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| Oct 31 |
 The
final stage of the ninth edition of the Tour of Hainan was a
spectacular one with a trio of attackers resisting the return of the
peloton in the finale. Dutchman Wouter
Wippert of Drapac won ahead of Adrian Kurek and Taras Voropayev.
while Julien Antomarchi
became the first Frenchman to claim the Tour of Hainan overall.
(cyclingnews.com)
October 28, 2014  Australian
Rohan Dennis
believes the emerging rivalries among the next generation of time trial
stars that includes him will ramp up next year.
The depth of the new wave of time trial stars became clearer this year in a season that climaxed with the World Championships in Ponferrada, Spain where seasoned stars Briton Bradley Wiggins and German defending world champion Tony Martin won the gold and silver medals respectively with 26.23 seconds separating them. (velonews.com) October 28, 2014  Day
Two of the 2014 Gateway Cross Cup brought a revamped course and a
renewed aggression from both of the opening day’s runners up in the men
and women’s races. (cxmagazine.com)
October 28, 2014  Marianne Vos is
provisionally satisfied with the recommendation of the Tour de France
organization to once again run Le Course presented by Le Tour for the
final day of the Tour de France. Any larger woman’s race of France is
being discussed according to the Olympic champion Rabo-Liv, but it will
not be three weeks long like the men’s edition. (cyclingquotes.com)
October 28, 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 28, 2014  Routes
for the 2015 Tour de France and Giro d’Italia may well be public but
while riders have begun speculating as to their preferred targets, Team
Sky’s Rod Ellingworth
has confirmed that the British team are yet to establish the nature of
their objectives.
The route for the Tour de France was unveiled last week in Paris with 2013 winner Chris Froome quick to declare that the Giro parcours could be better suited to his characteristics. (cyclingnews.com) October 28, 2014  Cooper makes NRS
history: Joe Cooper
started the Grafton to Inverell with a slender three point advantage
over Tim Roe
in the National Road Series (NRS) overall standings and at the end of
the 228km race, that's how it stayed.
The main breakaway of the day was a success and consequently both Cooper and Roe were unable to add to their points tally ensuring that Cooper would become the first New Zealander in the history of the NRS to claim the overall title. (cyclingnews.com) October 28, 2014  Van der Haar and Compton lead UCI
ranks. New faces top Gateway Cross Cup podiums. Merlier wins in
Germany. (cyclingnews.com)
October 28, 2014  Ryan Trebon powered
through the peanut butter mud at the Washington County Fairgrounds
Sunday to claim the fourth race of the 2014 Cross Crusade series. The
Cannondale Cyclocrossworld.com rider was competing in his first race
back after crashing and injuring his spine in early September.
(cxmagazine.com)
October 28, 2014  The
Deschutes Brewery Cup UCI cyclo-cross weekend scheduled for December
6-7 in Bend, Oregon, has been canceled, organizers of the race
announced today.
“I have not been able to find a sponsor for it, number one,” said race director Brad Ross. “And number two: Deschutes Brewery has some construction slated to start right about that time, and there's going to be all kinds of survey work going on, and we just weren't able to nail down exactly when all that stuff was going to start happening or whether the race was going to get in the way of all that. It was looking like survey crews and bike racers were going to be stepping on each others toes.” (cyclingnews.com) October 28, 2014  Following
a year off from cyclo-cross to concentrate on his pro road racing
career with UnitedHealthcare, former Rapha-Focus rider Chris Jones has a
new team and ambitions toward a limited campaign targeting the national
championships in January.
Jones, 35, competed for The Athletic, a small sock company in Oregon, during the Gateway Cross Cup races this past weekend in St. Louis, finishing 12th and seventh over the two days.... October 28, 2014  "We
profile seven winter training types of rider. Can you spot yourself in
here? Some riders will go through hell to get the miles in during
winter, never to be seen when the summer approaches. Just don’t let
them drag you down with them." (steephill.tv)
October 28, 2014  At
$2399, the Ares 4 is a good $400 less than the 303s and just $200 more
than Specialized’s Roval Rapide CLX 40, another comparable wheel (in
rim depth and width). It’s a great price for a very high performance
wheel, especially when you consider that number includes skewers, brake
pads, rim strips, valve extenders and a padded wheel bag.
