Like Levi Leipheimer and Alberto Contador, Trek Bicycles has chosen to stick with Johan Bruyneel and join the Astana team. The Wisconsin-based manufacturer will become the team’s official bicycle supplier on January 1, 2008. Trek Travel will also partner with Astana, offering behind-the-scenes access to the team. SRAM announced its sponsorship of Astana on November 25.
Aqu, Inc., organizers of The Tour of America, a coast-to-coast professional stage race, on Thursday announced revised dates and a tentative route for its inaugural event. Based upon feedback from racers, professional racing organizing bodies, the media and supporters, the tour has been shortened to 21 stages covering approximately 2200 miles (more than 3500 km) and scheduled for September 6-28, 2008. The tour will start in New York's Central Park and travel through 18 states before finishing in Palo Alto, California. Cities along the race's route include New York City, Philadelphia,
Mara Abbott and Jason Sears have been named recipients of USA Cycling’s annual John Stenner Collegiate Cycling Scholarships. Abbott, of Boulder, Colorado, attends Whitman College. Sears, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, attends the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Each received a $2500 scholarship "based on academic achievements, athletic accomplishments and service to the community with an emphasis on collegiate-team involvement and leadership," according to USA Cycling The scholarship program, funded by donations to the USA Cycling Development Foundation, is named in honor of John
What will Mother Nature throw at Kansas City next? That’s the question organizers and racers alike are asking at the 2007 USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships, running Friday through Sunday in Kansas City, Kansas. On Monday, the metropolis was hit by an ice storm that grounded flights, knocked out electricity to tens of thousands and transformed city streets into treacherous swaths of ice. Wyandotte County Park, the site of the race, received a generous dusting and sports a slick layer of ice.
Rock Racing team owner Michael Ball
Leogrande isn't exactly your prototypical roadie
Trek signs with Astana
Ryan Knapp (BikeReg.com) wins Thursday's Category B 10-29 race
The layout
Patrick Morrissey (NM Team Cross) takes the B40+ race
Mark Bavineau (Essex County Velo) wins the B30-39 race
Shawnee Brenner (Velocity-Bikesource) leads the women’s 'B' field through on the first lap
Our latest reader-submitted photo gallery is now ready for your viewing pleasure. Of course, a new gallery also means the naming of the winner of our most recent contest. We have to admit that while we really enjoy cyclocross, it is often a love/hate relationship. Eager and energetic at the start, we often find ourselves wondering what the heck it is we're doing out there once we get going. Janet Hill managed to capture that in "You mean I have to ride another lap?" Been there. Done that. Nice work, Janet!
South Africa’s Absa Cape Epic stage race has evolved into the unofficial season opener for Europe’s top male World Cup-level cross-country racers. Christoph Sauser and Bart Brentjens, among others, use the eight-day, 800km slog across the Western Cape to boost their fitness just weeks before the first World Cup. But in the race’s four-year history, North American cross-country pros have stayed away.
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USA Cycling announced Wednesday the hiring of Randy Inglis as its Northeast regional coordinator. Inglis’s primary responsibilities will include maintaining relationships and facilitating communication with local USA Cycling race promoters, clubs, local associations and members within his assigned region. “Randy has been involved in all facets of the sport, including directing sponsorship and development initiatives,” said Theresa Delp, USA Cycling’s vice president of membership services. “His extensive experience in the cycling world helped him stand out from a very talented pool of
In an interview with VeloNews, Rock Racing team owner Michael Ball described his recent contract negotiations with Chris Horner,suggesting that American cyclist had "played us" and had been less than forthright about his desire to continue racing in Europe. After that story was posted, Horner contacted VeloNews to offer his side of the story:
You mean I have to ride another lap?
Bishop hopes the Epic will bump up his fitness for World Cup racing
Mountain-bike racing, Baja style
A fan looks for treasure in the feedzone Stage 2 TdG 2007
November in Seattle on my Fixed Gear
Utah Cross Superman
Women in the fog San Francisco Grand Prix 2003
TEAM LOUISVILLE
Lance enjoying Ragbrai
Winter Solitude
Riders in the Shade
Across Rocky Creek Bridge Hwy. 1 Ca.
Schnebley Hill Summit Sedona, AZ
Minnesota Powder Day
Okay, we admit it. We're old... at least old enough to remember when owning one of Dave Moulton's frames was something that would place you on the top rung of the tech ladder when you showed up for a group ride in our neck of the woods. We were quite pleased when reader Chris Harshman sent us the link to a BLOG authored by none other than the venerable framebuilder himself, although we have to admit to a little bit of temporal shock when we realized that Moulton has been retired for more than 14 years now. Whether you're old enough to remember or young enough to learn to
The Milan show had a lot more to offer than I could cover in the brief column I posted last week. Here are few more items from the trade show that celebrates both the technology and style of some of Italy's most respected bicycle companies. 1988 World Champion Maurizio Fondriest’s face, half of which is made of components, graces the booth promoting the bikes that bear his name.
