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Reader letters: Compton rules, Mionske will be missed and the towering Trek-Livestrong team
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Compton rules!
VeloNews.com wins Hitwise US #1 Site Award for October – December 2008.
Boulder, CO, February 9, 2009 — VeloNews.com has ranked #1 in the Sports-Cycling industry based on the market share of U.S. visits it has received for the quarter ending October- December 2008. The Hitwise US Top 10 Awards Program celebrates the most successful U.S. Web sites in 160+ online industries. As Hitwise reports on the anonymous online usage and search behavior of more than 10 million US Internet users — the largest online sample of its kind — this unique awards program recognizes excellence in online performance through public popularity.
Cycling Economics 101: Hard times call for hard racing
We didn’t exactly trigger a torrent of responses with last week’s story about membership numbers at a trio of U.S. cycling organizations, in which we asked whether the stuttering economy might affect your racing and bike-shopping plans. This could be a function of our Web site’s design; stories slip off the homepage faster than Mark Cavendish ditching a lead group in the final 200 meters. Or it could reflect the utter insanity of the premise. “Cut back on racing? You bet — just as soon as they pry my Madone 6.9 Pro from my cold, dead fingers!”
Hour record? Armstrong tests bikes at LA’s ADT velodrome
Lance Armstrong may have his eye on yet another record: the hour. Armstrong made a visit to the ADT Event Center velodrome Sunday to conduct tests on two different bikes. He was accompanied by Johan Bruyneel, Steve Hed, Chris Carmichael, a video crew with boom mike and a still photographer, among others. He made a half-dozen runs of roughly ten laps each, first on a nearly stock Trek F1 track bike equipped with 28-spoke wheels, drop bars and, of course, an SRM power meter.