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Hi Bob;I took my bike to be repaired at a local shop. The owner told me it would be done in a week. When I returned the shop was closed, although I couldstill see the entire shop inventory (including my bike!!!) were still in the store. A sign on the door simply said "out of business." I have tried to contact the shop owner, but his line is disconnected.Any advice would be helpful.Thanks,KevinNew York Dear Kevin;In legal jargon, what you need to do is initiate an action in replevin. In replevin, the owner of an item of personal property seeks to recover it from someone who did not

With one more week before mountain-bike racing really gets rolling at the Sea Otter Classic, there seems to be two alternatives for North America’s top cross-country pros this weekend. Either grab the road bike and head out to Southern California for Redlands, or make the trek to eastern Utah, for Moab’s Tour of Canyonlands. Redlands appears to be the most popular choice, a fact born out by the startlist for the six-stage race. By my count 25 riders who will earn the bulk of their money on the dirt this year, showed up for the first day of Redlands. Most prominent among that group were

Dear Doc;I recently had something strange happen and wanted to get your thoughts. Two days after my last ride I noticed that a golf ball sized "bump" started to grow right where the saddle and the underside of my left cheek come into contact. By late afternoon it had grown significantly in size and I went to the local emergency room. The diagnosis was that a vein (or several) had burst and that I had a fair amount of internal bleeding. The doctor operated on the wound (which was by now quite black and blue) to release some of the pressure and later told me that the damaged veins had sealed

Raivis Belohvosciks (Marlux) claimed a slim overall victory in Belgium's Three Days of La Panne Thursday after winning a dramatic final stage time trial of 14km. Belohvosciks, his team's time trial specialist, forced Sidermec's Gianluca Bortolami into second place in the overall standings by only a second with local hope Peter Van Petegem of the Lotto team taking third at 13 seconds. The 27-year-old Latvian's ninth career victory came largely thanks to his superiority on the third and final stage. He came in 13 seconds ahead of German Olaf Pollack, of Gerolsteiner, and 15 ahead of Fassa

The United States Anti-Doping Agency announced Thursday that a three-member panel of the American Arbitration Association-North American Court of Arbitration for Sport has recommended a one-year suspension for Scott Moninger, who tested positive for norandrolone after last year’s Saturn Classic. Moninger will receive credit for the period of time that he was provisionally suspended, starting on October 6, 2002. The former Mercury rider was able to demonstrate that the 19-norandrosterone positive had resulted from a contaminated food supplement, something which the panel was allowed to

The Redlands Classic continued Thursday with it's most feared stage, the Oak Glen road race, 106 miles (82 for the women) that finishes off with a nasty 10-kilometer climb that gains 2400 feet in elevation. Needless to say, it was a day for the climbers, as Canadian Genevieve Jeanson (RONA-Esker) confirmed her position as the premiere climber in North American women’s racing, riding away from her closest GC contenders in the final kilometers and winning the stage by nearly three minutes. In the men’s race, Saturn’s Nathan O’Neill showed that not only can he time trial, as evidenced by his

JHK is going to Utah

Filip's pointers: Always wear your helmet.

Haywood

Jeanson is all alone

O’Neill on his own

Saturn in control

No one, not even Bruckner, was close on Thursday

Italian Fabio Baldato (Alessio) won the second stage of the Three Days of La Panne on Wednesday, a blustery, sunny day in Belgium. Gianluca Bortolami (Sidermec) continued his hold on the overall lead after finishing safely in the lead bunch. Two riders were reeled in with 22km to go in the 228km stage from Zottegem to Koksijde to set up the mass sprint. A strong tailwind pushed the bunch along nicely over the final circuits, with speeds reaching nearly 70 kph on the flats. Fassa Bortolo drove things home, but the veteran Baldato had the legs to beat Gerben Lowik (Bankgiroloterij) and Jimmy

