantwell and
his teammate Andrea
Palini, the young Italian took his third win in just 8
days of racing while Julien
Antomarchi defended his lead. (cyclingquotes.com)
October 27, 2014  Brian Matter and Sunny Gilbert prevailed
on day two of the Gateway Cross Cup.
The women’s race opened with a storming attack from Courtenay McFadden, who was looking to make amends for the disappointment of Saturday’s race. In the men’s race, the field set an explosive pace from the line. Again, Cody Kaiser pushed the pace with Soundpony’s Jacob Lasley to force the opening splits while the top five from the previous day waited in the wings. (velonews.com) October 27, 2014  Catharine Pendrel
and Geoff Kabush
won the elite races at the Manitoba Grand Prix of Cyclocross by
slipping away from their primary rivals in the final minutes of racing.
The UCI C2 race wrapped up the three-day Shimano Canadian Cyclocross
Championships in Winnipeg. (cxmagazine.com)
October 27, 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 27, 2014  Mark Tupalski and
Australian Olympian Rebecca
Henderson rolled in to the Dunsborough Country Club as
overall winners of the Western Australia Cape to Cape MTB stage race.
The 64km stage from the Colonial Brewery to Dunsborough Country Club near Busselton was won by Dylan Cooper ahead of Reece Tucknott and Dylan Brown, while Henderson confirmed her domination of the event with a final stage win in front of Mel Ansett and Emily Parkes. (sbs.com.au) October 27, 2014  Somehow
the SSCXWC weekends are always a blur, and memories of the eighth
installment of the Singlespeed Cyclocross World Championships held in
Louisville, Kentucky, the bourbon capital of the world, may be
especially blurry for many involved. (cxmagazine.com)
October 27, 2014  Paris-Roubaix
winner Niki Terpstra is
considering a spot on the Dutch pursuit team for the 2016 Rio Olympic
Games. He told Dutch broadcaster NOS after winning the Six Days of
Amsterdam that Theo Bos wants
to put together a strong team for the Olympics.
“Theo is trying to convince good riders who can also ride on the track as he wants to make a strong team for the team pursuit in Rio,” Terpstra explained. (cyclingweekly.co.uk) October 27, 2014  Italian
sprinter Elia Viviani
has become Team Sky’s sixth signing ahead of the 2015 season.
The 25-year-old ends his five-year spell with the Cannondale Pro Cycling team, which is set to merge with Garmin-Sharp, to join Team Sky as the British-based squads seeks to bolster its sprint firepower. (roadcyclinguk.com) October 27, 2014  Derny
rider Cees Stam
who crashed hard at the Six-Days of Amsterdam, is no longer in a
life-threatening condition. His grandson Yoeri Havik who won
the race overall, is looking forward to celebrating the victory with
his grandfather. (cyclingquotes.com)
October 27, 2014  "Two
years ago, while on a ride that took in some of Malibu’s most fearsome
descents, I had a conversation with a product manager from one of the
big three bike companies. The occasion for both the conversation and
the ride was a piece I’d just published about carbon clinchers, but as
these things often do, talk turned farther afield and we landed on the
issue of disc brakes. I can say that at that point in time I was
flat-out not in favor of disc brakes on road bikes." (redkiteprayer.com)
October 27, 2014  Before
Wiggins
and Froome,
Chris Boardman
was the UK’s Tour de France yellow jersey hopeful. Unlike Wiggins and Froome, Boardman had no
designs on yellow in Paris. He won three Tour prologues along with
Olympic Gold in the pursuit, multiple world championships and famously
set multiple hour records in the anything goes era of the ‘90s. An
early adopter of power meters, electronic shifting and altitude tents
he was called ‘The Professor’. All of this earned him an MBE, Most
Excellent Order of the British Empire, and a position heading up the
Secret Squirrel club, the bleeding edge technical department of the
world beating British national cycling team. (pelotonmagazine.com)
October 27, 2014  After
a year of surprising upsets and consistent results, Team SmartStop has
finalized its roster for the 2015 racing season, supporting 13 riders
for the upcoming year.
U.S. national champion Eric Marcotte and USA Cycling National Racing Calendar winner Travis McCabe will return to Team SmartStop in 2015. (velonews.com) October 27, 2014  BONTRAGER
AURA 5 TLR - To
go aero without going broke: The 50mm-deep carbon-fiber
fairing offers triathlon-worthy aerodynamics. Aluminum rim
accommodates regular or tubeless tires and provides steady
braking. Compatible with all drivetrain systems. One
drawback: Recessed nipples make truing difficult. (bicycling.com)
October 27, 2014 October 26, 2014 |  "Last
year I nominated a dozen riders to watch for 2014 from promising
neo-pros to established world champions. It’s been a mixed year with
success, surprise and some misfortune. What happened?
