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Column
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January 22,
2022
News,
Blogs, Misc.
January 22, 2022
Lucinda Brand, Laurens Sweeck fastest at X²O Trofee Flandriencross. "Brand
makes it 17 season wins, Pidcock derailed by final-lap
crash in last weekend of racing before the Fayetteville
worlds."
(velonews.com) (Image credit: Getty Images) January 22, 2022
Laurens Sweeck wins Flandriencross in Hamme.
"Laurens
Sweeck (Pauwels Sauzen Bingoal) won the X²O Badkamers
Flandriencross in Hamme on Saturday. Sweeck bested series
leader Toon Aerts (Baloise Trek Lions) in a two-up sprint
with Eli Iserbyt (Pauwels Sauzen Bingoal) riding in for
third place."
(cyclingnews.com) (Getty Images Sport) January 22, 2022
Lucinda Brand wins Flandriencross in Hamme.
"Brand
came home 17 seconds clear of teammate Shirin van Anrooij,
who outsprinted Denise Betsema (Pauwels Sauzen - Bingoal)
for second place."
(cyclingnews.com) (Image credit: Getty Images) January 22, 2022
Garmin Fenix 7 vs Epix: A Very Detailed Comparison. "Over
the last few days there’s been endless discussions about
deciding between a Fenix 7 Series and Epix Series unit, so
I figured a more detailed comparison was in order. In my
case, I’ve been using the units for almost two months, and
often side by side."
By Ray Maker (dcrainmaker.com) (Photo: Ray Maker) January 22, 2022 Live: X²O Badkamers Trofee Flandriencross
Hamme - Saturday, January 22nd.
"The
x2o Badkamers Trofee continues with the Flandriencross in
Hamme, Belgium. With only 1 week until the World
Championships you can expect to see the big names battling
it out for the win.
Elite Women at 13:45 CET, 7:45am U.S. Eastern.
Elite
Men at 15:00 CET, 9:00am U.S. Eastern."
(cyclocross.social) (Credits not Found) January 22, 2022
Live: UCI Cyclocross World Cup Hoogerheide -
Sunday, January 23rd.
"The
final round of the UCI CX World Cup heads to Hoogerheide
in The Netherlands for Round 15.
Elite
Women at 13:40 CET, 7:40am U.S. Eastern.
Elite
Men at 15:05 CET, 9:05am U.S. Eastern."
(cyclocross.social) (Credits not Found) January 22, 2022
Column
Two
Photos,
Podcasts
January 22, 2022
Bettiol: I have to win more and now there are no excuses. "I
feel as if I were reborn, even if I’m a bit fed up of just
training. I must confess that I really miss the adrenaline
of competition,” Bettiol told La Gazzetta dello Sport."
(cyclingnews.com) (Image credit: Getty Images Sport) January 22, 2022
Racing fit and over 40: Training secrets of the super-veterans. "In
the past it was generally accepted that we begin to
decline physically from the age of about 40. But not
anymore, it's possible to maintain peak cycling form into
your 40s and beyond."
By Chris Marshall-Bell (cyclingweekly.com) (Image credit: Future) January 22, 2022
Be stoked: Euro road racing starts Sunday. "The
season-starting Clàssica Comunitat Valenciana this Sunday
won’t see any of the top-level team in action, but the
one-dayer will make for an amuse-bouche before the big
names roll out in next week’s Challenge Mallorca series."
By Jim Cotton (velonews.com) (Image Credit not Found) January 22, 2022
Sam Bennett, Ryan Mullen sprinting for road signs out training in Mallorca. "Sam
Bennett and Ryan Mullen will soon be stepping into action
as team mates for the first time ever and they have been
getting used to working together during the Bora Hansgrohe
training camp currently underway."
(stickybottle.com) (Photo: Bora Hansgrohe VeloImages) January 22, 2022 2022 Team Preview: Roland Cogeas Edelweiss. "Competing
for the win in the biggest races may be tough, but the
team should be hoping to find some luck in breakaways and
lower-ranked events."
By Matilda Price (cyclingnews.com) (Image credit: Getty Images) January
22, 2022
State Bicycle Co. upgrades the Undefeated Road bike with disc brakes and Y9 aluminum. "The
existing frame geometry was retained, but SBC is now
making the Undefeated Road frames from Y9 aluminum instead
of 7005. They’ve also added flat-mount disc brakes, and
opted for a single build option with a new pearl/tie-dye
colorway."
