A regular King headset base plate is on the left, and the new High-Five base plate is on the right. The High-Five plate adds 5mm to fix bikes with a problem of fork and downtube interference. It costs a mere $12.
Giant’s communication manager Andrew Juskaitis was our personal tour guide on Bootleg’s Caldera trail, a hour and a half long loop with embedded volcanic rock that will bite back if one gets to brash.
Fizik's 2008 high-end mountain-bike saddles are now built to go with specific types of bike riding, which is also dictated by the bike’s suspension travel. So you select the saddle model based on how much suspension travel the bike has.
Ritchey alloy cockpits can be found on both of Heule’s bikes
Molly Cameron was sporting new wheels from sponsor Chris King. The 68mm Edge carbon rims were laced to new high-flange, cyclo-cross specific hubs
Danish national champion Joachim Parbo has been riding SRAM for three weeks and gives it a thumbs up
Parbo's cockpit is a mix of Selcof
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The brakes are Ridley’s 4ZA brand with BBB’s pads and post mount carriers
Barry Wicks and his new Kona Major Jake
Andy Jacques-Maynes's Specialized Tricross S-Works carbon frame
The team is using KORE’s new Kross Race cantilever brake
He relies on a single 42-tooth Rotor chainring mounted onto a 175mm Specialized S-Works carbon crank
FSA provides many of the team’s components including the top-end K-Force Light crank with a ceramic bottom bracket
SRAM Double Tap shifters operate short arm Tektro linear-pull brakes that don’t require adapters to work with road levers
Wicks uses a 44cm K-Force carbon bar
And the Phnom saddle is up to the rigors of cyclocross, says Jacques-Maynes. It has tougher titanium rails than the road-oriented Toupe
Ryan Trebon’s steed mirrors his teammate's, with a few slight differences. Trebon has a Dura-Ace front derailleur (Wicks uses an FSA model)
Trebon also prefers an SLK crank
The 2008 Major Jake has brazed cable stops that accommodate a full-length rear brake housing. They also retrofit with stops for a more conventional setup
Heule's carbon Stevens
The Swiss champ has lots of carbon on his bike. The brakes are by Spooky, while the Ritchey WCS fork may set the bar for mud clearance
The wheels are custom with DT Swiss hubs, fitting for a Swiss rider, laced to seldom-seen Ritchey aluminum tubular rims
Dura-Ace SRM crank is fitted with a custom 46-tooth Dura-Ace outer ring, produced for sponsored athletes only
Th-th-that's all, folks
A toast to the finale
Kolobnev enjoys a treat of a different sort
The weary peloton heading for home
The final podium
Bennati v. Petacchi at the line
Second stage win in two days, Sánchez fights his way on to the podium
Barring alien abduction, Menchov seems set to win in Madrid on Sunday
Sastre did what he needed to preserve his position on GC
Evans says fatigue may be taking its toll
McCartney now has his eye on Stuttgart..
Vande Velde finished 14th, 41 seconds off of Sánchez's time.
Backstedt set the day's early standard.
Sánchez wins, climbs podium; Menchov secures; Sastre endures
Moninger in yellow at Redlands
Sastre battled to take time on Menchov, but it was no dice
Menchov stuck to Sastre like glue
It wasn't a great day for Evans, who slid to third on GC
San Lorenzo
Jeanson was regarded as fierce competitor.
Reaction was muted Friday in Spain following the news that Floyd Landis failed in his bid to fend off doping allegations from his disputed 2006 Tour de France victory. Oscar Pereiro - the man set to inherit the Tour crown – said the 2-to-1 decision against Landis will end what he described as a “14-month purgatory.” “Now I can start to believe it a little more. I’m still missing some sort of official notification from the UCI or the Tour organizers before I can say with certain,” Pereiro told Spanish radio. “Of course we’ll celebrate it once it’s confirmed. After a year of rumors and more
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17 professional years, with some 275 victories.
Former junior world champion Geneviève Jeanson admitted to doping during her career in an interview with Radio-Canada’s news magazine "Enquête."
Sánchez had a good day in the saddle, but missed passing Evans on GC by a scant nine seconds.
Friday's Foaming Rant: O'Grady weighs in on 'the decision'
Landis is stripped of the 2006 Tour de France title.
Sastre said he was done with attacking ... yeah, right
Sorensen and Vande Velde were there to lend a hand
Menchov and Evans weren't caught out
But Efimkin was, and it cost him his second place overall
Welcome to Avila
Avila is Sastre country, cobbles and all
Perez wins
And Menchov is one day closer to a final victory
Two of three panel members said this win was dirty.
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Dear Readers,Last column (Deliveranceof the bird man), we had a letter from C.W. in “deepest darkestWest Virginia” asking about self-defense, after his club ride was buzzedby “the clan from deliverance.” In response to the buzzing, the club’sfearless leader extended a one-fingered salute to the offending clan, whichresulted in the car sliding to a stop across the club’s path and a confrontationbetween “the enraged and rather large passenger.” This column, we’ve gotsome follow-up questions from readers, and next column, we’re going totake a second look at whether or not “flipping the bird” is
Oscar Pereiro was formally named the winner of the 2006 Tour de France on Thursday after American authorities ruled against Floyd Landis's appeal for failing a doping test, the sport's world governing body, the UCI, said. Pereiro finished the 2006 race in second place, 57 seconds behind Landis but the American tested positive after the race following his 17th stage win at Morzine, three days before the end of the race. "We can right now say that Pereiro is the winner of the Tour without waiting for a possible appeal by Landis to the Court of Arbitration for Sport," UCI president
Legally Speaking - with Bob Mionske: More thoughts on the bird man
Perez Sanchez steals a march on a squabbling break
Austrian-based German Jorg Jaksche has been convicted of doping and handed a one-year suspension by anti-doping authorities in Vienna on Wednesday. Anti-doping committee member Gernot Schaar said Jaksche's ban would run until July 2, 2008, after Jaksche was convicted of using growth hormones and having been involved in blood doping. It is thought that Jaksche received a lighter-than-normal sentence because he has been cooperating with authorities. The German, one of many riders implicated in the Operacion Puerto doping affair in Spain, made a series of stunning revelations in recent
Bennati earns his second stage win of the Vuelta.
Another day closer to Madrid, Menchov is in control.
Garcia and Olmo spent most of the day off on their own...
...until Milram ramped up the chase
McCartney nearing the end of his run with Discovery. What next?
Rabobank left chasing duties to the teams that want a sprint win, but always stays near the front.
A long day in the sun
Rabobank on the front as the sprinters' teams take a day off
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Duque times it just right
Just another day at the office for Menchov