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The UCI's Carla Geyer spent Thursday making sure every bike conformed to the standards established by the promoters and the governing body.

Leipheimer was on a different bike for the time trial; his original stars and stripes Madone was cracked in shipping. Trek representatives hand delivered a new custom painted model, but it was just built up Thursday morning without time for a test ride before the stage.

Astana made one major change — larger 54-and 55-tooth chainrings.

All chose Bontrager’s Aeolus 6.5 aero wheelset. The rims’ section measures 65mm.

Toyota-United rider Dominique Rollin’s Fuji SL-1.The team was on its standard road bikes for Thursday’s time trial.

Rock Racing has both Lew and Cole wheels at its disposal. Most of the team attacked the team time-trial on Cole’s deepest section wheels, the Shuriken Carbon Lite T85 wheel

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Summertime at Portland International Raceway on Monday nights means bicycle racing. For 2008’s series we are featuring clinics to introduce women to the sport. These clinics coincide with the Monday night races. This summer will be the 12th season of bicycle racing on Monday nights at PIR. The new clinics will run on the second Mondays of the month, and will focus on the basics of how to get started in racing. There will be a brief intro talk prior to the race start, followed by debriefing after the race.

Go211.com is teaming up with BMX pro rider Tara Llanes in hosting an online auction to help raise funds to offset Llanes' ever growing medical costs. The auction begins April 25th at 5pm EST with the bidding ending on May 9th at 5pm EST.

Llanes was seriously injured on September 1st, 2007 while racing at the Jeep KOM Finals. At the present time she is paralyzed from the waist down. She has been working intensely at physical therapy and has very high hopes that not only will she walk again, but ride again as well.

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The big stiff head tube is good for sprinting and going downhill; Henderson did both faster than anyone else today. A tapered steerer and asymmetric set of bearings are housed within the head tube.

The SRM captured some rather large numbers on Wednesday. Giant uses a proprietary bottom bracket system that fits Shimano’s standard Hollowtech 2 crank.

The rear brake is routed externally except for the final stretch of housing, which is routed through a pierced top tube so that it doesn’t rub the riders legs.

The new version highlights the fine-tuning a manufacturer like Giant does before a product is released to the public. The only sure change we know of at this time is external routing for the derailleur cables. The current version has internally routed derailleur cables.

Henderson’s Giant TCR Advanced SL. This is the same version the team used at the Tour of California. Rumor has it that there will be a new version of the bike out soon.

While the cages are by Arundel, a brand that’s very prominent across the domestic teams in Georgia.

The SwissStop pads are new to the team. It switched to the Yellow King pads after Redlands. Right now, the mechanics are experimenting to find a pad that provides consistent brake performance in every condition. So far they’re happy with how the Yellow King performs.

The SRAM cogset shaves weight, too.

Fabio Calabria is the smallest rider on the team. He rides a 49cm Orca that skirts the UCI 6.8 kilo limit. On our scale it weighed 6.94 kilos with Zipp’s 404 wheelset. He will ride Zipp’s 202 wheelset on Saturday’s stage to deal with the Brasstown Bald finishing climb. The 202 wheelset drops his bike’s weight below the limit and the team does not plan to add any weight to compensate. “They haven’t been checking the bikes that closely here,” said Davidson. "We’re not against the spirit of the rules, he continued, and we believe there is a certain level of flexibility, efficiency and understanding when it comes to interpreting them. We’re on production stuff that consumers can buy, it’s not like we’re showing up with stuff that no other team can have, so we’ll make sure the bike’s not flagrantly lower, but he’s going to ride the 202s on Brasstown."

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