Raffling for a worthy cause is smart fundraising, according to Ibis co-owner and front man Scot Nicol.
If the product is cool, the cause is solid and the tickets aren’t too expensive, then you can raise some good money. For example: Last year Ibis donated a Silk SL road bike to fatcyclist.com to support the webmaster’s fight against cancer. That bike brought in $37,500 for the LAF foundation through the Livestrong Challenge avenue.
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Michael Lange, a 25-year-old pro cyclist who raced for Jelly Belly last year, has accepted a two-year suspension following a positive test for the stimulent Strychnine last summer at the Tour of Qinghai Lake in China.
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, which announced the suspension, said Strychnine is prohibited under the USADA and UCI rules.
"While Mr. Lange tested positive for a specified substance and has accepted the penalty for the violation, no facts were revealed that he intentionally ingested Strychnine," USADA said in a statement.
Grega Bole (Amica Chips) sprinted to victory in Saturday’s GP Nobili Rubinetterie-Borgamanero race in Italy.
The Slovenian, third in Ronde van Drenthe on Monday, was fastest out of a winning three-man breakaway in the 191.7km course. Fortunato Baliano (CSF) wasn’t so lucky and had to settle for second while Andriy Grivko (ISD) crossed the line third.
Daniele Callegarin (CZP) led a six-man group that included former Italian national champion Giovanni Visconti (ISD) and Chris Froome (Barloworld) at 17 seconds back.
It was a battle of the Frenchmen in Saturday’s Tour du Finistère in western France in the fourth leg of the French Cup series.
Dimitri Champion (Bretagne-Schuller) lived up to his name to bring home the flowers in the 199.3km course around Quimper.
Fourth last year in the French national championships, Champion drove home a solo victory ahead of Pierrick Fédrigo (Bouygues) and Anthony Geslin (FDJeux).
Champion was part of the winning move that split in the final lap of the finishing circuit. He attacked with 8km to go and held off the chasers to snatch a hard-fought victory.
A Spanish judge has once again blocked efforts by cycling authorities to get their hands on evidence from the Operación Puerto doping ring.
Antonio Serrano — the Spanish judge who’s handled the legal proceedings since police blew the lid open on the Spanish doping scandal in May 2006 — ruled Wednesday to deny releasing Puerto evidence to the Spanish cycling federation (RFEC).
The latest and possibly most significant tech development being revealed here at the Sea Otter classic in Monterey is a completely free, inexhaustible, universally available energy source: the sun. In contrast to Thursday’s windy chill, exhibitors and spectators alike were treated to possibly the warmest day on the Laguna Seca infield in recent memory. Actual dust was found coating some of the otherwise shiny and new bike parts on display.
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Editor's Note VeloNews technical editor Zack Vestal attended FOX Racing Shox' 2010 model year introduction this week. This is his second report on he new products. His first report was published Thursday.
FOX Racing Shox product and marketing managers had some difficulty at Zaca Station, peeling the cycling media away from the desert trucks and motorbikes on display. But when Mario Galasso, bike product manager, began showing off the new 2010 FOX forks and rear shocks, he quickly earned everyone’s attention.
On Friday, SRAM released its new Force group, which features redesigned brakes, new graphics and the addition of a BB30 crank. The company also displayed its latest version of Zipp 303 wheels, which first hit the road on the cobbles of the 2009 Paris-Roubaix.
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With the inclusion of the new BB30 crank and bottom bracket, a Force group now weighs 1,957 grams (the standard group with a GXP crankset weighs 2,097 grams).
Astana's Levi Leipheimer glided up the finishing climb to victory at the Sea Otter Classic road race Friday, finishing just ahead of the three Bissell men with whom he was in a long breakaway.
Leipheimer's Santa Rosa training buddy, Paul Mach, took second with his Bissell teammate Morgan Schmitt rounding out the podium. Ben Jacques-Maynes, the fourth man in the break, came in just behind.
Defending champion Damiano Cunego is among the favourites going into Sunday's Amstel Gold Race, the only spring classic which takes place in the Netherlands.
The 258.6km road race leads from Maastricht to Valkenburg in the hilly Limburg region in the south of the country, near the borders with Belgium and Germany.
It features 31 torturous climbs, culminating in a 1000m ascent of the notorious Cauberg, and makes a grim mockery of the Netherlands' reputation as a flat country.
Scott Tedro is the man who spearheaded the new US Cup, which has replaced the National Mountain Bike Series as the continent’s premier off-road racing series. VeloNews caught up with Tedro to discuss how the US Cup came together, how the series is organized and what mountain bikers can expect to see in the coming years.
This is part 2 of the conversation. Part 1 was published Thursday.
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The Thule 515 Prologue Pack is a new all inclusive bike rack system. The Prologue pack includes two Prologue fork mounts with locks and an extended ride-on adapter bar to fit factory car racks.
Cervélo TestTeam has been the surprise of the 2009 spring classics.
The new squad has been racking up impressive results, including podiums in the opening three classics with Thor Hushovd (third at Milan-San Remo and Paris-Roubaix) and the sensational Heinrich Haussler (second at Milan-San Remo and Flanders).
That trend continued this week with Dominique Rollin notching his first European podium with third at the Belgian semi-classic Scheldeprijs on Wednesday.
San Luis Obispo, California, 17th April 2009 - Columbia-Highroad is heading to the Amstel Gold Race in Holland on Sunday with no clear leader but with some key riders clearly approaching top condition for the Ardennes Classics.
“I wouldn’t say my form is fantastic, but my winning a stage in the Tour of the Basque Country last week is a very encouraging sign all the same,” says Italian Marco Pinotti. “Amstel isn’t a race which suits me 100 percent, but we’ve got a very well-balanced squad and hopefully I’ll be able to do something to support the team’s overall effort.”
American national road champion Tyler Hamilton announced his retirement from cycling on Friday after confirming that he tested positive for a banned substance in an herbal supplement he used to treat depression.
The 38-year-old Hamilton confirmed that he had tested positive for Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) a multi-functional steroid he said was in an herbal remedy he took after he had stopped using prescription anti-depressants.
Hamilton said his depression was initially diagnosed in 2003, a year that on the surface “was the best year of my life.”