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Understanding that Interbike is a big show and there are a lot of cool new products here, culling it down to a handful of items is not only daunting, it is so subjective that you could argue until the cows come home about which items really are the best. Nonetheless, I’ll give it a shot, focusing on a few items that cool items that solve some problems you may have experienced… well and a few flashy items as well. Titec Knock Scoper seatpostAnyone with a full suspension bike that has an interrupted seat tube knows the frustration of not being able to lower their saddle as much as they might

Oscar Sevilla will leave his longtime team Kelme and ride next season alongside Tyler Hamilton on the Swiss team Phonak, according to reports Wednesday in the Spanish press. Sevilla will reportedly sign a one-year, 800,000 Euro contract, with his major goals as top helper for Hamilton and podium contender for the Tour de France and team captain for the Vuelta a España. It’s bad news for Kelme, which insisted the team had a verbal agreement before the start of the 2003 Vuelta with the popular Spanish rider who missed this year’s Tour due to lingering problems with a cyst. “He has to give us an

On the final day of the Interbike trade show, we let a few of our editors loose with their digital cameras to grab a look at some of their favorite eye candy.

There was good news coming from Australia as Navigators reported that Henk Vogels took his first ride since his near-fatal crash June 29. Vogels was seriously injured in a high-speed crash in the third stage of the Fitchburg Longsjo Classic. The team was relieved to report that the 30-year-old Australian was able to ride for 30km in a very light gear, with the objective of increasing range of motion and circulation. Vogels told team director Ed Beamon, “it really hurt and it’s good to be back on the bike.” No word yet on if or when Vogels will be able to race again, but the team reported:

Kestrel magic with Tiki scheme

Sure it's a recumbent, but it's a carbon recumbent!

The Bianchi Luna - it's just so beautiful

A few components that caught my fancy

A few components that caught my fancy

A few components that caught my fancy

Elvis lives

Tuesday's EuroFile: Sevilla jumps to Phonak; Mergers, trades and an unhappy Bettini

It's pedal powered ...

... but the interior smells like beer.

Tyler Hamilton made his appearance at the Cervello booth, but down the aisle his new Phonak ride was waiting at the DT booth

Carbon pioneer Calfee is now offering a bar/stem combo

Merlin's effort took more than 12 hours of machine work on one tubeset...

... but the result is worth the trouble

Descente found out who lives in a Pineapple under the sea...

Belgian Erwin Vervecken and five-time national champion Alison Dunlap repeated their feats of a day earlier on Sunday, besting their respective fields consecutively during a two-day swing of UCI-sanctioned cyclo-cross events in the northwest. After a difficult day of racing in Tacoma, Washington, on October 11, the country’s top ‘cross racers drove three hours south to Portland, Oregon, for the Saturn Stumptown Classic, an event organized by the promoters of the area’s Cyclo-cross Crusade, one of the world’s most highly attended ‘cross series. As expected, over 400 participants showed up,

Everyone talks of the dominance of the Italians, but since 1995, it’s been the Spanish that have ruled the men’s road world championships. Spain has won seven world championship medals to Italy’s five since 1995, including four world titles to Italy’s one.

Morati SC 1.3 Ti Pro disc brake road bikeBuilt in the Czech Republic by aerospace manufacturer Mora Aerospace (now owned by Honeywell) Morati produces some of the most innovative titanium bicycles on the market. Most striking on this, the opening day of the 2003 Interbike trade show, was a full equipped Hayes mechanical disc brake road bike. Built using the company's SC 1.3 Ti Pro platform, the frame boasts the addition of a rear disc brake, a 130mm spaced VeloMax wheelset and reinforced Morati disc brake specific titanium road fork. While we're seeing disc brake technology slowly creeping

As photo editor of VeloNews, I spend my days living the lives and race experiences of the pro pelotons around the world vicariously through the eyes and lenses of some of the best photographers in the world. Unfortunately, most of the time this takes place while chained to my desk in VeloNews world headquarters in Boulder, Colorado, and my interaction with both the riders and their machines is limited to two dimensional representations, usually digitized on a computer screen. Interbike provides me with the rare opportunity to see with my own eyes, and more importantly touch with my own

As photo editor of VeloNews, I spend my days living the lives and race experiences of the pro pelotons around the world vicariously through the eyes and lenses of some of the best photographers in the world. Unfortunately, most of the time this takes place while chained to my desk in VeloNews world headquarters in Boulder, Colorado, and my interaction with both the riders and their machines is limited to two dimensional representations, usually digitized on a computer screen. Interbike provides me with the rare opportunity to see with my own eyes, and more importantly touch with my own