With spring rumored to be on its way, this past weekend provided a perfectwindow of opportunity to sneak in a little racing. A couple of my pals and I packed up our cars and headed over to the campusof University of Colorado's arch rival, Colorado State for a little early seasoncrit’ action. Located 56 miles due north in Fort Collins, the race providedthe perfect opportunity to test out a few products you'll see in upcomingissues of VeloNews, including our road-pedal comparison in issue No. 7 and our bib-short comparison in issue No. 9. There's nothing like a healthy dose of high-speed

Now in its 19th year, the Redlands Classic has just shifted its schedule and is no longer the season-opening NRC stage race. More changes are on the way, too, as next year it is set to merge with Sea Otter next year to form the two-week UCI “American Cycling Classic.” But in a lot of people’s books, this race is already a true “classic.” There’s no shortage of good stories at Redlands, and this year, the big story is the combined firepower of Saturn’s Tom Danielson and Chris Horner. With Danielson winning in Langkawi and Pomona, Horner taking McLane and Solano, and plenty of climbing at

A photograph published by the Italian journal La Gazzetta dello Sport this past week started me thinking about how there are double standards rampant in cycling, just as there are in everyday life. The photograph was nothing dramatic, just a shot of a rider waiting at the start of the Coppi & Bartali Cycling Week in Tuscany. The rider was Marco Pantani — clean shaven, doo rag on his pate, and a smile on his face — and he was clearly pleased to be back in the peloton after 10 months on the sidelines. They call him il Pirata, the Pirate. For many, the nickname is appropriate because of his

Dear Monique;I had a question about Recommended Dietary Allowances. For instanceis there an RDA for the number of saturated fat grams? However, nutritionistsalways seem to preach a low fat diet, low in saturated fat. So is therea maximum amount of fat which I should always strive to stay under?RB Dear RB;The recommendations for prevention of heart disease is to keep totalfat under 35% (15 to 30% is recommended) of total calories, but most importantlyto keep saturated fat and trans fat (hydrogenated oils) low. Persons atrisk for heart disease should keep these fats at less than 7-percent

If anyone was ever curious as to what takes more time to complete, a 100-mile road race or a 2-mile prologue, the answer is simple: the 2-mile prologue. It all starts the day before. First, you drive to the course. Next ,change into your gear, and begin the endless BS that doing a prologue involves. Ride the course, then ride the course again, and again, and again, and again, and.... A tricky, short, uphill course like the one here at Redlands is always tough to figure out, even for the most analytical among us (especially so). So, when you're finally numb from seeing the same corner 84

The second day of racing at the Redlands Classic brought stage victories to two familiar names in the domestic race scene, as Health Net’s Gord Fraser and Saturn’s Ina Teutenberg won the hilly stage 1 Highland circuit race. With short, steep climbs and a long, gradual downhill into a headwind, the circuit wasn’t exactly made for aggressive racing; any attempt to get away was vulnerable on the windy, wide-open descent. Although the day was claimed by a pair of sprinters, the course — a five-mile loop consisting of a 300-foot stair-step climb through a local housing community, raced eight

Bortolami

Tech report: Crit' crazy

Tech report: Crit' crazy

Tech report: Crit' crazy

McRae gets ready for TT.Hey, whose disembodied head is that over his front wheel?

Baldato

Ina wins another

Jeanson was the focus of Saturn's efforts

Fraser on the podium - again

There's power in numbers

Tony Cruz is back for his third season with U.S. Postal Service and he’s more optimistic than ever. Cruz caught the attention of America’s elite team following his breakout 2000 season when he won a berth on the U.S. Olympic team and stages at the Tour of Langkawi and the Solano Classic. After getting used to racing European-style, Cruz says the best is yet to come. Cruz has already been racing nearly two months in Europe and finished 11th in the Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne semi-classic in Belgium. VeloNews European correspondent Andrew Hood caught up with Cruz at Paris-Nice, just before the

Editor's Note: In keeping with traditions established at VeloNews more than a decade ago, VeloNews.com posted several "news" stories on this site on Tuesday, April 1. We have repackaged all of that content into a single file for your enjoyment.

