Raimondas Rumsas works his way through a gauntlet of reporters on his way to court on Thursday. The Lithuanian rider could face three years in prison.
Those racers motivated enough to push away from a second helping of turkey and toe the line at the Gearworks Bay State Cyclo-Cross Saturday in Sterling, Massachusetts, will get a sneak preview of what to expect from December’s U.S. Cycling Federation Cyclo-cross National Championships in Rhode Island. Round four of the 2005 Verge New England Championships Cyclo-Cross Series, presented by Cycle-Smart, Gearworks will use a course designed by veteran Tom Stevens, the man also responsible for laying out the course at nationals. "The two courses are very, very similar and the weather conditions
Heras faces a two-year ban if the B sample proves positive
The Mailbag is a regular feature on VeloNews.com. If you have a comment, an opinion or observation regarding anything you have seen in cycling, in VeloNews magazine or on VeloNews.com, write to WebLetters@InsideInc.com. Please include your full name and home town. Letters may be edited for length and clarity.Why lose a great race?Dear Velo,Wow, it look's like we have to wait for another Lance Armstrong tocome along and bring cycling back to this gorgeous city (see “Chaunerpulls plug on `06 SFGP”). Sure, it cost money, but what doesn’t? On the other hand, I'venever seen a single
One of the most adrenaline-inducing sounds at a track race, particularly in a European six-day, is the ring of the lap bell. Whether it’s for an intermediate prize in a Madison, a lap to go in a points race, or entering the very final lap of the six-day, the bell gets spectators on their feet and sends the racers into a sprinting frenzy For the last several years that exciting “clang-clang-clang” has been missing at Belgium’s Ghent Six (the Z6s Daagse Vlaanderen-Gent), replaced by an electronic buzzer. A fire caused considerable damage at the velodrome, including destruction of its old brass
It’s been almost a decade since Canadian cycling’s elder statesman, Steve Bauer, hung up his cleats and headed into retirement. Since that time, Bauer has kept himself busy on the bike, most notably running a series of successful international and domestic cycling tours. That’s right, for a pretty penny cycling fans can ride the Tour de France route with Bauer-Power himself. It’s a fruitful business, and one that has him putting a good number of miles on those 46-year-old legs of his. Now, filling the Steve’s trophy case are an Olympic silver medal, a handful of yellow jerseys from the
Promoters of the Liberty Mutual U.S. National Cyclo-cross Championships have organized one final pageant for elite men in this 2005 season. The Liberty Cup, to be held Sunday, December 11, right before the elite women's championship, is a showcase for all the national champions. "Any national champion over the age of 15 will be invited to race with no entry fee," said Tom Stevens, race director. "The one caveat is that we ask them to wear their national championship jersey. If they do that we give them a front row start position. We will pay a good prize list and reward the top masters
A six-day is a special thing, especially in Ghent
Ring in the new
Ready, set go... Bauer takes on the (paved) downhill
Ullrich pulls an Indiana Jones in the Austrian Alps
Hondo maintains his innocence
Rumsas on the Tour podium in 2002
There will be no San Francisco GP in 2006, the race organizer announced Sunday. An ongoing dispute with City Hall over police costs and billing practices has proved to be "a no-win situation, and we simply cannot go forward," said David Chauner, director of San Francisco Cycling LLC, which founded and ran the annual race. "There is considerable uncertainty regarding the amounts we will be billed after each year’s race, making it impossible to accurately forecast budgets or question charges beforehand," Chauner said. "On top of that, the periodic, emotionally charged Board of Supervisors’
Our latest reader-submitted Photo Gallery is now up for your viewing pleasure. Of course, a new gallery also means the naming of the winner of ourmost recent contest. While racing is our usual focus, Albert Raine’s “Tents and Bikes at Mt. Everest” reminds us of the great potential the bicycles have for bringing joy and adventure into our lives. On top of that, it’s just a beautiful shot, isn’t it? Congratulations Albert! Drop us a note at Rosters@InsideInc.com to work out the details and we’ll send you a copy of Graham Watson's "Landscapes of Cycling."Go ahead and take a look at our