Newly crowned world road race champion Igor Astarloa has backtracked on his allegation that Italian ace Paolo Bettini tried to bribe him during Sunday's race. Astarloa claimed in Spanish newspapers on Monday that Bettini had offered him money to help him during the race. "Coming into the final climb Bettini offered me money to collaborate with him," he was quoted as saying. "He suggested we break away together and fight out the gold medal between us. I couldn't accept that." According to Bettini's camp Astarloa has since phoned the Italian to apologize. "Astarloa said that he didn't

Following a troubled season that saw the NORBA National Championship Series run without pro prize money and diminished UCI status, the new management team promoting America’s most prestigious mountain-biking series has accomplished at least one of its goals for 2004. Next year’s NCS will be expanded from five to at least seven events with the possibility of an eighth. There will also be an Americans-only national championship event run independently of the series, slated for September 23-26 at Mammoth Mountain Resort in Mammoth Lakes, California. NCS racing itself will kick off in mid

Interbike: A view from the floor (Monday afternoon)

Vervecken

Knapp leads Dunlap up the course's sloppy run-up

Alone, Dunlap navigates a slick descent

Behind the four leaders were, from left to right, Jackson Stewart, Ryan Trebon, Eric Tonkin and Ben Jacques-Maynes

Gully and Andy Jacques-Maynes lead the chase early

Fours years at Juilliard and this is what I get.

Bob Roll attracted a bg crowd at the VeloNews booth and we weren't even offering free beer

Andy Hampsten makes an appearance at the Parlee booth

Hampsten's new carbon rig is produced by Parlee

Marilyn makes her appearance at the Answer booth... well on the fork leg

What everyone needs... a sidecar

Bring the treadmill concept to the bike world

Multiple-use Bike... or is that multiple-use ski?

Rubbing shoulders with the legends

Rubbing shoulders with the legends

Rubbing shoulders with the legends

Just after completing a training lap around the 12.3km Hamilton roadrace circuit Saturday morning, George Hincapie was asked what he thoughtabout the course. “It’s very hard,” he said. “So I’m very happy to haveFreddy on the team, he’s going well.” Hincapie was referring to his friend Fred Rodriguez, who has replacedChristian Vande Velde in the U.S. team lineup. “The decision was prettymuch made on Sunday after Paris-Tours,” Rodriguez said. “Christian wason the team, and Christian wasn’t feeling up for it. I’d been talking toGeorge, and I didn’t think I’d be up for it, but I said if you

The key moment in Sunday’s magnificent world elite men’s road race championship — watched by an enthusiastic 104,000 fans — came 15 minutes from the finish of the 260.4km race, just after a peloton, still 90-strong, started the last of 21 laps. Igor Astarloa, winner this year of the Flèche Wallonne classic in Belgium, was riding alongside his Spanish team leader Oscar Freire, the two-time world champion. “I spoke with Oscar,” Astarloa said, “and he told me that he wasn’t feeling strong enough to follow [Paolo] Bettini, who was sure to attack on the final lap. So he told me to follow Bettini

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1. Ivan Basso (I)2. Paolo Bettini (I)3. Francesco Casagrande (I)4. Danilo Di Luca (I)5. Dario Frigo (I)6. Giovanni Lombardi (I)7. Cristian Moreni (I)8. Daniele Nardello (I)9. Andrea Noe (I)10. Luca Paolini (I)11. Fabio Sacchi (I)12. Mario Scirea (I)13. Allan Davis (Aus)14. Scott Davis (Aus)15. Ben Day (Aus)16. Mathew Hayman (Aus)17. Michael Rogers (Aus)18. Scott Sunderland (Aus)19. Matthew White (Aus)20. Rolf Aldag (G)21. Bert Grabsch (G)22. Torsten Hiekmann (G)23. Matthias Kessler (G)24. Andreas Klier (G)25. Sebastian Lang (G)26. Ronny Scholz (G)27. Stephan Schreck (G)28. Patrik Sinkewitz

What a place!The new Bootleg Canyon venue near Boulder City for the 2003 Interbike On-Dirt Demo made for great mountain-bike riding, no matter what you’re into – unless it’s trials. Where the Blue Diamond Ranch venue west of Las Vegas of the past few years had limited trail mileage, all of which were cross-country trails, this location southeast of Vegas has a vast number of challenging cross-country loops, many of which are many miles long. In addition, it boasts a half-dozen steep downhill trails (with names like Kevorkian, Poopchute and Elevator Shaft) dropping down from the top of a

He had the form at the world championships on Sunday, and he proved that an American-based road pro can mix it up with Euro’ stars like David Millar, Paolo Bettini and Peter Van Petegem. But at the end of a long, successful season Chris Horner still doesn’t know how he’ll pay the bills next year. “I’m looking for a job,” Horner said after an aggressive performance in the elite men’s race in Hamilton that saw him in several breaks, including one with world time trial champion Millar. “I was trying to prove today that I can ride with the big boys.” Few can question that. The end result