Under bright, sunny skies and intermittent winds, the 19th annual Redlands Bicycle Classic kicked off April 1st in Southern California with a hard, fast 5km prologue time trial ending atop Riverside’s Mount Rubidoux. The day’s winners included Geneviève Jeanson (RONA), the talented young Canadian who set the course record last year, and a heavily favored Saturn men’s team that swept the podium and took control of the six-day event almost before it had begun. Although characteristically known as the grand season-opening National Racing Calendar (NRC) stage race, the Redlands Classic was

A conversation with Tony Cruz

Even our reporter at Redlands was greeted by protestors

It's actually real - sorta

Another win for Geneviève

Bruckner

Danielson

Nathan O’Neill

With the classics season now in full swing, U.S. Postal Service is regrouping with its consistent heavy-hitter George Hincapie out of the picture. Hincapie returned to the United States just days after it was announced March 15 the 29-year-old he would not be competing in the spring classics due to a lingering viral infection that left the 2001 Gent-Wevelgem champion rundown and tired. With Hincapie undergoing tests for a possible return by May, however, the Posties will be entering Sunday’s Tour of Flanders in uncharted territory. “We have to rethink our tactics because George was

This has been a pretty busy week at the Cycling Center. We moved this week from Oostende 20 miles east to Hertsberge. Things are still in disarray as we are trying to settle into the new place, but the place gets better by the day. In December our director Bernard and his Wife Ann bought an old hotel and restaurant that is now the home of the Cycling Center. To put it kindly, the hotel had a … uhhhh … a reputation. A reputation of ill repute. So the last few weeks, between training and racing, we have spent some time turning this trashed hotel into our new home. The first task was

Editor:O’Grady turned 49, from his writings (see "Friday's foaming rant: Down with O'Grady") it sounds like he turned 79, what a bore. Perhaps you need some young blood in that office, because this person is not only boring, he is another reason why young people are not getting into cycling, he represents the majority, that is sad.Will BeemanBaton Rouge, LAActually, O’Grady is another reason why people of all ages are getting out of cycling. - Editor Old slow guys unite!... or retireEditor:Patrick, you have described me! Sold the mountain bike last year and did not replace it,

Not this year - Hincapie at Paris-Roubaix in 2002

The new digs: Rooms with a view... and a history

The restaurant.

If you move the bikes out, you can even use it at dinner time.

Frenchman Laurent Brochard (Ag2R) dominated Sunday’s double-stage finale to win this weekend’s Criterium International. Brochard won the morning sector Sunday to take the race lead and finished third-fastest in the afternoon time trial to win for the first time this season and give his team’s a big boost at earning an at-large bid for July’s Tour de France. Brochard’s win is the first by a Frenchman at Criterium International since Laurent Jalabert won eight years ago. “It is important to win after Laurent, I hope I can go on this way,” Brochard said. “Today, the final victory was very

Chris Horner (Saturn) and Kimberly Bruckner (T-Mobile) locked up the overall titles at California’s Solano Bicycle Classic, as Horner continued his dominance and took the final circuit race and his teammate Ina Teutenberg scored a sprint win in the women’s race. Horner not only held on to his leader’s jersey, he won the stage. Jumping out of the penultimate corner, Horner bested the sprinters outlasting Greg Henderson of 7Up-Maxxis and HealthNet’s Gord Fraser in a blazing fast field sprint. The day started for the men promptly at 1 pm, when the neutralized parade of riders left downtown

With a win on Stage 2, Brochard took the lead on GC

A well-timed move

Voigt scores a win in the TT

Hamilton's TT gave him sixth overall.