Facing retirement can be a frightening prospect for a professional cyclist — but not for BMC rider Dan Schmatz. The 33-year-old St. Louis native turned Coloradan is approaching the end of his six-year road-racing career. But for Schmatz, it’s just a new beginning. The coming months will bring him and his wife, Myriam, their firstborn child, as well as a new role — managing an amateur team for 2008.
The Site of the Day: Dave Moulton's Bike Blog
Tech Report, with Lennard Zinn - Tech with Italian flair
Tech Report, with Lennard Zinn - Tech with Italian flair
Tech Report, with Lennard Zinn - Tech with Italian flair
Tech Report, with Lennard Zinn - Tech with Italian flair
Tech Report, with Lennard Zinn - Tech with Italian flair
Tech Report, with Lennard Zinn - Tech with Italian flair
Tech Report, with Lennard Zinn - Tech with Italian flair
Tech Report, with Lennard Zinn - Tech with Italian flair
Tech Report, with Lennard Zinn - Tech with Italian flair
Dan and Myriam Schmatz
Schmatz will switch from racing to mentoring in his new role as manager of the THF Realty amateur team
Mmmmm Tasty!
2007 Colorado State Cross Championships
Every last ounce - Mt. Diablo Summit 2007 Low-Key Hillclimbs
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Team High Road is implementing a new comprehensive and independent anti-doping program. The program will be managed by the Agency for Cycling Ethics (ACE), a company that provides monitoring and testing programs to prevent and detect doping. “Last year we made a strong commitment to fight against doping,” said Bob Stapleton of High Road Sports. “It is the most comprehensive program out there. It is what the team needs and what the sport needs.” Each of the team’s riders will give a minimum of 26 random blood and urine samples per year, allowing ACE to build profiles of each individual that
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Men's 200-meter sprintDutchman Theo Bos easily beat Frenchman Mickael Bourgain 2-0 to take gold in the men’s sprint at the second stop of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics that concluded Sunday. In both finals heats Bos overtook Bourgain on the final straightaway, winning each time by less than half a wheel length. After the second heat the reigning world sprint champion pulled off his helmet and sunglasses, then raised his arms in triumph, acknowledging the crowd at Beijing’s Laoshan Velodrome. In the bronze medal round German Stefan Nimke defeated France’s Kevin Sireau
Cyclocrossworld.com teammates Lyne Bessette and Jeremy Powers capped off the Verge New England Championship Cyclocross Series on Sunday with wins in the elite races. Despite being besieged by illness this ’cross season, Bessette went on to clinch the series title, having won five of the seven races. Men's leader Jesse Anthony (Jamis), in his first year as an elite racer, easily pocketed the overall win with consistent top-three finishes in each of the seven races.
Powers outkicks Wells at the finish
Bessette was back and in business
Wells's acrobatics gave him an edge, but fell short of the win
USGP Mercer Cup
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American Michael Friedman won the men’s scratch race on Saturday at the UCI Track World Cup Classics in Beijing, China. Friedman beat Walter Fernando Perez of Argentina and Tim Mertens of Belgium to score the second U.S. medal of the meet. On Friday, Sarah Hammer rode to the bronze in the women’s individual pursuit. In other racing, Great Britain collected two medals, winning the team pursuit and the keirin with Chris Hoy. France scored thrice, with Francois Pervis winning the kilometer time trial, Arnaud Tournant placing second in the keirin and Sandie Clair and Clara Sanchez claiming
David Millar has taken a seat on the World Anti-Doping Agency's Athlete Committee, the organization announced this week. The 30-year-old Scot, who joined the Slipstream team as a part owner for 2008, has been a strong anti-doping advocate since serving a two-year suspension for confessing to using EPO. Millar, who will join elite athletes from throughout the world on the committee for one year beginning January 1, is the first athlete from Great Britain to serve on the committee. "I'm delighted to have been elected and am looking forward to getting involved," Millar told The
Anna Milkowski (Velo Bella–Kona) and Todd Wells (GT) helped end an era by winning the final W.E. Stedman Grand Prix of ‘Cross on Saturday. After a successful seven-year run, race promoter Joel Brown and patron W. E. Stedman will leave the Warwick, Rhode Island, race in good hands with the NBX-Narragansett Beer Cycling Team, which will promote it as part of a double-header NBX Grand Prix of ‘Cross weekend in 2008. Saturday’s 4km course wound circuitously around Goddard State Park, diving down to the sandy shoreline of Narragansett Bay at one point and sending racers running up the embankment
The Brits ride to gold in the team pursuit