Spain's Igor Astarloa of Spain jumped 25 places to the top 20 of the InternationalCycling Union's world rankings following his victory in the men's cyclingroad race at the world road championships Sunday.Italy's Paolo Bettini, the two-time World Cup winner who had been favoriteto win the world title, still leads ahead of compatriot Alessandro Petacchi,who sits in a career-high second place.Former world champion Mario Cipollini of Italy, absent from the championships,dropped from 29th to 85th place.UCI Rankings – as of October 121. Paolo Bettini (ITA), 2271 pts2. Alessandro Petacchi (ITA),

World's preview: Hincapie aims to crack world’s podium

World's preview: Hincapie aims to crack world’s podium

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1- Julich/Hinc

1 - Peloton 2 -koos

1-woods 2-Pena

Freddy

Mouren Chase

trio Norway

1 Norway 2- triotunnel

Horner on the attack in Hamilton

Italy: Lots of power, but a blown strategy?

Rodriguez willing and able

Julich's early mechanical spelled disaster

Van Petegem launches the decisive move

On his own: Astarloa gambles

Rich and varied scenery in Hamilton

Hincapie: 'I didn't have the legs today'

Horner - here with David Millar - was aggressive all day

Italy: Lots of chasing, but...

Fred and George

Editor's note: This preview was written prior to this morning'sannouncement that Canada's Geneviève Jeanson will not be starting today'sroad race because of an elevate hematocrit level. It was also later announcedthat Nicole Brändli of Switzerland will not be racing because of illness.Saturday afternoon’s elite women’s road race should be one of the mostexciting editions of this event since women’s racing was introduced tothe world championships 45 years ago.It will be a truly intergenerational contest, with the 10-lap 123kmrace including five former winners (defending champion Susanne

The pall thrown over the Canadian team at the world championships Saturday, when its star rider Geneviève Jeanson was declared “inapt” to compete after a high hematocrit reading in a UCI blood test, was partially lifted at a press conference given by the team Saturday evening. Jeanson attended the press conference and said that her above-47-percent hematocrit level can only be due to her sleeping in an altitude tent — a common practice among top riders, including Lance Armstrong. “I started using the tent in 1998,” she said, “and I use it all the time.” Jeanson said she was in a state of

The future of Dutch cycling appears to be in capable hands. A strong team effort by the Netherlands helped Kai Reus win the junior men’s road world title on Saturday morning in Hamilton, Ontario. Reus’s win brought the medal total for the Netherlands to six, all captured in junior and under-23 race categories. Anders Lund of Denmark came second after outsprinting others in the chasing group with Lukas Fus of the Czech Republic placing third to take the bronze medal. Reus attacked on the final climb of a hard-fought 124km race to take the first solo road victory of the 2003 road world’s.

Sweden’s Susanne Ljungskog scored her second consecutive world championship on Saturday, winning a physical, bar-to-bar sprint over a group of five other survivors at the end of the 124km elite women’s road race in the streets of Hamilton, Ontario. For the thousands gathered in front of Hamilton City Hall to witness the finish on Main Street, it was an electric ending to the day, but the final sprint was just one part of the most scintillating race seen so far at the 2003 road world’s. The real drama of the day was provided by a very familiar face, one that has been thrilling racing fans

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Located 23 miles southwest of Las Vegas’(in)famous Strip, Boulder City’sBootleg Canyon park was ground zero for the 2003 Interbike Expo’s OutDoorDemo. Brimming with over 150 exhibitors this year, the event has grownalmost exponentially over its eight years. In fact, Interbike organizers felt the Outdoor Demo had outgrown bothits old location and its single-day format, expanding the event to a muchlarger venue and two-day format. This year offered not only a three loopcross-country mountain bike track and closed two mile road circuit, butalso boasted a 750 foot BMX track and shuttle-served

Racing in the United States for the first time in two years, Belgian 2001 world cyclo-cross champion Erwin Vervecken (SpaarSelect) dominated an impressive list of domestic ‘cross racers Saturday, taking a 13-second victory over former national champion Marc Gullickson (Redline) at the Clif Bar Grand Prix, held in Tacoma, Washington’s Fort Steilacoom Park. The only UCI Cat-2 event on the west coast for the 2003 season, the event drew former national champion Todd Wells (Mongoose-Hyundai), Andy Jacques Maynes and Jackson Stewart (Clif Bar), local favorite Johnny Sundt (K2), Ben Jacques-Maynes