Feature: Young Haas reflects on Ardennes experience
Look up the word enthusiasm in the dictionary and you ought to find a picture of Garmin-Sharp’s Australian rider Nathan Haas. Since not long after the age of 13, when he began spending after-school hours launching his bike off dirt jumps in his native Brisbane, Haas has dreamt of rolling his wheels over the starting [...]
Feature: Beating the cold
The word in the European peloton this year was that summer happened in November and winter came back for March and April. Races like Milano-Sanremo and Ghent-Wevelgem were hammered by snow and sub-zero temperatures. And back in the United States it was still snowing in some parts of the nation in mid-April. How do the [...]
Feature: Dan Martin’s Ardennes Ascent
After finishing fourth at the 2013 edition of La Flèche Wallonne, Dan Martin says he was “gutted” to have missed a third-place podium position by a matter of centimeters. At the same time, the fact that the Irishman was climbing with the best, and dropping names like Philippe Gilbert, Alberto Contador, Alejandro Valverde, and Peter [...]
Feature: Hesjedal uses Ardennes as prep for Giro
Competing at his eighth Amstel Gold Race, 32-year old Ryder Hesjedal said he is going into the hilly Ardennes Classics week with better fitness and confidence than ever. “The legs feel good,” Hesjedal said. He explained that last month’s six-day Tour of the Basque country in Spain tuned him for one of his favorite weeks [...]
Feature: Post-Classic clean-up
At the Spring Classics the day after a race is calm for riders. They sleep in, have breakfast and then head out for a recovery ride. Eat lunch, have a massage and their day is done. For the Garmin-Sharp team staff however, the day is anything but leisurely. That’s when all the team’s support materials [...]
Feature: Tyler Farrar on the spring Classics
As a sprinter who makes his home in Ghent, Belgium, the cobbled classics of Belgium and northern France have a special place in Tyler Farrar’s heart. These are the races he dreamed of competing in as a young man growing up in Washington state. We caught up with 28-year old Farrar three days before Paris-Roubaix [...]
Feature: Paris-Roubaix recon
After the Garmin-Sharp team pre-rode 90-kilometers of the Paris-Roubaix course this year, director sportif Geert Van Bondt took time to fill us in on why this Paris-Roubaix recon tradition exists. Pre-riding the second half of Paris-Roubaix is a Garmin-Sharp pre-race ritual — one that helps the team manage a basket of variables that are more [...]
Pro’s equipment: Castelli Gabba Jersey
Our professional riders spend a lot of time on their bikes, in all types of weather conditions. With the help of Castelli, the riders have the technical apparel they need to perform at the top level throughout the race season. Catch up with pro riders David Millar and Michel Kreder as they discuss Castelli’s revolutionary [...]
Help us reach 50k on Twitter!
Thanks to our fans we have nearly 50,000 followers on Twitter! To commemorate reaching this milestone we are going to give away some argyle schwag to three lucky followers once we reach 50k. Make sure you follow us and get your friends to follow too. And be sure to check out our riders on Twitter [...]
Many races, one team
An interesting thing about professional cycling is that riders on a team for a specific race might not ever race the rest of the season with the exact same line-up. With 30 riders on a team the options for filling a six-to-eight rider roster are vast. Then add in the fact that there are multiple [...]
Point Garmin
For our French speaking fans (or those with Google Translate) check out the “Garmin Point of the Day” at Point Garmin! La deuxième étape du Tour de France ralliera Visé à Tournai, toujours en Belgique. Aujourd’hui, notre point Garmin est donc la Citadelle de Namur. Les coureurs passeront par ce point entre 14h25 et 14h40, [...]
Feature: Development alumni continue to impress
Slipstream Sports is proud of its commitment to developing the next generation of riders, through the Chipotle-First Solar Continental team and the Slipstream-Craddock junior development team. The fruits of this effort are increasingly visible on the Garmin-Barracuda team, most recently at the Amstel Gold Race where development team alumni Alex Howes and Raymond Kreder rode [...]