By Steve Fisher (bikerumor.com) (Image Credit not Found) January 22, 2022 2022 Clasica Comunitat Valenciana Live. "Clasica Comunitat Valenciana 2022 (La Nucia - Valencia 175km).
Sunday, January 23rd, starts at 14:00pm Central Europe,
8:00am U.S. Eastern."
(cycling.today) (Image Credit not Found) January 22,
2022
Column
Three
Videos
January 22, 2022
Ivan Sosa says Ineos departure was 'complicated.' "Sosa
impressed in early 2021 by winning the Tour de la
Provence, but he struggled to make an impact thereafter
and he was left out of the team that helped his fellow
countryman Egan Bernal to overall victory at the Giro."
(cyclingnews.com) (Image credit: Bettini Image) January 22, 2022
Mørkøv on Cavendish, Viviani and the fine art of the lead out. "When
it comes to that age-old paradox that cycling is a team
sport where one individual wins, you could say that
lead-out men like Michael Mørkøv (Quick Step Alpha Vinyl)
feel it more intensely than any other kind of rider."
By Alasdair Fotheringham (cyclingnews.com) (Image credit: Getty Images) January 22, 2022
Classics with crowds in 2022? Officials are optimistic for Belgian racing. "The
question remains as to whether the new laws will still
apply for the “opening weekend of the classics” at the end
of February, but experts are remaining optimistic."
(velonews.com) Photo: KURT DESPLENTER/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images January 22, 2022
Team Twenty24 becomes Virginia’s Blue Ridge Twenty24. "The
longstanding Olympics development squad has a new title
sponsor and base of operations in Virginia's Blue Ridge
mountains."
By Betsy Welch (velonews.com) Photo: vbrtwenty24.com January 22, 2022
How to improve as a cyclist - 9 positive changes to make right now. "While
goals and abilities will vary across any group of
cyclists, forming good habits and sticking to them
long-term is the key to improve as a cyclist."
By Matteo Cigala (stickybottle.com) (Image Credit not Found) January 22, 2022 After 50 years, Yes You Can buy a Serotta titanium frameset from your local bike shop, finally. "Now
for the first time, on the cusp of their 50th year and
among industry component shortages, Ben Serotta says “Yes
You Can!” finally, adding an option to buy a frameset
only, even through your local bike shop."
By Cory Benson (bikerumor.com) (Image Credit not Found) January 22, 2022
Motorex Joker 440 Synthetic Spray. "The
Motorex Joker 440 Synthetic Spray is a multi-use workshop
product, promising to clean and lubricate, repel water,
protect against corrosion, penetrate seized threads and
stop squeaks."
By Shaun Audane (road.cc) (Image Credit not Found) January 22, 2022
Column
One
January 21,
2022
News,
Blogs, Misc.
January 21, 2022
Santos Festival of Cycling 2022 - Preview. "Four
days of racing in South Australia for both the women and
men as Porte, Dennis, Brown and Spratt, line up among
Australia’s top domestic riders."
By Simone Giuliani (cyclingnews.com) (Getty Images Sport) January 21, 2022 Tom Pidcock confirms relentless spring schedule in quest to conquer the classics. "Pidcock
will race Strade Bianche, Flanders, Amstel, Liège, and
much more in stacked spring schedule as he looks to back
up breakout 2021."
By Jim Cotton (velonews.com)Photo: Nico Vereecken / Photo News January 21, 2022 Inside Sagan’s Honeymoon With Team Total Energies - Peloton X Specialized. "One
of the most talked-about transfers of the 2022 season has
been that of Peter Sagan from Germany’s UCI WorldTour team
Bora Hansgrohe to the second-tier French squad Total
Energies."
Words/Images: James Startt (pelotonmagazine.com) January 21, 2022 Annemiek van Vleuten takes aim at Giro d’Italia, Tour de France, Challenge by La Vuelta in 2022. "After
dialing back some of her racing commitments to focus on
the Olympic Games last year, van Vleuten has sketched out
a season stacked with big targets."
By Sadhbh O'Shea (velonews.com) (Photo by Stuart Franklin/Getty Images) January 21, 2022 Clouse upped endurance training for fast, open Cyclocross Worlds. "US
women's under-23 National Champion Katie Clouse has been
re-tuning her body for better endurance ahead of the U23
title fight at the UCI Cyclocross World Championships in
Fayetteville, Arkansas next week."