(redkiteprayer.com)
October 28, 2014 |  Broader
proposals needed to help cycling grow: "Oleg Tinkov was onto
something with his Grand Tour Triple Challenge idea, but he was barking
up the wrong tree. In the short term, Tinkoff-Saxo, Movistar, Astana
and Team Sky would be better advised to race the likes of Contador, Quintana, Nibali and Froome together in
non-Grand Tour events. These are the teams and riders that pull in the
audiences, so this tactic would be an effective means to build
commercial leverage versus the Grand Tour organizers and the UCI, and,
more importantly, begin to build a bigger and better sport for more to
share in." (cyclingnews.com)
October 28, 2014  "I’m
more in my community, doing things here, like local mountain bike races
… For sure guys like Christian,
George,
Dave, Tom have all been
the target of what the Internet has become, which allows everyone to
have a voice and express their opinion. Does that reflect reality; do
you get to read everyone’s opinion?" (velonews.com)
October 28, 2014  Lance Armstrong is
set to have a second meeting with the Cycling Independent Reform
Commission in the coming weeks.
The former rider – who is serving a lifetime ban from the sport for several doping offences – confirmed that the meeting had been scheduled and would take place in the United States in the near future. He would not confirm the exact date and location for the meet. (cyclingnews.com) October 28, 2014  That
guy’s a doper. A cheater. A liar. Can’t stand him.
That guy seems all right. Yeah, he used to dope, but so did everyone else. The conventional definition of the word “perception” pertains to the inexact and shifting merger of action and reaction that is constantly calibrating itself, given the context. Perception is both impermeable and porous. Judgments are formed unconsciously. We like or loathe, often before we’ve had a chance to think why. (velonews.com) October 28, 2014  After
yesterday’s look at the established pros, what happened to the six
neo-pro picks for 2014? It’s been a more mixed story which reflects the
variety of life as a junior pro, some triumph while others don’t break
through.
Lachlan Morton finished 2013 showing just what he can do with success in the Tour of Utah and the USA Pro Challenge. But 2014 has seen a lot of DNFs. (inrng.com) October 28, 2014  Trying
to win both the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France in 2015 would risk
spreading Vincenzo Nibali
too thinly, according to Astana trainer Paolo Slongo. The
2014 Tour winner could find Chris
Froome at 100 per cent in the Giro and Nairo Quintana at
100 per cent in the Tour, and lose both.
“That’s what worries me.” (cyclingweekly.co.uk) October 28, 2014  Fuglsang defends
decision to race for Astana, Nibali
presents yellow jersey to Italian prime minister, Coquard takes aim at
Track World Championships, USA Pro Challenge claims $130 million
economic impact. (cyclingnews.com)
October 28, 2014  Ex
Tour de France winners Stephen
Roche and Carlos
Sastre have shared their views on Oleg Tinkov’s one
million Euros Grand Tour challenge that he has proposed for 2015.
“I think that it’s not going to happen, because all of those riders are in a different team. He can control what happens in his team but not what the other riders are doing,” Sastre says about Tinkov’s plan. Roche thinks the idea is a good one, even if the chances of it happening are slim. (cyclingquotes.com) October 28, 2014  "A
few weeks ago I was hanging on for dear life as Jean-Louis, the young
Frenchy phenom, dragged me up to the Domes. One by one our companions
faltered, then softened, then were smeared on the climb like quiescent
bug guts.He slowed down towards the end and generously let me hang on."
(pelotonmagazine.com)
October 28, 2014  BikeRadar
verdict: 4.5 out of 5
stars. "Superb navigation with detailed mapping, plus deep feature menu
and modern connectivity. Only downsides are size and battery life."
(bikeradar.com)
October 28, 2014  "The
first few weeks was an exploration of what the power readings meant to
me, and the last few weeks I was able to take that knowledge and
improve my ride times. 4
weeks is just too short to see some long term benefits, but if you have
a spare $800 or so, and you are looking for a sustainable improvement
in your cycling, then I would highly recommend the use of a power
meter." (wednesdaylegs.wordpress.com)
October 28, 2014  BikeRadar
verdict: 3 out of 5
stars. "Weighty, but they offer reassuring stability and decent flat
speed." (bikeradar.com)
October 28, 2014 | Octobmer 28, 2014  The
idea may be on hold for 2015, but Oleg
Tinkov is determined to keep pushing the sport’s top
riders to eventually accept his proposed Grand Tour Challenge. Under
the plan, the Russian Tinkoff-Saxo team owner would put up one million
euro to be shared amongst 2014 Tour winner Vincenzo Nibali,
2013 Tour winner and runner-up Chris
Froome and Nairo
Quintana plus the Vuelta a España and former Tour winner Alberto Contador.
(cyclingtips.com.au)
October 28, 2014  Angel Citracca, Neri
Sottoli general manager, has responded angrily to a statement from the
Movement for Credible Cycling, who accuses his training methods after
the recent positive test of Matteo Rabottini.
