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Last year, the mountain stages at the Tour de France were all about three guys: Rasmussen, Contador, and Soler. Everybody else, including riders and audience alike, were left to hold on for dear life as these three attacked, trumped, and attacked again. The fallout of their energetic bout of one-upsmanship was that [...]

Full Men’s Team, Women’s Automatic Nominees Named for Beijing
Colorado Springs, Colo. (July 1, 2008)—USA Cycling announced today 21 of its 24 nominees to the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team, including all 16 men’s athletes across the disciplines of road cycling, track cycling, mountain biking and bicycle motocross (BMX). Additionally, USA Cycling formally announced five [...]

BREST, France, July 3, 2008 (AFP) - The nine medium-to-high mountains stages featuring on this year’s 95th edition of the Tour de France which begins in Brest on July 5 and ends in Paris on July 27:
Stage 6 (Aigurande - Super-Besse, 195 km)
Col de la Croix-Morand, [...]

This photo sequence was taken at the 2008 Manhattan Beach Grand Prix Pro race. The fan favorite and local rider “Fast” Freddy Rodriquez of Rock Racing is taken out by the Jelly Belly lead out rider.
It seems the Fast Freddy just can’t catch a break this season.
PHOTO CREDIT: Copyright © 2008 Cleaveran O. Law

For the third day in a row the Astana Cycling Team won a gold medal in the national championships. On Saturday, Assan Bazayev took the national road title in Kazakhstan. Bazayev, known for his sprinting ability, finished solo in Karaganda. Sergey Renez (Ulan) was second with Maxim Gurov (A-Style Somn) finishing third.
Team Astana had [...]

No matter where you look, whether in bike magazines or websites these days, it is impossible not to see all the ads for ceramic bearings. It made us wonder whether they are all hype or real speed.
When we got our bearings from Ceramic Speed there was an oversized metal bearing as well as an oversized [...]

DRAMATIC SPRINT FINISH GOES TO AMERICAN JAMIE DRISCOLL IN STAGE 3 (CAMP HILL TO BEDFORD) OF AMERICAN EAGLE OUTFITTERS® TOUR OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESENTED BY HIGHMARK HEALTHY HIGH 5®
BEDFORD, Pa. (June 26, 2008) — The longest stage of the American Eagle Outfitters® Tour of Pennsylvania presented by Highmark Healthy High 5® was made even more epic [...]

The 2008 Tour of Ireland cycle race being held 27th to 31st August is set to be the toughest yet with five difficult stages contested by 16 international teams.
The race starts in Dublin on Wednesday 27th August when 112 riders head out on a route across 12 counties toward the final destination of the City [...]

Astana Cycling Team took the complete podium of the national championships time trial (June 26th). The gold medal was won by Andrey Mizurov in his hometown of Karaganda. Team Astana’s neo-pros, Andrey Zeits (21) and Roman Kireyev (21) completed the podium. Zeits was only 4 seconds behind Mizurov and Kireyev, the 2006 U23-champion, 30 [...]

BERLIN, June 23, 2008 (AFP) - German duo Markus Fothen and Stefan Schumacher, together with Austria’s Bernhard Kohl, will head up the Gerolsteiner team for this year’s Tour de France (July 5-27).
“Fothen and Kohl can challenge for the overall race, while we are looking for stage victories in [...]

PARIS, June 23, 2008 (AFP) - France’s reigning Olympic mountain bike champion Julien Absalon has admitted that losing his world title has relieved him of some of the pressure ahead of this summer’s Olympics.
Absalon, the world cross country champion a remarkable four years in a row (2004-2007), failed to [...]

(June 20, 2008)
Truckee, CA – Roman Kilun of the Health Net Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis was the driving force at the front of a three-man break in the technical Stage 3 Tour de Nez criterium Thursday evening in Truckee, CA. So when the break succeeded in eluding the grasp of the chasing field, [...]

Results from the third stage of the Tour of Switzerland, held over 155km between Flums and here on Monday:
Stage Three
1. Robbie McEwen (AUS/SIL) 3hr 50min 05sec, 2. Oscar Freire (ESP/RAB), s.t., 3. Gerald Ciolek (GER/THR), s.t., 4. Robert Forster (SWE/GST) s.t., 5.
Danilo Napolitano (ITA/LAM) s.t., 6. Alexandre Usov [...]

