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November 2012
November 10, 2012



Photo: Superprestige Cyclocross Hamme-Zogge .
CyclingFans: The 2012 Superprestige Cyclocross - Hamme-Zogge is Sunday, November 11. Live streaming video: 2:30pm CET (8:30am U.S. Eastern).











Photo: Dan Martin.
VeloNation: Irishman busy during time off bike.







Photo: Niels Albert.
VeloNation: World champion asserts himself over Sven Nys as tenacious Bart Aernouts takes second.





Races & Results.
Giro d'Italia - May 4-26 (Stages),
Tour de France - June 29-July 21 (Stages),






Photo: Zdenek Bakala speaks at the team press conference.
CyclingNews: “Champions League” plan with preliminary weaknesses.






Photo: Bradley Wiggins of Team Sky and his mentor and coach Shane Sutton.
Blazin' Saddles: British drivers this week showed they have zero tolerance towards British Cycling key figures for whom zero tolerance is not an issue.





Photo: Raleigh 125.
road.cc: New limited edition Reynolds 525 bike harks back to the 1980s.






CyclingFans: The 2012 Soudal Classics Cyclocross series (previously Fidea) continues Saturday, November 10 with the Jaarmarktcross at Niel. Live streaming video: 2:45pm CET (8:45am U.S. Eastern)






Photo: Specialized-lululemon.
VeloNation: Largely unchanged roster for second season of American team.





Photo: Sky's Chris Froome muscles his way to the top of La Planche des Belles Filles, the newest climb of the Tour de France.
CyclingNews: Briton says it’s likely he will lead the for 2013.






Photo: Team Argos-Shimano.
VeloNation: New two year deal struck with Japanese company.







Photo: Francis Mourey wins Supercross baden. Photo: radsportphoto.net/Steffen Mussiggang.
Pave': After a wild week of racing, things calm down a bit in Europe this week. After a few weeks off, thanks primarily to two World Cup rounds, the Toi Toi Cup continues in Kolin, Czech Republic.




Photo: Ki Ho Choi (Hong Kong) the best Asian rider.
CyclingNews: Kankovsky wins final sprint stage.




Photo: Different fabrics can be chosen for the the chest, back, shoulders and side panels.
BikeRadar: Henrik Nejezchleb didn't set out to make custom cycling clothing. When Curve was launched in 1991 in Boulder, Colorado, the company was making bike parts: skewers, cantilever brakes, brake stiffeners.








Photo: UCI.
New Champions’ league of the sport could be in the pipeline.





Photo: Almost every village in France and Italy has its memorial to the fallen.
InnerRing: Fallen cyclists might make you think of a crash but this is the story those who fell in the ugly battle of warfare, of those that are remembered on Sunday in Europe and beyond. Almost every village in France and Italy has its memorial to the fallen.






Photo: Jakob Fuglsang.
VeloNation: German sprinter has had issues of his own, says Danish rider.





Photo: Katerina Nash .
VeloNews: After a rough end to the mountain bike season, it seems Luna’s Katerina Nash is coming back to form, and she is feeling strong and pleased to be back on the bike.





Photo: Oscar Freire (Spain) was emotional before the race.
CyclingNews: Triple world champion tipped for job if Antequera elected as president .





Photo: Wheels are highlighted by American Classic's new Black Uppercut styling with white hubs.
The black and white theme is distinctive and stands out nicely on the wheels. They just look plain good.
PEZ: American Classic has long been a company known for pushing forth innovative new products. The latest piece of awesome to leap out of Bill Shook's brain is a new rim design resulting in a fantastically light set of tubeless wheels. Looking forward, this new rim shape opens the door for still more new developments in the future.





Photo: Sutton.
Peloton: After every major doping scandal in cycling, professional teams say they are going to clean up their act by enforcing a zero-tolerance policy toward doping. They said it after the Festina Affair at the 1998 Tour de France, they said it after Spain’s Operación Puerto police bust in 2006, and they’re saying it again.