The Mailbag is a regular feature on VeloNews.com. If you have a comment, an opinion or observation regarding anything you have seen in cycling, in VeloNews magazine or on VeloNews.com, write to WebLetters@InsideInc.com. Please include your full name and home town. Letters may be edited for length and clarity.Supervisors to blame for SFGP’s demiseEditor:What a complete shame about the GP San Francisco. As a patron the last four years at the event, I will miss the sight of riders on Fillmore and Taylor, begrudgingly riding 25s when mere mortals would prefer MTB gearing. I will miss the sights
Colby Pearce of Boulder, Colorado, has been named USA Cycling’s endurance track coach. Pearce, 33, will be involved in all phases of the endurance track program, including working with the elite men’s and women’s programs, the U23 program, and developing junior racers, said director of track cycling Pat McDonough. "He’s worked for the last year with TIAA-CREF as a rider-coach and has brought a number of athletes and top road talent to the track," McDonough said. "We hope he can take us to the next level." McDonough noted that Pearce, a former road rider himself, will be instrumental in
It looks like Taylor street will be a little less crowded on September 10, 2006
Tents and Bikes at Mt. Everest
Tyler Hamilton's fight to clear his name will enter its final round in January, nearly a year-and-a-half after he was found positive for injecting donor blood at the Vuelta a España. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) announced on Monday it would listen to closing arguments on January 10 in Denver. A final decision will be made at the end of the panel's deliberations, which may last a few weeks. Hamilton has asked the CAS, world sport's top tribunal, to overturn a two-year ban imposed last year. Hamilton tested positive for illicit blood transfusions during the Tour of
Nice jersey. Will he get to keep it?
Simms breaks the streak.
Bessette finally showed she was human.
Wells takes the sprint; Wicks takes the series
Johnson put in a good fight
Horner improves in his second outing
Wicks wants the whole enchilada.
This is `cross season, isn't it?
Wells in pursuit
Horner tries something different.
Bessette's streak hits 12
Simms made it a real race on Saturday.
Why we love `cross: TIAA-CREF-Clif Bar's Troy Wells grimaces while a competitor gets a face full of dust.
Ullrich doesn't want to finish behind Leipheimer in the 2006 Tour of Germany
LeMond in La Vie Claire kit
The Mailbag is a regular feature on VeloNews.com. If you have a comment, an opinion or observation regarding anything you have seen in cycling, in VeloNews magazine or on VeloNews.com, write to WebLetters@InsideInc.com. Please include your full name and home town. Letters may be edited for length and clarity.Clay Mankin: Passionate, generous and gentleEditor:Last Sunday, cyclists and decent human beings everywhere lost a wonderful friend, advocate, instigator, visionary and an all-purpose do-gooder in Clay Mankin, loving father and husband, proprietor and icon of the San Francisco institution
Greg LeMond had a surprise visitor at L’Alpe d’Huez during the 1984 Tour de France. He was relaxing in his hotel room after placing sixth on the stage up the fabled alpine climb when there was a knock on the door. He recognized the female visitor as a motorcycle driver on the race. She said to the young American, then 23, "Greg, do you know who Bernard Tapie is? He’d like to see you in private." Yes, LeMond did know that Tapie was the mysterious, ambitious French businessman who that year had started a new pro cycling team, La Vie Claire, which had hired four-time Tour winner Bernard
Some days just beg for clinchers ...
... while others demand fancy tubulars.
Vittoria's EVO XG
Vittoria's EVO XN is designed for dry conditions and comes in both tubular and clincher (this one is a tubular)
The Dugast `cross Typhoon
The original Michelin Mud has taller knobs with no siping perfect for those really mucky days
Tufo's Elite LPS Tubular is a very popular tire
The suberb Michelin Mud 2. This tire is being run tubeless with sealent on a Shimano 7801-SL wheel set
Geax's Mezcal semi-slick
Clay Mankin died Sunday November 13 of natural causes doing what he loved:riding his bike. He was just a week shy of his 50th birthday and to celebrate,Clay was treating himself to a solo ride from the San Francisco Bay Areato Santa Barbara when he died.Clay was a gift to cycling and as I pause to remember him – I feel honoredto have ridden with him. As the owner of CityCycle bike shop in San Francisco, he was legendary for his abilityto pull people into cycling.The last time I saw Clay he was also shoving off for a big ride. Hewas riding from our Bike Camp hotel in Tuscany to meet a former
Clay Mankin
Giro `06: That last day can include a time trial or the usual parade into Milan, but not both
Clay doing what Clay loved to do.
