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March 17, 2018
An Italian champion: Nibali solos to thrilling
victory at Milan San Remo.
"With a perfectly timed attack
on the Poggio climb, followed by a daredevil descent,
Italian Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain Merida) soloed to victory
to win the 109th edition of Milano San Remo, the first
Monument of the 2018 season."
(cyclingtips.com) (Photo: Cor Vos)
March 17, 2018
Milan San Remo: Nibali victorious in 2018.
"Bahrain Merida man solos away
on the Poggio.
Nibali has won all three Grand Tours and now he has three Monuments, after his two wins at Il Lombardia. Caleb Ewan was second from the bunch, followed by Demare." (cyclingnews.com) (Bettini Photo) March 17, 2018
Five things we learned from Milan San Remo.
"Every year we spend the first
few hours of Milan San Remo scratching our heads trying
remember why it was we were looking forward to the race so
much. And every year we’re reminded of why via a breathless
finale, that renders all the previous kilometers of
non-action forgotten, and in their place the memory of an
impossibly exciting finish."
(cyclingweekly.com)
March 17, 2018
Milan San Remo 2018 reactions.
"Across Twitter, riders, teams
and fans celebrated the conclusion of the 2018 Milan San
Remo, won with a spectacular late solo attack by Vincenzo
Nibali (Bahrain Merida)."
(cyclingnews.com) (Bettini Photo)
March 17, 2018
Cavendish suffers brutal crash in Milan San
Remo.
"He was tucked nicely in the
middle of the peloton as it sped toward the Poggio in the
last 10km of Milan San Remo when at the exit of a
roundabout, he ran out of room to avoid a large bollard. The
waist-high bollard launched Cavendish through the air, and
he somersaulted, landing heavily on his back." (cyclingnews.com) (LaPresse -
Ferrari / Paolone)
March 17, 2018
A ‘staggering report’ and the future of Sky.
"Last week’s publication of the
parliamentary committee inquiry into Bradley Wiggins and
Team Sky created a media firestorm. The furor has quietened
down, but with Chris Froome’s anti-doping rule violation for
salbutamol still in the works, as well as an ongoing General
Medical Council investigation into Team Sky, the brush fire
around the team could spark into life once again." (cyclingtips.com) (Photo: Cor
Vos)
March 17, 2018
Scott Sunderland returns to Tour de Langkawi
eyeing repeat sprint success.
"Scott Sunderland's 2017 road
season was his most successful to date with the former track
world champion taking five UCI wins. However, the year ended
on a low when the 30 year old suffered a serve concussion in
a crash at Tour of China II."
(cyclingnews.com) (Bettini Photo)
March 17, 2018
12 of the best cyclocross bikes.
"What cyclocross bike should I
buy? That's a very good question - one I hear a lot - and
there's plenty of choice, from race-ready options to bikes
that come with rack and mudguard mounts for a bit more
versatility."
(road.cc)
March 17, 2018
Aussie cyclists protest mandatory helmet laws
with helmet optional rides.
"Cyclists have been riding
without helmets across Australia today in protest at
mandatory helmet laws they believe are discouraging people
from cycling. The Sydney ride was closed down by New South
Wales Police with long-time bike helmet reform campaigner
Sue Abbott picking up yet another fine."
(road.cc)
March 17, 2018
How Polarized Lenses Play Tricks On Your Eyes.
"Polarized glasses are great
for eliminating glare, which can help us see hazards and
judge textures on the road or trail. But as anyone who has
tried them knows, they can also do some odd stuff, like
create rainbows around screens, or black spots on car
windshields."
(bicycling.com) Manuel Sulzer
March 17, 2018
2018 Milan San Remo LIVE stream.
"2018
Milan San Remo LIVE March 17, Italy.
Race
starts at 9:45am CET (4:45am U.S. Eastern).
Finish at around 5:06pm CET (12:06pm U.S. Eastern). Live video from 1:30pm CET (8:30am U.S. Eastern)." (cyclingfans.com) March 17, 2018
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Hodeg wins the Handzame Classic.
"The Colombian Hodeg was the
first to throw his wheel over the line in Handzame. Outgoing
winner Halvorsen finished 2nd. Kenny Dehaes was the first
Belgian in 6th place."
(cyclingnews.com) (TDW/GI Cycling)
March 16, 2018
Mark Downey retains overall lead at the Volta ao
Alentejo.
"Mark Downey (Team Wiggins)
kept hold of the yellow jersey at the Volta ao Alentejo
(2.2) following today’s 149.3-kilometer third stage from
Grândola to Arraiolos." (thebikecomesfirst.com)
(Team Wiggins)
March 16, 2018
Outside Magazine DCR Article: A bit
behind the scenes.