Bruckner had plenty of buffer to take the overall

Saturn in charge

Teutenberg makes it look easy

T-Mobile's Cowden and Bruckner

The Criterium International, aka the “mini Tour de France,” opened Saturday with the 187km rolling stage through the French Ardennes and ended in a mass gallop with Frenchie Damien Nazon (La Boulangere) repeating his brother’s win in the same stage last year and taking the victory. Nazon rode off the wheel of Fdjeux’s Jimmy Casper to win ahead of Swiss rider Aurelien Clerc (Quick Step) and Fabian Wegmann (Gerolsteiner). With just about all the riders wearing a helmet, Nazon rode sans helmet and it was easy to spot the nearly bald-headed rider in the red jersey. The race was animated with

It was all about Saturn at Solano on Saturday. The criterium, the third stage of the Solano Bicycle Classic, proved to be a showcase for the red and yellow, with Eric Wohlberg taking first on the men’s side and Laura Van Gilder atop the women’s race. Saturn led a charging breakaway in the men’s race, with five teammates pulling together, including Chris Horner, Trent Klasna, Mark McCormack and Viktor Rapinski, to keep the pace very high. Horner put in terrific turns at the front, stringing along Prime Alliance’s Jonathan Vaughters, Ben Brooks of Jelly Belly and all the strong GC contenders

What, me worry?

You guys get paid yet? Zülle was there, too, in a new uniform

The 'mini Tour' kicks off

If it's spring, that must be Chris Horner off the front

Saturn kept tabs on Vaughters (in red)

Wohlberg led the Saturn charge

Van Gilder

Saturn in charge

Bessette and Bruckner will do battle on Sunday

German sprint ace Erik Zabel added one more to his palmares in the rain in Spain on Friday while Dario Frigo wrapped up the overall title at the Setmana Catalana. Zabel’s faced criticism all spring that he’s lost his touch. His first win didn’t come until Tour of Murcia, then he finished sixth at Milan-San Remo before losing his top-spot in the world rankings. Zabel, however, stayed quiet and simply let his legs – and his professionalism - do the talking. On Friday, he took his second win of the week by charging to an easy victory in the 176km fifth and final stage of Catalana week. Rain

For a story on the Health Net team in the upcoming issue of VeloNews I had the pleasure of speaking to Mike Sayers this week for the first time this season. Long the unsung worker on the Mercury team, Sayers has taken his act to the new Health Net squad after the dissolution of Mercury. But it almost didn’t happen, Sayers said. “Basically, I told [Health Net] I was retired in December,” Sayers said. In a winter that he called “poor and frustrating,” Sayers got tired of hearing the same things from prospective teams. “I talked to every team,” he said. “It was always the same story: Take it

Well he went down down downand the devil said where you beenhe went down down downhe screamin' down around the bend.-Tom Waits, "Down Down Down" I would make a poor match for Lucifer, though judging from the mailbag lately a number of readers would be delighted to see me "hurl'd headlong flaming from th' ethereal sky/With hideous ruin and combustion down" to race that fallen angel around the Lake of Fire. Alas, the best I could expect from any head-to-horns competition with the Prince of Darkness - a descender of legendary ability who became directeur sportif down below after

Editor:Your photo of the '04 Dura-Ace rear derailleur, (not that you evenhave such a photo yet, nor would publish it) was intriguing.Without a cable attached, it was in what would normally be the extremeposition. So, either someone had been majorly jacking with the set-limitscrews... or it is Rapid Rise? Can you comment? I happen to like RapidRise on the dirt, but I'm not sure I'd like the idea on the road.Steen RoseA conspiracy theorist speculatesEditor:Just when I was starting to think, “What devious upgrade will Shimanocome up with to compel people to buy the new Dura-Ace?"

On a road so steep that many found it easier to walk their bikes over the final kilometer, T-Mobile's Kim Bruckner and Prime Alliance's Jonathan Vaughters took top honors on what has to be one of the toughest hill climbs in North America, the second stage at this year's Solano Bicycle Classic. Bruckner maintained her overall lead in the Solano Classic, winning the Stage 2 hill climb up Mix Canyon under warm, but windy skies. Saturn’s Manon Jutras and Lyne Bessette bucked and swayed up the 22-percent grade locals like to call the "death zone" behind her to finish more than a minute and a half

Mike Sayers

Goin' down, down, down....

Don't write him off yet

Cipo' has a new outfit he wants to bring to the Tour

Bruckner on her own