By Laura Weislo (cyclingnews.com) (Getty Images Sport) January 21, 2022 Gear Break: Pinarello New Colors, The Pro’s Closet, Lezyne New Gear, G4 Sale, Prologo Gloves & Brooks Journey. "What's new on the bike market?" By PEZ Crew (pezcyclingnews.com) (Image Credit not Found) January 21,
2022
Peloton sweats it out as shares plunge
following report of plan to pause production.
"The
report by CNBC claimed Peloton was halting
production of its standard bike in February and March, as
well as it its most expensive model from December 2021
until June 2022 and its treadmill for six weeks amid
softening sales."
By Jonny Long (cyclingweekly.com) (Image credit: Getty Images) January 21, 2022 A new short saddle from Prime, reflective Bont gravel shoes, O'Neal MTB shoes and the latest edition of Bicycling Science. "The
Primavera Shorty saddle is a new full-carbon, short-nosed
saddle from Prime. We were very impressed with the
previous-generation Bont Vaypor G shoes, so it’s nice to
see Bont hasn’t messed with a winning formula."
By Simon von Bromley (bikeradar.com) (Image Credit not Found) January 21, 2022
Live: x2o Badkamers Trofee Flandriencross
Hamme - Saturday, January 22nd.
"The
x2o Badkamers Trofee continues with the Flandriencross in
Hamme, Belgium. With only 1 week until the World
Championships you can expect to see the big names battling
it out for the win.
Elite Women at 13:45 CET, 7:45am U.S. Eastern.
Elite
Men at 15:00 CET, 9:00am U.S. Eastern."
(cyclocross.social) (Credits not Found) January 21, 2022 Column
Two
Photos,
Podcasts
January 21,
2022
State of the Nation: Tracking the Historical Performance of U.S. Women In the WorldTour. "U.S.
women have out-performed their male counterparts at the
top level over the last decade, but a lack of commercial
investment threatens future success."
(pelotonmagazine.com) (Image credit: Getty Images) January 21, 2022
Longest worlds in recent memory? Wollongong road world championships will be a whopper. "The
men’s race is set to clock in at some 275 kilometers, with
the women’s competition slated to be 174km in what will be
the longest road worlds in recent memory."
(velonews.com) (Image credit: Getty Images) January 21, 2022 Nacer Bouhanni suffers concussion after losing
consciousness in training crash.
"The
French sprinter was transferred to a nearby hospital in
Benidorm, where he had stitches in his eyebrow. The team
has been in the south of Spain for a pre-season training
camp in recent weeks."
(velonews.com) (Tim de Waele/Getty Images) January 21, 2022 UCI Points and Rankings Tables. "Tim
Merlier wins his first Giro stage and weeks later he’d
take a Tour stage as well. As well as satisfaction, media
coverage and big lines on his palmarès, these wins brought
him the sum of 220 UCI points."
(inrng.com) (RCS Sport) January 21, 2022 Tadej Pogacar and Juan Ayuso go head-to-head in UAE Team Emirates training race. "Ayuso
is still only 19 but is considered Spain’s next great
thing. He won the Under 23 Giro in 2021, finished second
at the Prueba Villafranca-Ordiziako Klasika race on his
professional debut, and has the talent and natural
ambition needed to emerge at WorldTour level."
By Stephen Farrand (cyclingnews.com) (Image credit: UAE Team Emirates) January 21, 2022 Final ‘adiós’ remains uncertain for Alejandro Valverde in farewell season. "The
beginning of the season is set,” Valverde said. “I’m doing
the Giro and Vuelta, and it’s a beautiful calendar. Since
I’m not doing the Tour, there’s enough time to prepare
well for the Vuelta."
By Andrew Hood (velonews.com) (David Ramos/Getty Images) January 21, 2022 Review: GCN+ Cycling Streaming Channel. "In
2020 there was “GCN Race Pass,” which was essentially live
races using the Eurosport feed but GCN+ is much more than
this. First of all, the races: in 2021 there were a whole
lot of them, GCN+ offered more than 500 live events. 500!
500!"
By Leslie Reissner (pezcyclingnews.com) (Image Credit not Found) January 21,
2022
The least-used bike tool that’s a must-have. "The
problem with a majority of multi-tools is that while
they’re decked out with Allen wrenches and maybe a
flat-head screwdriver, the one tool that can be most
helpful is not there - a chain breaker."