GRENOBLE, France, June 15, 2008 (AFP) - Factfile on Dauphine Libere winner Alejandro Valverde:
Date of birth: April 25, 1980
Place of birth: Las Lumbreras, Spain
Nationality: Spanish
Height: 1.78m
Weight: 61kg
Sport/discipline: cycling/road
Teams: Kelme (2002-2004), Iles [...]

Results from the sixth and penultimate stage of the Dauphine Libere race held over 233km here Saturday:
Stage Six
1. Chris-Anker Sorensen (DEN/CSC) 6hr 15min 53sec, 2. Pierrick Fedrigo
(FRA/BTL) at 1:02, 3. Levi Leipheimer (USA/AST) 1:10, 4. Sylvester Szmyd
(POL/LAM) 1:15, 5. Alejandro Valverde (ESP/GCE) 1:15, 6. Cadel Evans (AUS/SIL) 1:17, 7. [...]

Dr. Don Catlin named Chief Science Officer of ADSI
Los Angeles, California, June 9, 2008 – Anti-Doping Sciences Institute, Inc. (“ADSI”) and the Agency for Sports Ethics, LLC (“ASE”) have joined forces in support of their common goal of creating effective new approaches to combating doping in sports. The relationship provides for ADSI to advise ASE [...]

Results from the fifth stage of the Dauphine Libere stage race here on Friday:
1. Yury Trofimov (RUS/BTL) 3hr 07min 46sec, 2. Cadel Evans (AUS/SIL) at 18sec, 3. Alejandro Valverde (ESP/GCE) 18, 4. Haimar Zubeldia (ESP/EUS) 23, 5.
Sylvester Szmyd (POL/LAM) 26, 6. Robert Gesink (NED/RAB) 26, 7. Juan Jose Cobo
(ESP/SDV) 26, 8. Vladimir [...]

MELBOURNE, June 12, 2008 (AFP) - A new bicycle, designed with aerospace expertise, will give Australian cyclists the edge at this year’s Beijing Olympics, team organisers said here Thursday.
The ‘BT Blade’ will be ridden by Australia’s track endurance cyclists in events including the individual and team pursuit, while sprint [...]

A few weeks ago, some script kiddies thought of me and this website as a “six foot turkey” that they could hack and use to steer traffic to a malware site. It pained me to see Google print the warning “this site may harm your computer”. No more. I found the small [...]

VIENNE, France, June 10, 2008 (AFP) - American George Hincapie sprinted to victory in the second stage of the Dauphine Libere here on Tuesday but Thor Hushovd retained the overall lead.
In a lively last kilometer, Hincapie was the sharpest to react, out-pacing sluggish Frenchman Sebastien Chavanel (Francaise des [...]

Almost 1 million bicycles were stolen in the U.S in 2006, according to the FBI and most of them were never seen again. With the increasing popularity of cycling as a sport and as a means of transportation, bike thefts are on the rise. Protecting our bikes means more than putting on the right lock, [...]

Teutenberg wins the Triple Crown
Philadelphia, Pennsylvannia, 8 June 2008 - High Road’s Chantal Beltman won the 2008 Liberty Classic race in Philadelphia, with a jaw-dropping solo effort in the last lap. This win culminated a week of High Road victories, two by Ina Teutenberg in Allentown and Reading, Pennsylvania and four by Judith Arndt in [...]

Los Angeles, CA (June 8, 2008) – As Philly Week comes to a close, Rock Racing, the most-talked about team in professional cycling, announces an on-line photo contest that will give fans the opportunity to share their favorite Rock Racing photos for a chance to win a full team kit and other popular Rock Racing [...]

Philadelphia — Rock Racing’s Fred Rodriguez finished third Sunday at the Commerce Bank International Cycling Championship in Philadelphia.
Rodriguez scored his seventh top five finish in the most prestigious one-day race in the United States as Matti Breschel (Team CSC) won a field sprint ahead of Kirk O’Bee (Health Net presented by Maxxis) on a steamy [...]

AVIGNON, France, June 7, 2008 (AFP) - Astana have watered down pre-race predictions that their team leader for the Dauphine Libere, Levi Leipheimer, will emerge triumphant after a week of tough racing in the Alps.
Traditionally a warm-up for July’s Tour de France, the hilly week-long race kicks off [...]