Tony Martin was the first listed. The story was one of time trial domination while the question was whether could he transfer his power to other events, notably road racing. Surely he could enjoy some alternative wins and get a chance to practice a victory salute in front of the crowds rather than waiting in the hot seat to see if he’d won? 2014 proved to be a mixed year as he did win Stage 10 of the Tour de France with a convincing show of force." (inrng.com) October 27, 2014  The
2014 cycling season showed neo-pros not just ready to learn, but to
impress in their debut year. Yates
twins Adam
and Simon, Nairo Quintana’s
younger brother, Dayer
and many more challenged the seasoned cyclists for wins. Seven
stand-out debutants are featured.
Adam Yates: The Brit had the most impressive debut in the UCI WorldTour ranks this year thanks to several wins — the Tour of Turkey and GP Industria e Commercio (ahead of Davide Formolo) — and placings – sixth in the Critérium du Dauphiné and fifth in the Amgen Tour of California. (velonews.com) October 27, 2014  He
is only 23 years old but he is already one of the stars of Ducth
cycling and the new Team LottoNL-Jumbo team. In 2014 Wilco Kelderman had
a big breakthrough as a stage race rider as he finished 7th in the Giro
d'Italia and 4th in the Criterium du Dauphiné where he beat the
subsequent Tour de France winner Vincenzo
Nibali. He missed the Tour but in 2015 it will be his big
goal. "I don't mind that people have big expectations for me. That's
not a problem for me," he tells Wielerflits in an interview.
(cyclingquotes.com)
October 27, 2014  Tour
de France champion Vincenzo
Nibali staunchly defended his Astana team’s battered
reputation, and hinted he might race the Giro d’Italia ahead of a Tour
de France defense in 2015.
Speaking to the Spanish daily AS over the weekend during the Critérium of Saitama in Japan, Nibali said a pair of EPO positives involving the Iglinskiy brothers, and another case from a stagiaire, does not reflect a deeper problem for his team’s ethics. (velonews.com) October 27, 2014  The
general consensus seems to be that the 2015 Tour de France route isn't
best suited to Chris
Froome and the Team Sky way of doing things. That may be
true – he’s come out and given his take already - with the time trials
being cut to a level rarely seen, but that won't be the 2013 winner's
main worry should he decide to line-up in Utrecht.
Everyone seems to be forgetting that Froome can climb with the best when he needs to and his adaptation to improving his performances against the clock has been a gradual process, which has affected those climbing abilities. (cyclingnews.com) October 27, 2014  Sky’s
Chris Froome
called the 2015 Giro d’Italia route better balanced than the Tour de
France and explained that it presents a “big opportunity” for him. The
chance to win Italy’s big stage race next May 9 to 31 may see him skip
the Tour for the first time in four years.
“The Giro course is truly balanced well, the best,” Froome told Italy’s La Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper while in Japan over the weekend. “A complete rider will win it and that, in my opinion, is the way it should be in a Grand Tour. For me, it would be a great opportunity.” (cyclingweekly.co.uk) October 27, 2014  Italian
Alessandro Petacchi
will leave team Omega Pharma-QuickStep for 2015, having originally been
signed to the team to help Mark
Cavendish at the Tour de France. The 2010 Tour’s points
classification winner, who turns 41 in January, may ride in the yellow
colours of Italian second division team Neri Sottoli.
(cyclingweekly.co.uk)
October 27, 2014  Online
retailer Wiggle has promised to hold a full investigation after it was
accused of plagiarism by Anna
Glowinski, founder of the women’s cycle clothing brand,
Ana Nichoola, an accusation that prompted strong criticism of the
business on social media. (road.cc)
October 27, 2014  Cannondale
rider wins Cross Crusade: Ryan
Trebon has recovered from injuries suffered in a
September crash and will jump start his cyclo-cross season at the
upcoming Cincy3 Weekend in Ohio. The rider from Oregon announced his
return to racing on Sunday by winning a local Cross Crusade race
outside of Portland. (cyclingnews.com)
October 27, 2014  XTR
M9050 marks the first migration of electronic shifting technology into
the world of mountain bikes. The system will use one battery and remain
wired, using already proven parts from Shimano’s Ultegra and Dura-Ace
road Di2 groups.
So what are the advantages? Shimano claims that XTR Di2 will offer faster and more accurate shifting. Also, with no cables to stretch, it’s said to offer shifting consistency that a mechanical transmission cannot match. Whether that's true remains to be seen, but one part of XTR Di2 that we really should be taking notice of is Syncro Shift – for those who are running double or triple set-ups it could be a game changer. (bikeradar.com) October 27, 2014  In
its inaugural year, the UnitedHealthcare women’s team consistently put
up impressive results across both the domestic and international
calendars. Sweeping all three of the American road titles between Alison Powers and Coryn Rivera,
UnitedHealthcare brought a mix of young riders and experienced veterans
to the races in 2014 and plans to build upon its success next year with
its 2015 roster. (velonews.com)
October 27, 2014  Driving
on the French A43 Autoroute towards Torino, if you know where to look -
and you need to know where to look - you will see the most amazing
little road crawling up a cliff. These are the Lacets de
Montvernier.
They are probably the most talked about addition to the 2015 Tour de France route (stage 18). Finished in 1934 after six years of construction, this astounding feat of engineering linked the little village of Montvernier, high above on a plateau, with civilization below. (podiumcafe.com) October 27, 2014 October 26, 2014 | October 27, 2014  Should
Lance Armstrong
be allowed back into the realm of professional cycling?
