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Steurs Powers To Tour of Qatar Stage Two Win

Steurs Powers To Tour of Qatar Stage Two Win

Belgian Topsport rider Geert Steurs won the second stage of the Tour of Qatar on Monday after edging Dutchman Wouter Mol of the Vacansoleil team, who assumed the overall lead.
Steurs and Mol launched a breakaway after barely two kilometres of the 147km course between the Camel Race Track and the Qatar [...]

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Steurs Powers To Tour of Qatar Stage Two Win

Belgian Topsport rider Geert Steurs won the second stage of the Tour of Qatar on Monday after edging Dutchman Wouter Mol of the Vacansoleil team, who assumed the overall lead.
Steurs and Mol launched a breakaway after barely two kilometres of the 147km course between the Camel Race Track and the Qatar [...]

Team Sky and Hagen Takes Stage 1 At Tour of Qatar

Britain’s Team Sky won the first stage of the Tour of Qatar on Sunday with Norwegian rider Edvald Boasson Hagen taking the leader’s yellow jersey after finishing first in a 8.2-kilometer (5-mile) time trial.
Sky are 8 seconds ahead of last year’s winners Garmin with Danish team Saxo Bank [...]

This One’s For The Dopers

Written by: Lanolin
A few Summers ago I belonged to the email group of a large club. Every July there was a hard and fast rule: no TDF spoilers. … a perfectly reasonable rule. During major races, I avoid all cycling news sources all day so I can watch the action unfold on TiVo. After [...]

The First Blog Post of Cody Stevenson

So here it is… 2010… With the Tour Down under already having been run and won by the time you read this, we are well under way for the new season ahead. It seems with the globalization of the sport, there seems to be less definition between on and off season!
I am [...]

A Chat With The World Champion

Fresh off the BMC Racing Team’s training camp in California, Cadel Evans looks back on the start of his season and ahead to a year of racing alongside new teammates in the rainbow jersey.

How did you feel about your performance at the Santos Tour Down Under?
We didn’t win anything but that wasn’t our objective. The [...]

Facts & Figures about Team Quick Step 2010

In total there are 27 athletes in the team coming from 8 different nations. The average age of the athletes is 27 years. The youngest team member is Vedel Kvist who will be 22 on the 18th August, the most experienced team member is Italian athlete Marco Velo who will be 36 in March. The [...]

Saddle Height – Low or High Is The Question

We will be running a series of articles addressing the issues that are involved in getting a proper bike fit. to do this we recruited Aram Goganian of Predator Cycles in Santa Monica, CA. He is known in these parts to be the bike fitter of the cycling elite.
Written by: Aram Goganian
SADDLE [...]

A Focus On Team BMC Pro Cycling

So when was the last time you got to ride with two world road champions, and one US road champion at the same time? Well, for me this dream come true happened on January 27th, 2010 at the Team BMC Pro Cycling training camp media day.
Bicycle.net was invited to the training camp [...]

SpiderTech Hosts Classy UCI Cycling Team Launch and Bauer Tribute

Glitzy fundraiser included auctioning Bauer’s Tour de France yellow jersey and video messages from Armstrong & Liggett
(Toronto, Ontario): Perhaps the only thing missing from last week’s (January 28) SpiderTech team presentation and Steve Bauer tribute was a red carpet. Otherwise, the glitzy event held at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum could easily have passed [...]

Schleck Senior Wants To Stick With Brother Andy

LUXEMBOURG, Feb 5, 2010 (AFP) – Luxembourg’s Franck Schleck said Friday he wanted to continue to race in the same team as his 2009 Tour de France runner-up brother Andy despite doubts over the future of their Saxo Bank team.
“I’d be happy if it continued like that,” the elder [...]

Milk, Cheese, Yoghurt And A Few Bikes

Written by: Colin Batchelor
Team Milram was launched today, great riders great bikes, but more to the point great flavored curds.
But I’m sure you don’t want to hear about flavored curds, so more about them later, for now lets talk bike racers.
Milrams tilt at glory in the 2010 season falls pretty much on the shoulders of [...]

