All Content

News

PRESS RELEASE – CSC extends with Cervélo

Cervélo and Team CSC extend partnershipCervélo Cycles and Riis Cycling, the management company of Team CSC, are pleased to announce that they have extended their collaboration through to 2009. The day Cervelo and Team CSC signed their first contract in August 2002, the Team was 14th in the UCI team rankings and Cervélo was just another small bike manufacturer. Today, Team CSC is the #1 team in the UCI ProTour rankings and Cervélo is generally acknowledged as one of the most innovative bike companies in the world. “Essentially that's because of our design and engineering philosophy,”

Published
Road

Thursday’s Eurofile: Ballerini gets the boot: Peace Race comeback?

Italian national team coach Franco Ballerini got the boot Wednesday after the fall-out following the Madrid world championships. Paolo Bettini’s 13th was the second-worst world’s result since Giuseppe Saronni was 17th in 1983. Ballerini joined the national team in 2001 and earned two gold medals, with Mario Cipollini taking the world title in 2002 and Paolo Bettini the Olympic title in 2004. The Italians also scored a silver with Bettini in 2001 and bronze with Luca Paolini last year. That wasn’t good enough for the demanding Italians and the national cycling federation didn’t renew his

Published
Road Gear

Interbike ’05: High brow saddles; Hi-Zoot technology; High-end carbon

The heavy and retroSurely the most elegant, no-holds-barred booth at the 2005 Interbike Trade Show in Las Vegas has to bethat of Brooks Saddles. The recreation of an English sitting room (exceptfor the fact that smoking is not allowed in the show) drove home the pointof how English this product remains since its purchase and re-vitalizationby an Italian saddle company, Selle Royal.The factory remains in Smethwick, on the outskirts of Birmingham, whichis where the gawdy red carpet with yellow flowers for the booth came from.All of thesaddles remain the same, made entirely out of thick leather

Published
Road

Wednesday’s EuroFile: Zajicek knocking on Euro doors; Tours ready to go their own way

By now, Phil Zajicek is somewhere in Europe checking out the sights in a 10-day trip around the continent after racing in Sunday’s world championships. The 26-year-old admitted it was tough going in the hilly 273km circuit course in Madrid after flying to Europe just three days before the race. Zajicek did his job protecting team captain Fred Rodriguez before dropping out with two laps to go. “My legs were kind of blocked, but I was there to keep Freddie out of the wind as long as possible,” he said. “When the attacks started, it just blew up the bunch.” Zajicek’s season is over, and after

Published
Road Gear

Interbike ’05: Bucking Bull at Bootleg

As Day 2 dawned on the most fun part of Interbike, namely riding cool bikes all over the great trails in Bootleg Canyon, the mechanical bull waited, its single horn barely attached but its pride and determination intact. Soon enough, in Yakima’s Bucking for IMBA promotion, one attendee after another came to be spun and tossed about by it while hanging onto a little stub of rope, all under the laughing gaze of people wearing pink foam Yakima-labeled cowboy hats. And sure enough, every would-be bull rider found themselves on his or her back soon enough, thrown off into an inflatable swimming

Published
Road Gear

Outdoor Demo – Day 2; Sun, wind and gears

Fighting desert heat and a big afternoon windstorm, bike manufacturers did their darndest to keep Interbike tradeshow attendees happy for the second day of Outdoor Demo Tuesday, a task made easier by offering up a ton of new and interesting equipment. Giant Bicycles has big news for 2006, two new mountain bikes based on the company’s Maestro suspension technology. Our old colleague, Andrew Juskaitis, now Giant’s communications manager, said the two new bikes are the “bookends” of the Maestro series, offering the suspension design on both cross-country and downhill models. Billed as

Published
Road Gear

Interbike ’05-Tanned, rested and ready: Ibis is back

Ibis is back and doing its thing... but this time in carbon.Tuesday marked the official return of both Ibis and its founder, ScotNicol, to the bike industry after a three-year absence. The brand thathad a devoted following in the 1990s and floundered on hard times sinceNicol sold the company in 2000.While Ibis fans have suffered the absence of a favorite, Nicol has spent the last few years most constructively: "retired and riding my bike." Not bad work if you can get it. Still Nicol has felt the itch and finally found his way back into bike biz' as a "partner" (read unpaid employee) in a

Published
Road

L’Equipe reports González positive

Aitor González, the flamboyant Spanish rider who won the Tour de Suisse in June, could be the latest star rider caught up in the anti-doping web. The online edition of the French sports daily L’Equipe is reporting that González failed a control for unnamed banned substance during the Vuelta a España. González, who won the 2002 edition of the Vuelta, abandoned this year’s race with three stages to go. Officials from the Spanish cycling federation would not comment on the case while officials from Euskaltel-Euskadi, where González raced this season after two sub-par years with Fassa Bortolo,

Published
Road Gear

Interbike ’05: Inside the hall, a Day 1 photo gallery

Interbike’s International Expo opened Tuesday, with more than 10,000 attendees swarming in among next season’s bikes on the red carpets of the Sands Convention Center in Las Vegas. After two dusty days of testing product at the Outdoor Demo in nearby Bootleg Canyon, the show moved indoors to get down to business. More than 10,000 buyers for about 3500 bike shops have registered to check out the 2006 wares that some 750 companies — representing more than 1000 brands— have on display. The business they do here determines what will be cropping up in your local shop in the coming months. That

Published
News

Published
Road Gear

Interbike kicks off with Outdoor Demo’

The tradeshow season culminates with the start of the Interbike tradeshow in Las Vegas. Although the majority of the show takes place at the Sands Expo and Convention Center - in Sin City itself - the show actually starts a couple of days early, with bike demos in Bootleg Canyon roughly 20 miles outside the city limits. The area is renowned for exceptional mountain bike trails (a few have even earned IMBA’s renowned “Epic Rides” label to prove it). The Interbike folks have been coming to Bootleg canyon for the past few years, because the area offers demo’ riders the opportunity to try out

Published
Road Culture

Vande Velde’s View: Was it the clams?

Do you ever feel like the clock has slowed down? The last few days have all but crept to a halt for me, with the exception of last Friday, however, when, I slept all day. After the Vuelta I was looking at my schedule, thinking positively about how the last month would go by fast and that it wouldn't be too painful to stay focused. And I still believe that and am trying to go through with it. However, when the schedule is thrown off, no matter how small a change it might be, it can be hard to recover. For me, Friday morning melted into Saturday. I woke up, went straight to the bathroom

Published
Back Next