That, of course, depends on who one asks. The one-time seven-time Tour de France champion is currently banned for life, after an exhaustive effort by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) dropped reams of affidavits from former teammates, who admitted to their own doping and implicated Armstrong. “I think that there is potential for redemption for him and anyone, really. I think it all depends on what [Armstrong] said to the commission and if he was prepared to talk about his or other people’s involvement and whether he’s genuinely contrite and deserving of redemption,” Cookson said. (velonews.com) October 27, 2014  Should
American companies sponsor European races?
"Phase one of the season has come to a close. I've just had my first weekend away from a race since CrossVegas, which opened my season. I hadn't been there for six years, so thought I was long over-due a trip there to try my hand at a race often billed as a potential World Cup event. It's progressed so much and Brook Watts truly puts on a world-class presentation." (cyclingnews.com) October 27, 2014  Joint
Tour de France won’t work, says Cookson,
Gatto
signs for Androni, Longest lap, Dideriksen
signs for Boels Dolmans. (cyclingnews.com)
October 27, 2014  Alison Powers
announced last week that she’s retiring from professional cycling,
ending a highly successful career in which she won one Pan-American and
five National Championship titles.
Riding with the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team, this final season was probably also her most successful, winning the U.S. National road race and time trial championships as well as the Tour de Gila criterium, Amgen Tour of California time trial, overall classification at the Tour de Femenino de San Luis and more. (podiumcafe.com) October 27, 2014  The
cycle show season is done for another year. We've seen a lot of new
bikes and kit and heard some juicy rumors too, so time to stand back
and look at the emerging trends and rate those rumors.
Disc brakes are the biggest trend on road bikes. Of course, disc brakes have been around for ages but their widespread adoption is new. They’re everywhere and Shimano are the big winners, but first let's have a rumor. (road.cc) October 27, 2014  Serving
a two-year ban for Biological Passport violation, Jonathan Tiernan-Locke
has recently called the UK Anti-Doping agency a “mickey mouse” court
and strongly criticized procedures he’d gone through. Even though the
UCI president warned the former Team Sky rider that he “punt himself in
a deeper and deeper hole”, the Briton refuses to accept the sanctions,
neither to stop being involved in professional cycling.
(cyclingquotes.com)
October 27, 2014  "After
his charges had some success in the first half of the race in Amsterdam
Ed Hood
was hoping for more of the same in the back half but instead most of
the spoils went to Paris-Roubaix champion, Niki Terpstra."
(pezcyclingnews.com)
October 27, 2014  Ian Field made
it two out of two for the National Trophy Cyclo-Cross Series when he
sprinted to a narrow victory ahead of Belgian Under-23 Quinten Hermans.
Field got to the last corner ahead of his race-long rival, and that proved decisive as he held the advantage to the line and won by four seconds from the Telenet Fidea CT rider, while Hermans’ team-mate Jens Vandekinderen took third, 47 seconds back. (cyclingweekly.co.uk) October 27, 2014  The
Sho-Air/Cannondale Professional Mountain Bike Team was presented at the
team's headquarters and Cannondale flagship store, Sho-Air Cyclery in
Orange, California this weekend. The team will face the 2015 campaign
with a stacked lineup, welcoming newcomers and bringing a former member
back "home." (cyclingnews.com)
October 27, 2014  Riding
2,700 miles in 27 days - from Los Angeles to Charleston, South Carolina
- may seem a little crazy. Add in the fact that Luis Leonardo is
stopping in towns along the way to challenge law enforcement officials
and other local luminaries to do a 27-second plank with him, and you
have a recipe for one tired man at the end of the month. Oh yeah: He’s
making the trip on a singlespeed. (bicycling.com)
October 27, 2014  Speedplay’s
minimalist Zero Pavé pedals have been around for some time but only now
are they available to the public.
The Pavé is a stripped-back version of Speedplay’s existing Zero pedal and, as the name suggests, was developed for use on the bone-shaking cobbles of northern Europe. (roadcyclinguk.com) October 27, 2014  BikeRadar
verdict: 5 out of 5
stars. "One of the best ever endurance bikes out there just got even
better." (bikeradar.com)
October 27, 2014  "You’d
be amazed how many new products are really just a rehash of an older
model jazzed up with new colors and maybe a new name. That’s why we’re
always excited to see real tangible improvement. Count Smith Optics’s
new-for-2014 Pivlock Arena sunglasses in this later category. Building
on design concepts seen in the Pivlock V2 Max shades we reviewed a year
ago, the Arena features a more secure fit and less helmet
interference." (roadbikereview.com)
October 27, 2014  By
now, it's gospel that the larger, press-fit bottom bracket shells found
on most new high-end bikes allow engineers to improve the performance
of a frame - stiffer, lighter, snappier, and lots of other superlatives
that are generally true. But press-fit BBs - which are pushed into the
frame under force instead of screwed into it - also have a reputation
for being noisy and not all that durable. (bicycling.com)
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