Velonews: Hesjedal back in the Eroica mix
Velonews talks to Ryder Hesjedal about his love of the ‘strade bianche’ that make the Monte Paschi Eroica so darn much fun. Ryder left his mark on the semi-classic race last year with a long solo breakaway and a 10th place finish. Velonews: Does your mountain biking background give you any sort of advantage? Ryder [...]
Murcia stage 3 time trial: Tommy D 11th, moves to 8th overall
Tom Danielson posted the 11th fastest time in today’s 16-kilometer individual time trial and moved to 8th in the overall classification. With only a 49-second gap separating him from the race leader, Tom is sitting pretty for tomorrow’s queen stage with two category one climbs. Garmin-Slipstream stage 3 ITT results 1. Frantisek Rabon 19’17″ 11. [...]
Vuelta Mexico stage 5: Stetina leads U23 category, 14th overall
VMG/Felt U23 rider Peter Stetina finished the longest stage of the eight-day race 9th and 2’15″ behind today’s winner Jackson Rodriguez. Riding for a U.S. composite team, Peter leads the U23 category and is in 14th overall. See Cyclingnews.com for full stage results.
ESPN Cycling: Family man Vande Velde targeting Tour podium
ESPN Cycling features an interview with Christian Vande Velde who talks about kicking off his European season this weekend with Paris-Nice. “I feel ok, maybe a little bit better than last year at the same period,” he added before leaving for France, where he will take part in the March 8-15 Paris-Nice stage race, not [...]
Surviving the spring storm sampler
Timmy reports on the madness in Murcia. What a strange day! We woke up, looked out the window, saw some non-threatening clouds and headed to the start anticipating the massive climb on today’s menu. Then, as we left the hotel parking lot and turned the corner, it started pouring rain and blowing. Close the eyes, [...]
Murcia stage 2: Julian Dean 3rd at end of strange day
Julian Dean finished third at the end of today’s bizarre stage . Most of the stage was neutralized due to 90 kph winds and the peloton rode sections of the course sheltered by race and team vehicles. The riders were allowed to contest the final three kilometers. Tom Danielson, Huub Duyn (pic’d above) and Lucas [...]
From book-on-tape slow to 70 kph
Timmy’s take on day one at the Vuelta de Murcia Today was a day of contrasts. After a windy start, a small non-threatening break took off and we settled down for the longest stage of the week on some riveting wide open interstate with a nice full head wind. It was one of those days [...]
Vuelta de Murcia stage 1: Duyn 12th in opening stage
Coming off a strong ride at Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne, Huub Duyn finished 12th on today’s hard opening stage of the 2009 Vuelta de Murcia. Huub, Tom Danielson and Lucas Euser all made the front group coming off La Paca and finished with the same time as stage winner Graeme Brown. **Stay tuned for Timmy’s take on today’s [...]
Murcia preview: Ready for the classic Euro spring experience!
Timmy Duggan checks in from the Vuelta de Murcia I’m happy to be back in Europe now and am ready to start my first race here–the Vuelta de Murcia. I’ve spent the early part of my season doing some very good racing at the Tour Down Under and the Tour de Langkawi. Those race though [...]
VeloNews Frischkorn Journal: Classics season is upon us
In his regular VeloNews column, Will Frischkorn writes about the crazy fun of the Belgian Classics. “These races define crazy. But it’s just right; they couldn’t be any other way. There’s the Belgian “death gap” that bisects every cement block, aka every, road in West-Flanders. The bike paths that parallel the roads and provide perfect [...]
USA Cycling taps Holloway & Pearce for world track championships
USA Cycling announced that Daniel Holloway (above left) and Colby Pearce (above right) will make up half of the four-person US squad for the 2009 UCI Track World Championships in Pruszkow, Poland, March 25-29. Daniel and Colby will team up for the Madison while Daniel will ride the scratch race and Colby the points race.
PezCycling News: Six Day Duo Holloway & Pearce
PezCycling News talks to Daniel Holloway and Colby Pearce about their rocking six day debut season. PEZ: And what about the, ‘Born in the USA’ thing? Daniel: I’m not really a huge fan of the song, it’s OK and I mean I like music and I like to dance. It really started in Zurich – [...]
Our pivotal Paris-Roubaix pavé preview
Our man Mike Friedman reports from the pavé. Anyone who followed the races this past weekend knows I had a brothel of a time. Saturday was one of the worst days I have ever had on a bike. Sunday was much better and I just missed tagging the lead group over the Kwaremont. I was [...]