By Troy Templin (roadbikeaction.com) (Image Credit not Found) January 21, 2022 Choosing A Tire For Your Next Gravel Adventure. "CX
rules basically restrict you to a 33mm wide tire for any
UCI regulated races. That’s not particularly wide, and
wider tires tend to do better on an uneven surface. The
result is that every racer picks a 33mm wide tire."
By Coach Matt (socalcycling.com) Photo: Wilderness Trail Bikes January 21, 2022 Lift-off for the 2022 European road season starts here - Preview. "The
European road racing season begins on Sunday, January 23
with the Clàssica Comunitat Valenciana in Spain kicking
off nine months of almost daily men’s racing."
By Stephen Farrand (cyclingnews.com) (Image credit: Getty Images) January 21,
2022
2022 Clasica Comunitat Valenciana Live. "Clasica Comunitat Valenciana 2022 (La Nucia - Valencia 175km).
Sunday, January 23rd, starts at 14:00pm Central Europe,
8:00am U.S. Eastern."
(cycling.today) (Image Credit not Found) January 20, 2022 Column
Three
Videos
January 21, 2022
Final words from Miguel Ángel López: ‘It was a
pleasure, gentlemen.’
"A
teaser of 'El Día Menos Pensado' (The Least
Expected Day) reveals what Colombian said during his
controversial exit from the Vuelta a España."
By Andrew Hood (velonews.com) (Tim de Waele/Getty Images) January 21, 2022 Amanda Spratt starts post-surgery rebuild at
Santos Festival of Cycling.
"Australian
rider motivated to better pre Iliac artery endofibrosis
form and find that Giro, Ardennes and Worlds podium
feeling again."
By Simone Giuliani (cyclingnews.com) (Getty Images Sport) January 21, 2022 Did it matter - or not - if Lance wore a helmet? "Lance,
it seems, doesn’t always wear a helmet. I admit in front:
Lance’s helmet-wearing habits are not an issue with me. He
can wear or do whatever he pleases."
By Maynard Henderson (velonews.com) Photo: David Brinton January 21, 2022 US Soigneur Trudi Rebsamen. "In
the 80’s there weren’t many female soigneurs in the pro
peloton, but along came the 7-Eleven and everything
changed.
Trudi
Rebsamen was among the first, Ed Hood spoke to her about
cycling ‘in the day’ and her late partner Steve Tilford."
By Edmond Hood (pezcyclingnews.com) (Image Credit not Found) January 21,
2022
UCI rolls out stricter new road rules. "For
2022, the UCI and its partners in the steering group
underline the fact that when national laws in an event’s
host country are stricter than the UCI’s rules, it is the
country’s laws that take precedence."
By Terry McKall (cyclingmagazine.ca) (Image Credit not Found) January 21,
2022
Campenaerts and Vermeersch check into Kolobnev's altitude hotel. "In a
twist on altitude training, the Lotto Soudal pair are
staying in special atmosphere-controlled rooms, where they
can flick - at the touch of a pad - between sea level and
the verge of the stratosphere, and anywhere in between."
(cyclingnews.com) (Image credit: Hotel Syncrosfera) January 21, 2022 Canyon SRAM Generation unveils its multi-national roster. "The
WorldTour team's new development squad will feature riders
from four different continents and seven countries."
By Sadhbh O'Shea (velonews.com) Photo: Thomas Maheux January 21, 2022 'If it's not 9pm and I'm not scrubbing toilets... no session on the bike will be as hard as that' - Scottish rider Mark Stewart on heading for the WorldTour. "I'm
that motivated that I was willing to play the long game,
I'm happy to train and put my head down and work hard. I
spent pretty much all of last year working 40-50 hours a
week and just trying to train, which was really hard."
By Adam Becket (cyclingweekly.com) (Image credit: Getty Images) January 21, 2022 Stages will retrofit a power meter to your existing cranks. "Each
power meter will be individually calibrated and tracked to
ensure that it will offer consistent, reliable power data
for years to come,” says distributor Saddleback. “Your
Stages Power unit will also be backed by a Stages Factory
Warranty."
By Mat Brett (road.cc) (Image Credit not Found) January 21, 2022 Here’s why the bike shortage isn’t going away any time soon. "Containers
may be moving in and out of China at encouraging speeds,
but it is the port congestion that’s continuing to cause
problems due to the slow return of boxes to Asia."
By Anna Marie Hughes (road.cc) (Image Credit not Found) January 21, 2022
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