Stefano Garzelli (Acqua e Sapone) won stage 2 of the Giro del Trentino on Wednesday. The Italian took the 178km leg from Torbole to Torri del Benaco ahead of compatriots Mauro Finetto (CSF) and Riccardo Chiarini (LPR). Jure Colcer (LPR) took the leader’s jersey from Volodymyr Zagorodny (NGC Medical-OTC Industrial), the winner of Tuesday’s opening time trial, a 9.7km race against the clock from Arco to Riva del Garda.
Dutch phenom Marianne Vos outgunned her challengers on the painfully steep slopes of the Mur de Huy to take a repeat win at the Flèche Wallonne women’s World Cup. Vos scaled the brutal kilometer-long pitch the fastest, dropping Marta Bastionelli (Italian National), Judith Arndt (High Road) and three-time winner Nicole Cooke (Great Britain) near the summit to take the fourth World Cup round of 2008. The victory was reminiscent of her 2007 victory, which saw Vos ride a tiring Cooke up the 25 percent pitch, then sprint to victory in the closing meters.
Mickey with one of his newest designs that’s due out late summer. It’s a high-pressure road pump paired to an aluminum bottle cage. The pump has the same stroke as a full-sized frame pump, but collapses into a smaller package. The presta-only pump weighs 100-grams and is rated to a pressure of 160 psi.
The current line consists of the following multi-tools, pumps and seat bags, plus hydration packs.
Michael Kozuschek founded Truvativ, built it up and sold it to SRAM. As part of the deal he had to sign a non-compete contract. SRAM doesn’t make accessories so that’s where Mickey, as he’s known, directed his creative efforts and founded Lezyne. He’s shown here with one of his CNC machined mini pumps.
The SX stem is intended for heavier duty applications including cyclocross and mountain use. It will be available in 90mm, 100mm and 110mm lengths initially; a freeride version available in 70mm and 80mm lengths will be released later this summer.
The ágilis crank is CNC machined; the process includes a have hole drilled down from the top of the crank arm to a point just before the pedal threads to hollow both the drive and non-drive arm; the drill hole is then capped with the red bolt. On the non-drive side the bolt also offers adjustment to compensate for different bottom bracket shell widths.
The crank comes standard with a Rotor bottom bracket built with Enduro bearings. The bottom bracket design is also available in a ceramic version built in partnership with Ceramic Speed. The design is Shimano compatible.
Rotor’s ágilis crank now has the option of a mountain double spider with 110/74 spacing. The new crank will initially be available with a 40/27 Q-Ring chainring combination. The crank bolts use Rotor’s Dual Thread Tech or DTT, where the fixing bolts thread into both the bottom bracket spindle and the crank arm. The design integrates the bolt as a structural component of the crank as apposed to using it as a mere clamping mechanism, says Rotor spokesmen.
Wallace didn’t win Saturday morning, but just riding it makes him feel like a winner
Ridley added a decal in case the single chainring and cog didn’t tip you off
The bike is made out of the same 24-ton HM carbon used in some of its road and cyclocross models
And single speed dropouts
The new bikes are hardtails with plenty of tire clearance
Ridley has a new prototype mountain bike called the Ignite. Only two exist in the world, both bikes are owned by Thule employees. Eric Wallace and Karl Wiedemann raced their two-off bikes on Saturday morning in Sea Otter’s single-speed race.
While the caliper looks the same the size of the pads is increased over the previous version
The body of the caliper and master cylinder are made from magnesium. The lever is carbon and to put it over the top most of the hardware is titanium including the EBT (Easy Bleed Port) screw.
Magura has a new brake that is claimed to weigh under 300-grams with all of its hardware, including a stainless steel 160mm rotor.
Could Rival be the best group for cyclocross? We think so, and apparently Fidea does too. This is a prototype of the new lower priced ’cross cantilever brake.
As will a lower, 500 level, time-trial parts package.
Sea Otter is over, but this year’s expo was bigger than ever and the overflow of what we saw there can and will go on for the rest of the week. In this edition we’ll look at brakes from Magura, Ridley frames, Rotor cranks and accessories from Lezyne.
The biggest news for the new group is the shifters and new OCT hollow forged aluminum crank
Ron Ritzler, SRAM road product manager presenting the new and improved Rival Group.
SRAM trickles down its technologies rather quickly. It was two years ago that the company launched its road line at the Sea Otter Classic. That initial introduction included both the Force and Rival groups. Early last fall at the Eurobike tradeshow, SRAM unveiled Red. And now SRAM introduced improved Force and Rival groups, by incorporating the most pertinent shifting technologies of the Red group; namely Zero Loss and its adjustable reach levers.
It was a mur too far for Cadel Evans (Silence-Lotto) as Kim Kirchen (High Road) sprang past the attacking Australian on the final ramps of the knee-busting steeps up the Mur de Huy on Wednesday to win a wet and wild Flèche Wallonne.
Cycling dynasties are built around one or two leaders and a team of domestiques who are willing to pedal to the death for their leader. Faema, Molteni, Flandria, La Vie Claire, Systeme U, Banesto, ONCE, U.S. Postal all became dynasties, not only because had leaders who could win the biggest events but also because those teams included a core of riders who were strong enough to perform but sacrificed their own chances for the leader and, above all, for the team.
Cervélo SA is pleased to announce the appointment of Michael Marx as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Company. A former World Team Pursuit champion, he shares with Cervélo an uncompromising pursuit of excellence.
Joy Industrial's Novatec hubs may become a popular item among wheelbuilders, because they allow relatively easy swaps between four different front hub/fork drop out standards. Riders with multiple wheels and forks in their garages also might find these hubs convenient. The 4in1 front hubs can interchange — without tools — to fit standard quick releases, or 9mm, 15mm or 20mm thru axles.
Eyebrows, and a few voices, were raised at the conclusion of stage 2 of the Tour de Georgia Tuesday when race officials announced that they had awarded the day’s most aggressive rider prize to G.E.-Marco Polo’s Rhys Pollock rather than Toyota-United’s Justin England.
What kind of power did it take for Health Net-Maxxis rider Frank Pipp to win the KOM jersey in stage 2 of the Tour of Georgia? According to his coach, Frank Overton, it took 874 watts or 12.5 watts/kg for 30 seconds. "Pipp jumped 100 meters before a 90-degree left hand turn (12 secs @ 948w) then gave it full gas for 873 watts for the next 15 seconds, accelerating all the way to the line, " Overton said.
Our man on the ground, Casey Gibson, was following stage two of the 2008 Tour de Georgia. Here's what he saw.
As with most of the European teams, CSC uses a number holder that mounts via the rear brake’s fixing bolt. The version CSC uses is aluminum.