"It was 13 months (to the day)
prior to the Outside Magazine article being
published in print (and then yesterday, a month later
online) that I got my first e-mail from the author, Andrew
Tilin. He had wanted to chat a bit about doing a piece on me
and what DC Rainmaker was all about."
(dcrainmaker.com)
March 16, 2018
Rain threatens to shake up Milan San Remo.
"The sun was out and the first
signs of spring were visible in northern Italy as teams
traveled to Milan on Friday, but many riders and their
directeurs sportifs were scrutinizing weather forecasts
regularly, to understand if rain will play a factor in
Saturday’s Milan San Remo."
(cyclingnews.com) (Photo: ©Tim De Waele | Getty Images)
March 16, 2018
The Shrunken Milano San Remo.
"While people tend to overlook
the past, the truth is it wasn’t that long ago that the race
was a far harder test than it is today. In its early decades
MSR was no simple stroll to the beach like it’s become now.
It was a grueling test of the limits of human desire." (podiumcafe.com) AFP/Getty
Images
March 16, 2018
BMC surrounds van Avermaet with experienced
hands for Milan San Remo.
"Olympic gold medalist Greg van
Avermaet has notched three wins so far this year, albeit two
of them in team time trials at Volta a Valencia and the
recent Tirreno Adriatico, but has so far had a disappointing
run in the spring one-day races."
(cyclingnews.com) (Bettini Photo)
March 16, 2018
Illness and injuries force BMC Racing Team to
modify rosters for upcoming races.
"BMC's Simon Gerrans, Loic
Vliegen and Patrick Bevin have had to be replaced in the
rosters for Milano San Remo and the Volta a Catalunya due to
illness and injuries."
(cyclingpub.com) Mary Cárdenas
March 16, 2018
2018 Volta a Catalunya: Valverde the man to
beat.
"Every year as the Spring
Classics campaign shifts into top gear, the Volta a
Catalunya serves to remind fans that top-level stage racing
is also taking place, and this March is no exception." (cyclingnews.com)
March 16, 2018
2018 Tour de Langkawi: Can Dimension Data
continue their run?
"The cycling world's attention
is largely drawn to the Italian Riviera this week, but in
Asia the Tour de Langkawi is the main attraction. The 2.HC
race is into its 23rd edition and has again drawn a start
list that includes Grand Tour stage winners and rising
stars."
(cyclingnews.com) (Bettini Photo)
March 16, 2018
Landa maintains status as second GC option at
Tour de France.
"Mikel Landa knows he will be
the second option again at the Tour de France behind Nairo
Quintana, says his new team Movistar. Spain’s WorldTour team
will first rely on Colombian Nairo Quintana, twice second
behind Froome. Spaniards Landa and Alejandro Valverde will
offer a plan B for Movistar."
(velonews.com) (Photo: ©Tim De Waele | Getty Images)
March 16, 2018
There are 23 days until Paris Roubaix and this
is what some of the cobbled sectors look like.
"The race’s 29 sectors of
cobbles are maintained by Les Amis de Paris Roubaix (The
Friends of Paris Roubaix), who carry out work on the pavé to
ensure that it is in a good enough state to be raced on in
April."
(cyclingweekly.com)
March 16, 2018
Wout van Aert recons ‘tricky’ Tour of Flanders
course.
"Wout van Aert has ridden the
Tour of Flanders course, calling it “a lot trickier than the
other road races I already rode this year.” The world
cyclocross champion said that he is looking to finish in the
top ten in his debut in the race."
(cyclingnews.com) (Bettini Photo)
March 16, 2018
Guarnier: Jaw injury frustrating, but it isn’t
affecting my training.
"Megan Guarnier (Boels Dolmans)
arrived at the Bergen road world championships last
September dreaming of rainbow stripes, but she left Norway
with a broken jaw."
(velonews.com) (Photo: ©Tim De Waele | Getty Images)
March 16, 2018
Cycling more results in better sex lives for
women.
"The largest ever study into
the relationship between cycling and female sexual health
has shown that higher intensity riders have better sex
lives, as well as concluding that there’s no relationship
between intensity and sexual or urinary function." (cyclingweekly.com)
March 16, 2018
10 Questions for Ashley Gruber.
"Very few women have been on
the frontlines of photographers who shoot the European
classics and grand tours. The latest shooter to begin
working all the main events in the UCI WorldTour is Ashley
Gruber, wife of Jered Gruber, whose images frequently appear
in this publication."
(pelotonmagazine.com) Images: Ashley Gruber
March 16, 2018
Choosing a steel, aluminium, titanium or carbon
road bike.
