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Continental GP4000 LTD White tire
Price: $125/pair Weight: 205 grams Sizes: 700 x 23 only Colors: White! Web site: www.conti-online.com With the popularity of white cycling gear gaining ground, Continental is releasing a limited model GP4000 white tire. The tire will use the same casing and construction as the GP4000 S, including Vectran puncture protection.
The Cyclist’s Training Bible
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Feast Days of the Saints
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Registration opens for Rocky Mountain Bicycle Show
Registration is now open for the Rocky Mountain Bicycle Show 2009. RMBS 09 will be held in Denver, Colorado at the National Western Complex on August 22nd & 23rd. Exhibitors already committed to the show include: Anvil, Argonaut, Bikekulture.com, Black Sheep, Chris Kopp Bicycle Works, Civilian Bicycle Company, Courage, DaVinci Designs, DEAN, Edge Composites, Ground-Up, hudz, King Cage, Longbikes, Microbac Laboratories, Moots, Paketa, Primus Mootry, Rene Herse, Tiemeyer Cycles, Victoria Cycles, Yipsan, and Zinn.
MTB news and notes: Cape Epic, Bromont, Gravity Pro Tour and more
Absa Cape Epic
Just one week remains until the start of the 2009 Absa Cape Epic, and the eight-day stage race once again boasts a field deep with cross-country talent. The 2008 champs Roel Paulissen and Jakob Fuglsang (Cannondale) will not be back, however. Fuglsang is now racing on the road with Saxo Bank. But 2007 champs Karl Platt and Stefan Sahm of the Bulls squad are back — the duo finished second in 2008.VeloNews’ Matt Pacocha takes a look at the Giant Anthem X Advanced SL
If you pay attention to how mountain bike development goes over at Giant Bicycles, you already anticipated the arrival of the composite Anthem X model. This is how it works at Giant: First they prototype a model, build the first production model in aluminum and then follow it up with a composite flagship after the design has proven itself to the consumer.
Rapha Stowaway Jacket
Price: $290 Weight: 165 grams Sizes: XS, S, M, L, XL, and XXL Colors: Black, Orange, and Blue Web site: www.rapha.cc New from Rapha, a high-end producer of stylish cycle wear, is the windproof and water resistant Stowaway jacket. Meant for year-round use, the Stowaway is designed to keep you protected from the elements, without compromising your sense of style.
Farrar: ‘Biggest win of my career’
Tyler Farrar did what many haven’t been able to manage lately – come around Mark Cavendish to win a bunch sprint. That’s just what the 24-year-old Garmin-Slipstream did on what was a very lucky Friday the 13th. He timed his final punch to the line perfectly to win the 166km third stage from Fuchecchio to Santa Croce Sull’Arno at the 44th Tirreno-Adriatico on Friday. Farrar bolted past Cavendish’s left shoulder, taking a prestigious bunch sprint ahead of the likes of Tom Boonen (fourth) and Robbie McEwen (fifth).
After a two-year hiatus, Litespeed’s TT bike is back and looks sharper than ever.
Re-introduced in September 2008, after a two year hiatus, the Litespeed Blade is a bike with a storied history. The signature titanium airfoil tube shape was created by accident in the early 1990s and brought to widespread prominence when Lance Armstrong used one (disguised as a Trek) in the 1999 Tour de France. Ten years after that historic ride, Litespeed is wielding a totally new Blade, and we had a chance to check out one of the first bikes to leave the test lab.
Sharpening the Blade
Contador charges off the front on “Ventoux’s little sister” to take control of Paris-Nice.
There’s seemingly no one who’s capable of stopping Alberto Contador through the first weeks of the 2009 season. The Spanish climber dropped arch-rival Frank Schleck (Saxo Bank) on the mountain dubbed Mont Ventoux’s “little sister” to win Friday’s sixth stage and take back the overall lead at Paris-Nice. Contador, winner of the opening time trial in Amilly on Sunday, bolted away from the pack on the snow-covered, 1600m Montagne de Lure summit to win for the fourth time this year.
Farrar outkicks Cav’ at Tirreno-Adriatico
Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Slipstream) bolted past Mark Cavendish (Columbia-Highroad) to win Friday’s third stage at Tirreno-Adriatico. Cavendish looked to have the sprint in the bag when Farrar came off Cavendish’s wheel and surged past his left shoulder to take the biggest win of his European career.
The Segal road bike: the finest Israeli-made welded magnesium road frame our web editor’s ever ridden.
The Segal I rode most of last season was without a doubt the finest Israeli-made magnesium road bike I've ever had the occasion to try. That's an admittedly subjective statement, but I feel pretty sure I can back it up.
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Team Astana confirms it will race this year’s Tour of Missouri
It's too early to say if Alberto, Levi, Andreas or Lance will show, but Team Astana is confirmed to race in this year's Tour of Missour, September 7-13. The Kazakstan-registered team joins Garmin-Slipstream, Columbia-High Road, Liquigas, Cervelo TestTeam as confirmed ProTour teams at the race, which will feature 15 teams. “To have the participation of Astana is yet another huge step for this race," said Chris Aronhalt, the managing partner of event organizer Medalist Sports.