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After feeling a shimmy on the front end in the corner, I straightened up …
After feeling a shimmy on the front end in the corner, I straightened up the bike and rode for about 30 feet before being catapulted over the handlebars onto my head and shoulder.
The three bands shown here indicate a post-recall, second-generation spoke.
The first generation R-Sys wheels were recalled because the spokes broke too easily. The three bands shown here indicate a post-recall, second-generation spoke.
A shattering experience – A post-recall, R-Sys wheel failure
Editor’s Note: VeloNews is not a safety agency. On occasion, bicycle products being tested by VeloNews editors suffer structural failure — saddles break, spokes snap and even crank arms crack. We often do not report such issues as they can be caused by rider error or a manufacturing anomaly, or because the failure happens in a safe way, such as a broken spoke simply causing a wheel to go out of true. Ben Delaney’s experience doesn’t fall into that latter category and he thought it important to let his fellow cyclists know about it.
Kohl comes clean
Bernhard Kohl ? the Austrian rider who tested positive for the blood-booster CERA during last year’s Tour de France ? admitted that blood doping was the most effective way to cheat. In an extensive interview with the French sports daily L’Equipe, Kohl said extractions of blood began nearly a year before competition.
Battle royale in the Wisconsin offroad series
The Wisconsin Off Road Series is shaping up to be a three-way battle for the top spot between brothers Jesse and Mark Lalonde and Sheboygan racer Brian Matter. A Triple Crown winner in 2004 and cyclocross world championship team member last winter, Matter (Gear Grinder) powered to the top spot this Sunday at the WORS Big Ring Classic in Wausau, Wisconsin.
SRAM launches 20-speed mountain bike group
You’ve heard the rumors about SRAM XX. There’s been speculation about how many speeds it would have, what gear combinations would be available, how light it would be and what it would be made of. Now we have all the answers. XX is SRAM’s first complete off-road group, featuring an industry-first 10-speed mountain bike cassette and the first double-ring crankset from a major group manufacturer.
The Explainer – Getting that ol’ EPO boost
Dear VeloNews,
Could you please forward this to your ombudsman? I find it rather disturbing, perhaps even ironic, that a cycling news publication such as yours has an advertisement for a forbidden doping product - but there it is:
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Horner healing, hopeful for Tour
American Chris Horner is back on his bike and confident he will make Astana’s Tour de France squad come July. He’s less sure about when his next paycheck might arrive. Horner, 37, had the strongest grand tour performance of his career in May at the Giro d’Italia, where he rode in support of compatriot Levi Leipheimer until abandoning the race at the start of stage 11.
Furlan wins stage 2 at Dauphine; Evans holds lead
Angelo Furlan (Lampre) upset Tom Boonen (Quick Step) in a mano-a-mano sprint to win the second stage at the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré on Monday while Cadel Evans (Silence-Lotto) retained the overall lead. A five-man breakaway — Iñaki Isasi (Euskaltel), Hector González (Fuji-Servetto), Paul Voss (Milram), Stéphane Augé (Cofidis) and Alexandre Pichot (Bbox Bouygues Telecom) — gained an advantage in the long, rolling 228km stage from Nancy to Dijon before Quick Step and Silence-Lotto joined forces to neutralize the aggression with 5km to go.
Mach, Pitel take Mt. Hood
Bissell’s Paul Mach and Edwige Pitel (Sorella Forte) held off final-stage challenges to lock up overall victories in Oregon’s Pacific Power Mt. Hood Cycling Classic on Sunday. In the women’s race, Pitel ensured her victory over ValueAct Capital’s Leah Goldberg by winning Sunday’s Downtown Hood River Criterium. Similarly, in the men’s event, Chris Baldwin (OUCH-Maxxis) wasn’t able to fight past Bissell’s superior numbers to pull back 13 seconds from Mach, who won the overall GC on the time he gained in the first stage.
The Great Melbourne Coffee Hunt
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