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Cross-cultural exchange: One Italian rider tries his best to make a good impression on the natives.

Go for broke... just don't let your wife watch. Vaughters in 2000

Hey Bob,Can I get in any legal trouble, or am I breaking any laws, by motor-pacingmy friend behind my Subaru? --PatHillsboro, Oregon Dear Pat;As you will read, I do not recommend that you motor pace your friend,but if you do, I offer the legal ramifications as well as some basic advice.This is the classic “do as I say not as I do” lecture. In fact, when Iwas racing and training, I was not even smart enough to limit my motorpacing to willing and complicit drivers. I was riding a borrowed cyclo-cross bike with limited gearing and wasspun out going downhill with my head down, when the woman I

What? No prize list?

Hey, winners still get flowers...

...but now only the pros get those nifty plastic number plates

The incredible shrinking NORBA NCS

The incredible shrinking NORBA NCS

Garzelli crosses the finish line to win the first stage from Arco to Moena of the 27th Tour of Trentino ahead of second placed Italian Gilberto Simoni

Moreno DiBiase

The peloton heads down the road... as the Nav's tire goes flat.

Navigators in pursuit

Aussie in yellow

This time, the Nav's had the full crew at the start

Miguel Meza

As former Euro peloton rider Nathan O’Neill continues his winning ways here in the States— so far undefeated in a time trial this year, proven again at the Tour of Georgia’s prologue — it’s only natural we would run a profile of the Aussie from Toowoomba, Queensland. Look for a two-page feature of the Saturn rider to land in mailboxes and bike shops next weekend, detailing his move from the D-2 Italian Panaria team to Saturn, the most dominant domestic team of 2003. In the mean time, we thought we’d offer up a few quick responses from his recent VeloNews interview… Five Questions with

Vogels held his own on the climbs and nailed it in the sprint.

Damon Kluck and fan

Julich leads the break that decided the day

Rumsas leads the chase

Astarloa on the attack

Working with Osa

Ullrich

Cooke makes her move

The new World Cup leader

Aussie in yellow

Vogels held his own on the climbs and nailed them all in the sprint

Starting a U.S. with a full crew of Navigators in the mix was new to most of the field.

The sprint at Meza

More from Sea Otter; Lance's glimpse of the future

Leipheimer

More from Sea Otter; Lance's glimpse of the future

O'Neill

Hamilton will be there.

Tim Johnson

Green

Fred Rodriguez

Leiswyn

Henderson

Check out those levers...

Sub-16 pounds and steel? You betcha!

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Flèche-Wallonne: A tough one to call

More from Sea Otter; Lance's glimpse of the future

More from Sea Otter; Lance's glimpse of the future

Ullrich, Mikael Reihs (Fakta) and Bert Scheirlinckx (Iteamnova) ride through Bensberg near Cologne on Monday.

They don't all end up like this.

Over the last few days I've been reading letters a few of you have writtenin response to my column regarding the situation in Redwood city (see“ Vaughters' view: Safety first!"). Most of them are positive and complimentary, but a few promoters have expressed concern about my painting the whole group with a very broad brush. Well, not to contradict myself in the same week, but some of these concerns voiced are valid. I will be the first to admit that I threw all race promoters in thesame bin by suggesting that they had their priorities skewed by not appearingto care about rider safety and

Vinokourov dedicated this one to Kivilev, too.

With 5km remaining, Vinkourov gambles all... and wins.

Armstrong and Boogered

Sacchi leads

Casagrande attacks

Rubiera was in the first break

On the Cauberg

The peloton was together for much of the day

Vino's Victory

Celebration

The podium

Cooke gets her first big win

Dear Editor;I hope you can help me out. On Wednesday, April 16, I was involved in a hit-and-run while riding my road bike. The accident took place on Cherryvale Road, near Boulder, Colorado, as it crosses over Route 36. Here is a summary (from a letter of thanks I wrote to Bell Helmets) of what happened:Ths is just a short note to say thanks to all the designers and engineers at Bell Sports. Two days ago, I was struck from behind while riding my road bike. According to an eye witness, the initial impact sent me backwards onto the hood of the car, where my head, encased in a Bell Ghisallo

Bisbee was a new kid once, too

Dog breath* Blinded by the white

Until recently, the Superdrome in Frisco, Texas, wasn’t really looking all that super. When the 250-meter EDS Superdrome opened in 1998, it was deservedly touted as one of the best outdoor velodromes in the country, if not the world. Financed in large part by the information technology firm, the track featured an impressive collection of hi-tech equipment, including a huge score and video board and on-site, computerized physiology training facilities. But with a new CEO and the bursting of the hi-tech bubble, EDS’s interest in cycling began to wane. Troubles were then exacerbated when the

Had a couple of friends over for a little spring barbecue the othernight and one of them showed up with a box full of Ding Dongs and a six-packof Miller Lite in plastic bottles. Nice to know there are still some goodpeople left in the world. Two weeks ago I wrote about hot dogs, baseball, bike racing and food.Now I’m off to the Tour de Georgia in search of some good finish-line foodin Savannah, Macon, Columbus, Rome and Gainesville, although I have a feelingI’m going to be itching to head to Athens by Saturday night for some finecurb-side dining at Athens Twilight. If anybody has any

I’m working on my tan. Oh, man. Working on my tan.– Tim Curry, “Working On My Tan” Colorado just sprinted past spring and plowed straight into summer,like Tom Boonen center-punching a finish-line photographer. This wouldbe a marvelous thing indeed, were it not for this pigmentation problemI seem to have developed over the winter. Where does this unearthly skin tone come from, this Day-Glo, über-ofayeggshell white, a pallor one might expect in the time-machine love childof a Wellsian Morlock and Bruce Willis in “Twelve Monkeys?” If a guy had something like an actual springtime to work with,

Off with the old! Volunteers remove boards on the backstretch of the Superdrome in Frisco. The first step in renovations is to remove over 700 old boards from the framework.

Ryan Crissey hangs on corner 2 to remove old boards at the Superdrome. The corners of the velodrome are banked at 45 degrees, making a climbing harness a necessity.

Father and son volunteers drill out the screws holding old boards at the start of the homestretch. More than 15,000 screws hold the boards to the metal framework.

Work continues in corner 3 to remove the old boards. After boards are removed the steel frame must be sanded and repainted to prevent future rust.

Volunteers pry off the top level of boards from the north end of the Superdrome. The step banking makes it a quick job to slide the removed boards off the frame.

Looking down the homestretch at corners 3 and 4, a new coat of anti-rust paint has been applied to the exposed metal frame. Additional cross supports must be added to hold the new, smaller boards.

Half of the new boards sit outside the Superdrome in Frisco waiting to be installed by volunteers who have traveled from as far away as Tulsa, Oklahoma to help.

Progress! The first section of new surface is installed.

Notes from the road: The Breakfast of Champions!

Kids! They can make you stronger... and happier.