The Mailbag is a regular feature on VeloNews.com. If you have a comment, an opinion or observation regarding anything you have seen in cycling, in VeloNews magazine or on VeloNews.com, write to WebLetters@InsideInc.com. Please include your full name and home town. Letters may be edited for length and clarity.Small change for big eventEditor,This is disheartening. If San Francisco fails to continuewith its support of this imrpressive race I have lost hope in thiscountry ever truly caring for, or even respecting, cycling.Sad, sad, sad!I know that we need to run our cities efficiently, but
After considering your opinions* regarding the magazine's top honor, international cyclist of the year, the North American male cyclist of the year and North American female cyclist of the year awe now move on to the category of Best men's road team of the year. After a full season of covering bicycle racing, the VeloNews crew hunkers down in a secret location and takes stock of the events and standout performances of the year. The 18th annual VeloNews awards will appear in the December 5 issue. Sometimes brilliant, sometimes not, our picks often trigger a flood of reader responses.
November 12, 2005 (Minneapolis) - Women and their supporters gatheredin Las Vegas at the Interbike trade show in September for the sixth YoplaitNouriche Women’s Cycling Summit. The fall 2005 Yoplait Nouriche Summitfocused on a highly successful entry-level racing program and on how teamscan give more value to their sponsors. The full proceedingscan be found at WomenCyclists.comCycling Made Real – a grassroots program that worksPast Yoplait Nouriche Summits have identified Cycling Made Real asthe country’s most successful program for recruiting novice women to bicycleracing.
We’ve been getting quite a few inquiries here at velonews.com about thefuture of the USPRO road championship. Just last week USA Cycling announcedthe time and location of all of next year's events except for USPRO.And as reported earlier this year, big changes are in store for the eventas the event will no longer be open to foreign racers. Over the years, the national championship, organized by Pennsylvania-basedrace promoter Threshold Sports, has been held as an open internationalevent in Philadelphia that has grown into the most important one-day eventin North American racing. But all
See anyone you know?
You remember this guy, don't you?
The victors.
Not your typical Sunday ride, eh?
The whole Barry-Demet family stopped by VeloNews international headquarters to discuss a new book deal.
Pay to the order of.....
Is this guy a DOPER?
Our latest reader-submitted Photo Gallery is now up for your viewing pleasure. Of course, a new gallery also means the naming of the winner of ourmost recent contest. We could wax academic about the superior compositional elements of Ed Subias’s “SoCalCyclo-cross 2000,” but mostly we like it because we can taste metallic lactic acid just looking at it. Congratulations Ed! Drop us a note at Rosters@InsideInc.com to work out the details and we’ll send you a copy of Graham Watson's "Landscapes of Cycling."Go ahead and take a look at our latest gallery,decide what you like and let us
The Mailbag is a regular feature on VeloNews.com. If you have a comment, an opinion or observation regarding anything you have seen in cycling, in VeloNews magazine or on VeloNews.com, write to WebLetters@InsideInc.com. Please include your full name and home town. Letters may be edited for length and clarity.Lack cycling heroes? Look for heroes who cycleEditor:A couple of letters in Friday's mailbag lamented the lack of cycling heroes. This reader long ago gave up on the "athlete hero." They're mostly overpaid, egotistic, pampered rich people. I do admire their athletic prowess -
VeloNews Photo Contest: Last week's winner and a new gallery
Ullrich - seen here in Austria during the Tour of Germany - is trying to decide whether the Giro will help or hinder his Tour chances.
In 11th place on Sunday, Wellens has not had the season he'd hoped for.
The Gavia was the scene of an epic showdown in the 2000 Giro...
... a battle won by none other than Lampre's Gilberto Simoni
The sprint king may take a pass on the Giro
Sunday's EuroFile: A climbers' Giro; Reactions mixed
Nijs strikes a familiar pose.
Groenendaal set an early pace...
... and helped establish the winning break...
... but always had that teammate of his right on his wheel.
Millar hopes to ride the 2006 Tour
The route of the 2006 Giro d'Italia
Two-time Giro winner Gilberto Simoni points to what he hopes will be another route to victory
Campos moves into the lead
Bishop was one of many who flatted on Saturday