"If you’re shopping for a new
road bike, you’ll be inundated with choice, which can make
choosing the right bike for you a tricky decision. There are
many factors you can use to filter the choice, from price,
specification, style of riding, brand allegiance or even
color." (road.cc)
March 16, 2018
Seven more pro teams join Velon as partners.
"Velon is a marketing, media
and technology company for pro-road races, which is probably
most recognizable to race fans as providing in-race rider
data during live coverage and on-bike camera footage." (cyclingweekly.com) (Photo:
Yuzuru Sunada)
March 16, 2018
Saffron Frameworks naked Reynolds 953 road disc
bike.
"Saffron
Frameworks has been creating custom-built frames and bikes
since 2009. The man behind the London-based workshop,
Matthew Sowter, had long harbored a dream of becoming a
frame builder, and after spending some time training and
working for Enigma Bikes, he opened up his own workshop in
central London within in sight of the River Thames." (cyclingtips.com) Photography
by Billy Turvey
March 16, 2018
SILCA Launches New “Seat Capsule” Premio Saddle
Bag.
"SILCA has launched its latest
product called the Seat Capsule Premio, giving cyclists the
option of a saddle bag that provides more structure and
internal volume than what a regular seat roll has to offer." (capovelo.com)
March 16, 2018
Taking a Flyer: Inside Rally Cycling’s big step
up to Pro Continental ranks.
"It’s fair to say that
throughout his several decades in cycling Rally Cycling
men’s team director Jonas Carney has experienced the full
spectrum of professional bike racing. He raced at the
Olympics. He excelled in the hectic scrum of criteriums,
crowned national champion twice; he’s been a national
champion on the track, as well."
(cyclingtips.com) Photography by Pete Goding; Wil Matthews;
Cor Vos
March 16, 2018
Canyon Grail gravel bike - specs, details and
range overview.
"Canyon
has launched the Grail, the German direct-sale brand's first
gravel bike. The bike features SL and SLX build options,
700c wheels (650b on the smaller size frames), custom frame
bags, mudguard mounts and a very unusual looking handlebar
set up."
(cyclingnews.com)
March 16, 2018
CycleOps Hammer smart trainer review.
"Usually trainers and rollers
are reserved for the winter months, only making appearances
on rainy days. But CycleOps aims to help you ride and race
into fitness all year round with new Hammer direct drive
smart trainer."
(roadbikereview.com)
March 16, 2018
Ridley 2018 road and cyclocross bikes.
"Do you
want to own a bike with its DNA ingrained in one of
cycling’s heartlands? That’ll be Ridley, then. With its
operations base in Flanders’ so-called ‘Bike Valley’, as
well as being founded and led by Flandrian Joachim Aerts,
it’s difficult to find a more quintessentially Belgian bike
brand anywhere else."
(roadcyclinguk.com)
March 16, 2018
2018 Handzame Classic LIVE stream.
"2018 Handzame Classic LIVE
March 16, Belgium.
Race starts at 12:45pm CET (7:45am U.S. Eastern). Finish at around 5:25pm CET (12:25pm U.S. Eastern). Live video from 3:30pm CET (10:30am U.S. Eastern)." (cyclingfans.com) March 16, 2018
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Team Sky/Wiggins case could bring welcome - and
powerful - changes to UK law.
"Buried in last week’s scathing
report into Bradley Wiggins’s use of triamcinolone and the
so-called ‘jiffy bag affair’ was a recommendation that could
have a broad reaching effect on UK Sport and, in theory,
potentially act as a catalyst for change elsewhere:
Criminalize the supply of banned substances to athletes." (cyclingtips.com) (Photo: Cor
Vos)
March 15, 2018
The San Remo Paradox.
"Milan San Remo is the longest
race on the pro calendar yet it’s often dependent on events
in the last five minutes. Why all the hours of airtime when
surely you could just tune in for the final 10 minutes?
All the details make the Poggio's ascent and descent so thrilling." (inrng.com) (RCS Sport) March 15, 2018
Video commissaire to make debut at Milan San
Remo.
"Milan San Remo will mark the
first time a video commissaire is deployed in a professional
cycling race as the UCI roles out its new measure, which is
being trialed in the Monuments and Grand Tours in 2018." (cyclingnews.com) (Bettini
Photo)
March 15, 2018
Modolo leads EF Education First Drapac at Milan
San Remo.
"Sacha Modolo has been
confirmed as team leader at EF Education First Drapac for
Saturday’s Milan San Remo, as the US WorldTour team hopes
for a sprint finish in the Via Roma."
(cyclingnews.com) (Bettini Photo)
March 15, 2018
‘We’re heading to a world where only the Tour de
France matters. I don’t like that’.
"The Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a
España organizers say it would be a mistake to reduce their
races to two weeks and allow the Tour de France to remain
the only Grand Tour on cycling’s calendar."
