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Stage 2: Peanuts!

Santa Rosa is the hometown of famed cartoonist Charles A. Schulz.

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Shimano American buys Pearl Izumi

From the perspective of executives at Pearl Izumi, the company’s sale to Shimano American Corp., announced Tuesday, was a relief. Other potential buyers — mostly venture capitalists — were eyeing the Colorado-based clothing company like a house flipper eyes a fixer-upper: something to throw a new coat of paint on, then re-sell for a huge profit. Shimano officials, however, look at Pearl like a young family sees a home, with plans to move in for the long haul. At least that’s how Pearl officials see it.

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California stage 2: Davids and Goliaths

Like most stage races, the overall at the Amgen Tour of California boils down to who can climb and time trial. With only a 2.1-mile prologue and a single Cat. 3 climb ridden thus far, the major players are already moving forward, indicating who has the suds for the 15-mile stage 5 time trial and the big climbs on stage 3.

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Shimano buys clothing company Pearl Izumi from Nautilus

IRVINE, Calif. USA 2/19/08 -- Bringing premium sports apparel and footwear to its offering of industry-leading cycling and fishing products, Shimano has completed its purchase of DashAmerica, Inc. (dba Pearl Izumi USA, Inc.) from Nautilus, Inc., announces David Pfeiffer, president of Shimano American Corporation. Pearl Izumi becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Shimano’s U.S. operations, and will continue to operate from its facilities in Broomfield, Colorado and Kirchzarten, Germany.

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Ventoux back for Paris-Nice

Riders won’t have it easy in the season’s first major stage race as Paris-Nice sees the return of the towering menace of Mont Ventoux for the first time in 20 years. Race officials unveiled details Tuesday of the 66th “Race to the Sun” with a few twists to a familiar pattern. Unchanged is the general route of the eight-day race, which opens with a short prologue south of Paris on March 9 and brushes up against the northern and eastern edges of the Massif Central and plunges across Provence until its traditional conclusion along the Promenade des Anglais in Nice on March 16.

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Technical Q&A with Lennard Zinn: Switching cogsets; Carbon sizes

One more gear?
Dear Lennard,
We have a 27-mile climb just outside of town that I ride up occasionally. My problem is that I tend to spin out on my way back down and find it difficult to keep up with some of my riding partners. A friend of mine told me that I could swap my 10-speed Shimano cassette (12-25) for a SRAM (11-26), which would give me both a better climbing and descending gear. Although I understand 45MPH is plenty fast, is the swap compatible?
Brian Dear Brian,

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Rock trio appear at stage start

Rock Racing’s Tyler Hamilton, Oscar Sevilla and Santiago Botero may have been denied a start at the Amgen Tour of California, but the trio — along with teammate and fellow non-starter Kayle Leogrande — have been a common sight along the race route and at the start and finish lines. And race leader Fabian Cancellara isn't too happy about that.

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Reborn Puerto likely won’t bring major revelations

Despite a Spanish appeals court ruling last week to reopen the Operación Puerto case, don’t expect any major revelations to come out of the renewed investigation. A closer review of the court documents found that a panel of three Spanish judges refused to apply a new tough anti-doping law to the alleged blood doping ring and said evidence gathered in police raids dating back to May 2006 will not be handed over to the UCI.

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Tour of California: A Casey Gibson gallery

Casey Gibson was in wine country on Presidents' Day, but he didn't have time to raise a glass — he was too busy shooting Stage 1 of the 2008 Amgen Tour of California.

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Stewart finished alone

After a three-hour solo effort, Team BMC's Jackson Stewart finished alone — but not at the front.

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