Feature: Reconnoitering Flanders
Allan Peiper and Geert Van Bondt took the Classics crew out in Flanders to recon the race changes for this year and sent this report. Today was our second attempt to get an early glimpse of the Tour of Flanders course. We had a recon planned for late December but the weather was too bad [...]
Feature: Danny Summerhill — An Apprentice’s Tour of Colorado
During stage two of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge Danny Summerhill couldn’t believe it when he went over the top of 12,095-foot high Independence pass ahead of Andy Schleck. “I was pleased that I made it with the big guys,” Summerhill recalls. Though 22-year old Summerhill grew up in and lives in Denver and has [...]
Feature: Home team ready for the USA Pro Cycling Challenge
Racing the USA Pro Cycling Challenge in Colorado has special significance for Team Garmin-Cervélo. Boulder, Colorado is where sporting director and president Jonathan Vaughters founded the team in 2003 and where its U.S. headquarters remain today. Back in 2003, Vaughters started out with a dream, a chunk of his personal savings and a humble objective: [...]
Feature: In the team car at Clasica San Sebastian
Moments before the start of the the Basque one-day Clásica San Sebastián, I slip into the team car and ask Garmin-Cervélo director sportif Bingen Fernandez how many times he has done this race. He shakes his head and smiles. “Phewwww…too many!” Fernandez knows this 234-kilometer course from the Atlantic beaches of San Sebastián, over five [...]
Feature: Sean and Olga Fowler – Keeping the Tour boys fed and happy
When American chef Sean Fowler opened his restaurant, El Racó d’Urús, in the Catalan Pyrenees, just southeast of Andorra, he had no idea it would lead to a life on the road with the Garmin-Cervélo pro cycling team. But then in one day in the spring of 2008, Fowler was out riding his bike when [...]
Feature: A Provencal Rest Day With Chipotle
For the Garmin-Cervélo team, the second rest day of the Tour de France starts off with a ride through the Rhône Valley. “Nothing special, just spinning the legs out” Tyler Farrar says of their two-hour ride through vineyards that spread like green blankets around the flanks of the Mount Ventoux, also known as the Giant [...]
Feature: Rest Day #2 with the chiro
Team chiropractor Matt Rabin checks in with us again after the second rest day, with another week of racing to reflect upon. The second rest day certainly comes with a touch more optimism. We are further south, the sun is shining, and Paris seems close, but yet so far. There is far more of a [...]
Feature: A day as a soigneur
While the mechanics keep the Garmin-Cervélo bikes performing, a special group of people keep the riders performing, the soigneurs. This is their story. Two groups of people keep the Garmin-Cervélo riders going at the Tour de France: the mechanics who keep the bikes singing and the soigneurs who keep their bodies fueled and supple. Soigneurs [...]
Feature: Resetting on the rest day
Our chiropractor Matt Rabin took a few minutes out of his busy rest day of realigning various body parts to send us this first week recap and an insight into the happenings of the first Tour rest day. The first rest day could not have come soon enough for what seems like most of the [...]
Gallery: Seven days in yellow
Thor Hushovd rode beyond himself this past week and spent a glorious SEVEN days in yellow. Here is a compilation of those podiums! Stage 8: Aigurande – Super-Besse Sancy Stage 7: Le Mans – Châteauroux Stage 5: Carhaix – Cap Fréhel Stage 3: Olonne-sur-Mer – Redon Stage 6: Dinan – Lisieux Stage 4: Lorient – [...]
Feature: Meet Ramunas the Revelation
A little over two weeks ago Ramunas Navardauskas did not know he would race the Tour de France. After the team won the stage two team time trial, the 23-year old Lithuanian national road champion can now count himself as a stage winner of that very race. Since then, with Thor Hushovd in the yellow [...]
Feature: Cervélo S5 launches a force at Tour de France
On the Wednesday before the Tour de France starts on the Atlantic Coast at France’s Passage du Gois, Dave Zabriskie sauntered out of the Garmin-Cervélo team hotel with Yoda. “I’m taking Yoda out,” he said. DZ had just returned from a ride with his teammates on a brand new Cervélo frame, the S5. The bike, [...]