(cyclingweekly.com) (Photo: Yuzuru Sunada)
March 15, 2018
Injury Updates: van Garderen back, Gaviria to
miss classics.
"Tejay van Garderen returns to
competition next week while Fernando Gaviria will miss the
remainder of the classics after undergoing surgery." (velonews.com) (Photo: ©Tim De
Waele | Getty Images)
March 15, 2018
Hagens Berman Axeon, Holowesko Citadel launch
European campaigns.
"Hagens Berman Axeon started
the season this week at Dorpenomloop Ruchpen, a Dutch UCI
1.2 race won by the team's U23 time trial world champion
Mikkel Bjerg. Three days later the team tackled Nokere
Koerse, the Belgian 1.HC race where Ivo Oliveira animated
the early going in the breakaway."
(cyclingnews.com) (Photo: ©Tim De Waele | Getty Images)
March 15, 2018
Mixed response for extra stage at the Madrid
Challenge.
"News that Vuelta a España
organizers are considering an extra stage for the Madrid
Challenge has received mixed reactions. The plan would see a
team time trial added on the day preceding the criterium on
Vuelta's final stage in the Spanish capital."
(cyclingnews.com) (Photo: ©Tim De Waele | Getty Images)
March 15, 2018
Geraint Thomas: ‘Froome will just get better
towards the Giro d’Italia’.
"Froome faded on the summit
finish to Sassotetto and lost 20 seconds in the final time
trial to finish 34th overall on Tuesday. Team Sky dominated
the race with Michal Kwiatkowski the winner and Thomas third
after a chain problem cost him time."
(cyclingweekly.com) (Photo: Yuzuru Sunada)
March 15, 2018
First Ride: Canyon Grail CF and that unusual
‘Hover Bar’.
"Radical innovation is much
rarer than it used to be in the bike industry. While a lot
of new products come from evolutionary development, Canyon’s
new Grail CF didn’t.
The Grail’s head-turning design largely comes down to that unconventional “hover bar." (velonews.com) . Photo: Spencer Powlison March 15, 2018
2018 Critérium du Dauphiné Route.
"The route for the 2018
Critérium du Dauphiné has been presented today, a chance to
project beyond the spring classics into summer. The Dauphiné
is a dress rehearsal for the Tour de France and the 2018
route supplies practice for a team time trial and a copycat
mountain stage. It runs from Sunday 3 June to Sunday 10
June." (inrng.com)
(ASO)
March 15, 2018
Best women’s cycling shoes for 2018.
"Quality women’s cycling shoes
are designed around a female ‘foot last’, with the ultimate
goal of providing a comfortable and effective base from
which to power the pedal stroke."
(cyclingweekly.com)
March 15, 2018
First Look: Sven Cycles Pathfinder 11 Adventure
Bike.
"The Pathfinder from Sven
Cycles is an adventure bike, a gravel grinder, a bikepacking
workhorse or a touring machine, it's whatever you want it to
be. Part mountain bike, part touring bike, the steel
Pathfinder 11 is good to go in whatever sphere you choose." (road.cc)
March 15, 2018
19 of the best saddles - the seats that improve
cycling comfort for men and women.
"Your saddle is arguably the
most important component on your bike. Like that other key
to comfort, your shorts, if it's doing its job properly
you'll never notice it, but if it isn't - ouch! It’s your
main contact point with the bicycle, and for some of us even
subtle variations between two similar saddle designs can
lead to one of them crossing fine line between comfortable
perch and instrument of torture."
(road.cc)
March 15, 2018
New Wilier Triestina disc-brake TT bike spotted
at Paris Nice.
"The Direct Energie team were
spotted using a new Wilier Triestina time trial bike
equipped with disc brakes at Paris Nice, with Lilian
Calmejane, Sylvain Chavanel and other riders using the
all-black bike on the hilly 18.4km stage 4 time trial to
Saint Étienne."
(cyclingnews.com) (Bettini Photo)
March 15, 2018
Specialized S-Works Tarmac SL6 Disc review.
"The Specialized branded power
meter may be the headline, but the main story here is that
the Specialized Tarmac SL6 Disc comes dressed head-to-toe in
house components that meet, if not exceed, the quality of
many specialty brands."
(cyclingnews.com) (Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
March 15, 2018
18 of the best 2018 gravel & adventure
bikes.
"Gravel/adventure bikes have
gone very quickly from the latest craze to a significant
part of most bike companies' ranges. These bikes are
tailored for long-distance comfort, with disc brakes, big
tire clearance and geometry honed to excel both on the road
and off, whether it's a gravel, forest or dirt track." (road.cc)
March 15, 2018
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