Skil Releases Beppu To Race With RadioShack

Skil-Shimano cycling team have finally agreed to annul Fumiyuki Beppu’s contract after the Japanese rider ignored rules and reached a verbal agreement to join Lance Armstrong’s Radio Shack team.
Beppu had a year left on his contract with Skil-Shimano, which debuted at the Tour de France last year, but apparently ignored [...]

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Tour of California Route Details To Be Announced

ROUTE DETAILS FOR 2010 AMGEN TOUR OF CALIFORNIA TO BE ANNOUNCED ONLINE VIA SPECIALLY PRODUCED STAGE VIDEOS

Host Cities to Reveal Route Specifics for May 2010 Race
LOS ANGELES (February 8, 2010) – Specific route details for the 2010 Amgen Tour of California professional cycling race will be revealed beginning tomorrow via individual stage videos, AEG, presenter [...]

Tour of Qatar, Stage 2: Burghardt Climbs To Fifth Overall

Alessandro Ballan and Marcus Burghardt represented the BMC Racing Team in the decisive group of Monday’s second stage of the Tour of Qatar, with Burghardt’s 10th place finish moving him into fifth overall.

Long Breakaway Stays Away
Two riders spoiled the day for the sprinters by successfully completing a breakaway that began at the start of the [...]

MILRAM Newcomer Takes Over White Jersey As Best Young Rider

Dortmund, 8. February 2010. MILRAM newcomer Roger Kluge provided a surprise in the second stage of the Tour of Qatar (February 7-12 / UCI 2.1) after 147 kilometers from the Camel Race Track to the Qatar Foundation. The 24-year-old broke from a chase group which featured many big names with about 500 meters to [...]

Italian Ballerini Dies In Rally Accident

ROME, Feb 7, 2010 (AFP) – Former Italian cyclist Franco Ballerini died on Sunday morning after an accident in a rally in Larciano, Tuscany, the Ansa news agency reported.
Ballerini was acting as the co-driver for Alessandro Ciardi when the accident happened. Ciardi is in a coma, according to Ansa.
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Merckx Reveals His Battle With Cancer

BRUSSELS, Feb 6, 2010 (AFP) – Belgian cycling legend Eddy Merckx revealed Saturday how he battled cancer several years ago.
“Since my cancer of the intestine I’ve to be careful of what I drink or eat. No more champagne or white wine,” the 64-year-old told the press.
Questions [...]

Product Review: Rotor Q-Ring

Written by: Spencer Canon
My first bike was a black Centurion Ironman with Shimano 105 and “Biopace” chainrings. I guess Shimano was so certain their egg-shaped chainrings would be successful that they went ahead and made them standard issue that year. It was a brave attempt that went the way of other bad ideas like Softride. [...]

BMC Gets Wild Card To Tour of Romandie

The first ProTour race!
It has been officially announced that the BMC Racing Team has received an the only Wild Card invitation to compete in the Tour of Romandie
Though based in America, there is a prominent Swiss influence on the BMC Racing Team. Consequently, the team is very pleased and honoured to have received [...]

2010 USA Cycling Pro Tour Calendar Unveiled

Colorado Springs, Colo. (February 5, 2010)— USA Cycling announced today the fourth edition of the USA Cycling Professional Tour, which is highlighted by an expanded calendar and two first-time UCI events.
While Garmin-Transitions’ Dave Zabriskie captured the individual title in 2009, the powerful Columbia-HTC team edged fellow U.S. based Pro Tour squad, Garmin for the [...]

2010 USA Cycling Collegiate Road Season Begins in Tucson

Colorado Springs, Colo. (February 3, 2009) — The 2010 USA Cycling Collegiate Road season kicked off last weekend in Tucson with the University of Arizona Criterium, the year’s first collegiate cycling race. The season will begin in earnest across the country in the weeks that follow, but this early season start was a great preview [...]

Michael Mørkøv And Alex Rasmussen Take The Lead In Copenhagen

The first hunt of day one of the six-day race in Ballerup Super Arena, Copenhagen was no parade as it was decided after one hour of breathtaking pace. Team Saxo Bank’s favorites, Michael Mørkøv and Alex Rasmussen demonstrated great power throughout the night , and Michael Mørkøv convincingly took the sprint ahead of the Swiss [...]