Last April's inaugural U.S. Open road race was held in epic snowy conditions — and with nearly unprecedented network television coverage — in Virginia. This year's event is likely to be quite different. The 112-mile professional event has been moved to Providence, Rhode Island, on May 31. And while promoters are still negotiating a title sponsor and TV deal, they say the date and location change will soon make it a fixture on the domestic calendar.
Bart Gillespie (Monavie-Cannondale) and Kelli Emmett (Giant) won the opening round of Utah’s 2008 Intermountain Cup, the Red Rock Desert Rampage, held in St. George on March 1. Gillespie, overall winner of the 2007 series and the seventh-place finisher at the 2007 USA Cycling national cross-country championships in Mount Snow, Vermont, dominated the men’s race, beating second-place finisher Cale Redpath (3D Racing) by nearly seven minutes.
Graeme Brown (Rabobank) got revenge for losing Sunday’s Clásica de Almería by sprinting to victory Tuesday in the opening stage of the five-day Vuelta a Murcia in Spain. Brown and Rabobank teammate Oscar Freire were upstaged by Juan José Haedo (CSC) on Sunday, but the Aussie sprinter got it right in 197.3km stage from San Pedro del Pinatar to Lorca to snag his second win on the 2008 season.
Graeme Brown at the 2008 Tour Down Under
Cyclists who race in the Paris-Nice stage race next week risk stiff suspensions, fines and bans from the Olympics and the World Championships, the UCI said on Tuesday. The riders themselves have asked for written assurances from team bosses that any fines and their salaries if they are suspended would be picked up by the teams. However, the UCI made plain in an email sent to the 17 ProTour teams set to take part that the riders risked serious punishments aside from the bans, suspensions of up to six months and fines of up to 10,000 Swiss francs.
Will orthotics help my foot pain?
PHILADELPHIA —Planning is well underway for the 2008 Commerce Bank Triple Crown of Cycling events, and now you have the opportunity to become a part of this world-class professional cycling series. The public is invited to experience the excitement of professional cycling first-hand by volunteering with Pro Cycling Tour, the organizers of the Commerce Bank Triple Crown of Cycling. The dates and locations for the races are as follows: * Commerce Bank Lehigh Valley Classic – Tuesday, June 3, 2008 * Commerce Bank Reading Classic – Thursday, June 5, 2008
Racers and teams face an uncomfortable choice ahead of this weekend’s Paris-Nice as the war between cycling governing body and the powerful race organizer, Amaury Sport Organisation, reaches a breaking point. To start Sunday’s Paris-Nice prologue means riders could be slapped with a six-month racing ban by an angry and frustrated UCI, but to skip Paris-Nice would torpedo teams’ chances of competing in ASO’s long list of marquee races that includes the Tour de France. The danger of bans, however, is already prompting some riders to balk at the season’s first major stage race.
A recurring pain
Dear Lennard,
I'm writing because I just read the shoe review in the VeloNews Buyer's Guide, and you mention in there that you use a custom orthotic.
I was happy to see that the Shimano SH R300's I just purchased got high marks, but I am still having issues with my right foot even with the new shoes. I got the new shoes because I was having the problem with my four-year-old Northwave Evolutions.
Stage One Stretch Run
Wet Photogs
Graham Watson Hangs out in CA
Cancellara trying to get to Solvang TT start house
Triple Bypass 2007 - Loveland Pass 11,990 feet
Belgian Roel Paulissen won the GC at the Afxentia Stage Race.
Czech Tereza Hurikova took the overall at the Afxentia Stage Race.
Belgian Roel Paulissen (Cannondale-Vredestein) and Czech Tereza Hurikova took overall victories at the Afxentia Stage Race, a three-day cross-country race held on the island of Cyprus. The competition included two cross-country races — each counting as rounds of Cyprus’ Sunshine Cup series — as well as an individual time trial sandwiched between.
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Simes hopes Las Vegas attendees will line up infield hospitality like shown here at the Copenhagen-6 last month.
One of the legends of American bike racing is planning a 6-day-style track race for this fall in Las Vegas, to coincide with the Interbike trade show there. Jack Simes III, a member of the U.S. Olympic team in 1960, '64 and '68, and coach of the 1976 Olympic team, has booked the arena at Mandalay Bay resort on the Vegas strip, and plans to hold the events on a new 166-meter plywood track. The races would be held September 23-25, with events from about 7 p.m. until 1 a.m. each night. Planned events include Madison races, sprints, one-lap record attempts and motor-paced Derny races.
Contador will use Murcia as a tune-up.
Some big-name riders are confirmed at the 28th Vuelta a Murcia, starting Tuesday and ending Saturday in southern Spain. The race will give them a chance to stretch their legs ahead of the season’s first major races. Some 12 teams, including the beleaguered Astana squad, will tackle a bumpy, five-day course that also includes a 23km climbing time trial that’s sure to decide the overall classification.
The Caliber.
The SuperCaliber
JHK expects to race the ProCaliber at this year’s National Championships at Mount Snow in Vermont.
Travis Ott giving his riders and VeloNews the rundown of the new bike.
The new bike, ready for a brief test.
Fisher’s new co-molding technique introduced on HiFi Carbon is used to attach the aluminum mounts to the carbon stays. The multi-link HiFi design is 29-percent stiffer than the Race Day.
The swingarm represents the first ever made by a Trek brand using OCLV technology
The new 2008 Gary Fisher ProCaliber.