Photo: Recovering Wiggins.
VeloNation: List of injuries upgraded but quick recovery expected.





Photo: Sutton.
VeloNation: Fractured cheekbone will require surgery.






Photo: Team Lotto Belisol .
VeloNation: “The time for words should be over, they should be transformed into actions.”





Photo: IG is one of the biggest supporters of cycling in the UK.
InnerRing: How much do you know about cycling? How much do those who write about cycling know? Well here’s a pub quiz to test your knowledge that was put to British-based cycling journalists and others in teams and the trade a couple of days ago.





USACycling: For many Olympic athletes, “retirement” is a four-letter word, one which is reserved for a day when their skills have faded, and the glory has long since disappeared. But for 1996 Olympic Mountain Biking bronze medalist and 2012 U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame inductee Susan DeMattei, retirement was something she had to be talked out of, just months before the crowning achievement of her athletic career.





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RBAction: More than any other sport we can think of, cycling is the one with a preponderance of past champions lending their names and expertise to market and/or develop new products.










Distraction










Photo: Hein, Pat, ya really shoulda left that dog asleep..
RedKitePrayer: The UCI, Hein Verbruggen and Pat McQuaid originally filed a civil suit against Kimmage, following a path they had pursued in two earlier cases against former World Anti-Doping President, Richard Pound and former professional cyclist, Floyd Landis (As you recall, Pound settled the case with a delightfully worded “retraction” and Landis lost his case by means of a default judgment, when he failed to show up for the hearing in Switzerland.






Photo: Luxembourg champion Benoit Joachim is the team's French speaker.
CyclingNews: Luxembourger regrets not working with Dr. Ferrari.






Photo: That’s what 100 percent commitment to disc brakes looks like. Photo: Lennard Zinn.
VeloNews: Discs or cantilevers? The Cannondale-Cyclocrossworld.com team has committed itself to the newer braking system, but Raleigh-Clement is still hedging its bets.





Photo: Sram QuickView Computer Mount Bar setup.
road.cc: Now it's SRAM's turn to get in on the Garmin alternative mount game.





Photo: Shimano's North American headquarters.
RBAction: Shimano serves up new saddles, shows and sunglasses.













Photo: John Fahey (right) with former WADA President Dick Pound.
CyclingNews: Former WADA medical director says the sporting movement can’t be trusted to deal with fight against doping.





Photo: Editor’s note: This is a response to all the questions Stef Wyman had received pertaining to his article of 8 November, Passing curves and turning a corner.
Cyclismas: "So I said my opinion was that having National Teams in the World Cup series can be destructive.  I guess I should explain myself. I’m fortunate to have been in the position where I have DS’d both Professional teams and Nationals teams in World Cup races."





Photo: The downhill start of the bike ban in Black Hawk. Photo: Steve Frothingham.
BicycleRetailer: Gregory Street is a hilly two lanes, winding between $1.99 prime rib steak houses and old mining buildings turned into casinos in this little Las Vegas of the Rockies, which sits at over 8,000 feet elevation west of Denver.





Photo: Samuel Sanchez says Euskaltel-Euskadi has made the right move in recruiting non-Basques for much-needed UCI points. Photo: Andrew Hood.
VeloNews: Samuel Sánchez was unique in the 17-year history at Euskaltel-Euskadi in that he was the only rider on the outfit who was not Basque.




Photo: HOW IT WORKS.
Bicycling: The details on your body’s cooling system.





Photo: Lace-up SPD shoes are part of the line.
BikeRadar: Giro previewed an intriguing new line of cycling clothing on Thursday at the Golden Saddle Cyclery in downtown Los Angeles. Dubbed 'New Road,’ the retro-inspired collection is neither street wear nor performance kit but somewhere in between. Whether or not that market actually exists remains to be seen, but we will find out once New Road becomes available in the spring.











Dead Star: First image in my head when I saw that McQuaid picture.

Good idea, so I ran with it.


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