San Luis Obispo, California, 7 June 2008 - High Road will take to the Dauphine Libere this weekend determined to snap up as many stage wins as possible.
“We don’t have a rider for the general classification here.” commented Allan Peiper, co-directing High Road at the prestigious French race with Jan Schaffrath.
“Michael Rogers is still heading [...]

The following race report was emailed to me by one of my team mates. We have a team tradition that the team member that places the highest in the overall gets the honor of writing the race report. On this occasion I just could not let this one slip by and not share it with [...]

AVIGNON, France, June 7, 2008 (AFP) - The respective form of some of this
year’s Tour de France contenders, notably Australia’s Cadel Evans, will come
under close scrutiny at the Dauphine Libere which begins here Sunday.
However at the week-long stage race which usually serves as an appetiser to
next month’s Tour de France, a [...]

Reading, Pennsylvannia, 5 June 2008 - High Road’s Ina-Yoko Teutenberg successfully defended her title as winner of the Commerce Bank Reading Classic in 2007 winning the second round of the Triple Crown today.
Teutenberg has now won the first two rounds, with the third and most prestigious race coming up on Sunday in Philadelphia.
“Today was actually [...]

Allentown, Pennsylvannia, 3 June 2008 - High Road’s Ina-Yoko Teutenberg has won the first round of the Commerce Bank Triple Crown, which took place in Allentown, Pennsylvania today. Teutenberg went against the odds to win the race without the support of a team.
“I actually was not expecting to win today,” said a happy Teutenberg after [...]

‘Rock Racing Wall’ To Highlight Philadelphia International Championship On June 8
Culver City, Calif. — Rock Racing is going “all-in” for one of the most prestigious weeks of professional bicycle racing in the United States. The team voted most popular by fans in a Bicycling.com poll is now an official sponsor of the Commerce Bank Triple [...]

PARIS, June 3, 2008 (AFP) - The International Cycling Union (UCI) have threatened sanctions against riders and teams competing in this year’s Tour de France after organizers announced Tuesday that the race will take place under the jurisdiction of the French Cycling Federation (FFC).
The decision follows a long-running dispute [...]

MILAN, June 1, 2008 (AFP) - Spain’s Alberto Contador of Astana won the Tour of Italy on Sunday following the final stage, a 28.5km time trial won by Italian Marco Pinotti of High Road.
The Spaniard snapped an 11-year Italian winning streak in the event - Russia’s Pavel Tonkov [...]

The 2008 Planet Ultra King of the Mountains Century Challenge was awesome! 3 days, 323 miles. And 30,800 ft. of climbing; what more could any cyclist ask for? From the beautiful Malibu hillsides, to the highest paved road in SoCal, and all the way to the frigid cold of the Los Padres National Forest, this [...]

PLAN DE CORONES, Italy, May 26, 2008 (AFP) - Italian rider Franco Pellizotti of Liquigas won the 16th stage of the Tour of Italy, a 12.9km time trial here on Monday.
Spain’s Tour de France champion Alberto Contador retained the leader’s pink jersey after finishing fourth on the day, 22sec [...]

CARPI, Italy, May 22, 2008 (AFP) - Daniele Bennati edged Thursday’s 12th stage of the Tour of Italy by the width of a tire rim with fellow Italian Giovanni Visconti holding on to the race leader’s pink jersey.
A photo-finish was required to separate Bennati, whose stage win was [...]

Van Buren, Ark: Glen Chadwick will go into the history books as Team Type 1’s first overall winner of a professional stage race.
The New Zealander wrapped up the Tour of Arkansas on Sunday by finishing eighth in the 75-minute Celebrity Classic Criterium in Historic Downtown Van Buren. Chadwick enjoyed a 25-second margin of victory in [...]

Results for the Giro d’Italia, both for stage 8 and the overall:
Stage 8
1. Giovanni Visconti (ITA/QST) 208km in 36h44:06.
2. Matthias Russ (GER/GST) [...]

PESCOCOSTANZO, Italy, May 16, 2008 (AFP) - Gabriele Bosisio of LPR won the seventh stage of the Tour of Italy here on Friday on a day when Giovanni Visconti retained the overall lead and Danilo di Luca and Riccardo Ricco went on the attack.
Those Italian riders had an [...]