Last month, Travis Ott, Gary Fisher’s brand manager and Subaru-Gary Fisher team director, personally delivered a new cross-country racing version of the brand’s HiFi full suspension frame to team riders Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski and Heather Irmiger. During our meeting in their hometown of Boulder, Colorado, at one of the coffee shops preferred by the pros, Horgan-Kobelski and Irmiger, who are married, gave the bikes a good look over while Ott ran through the basics of the new design.
Juan José Haedo (CSC) is riding high into this week’s Vuelta a Murcia following an impressive victory Sunday against three-time world champion Oscar Freire (Rabobank) in the Clásica de Almería. The Argentine ace edged Freire by inches in a photo finish to score only his second win on European soil at the end of what was his first day of racing on the continent this year. The newly confident Haedo looks even stronger this year as he roars into his second season with Team CSC.
Roesems’ training ride on February 6th can be viewed and downloaded here.
March is here and your first race may be just around the corner, if you haven’t already toed the line. This is the time of year when intensity must inevitably increase as part of your preparation for the demands of racing. Hard, yet focused, training sessions characterize the build phase of training and mark the end of the base phase.
FERNDALE, Washington —In efforts to continue their outreach to the biking world and grassroots projects, Kona Bicycle Company and Kingdom Trail Association (KTA) in East Burke, Vermont, have, again, joined forces to unveil an exciting program on and off the dirt. Looking to assist in the maintenance and preservation of the non-motorized, multi-use trail system in the area, Kona will be working closely with KTA members and trail crew to increase environmental awareness and trail sustainability. As the official bike of Kingdom Trails’ Trail Crew/Bike Patrol, Kona will also outfit the crew.
LA Bike Marathon 2008- Staples Center
TOC - Balcom Canyon - Kevin Seeldraeyers leads the peloton wielding both a scythe and the Pope's approval
Jake and the Jelly Belly Car at the 2007 Tour of Missouri
Voeckler stage 3 of ToC 2008
Quick Step's world champion, Paolo Bettini, left the race following a crash 9km from the start. He complained of injuries to his wrist and arm.
De Jongh wins the 2008 Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne — his second.
Bettini's special edition Sidis. Now you can own them, too.
The Sol Cycles bamboo frame will go into production this summer.
CSC's Juan Jose Haedo won the 23rd Clasica de Almeria in Spain on Sunday, beating out Rabobank's Oscar Freire and Graeme Brown in a sprint to take the 187km race.
Quick Step's Steven De Jongh outkicked fellow Dutchman Sebastian Langeveld to win Sunday’s 61st Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne in an attacked-riddled race that saw two-time defending world champion Paolo Bettini crash for the second day in a row. The mighty Quick Step train righted itself Sunday with De Jongh’s winning ride a day after missing out on the spoils against an unstoppable Philippe Gilbert (FDJeux) in Het Volk.
Just nine American track racers will journey to the 2008 UCI track world championships, held March 26-30 in Manchester, Great Britain. USA Cycling will send sprinters Jennie Reed, Michael Blatchford and Adam Duvendeck as well as endurance riders Sarah Hammer, Michael Friedman, Bobby Lea, Colby Pearce and Taylor Phinney. Reed races endurance and sprint events.
As the most profitable race promoter in pro cycling, Amaury Sport Organisation wants to dictate how the sport is run. That’s why for the past three years ASO and its surrogates have resisted substantive changes in cycling, particularly those changes involving the elite-level ProTour, which all other parties have embraced. ASO’s insurgency has now come to a head in its bid to independently promote next week’s Paris-Nice. And it appears that this time it has made one step too many.
Pebble Beach
U.S. Cyclling future: Team Jr. Specialized. Cole, Jackson and Luke
Saint Edwards State Park, Kenmore Wa
Rubén Plaza (SL Benfica) wrapped up the overall in the 66th Volta a Valenciana after finishing safely in the pack behind sprinter Alessandro Petacchi (Milram), who bolted to victory in Saturday’s final stage. Runner-up Manuel Vázquez (Contentpolis-Murcia) was left without any option to make up the five-second difference to Plaza in the mostly flat stage around Valencia while Xavier Florencio (Bouygues Telecom) settled for third overall at 21 seconds back.
Belgian rider Philippe Gilbert (FDJeux) won Het Volk for the second time in three years in the best style possible: with a dramatic solo victory. Gilbert, winner of the Belgian season opener in 2006, attacked a lead group of favorites on the Eikenberg climb with about 60km to go in the 199km course across the Belgian heartland of Flanders. [nid:72951]He then reeled in the day’s main breakaway that included Mike Friedman (Slipstream-Chipotle) and before attacking again with a punishing acceleration with 22km to go to solo home to victory.
Baby it's cold outside!
World Champion flying in TOC '08
Sunset on the Old Pueblo
Damn Camera Bike - it's Zabriskie, honest
A fractured peleton - Sierra Rd - ToC 2008
Tour of CA- Sacramento. Kevin Lacombe
TOC Sacramento 300 To Go
Tour of California Stage 5 - Solvang Time Trial
Top of Perkin's Memorial, Bear Mountain, NY - Ullrich lackner, Herb Jimenez and Rami Parissi of the Aspen East Cycling Team in Upper Montclair, NJ
Ladies love Lucca, Tuscany, home of Mario 'The Lion King' Cipollini
George Attacks!