"We are a member of the MPCC in 2014 and find that the president of this movement does not even know the history of its members? What credibility can this movement bring about if it acts like this? We should not forget the fact that the same UCI at the time of granting licenses for the 2014 season made it clear that there was no sporting, legal and economic association between the two companies: the MPCC obviously are not aware of the regulations and I repeat, we have been accepted in their movement without them really knowing who we are.” (cyclingquotes.com) October 28, 2014  Less
than a week after the UCI and WADA announced they will appeal a ruling
that cleared Roman
Kreuziger in a doping case, Kreuziger’s legal
team is defending the Czech rider.
Kreuziger showed anomalies in his biological passport between March and August 2011, and April 2012 until the end of that year’s Giro d’Italia. “We firmly believe that common sense will prevail. I should stress that the Czech Olympic Committee’s Arbitration Panel, the supreme independent body dealing with breaches of anti-doping regulations in the Czech Republic, cleared Roman of any wrongdoing,” said Dr. Jan Stovicek, Kreuziger’s legal counsel. (velonews.com) October 28, 2014  Asked
about his choice of team in light of the three positive tests which
have hit the Astana squad in recent weeks, Jakob Fuglsang has
explained his decision to sign with the squad, rejected any doping on
his part and raised questions about Tinkoff Saxo.
“To a certain extent I can understand people who doubt my choice of team, but then I would like to know which teams we can rely on?” he said to TV 2 Sport. “I would not rely on everyone from Tinkoff-Saxo. There is also someone there that has a less nice past, which I would not trust.” (cyclingtips.com.au) October 28, 2014  It
seems everything Oleg
Tinkov does is over the top, so it shouldn’t be a total
surprise that the Russian businessman is bankrolling an ambitious,
potentially hazardous team-building camp to Africa next week.
Boot camp-style training camps have become the rage among many top teams. Cyclists and staff typically decamp to some remote corner of Europe, undergo some moderate, albeit muddy rigors that would make any Outward Bound instructor proud, and come out of it more unified. That’s the idea, at least. (velonews.com) October 28, 2014  Brian Cookson has
been head of the cycle sport’s governing body, the Union Cycliste
Internationale (UCI), for 13 months now. Long enough to become
established, long enough to make changes, and long enough to start
assessing his impact on cycling’s governing body.
On June 4, 2013 Cookson announced he would run for president of the UCI against the incumbent, Pat McQuaid. Previously, Cookson served as president of British Cycling from 1997 until 2013, a time of enormous change and sporting success. He was elected onto the UCI Management Committee in 2009, and became president of the UCI Cyclo-Cross Commission in 2009 and president of the Road Commission in 2011. (cyclingweekly.co.uk) October 28, 2014  Sardinian
Fabio Aru’s
ranking within team Astana could significantly change for 2015, as he
appears slated to race both the Giro d’Italia and, in support of
defending champion Vincenzo
Nibali, the Tour de France.
“Aru is maturing. It’s only right that we give a young rider his chance to lead his own race,” Astana trainer Paolo Slongo said. “The idea would be to let him race the Giro as captain and to send him to the Tour to help Vincenzo and to gain experience.” (velonews.com) October 28, 2014  Track
trail-blazer, US Criterium Champion and style guru; what more could you
want from an interview subject. Ed
Hood caught up with US ‘6 Day’ star Daniel ‘Hollywood’ Holloway
at the first event of the winter season in Amsterdam to find out what
makes this flamboyant character tick. (pezcyclingnews.com)
October 28, 2014  Putting
a tougher set of wheels on your bike for riding in winter will save
your summer wheelset from the salt, grit and grime of the off-season
months, helping to make your most expensive racing hoops last longer.
If you're a beginner, and you're thinking of changing your wheels for the first time, here's how to do just that in five easy steps. (bikeradar.com) October 28, 2014  Felt’s
Z Series bikes are designed for endurance riding: sportives, big
weekend rides, that sort of thing. You know the style by now. The Z
bikes have a shorter top tube than Felt’s F Series race bikes, and a
taller head tube, putting you in a position that’s going to put less
strain on your back when you’re riding all day long, and a longer
wheelbase that’s designed to provide more stability. Most of the other
big manufacturers have an equivalent series. Specialized have the
Roubaixs, Merida have the Rides, and so on. (road.cc)
October 28, 2014  Superstar
Components launched three new pedals last month, including the El
Plastique pedal. The El Plastique is a plastic-bodied pedal that's
loosely based on the company’s popular aluminium-bodied Nano model.
Plastic?! Yep, but don’t panic. Plastic pedals are fairly common and well proven in the punishing world of BMX riding. (bikeradar.com) October 28, 2014 |
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