AGRIGENTE, Italy, May 11, 2008 (AFP) - American David Zabriskie of the Slipstream team was forced out of the Giro d’Italia after suffering a fractured lumbar vertebra in a crash during the second stage here Sunday.
The 29-year-old from Salt Lake City was among a bunch of riders when he [...]

GRAND RAPIDS, MI., May 8, 2008 – BISSELL Pro Cycling (BPC) announces its seven-man roster for the 2008 Tour de Leelanau, which includes the 2007 defending champion, Garrett Peltonen. He and his teammates are ready for the challenges of the May 25 race, and are riding fresh off of recent victories at the Tour de [...]

So the story goes like this. Sean Tucker, the owner of Toyota-United promises Ivan Dominguez that he would put his picture on the Times Square Billboard if he wins a stage at the Amgen Tour of California. Ivan comes through on Stage 1, and so does Mr. Tucker.

AND IF THAT IS NOT ENOUGH

FRIBOURG, Switzerland, May 1, 2008 (AFP) - Australia’s Robbie McEwen, of Silence Lotto, bagged his first win of the season by outsprinting the bunch on the second stage of the Tour de Romandie here Thursday.
Italian sprinter Daniele Bennati, of Liquigas, finished second with Danish one-day specialist Matti Breschel of [...]

PRESS RELEASE From: Court of Arbitration for Sport

Monterey, Calif.- When Evan Oliphant of  Plowman Craven looked back as he was about to cross the finish line, he had nothing to worry about. He crossed the line in first place at 3:01:11, with a 30 second gap ahead of second place finisher Simon Richardson, who also rides for Plowman Craven. “I just gave [...]

  WARSAW, March 21, 2008 (AFP) - Fourteen Polish youth competition-level cyclists were injured, two of them seriously, when a car ploughed into their peleton during a training session Friday, police said.
   The youths were hit by the oncoming vehicle on a main road near Kalisz in central Poland, the home of their cycling club, [...]

 
Atlanta:  Team Type 1, a first-year professional team that has twice won the Race Across America corporate team division, will be among 15 squads at this years Tour de Georgia presented by AT&T.
Team Type 1 was founded in 2004 by racers Phil Southerland and Joe Eldridge to inspire people living with diabetes to take a [...]

Following is Part 5 of a manuscript titled “rolling thunder.”  Coincidentally, it picks up amid the Tour of California and it’s being posted on the eve of the start of its 2008 launch.  It’s like we planned it that way.
 
 As a note to those persevering the saga, we’ll be traveling for a couple of days [...]

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Months ago, Tailwind sports dropped the bomb that it couldn’t secure appropriate sponsorship to replace Discovery Channel, though LA himself said they were 90% along the way to doing so.  But rather than pursue that last slice of, say $1-2m/year, it made more sense to simply, and dramatically, fold the tent and send the riders and [...]

Finally got around to adding nifty social linking buttons on the articles so those of you who are into Digg, Netscape, del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Google Bookmarks and Socialogs can add your fave bicycle.net articles where you like to hang out. Look for the buttons to the right of the comments link in every post.
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I wish I knew Latin better so I could find a word meaning “name change”. Maybe something like mutocognomen. Anyway, I got tired of calling myself bfntg and decided I needed to call myself something more meaningful and relevant to cycling. So I’m re-introducing myself under my new nom de Bicycle blog, [...]

My bike was stolen earlier this year. Cory over at BoingBoing and I share a fantasy:

Oh, and my fantasy involves pain for the thief. Lots. Cory’s nicer than me.
What’s your bike lock solution or fantasy?

“I would if I could’ is finished for you now. I would if I could has an ending for you now. From now on, ‘I would if I could’ is over for you and done and finished. You cut it loose you let it go completely and permanently. Your new motto will be ‘I can’ [...]

One of the beauties of world class bike tours, is the world class character of the men who ride. Fierce competitors, but honorable sportsmen who respect their foes. With all of the talk of drugs and doping, its great to listen to these road warriors talk about their sport and the peleton [...]

2007 Ride The Rockies Bicycle Tour Route Announced
DENVER, Feb. 7 /PRNewswire/ — The Denver Post Ride The Rockies, presented by Wells Fargo, has announced the route for its 22nd annual bicycle tour, June 17 - 23, 2007.
Two thousand cyclists will begin the 422-mile loop in Frisco, [...]