Devine cranking out the revs
Devine cranking out the revs
Devine cranking out the revs
Vande Velde and Brajkovic stuck close to each other
Millar towing Simoni
Colby's face shows the pain of making the podium on Brasstown Bald
The race leader and his shadow
Raisin leads the rollout — by quite a margin
That's all – for today
Saunier Duval on the front
The gritty Moos
Leipheimer guns it
Danielson working his way through the fans
Grajales guts it out
Jittery Joe's represents out front
Padrnos keeps an eye on the race leader
It's hungry work
It's a good day to race
And so he did
Another angle
A Fred’s Eye View: Chris Eatough, movie star
Eatough signing posters for fans
A Fred’s Eye View: Chris Eatough, movie star
Up close and personal: Camera crews often trailed Eatough on course.
Bäckstedt has had a tough year.
Unwanted hardware: Bäckstedt just recently had this stuff removed from his shoulder
Leipheimer rides to the stage win
Brajkovic time-trialed well enough to move into the overall lead
Zabriskie zipped into second on the day
Must be 5 o'clock somewhere
Millar enjoyed the course, despite riding it blind
Baldwin was crowded out of his course preview
O'Neill knows the course well, and has the scars to prove it
The new race leader
Your race leader
Johnson taking his pulls
Georgia's on his mind
Cruz at Roubaix - happy to be back.
Meersman collects his first pro win
And suddenly Brajkovic looks like a contender
Brajkovic leads the break
Remember these guys? They're 29 minutes back
Louder rips a descent
Bike Friday's Jeff Linder shows off that the Tikit has a cover so your neighbor in the next seat on the subway won't cringe at your greasy bike near their designer jeans. It will roll when folded (and covered) making getting on and off subway
Jacques-Maynes goes for the KOM
... and is quickly ready to roll for a commute
Toyota-United's Baldwin and Wherry discuss strategy
Mavic C29SSMAX tubeless wheels and Hutchinson Python 29 X 2.1 Tubeless Ready tires save a lot of 29-inch rotating weight. The wheels weigh 1745 grams/pair and sell for $775, while the tires weigh 645 grams and sell for $50 apiece.
Chadwick has a dig
Since through-axle forks have appeared on lighter and lighter bikes, it makes no sense to limit 20mm through-axle hubs to Shimano's freeride Saint and Hone groups, since some riders want ever-lighter big-hit bikes; enter the XTR through-axle fron
As does King
SRAM and SRM co-designed the Powermeter Pro carbon crank. It has a 12-spline system calibrated for SRM's strain gauges and adds 200 grams to the bike.
Haedo in the bunch
Big bamboo: Craig Calfee's new bamboo mountain bike is wrapped with hemp at the joints (sorry).
Discovery motoring along
It is light, stiff, strong, and was getting a lot of test rides at Sea Otter.
Hamilton with one to go
The bright red Ellsworth limited-edition (#18 of 500 total that will be made) $4,000 NuVinci CVT-equipped cruiser has a very cool fork. The fat carbon fork legs continue through the double-clamp crown and neck down to form the handlebars.
The fans turn out
The inchworm on the indicator of the Nuvinci continuously-variable rear hub transmission on its twist-grip lever shows you where in the range you are. The gear ratio ramps up and down smoothly with no discreet jumps.
A peachy banner
The Manitou Minute 29er through-axle fork now joins the White Bros. BW 1.3 as a long- travel fork for a 29-inch wheel with a 20mm through-axle hub.
The 23-pound, 80mm-travel Niner Jet 9 with carbon Pace 29er fork breaks through a new weight barrier for full-suspension 29ers.
Stevic gets his closeup en route to victory
Ian McKissick of BMC laid it down in Rome; happily, despite the nasty crash, he was reported to be okay
Stevic wins it with room to spare
The early break
Toyota in control
The late King of Soul, James Brown, was there last year.
Contrini opens Tinkoff's U.S. account
Hamilton at the start in Peachtree City
Kirk O'Bee (Health Net) and Viktor Rapinsky (Navigators) have a dig
Ollerenshaw leads
Toyota waited until too late to join the chase
The leaders with two laps to go
Contrini rips it
O'Grady cruising the cobbles
One style of the GT DHi sub-frame
The victor and the spoils
Tech Report, with Matt Pacocha - New developments at (a very wet) Sea Otter
Boonen left it a little too late