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The Cycle Loft in Burlington, Massachusetts, along with some of the industry’s top component manufacturers, has decided to put some sponsorship behind one of the country’s future track stars. Twenty year old Jackie Simes IV, whose home track is the Valley Preferred Cycling Center in Trexlertown Pennsylvania, is a fourth generation American pro rider whose father, grandfather, great grandfather and cousin were all pro cyclists. Simes is making his annual pilgrimage to the European Six Day Track Racing Circuit with a start at the Ghent Six on November 18, 2008.

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A rally for Dr. Ed Farrar will be held Sunday, November 9 at 9:30 a.m. at the Wenatchee Convention Center in Wenatchee, Washington, to show support for the doctor who was struck in a head-on collision October 22. Farrar, who is the father of Garmin-Chipotle rider Tyler Farrar, remains in a critical care unit, but is showing signs of improvement. This event is a chance for friends and associates to show support for Dr. Farrar and his family.

Armstrong played with forearm position during an hour-long media session, then closed the doors for private fit testing

Last week, I wrote “we all feel the pain when one of our own is injured.” As I wrote those words, one of our own, Dr. Ed Farrar, lay in critical condition at Central Washington Hospital in Wenatchee, Washington, the victim of a head-on collision with an automobile. Dr.

Bonus Photo - Sorry, the only photos I took of the first annual Rocky Mountain Handbuilt Bicycle Show, in Colorado, were of my own booth for our scrapbook; it didn’t occur to me to document it as a journalist. This photo includes the Lenzsport display featuring a ski lift chair Devin Lenz built to demonstrate loading his full-suspension ski bikes on one. The TV video shows him and friends hucking off cornices and carving turns on the 8-inch travel “bikes.”

The Milan Six-Day is run on a steep, compact, portable velodrome set up in one of the two pavilions dedicated to the Milan Bicycle Show. Every joist and truss is numbered and bolted together in order to ensure the track is smooth.

Joan Llaneras Roselló riding his gold-medal-winning Cervelo P3 with Oval aero split-blade fork and Hed wheels before losing his 6-day teammate Paolo Bettini to a crash at the end of the first night’s madison.

Aussie road sprinter Luke Roberts of Team Kuota-Senges is the last rider in line in this photo. Fighting for position in the final sprint, Roberts crashed with Bettini into Popovych. The Aussie’s left fork blade snapped off of his Cervelo P3, and he received cranio-facial trauma upon impact, but his injuries were less serious than Bettini’s.

Yaroslav Popovych (Lotto) lining up with 6-day teammate Volodymyr Zagorodny. Popovych was moving too slowly high on the track with three laps to go and clipped his right pedal on the steep wall, sending him sliding down the track in the path of Paolo Bettini and Luke Roberts. Popovych was also taken to the hospital.

Paolo Bettini lining up for call-ups with his teammate for the Milan Six, Madison and points-race world champion and Olympic gold medalist Joan Llaneras Roselló. Bettini is moving well here, but he did not respond to requests to move his legs after the crash. He was taken to Sacco hospital in Milan and was released hours later to return to his hotel.

Last night we were supposed to eat dinner with Paolo Bettini to celebrate his career and his last race, but he crashed with three laps to go in the madison on the first day of the Milan Six-Day race. This is the mascarpone-coated cake we were supposed to share with him; we ate it with concern for him, having seen him removed from the track strapped to a backboard.

Can you imagine the president of the United States coming to Interbike and addressing a room full of journalists, especially without sending them through metal detectors and cavity searches beforehand? Hard though that may be to envision, here is Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi doing exactly that at the Milan show, and I had no trouble getting a seat near the front without a single security check.

Far from utilitarian, De Rosa’s new Campagnolo Xenon-equipped carbon kids’ road bike is branded with children’s clothing brand “i Pinco Pallino.” The boy’s model is plain carbon, but this version for girls is covered with Swarovski crystal.

This is the kind of unfortunate English translation you would expect to find on a banner at an Asian bike show much more than at a European one.

The Ambrosio XUL wheelset’s weight has dropped 50 grams (from 1270 to 1220g/pr.) by decreasing the spoke the spoke count to 24 for the rear wheel and 20 for the front. In keeping with the white-bike trend in Milan, the XUL is now available in white. Both the white and standard carbon versions are available with five different decal colors: red, blue, pink, yellow and grey.

Ambrosio’s Pista wheel is more than just a track wheel; its tough aluminum rim is designed to see hard single-speed urban use as well. Its “flip-flop” rear hub allows mounting either a track cog on one side or a single-speed road cog on the other.

Dear Explainer,
I apologize if this is a dumb question, but when I heard Lance Armstrong was going to race the Giro next year I was confused. Wasn't there a warrant for his arrest or something of that nature in Italy for something akin to witness intimidation?
Rick Mattinson
Salt Lake City Utah Dear Rick,
No, it’s not a dumb question. Like my old boss used to say, “there are no dumb questions!” (Well, actually there are dumb questions - some really dumb ones in fact - but yours isn’t one of them.)