Race preview: Recon for the Giro Donne
Sharon Laws is part of our team for the Giro Donne, the Grand Tour for women’s racing. She sent this diary of the team’s scouting of the race. The Giro Donne is the most prestigious women’s stage race of the year and runs from the first to the tenth of July taking in many of [...]
Feature: An Irishman in the Golden State, Dan Martin talks Tour of California
Before May 2011 Garmin-Cervélo rider Dan Martin had never been to California. His introduction to the state at this year’s Amgen Tour of California gave him a vivid view of the Golden State’s varied terrain and weather. From a 30-degree Tahoe blizzard to raking Central Valley winds to 75-degree Southern California sunshine, the 24-year old [...]
Feature: Garmin-Cervélo Fans at the Tour of California
Nevada City is a gloriously picturesque Sierra Nevada foothills mining town. And it is here, outside the Garmin-Cervélo bus where the riders are inside having a pre-race meeting ahead of the day’s Tour of California stage, that we take time to chat with a trio of argyle fans. Chris Blancett and Regina Molina are from [...]
Feature: Tour of California Cuisine from the Clif Bar Food Mobile
Walk into a team hotel at the Tour of California at dinnertime and the Garmin-Cervélo table is empty. While the other teams load their plates from buffet tables then gravitate to their assigned seats, to find the Garmin-Cervélo boys you have to go to the parking lot. This year the team brought along the Clif [...]
Feature: A day with new team director Eric Van Lancker
On April 22 we joined Garmin-Cervélo director sportif Eric Van Lancker as he took some of the Garmin-Cervélo team out to pre ride the last 100 kilometers of the 2011 Liège-Bastogne-Liège course through the Belgian Ardennes. Along the way, we talked about his work with the team, and his other job as a Belgian cycling [...]
Castelli’s new road race SpeedSuit showcased in Roubaix victory
A new, revolutionary road racing SpeedSuit in development by Castelli is being showcased by our riders this Classics season. The combination of an aero jersey and time trial skin suit is the result of Castelli’s innovative approach to product development, one that may have aided Johan’s 19 second margin of victory in Paris-Roubaix. Our riders [...]
Feature: The teamwork in clean clothes
The Garmin-Cervélo teamwork that fans saw at Paris-Roubaix was impressive. From Johan Van Summeren taking the directors’ advice to throttle it at the Carrefour de l’Arbe, to Thor Hushovd frustrating Cancellera’s efforts to bridge, the team rode as an orchestrated whole. But that teamwork starts long before the tubulars hit the road, and it involves [...]
Feature: Wrenching the spring Classics
Of all the races Garmin-Cervélo mechanics support during pro cycling’s 10-month racing season, Paris-Roubaix and the Tour of Flanders are the most intense. We hung around the team trucks this week to see just what goes into wrenching for the Classics. According to Garmin-Cervélo head mechanic Geoff Brown, Roubaix is the most challenging because the [...]
Feature: Tour of Flanders – A day in the ‘mobile’ wheel pits
To get a look at how Garmin-Cervélo’s riders are supported with water and wheels at the most-challenging event in one-day racing, on April 3 we joined one of five Garmin-Cervélo vehicles supporting the 95th running of the Tour of Flanders. Due to the ragged nature of the Flanders course and the fact that the peloton [...]
Catching up with Emma Pooley
When Jonathan Vaughters introduced 28-year old Garmin-Cervélo rider Emma Pooley at a team presentation earlier this year, he remarked that in 2010 the 28-year won the world time trial championship as well as the British road and TT championships, all while working on her Ph.D. Handed the microphone, Pooley admitted that pro cycling has become [...]
Garmin-Cervélo Girona Training Camp—An Inside View
What happens at a pro team training camp? To find out, we spent seven days with the Garmin-Cervélo team at the camp that ended on February third in Girona, Spain, the town that is also the team’s European headquarters. Long days in the saddle are the backbone of the camp. Yet for riders, the experience [...]
Feature: Dinner in Girona with Peter Stetina
We recently caught up with 24-year old Garmin-Cervélo rider Peter Stetina on one of Girona’s staple routes, the Mare de Déu dels Angels climb. A peaceful two-lane road that peaks out at 1,600-feet, the climb seems to see more cyclists than cars and at the top delivers views from the Azule Mediterranean to the white-tipped [...]
Farrar makes grand Giro start
Team Garmin-Transitions opened up the first road stage of the 2010 Giro d’Italia in grand fashion thanks to a lot of teamwork and a master sprint by Tyler Farrar. “It’s fantastic to win at the Giro,” Farrar told VeloNews. “It’s one of the special ones. Last year was a breakout year for me. It feels [...]
Meyer defends world championship!
Team Garmin-Transitions rider Cameron Meyer started off the 2010 track world championships with a bang, dominating the field int he 40km points race to defend his title from 2009. An ecstatic Aussie has this report: That was the most unbelievable feeling! I went into the race confident that I could defend my world title but [...]
Rider diary: Meyer brothers at Track Worlds
Team Garmin-Transitions will be well represented at this year’s track world championships, thanks to its Aussie contingent of Cameron Meyer and younger brother Travis, as well as the up-and-coming talent Jack Bobridge. The Meyer brothers sent along this diary entry from Copenhagen: Travis: Cam and I are currently in Copenhagen for the 2010 Track Cycling [...]
Rider diary: Stetina making a splash
One of Team Garmin-Transitions’ neo-pros, Peter Stetina, is making the most of his debut races in Europe, including making it into a two-rider break for 160km in the Volta a Catalunya, taking over the KOM jersey. He gives us a recap of his season so far in this diary entry: Today was a career highlight [...]
Feature: Robbie Hunter, let the winning begin
Robbie Hunter is a new but veteran addition to the Argyle Armada for 2010. The seasoned sprinter brings experience as well as speed to the team, making for a fast one-two punch with teammate Tyler Farrar. We spoke with the South African right after he notched his first sprint win of 2010 and the first [...]
Race preview: Eroica and Paris-Nice
Team Garmin-Transitions director Matt White gives his take on last weekend’s first foray into the European schedule and a look ahead to both the Italy swing of races for the Classics crew, as well as the stage race Paris-Nice for the climbers. I’m happy with how last weekend went, especially with the conditions. It started [...]
Farrar: Bring on the Classics
Tyler Farrar is Garmin-Transitions’ main man for the sprints and one of the leaders for the Spring Classics campaign, which kicks-off with Omloop Het Neiuwsblad and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne. He recaps the racing in the Middle East and looks ahead to European racing. “The season has gotten off to a pretty good start,” Farrar said about the [...]
Danny Summerhill's 'cross life
One of team Garmin-Transitions’ younger talents, Danny Summerhill, is just as home off the road as he is on it. As a junior in 2007 he won a silver medal at the cyclo-cross world championships. This December he added the U.S. U23 national cyclo-cross champion jersey to a closet already packed with stars-and-stripes titles. And [...]
Cyclingnews: David Millar interview
Team Garmin-Transitions captain David Millar recently did a feature interview with Cyclingnews about his career and his role on the World Anti-doping Authority’s Athlete’s Committee. The sport of cycling has arguably suffered more than any other sport from the scourge of doping, and as the antidoping authorities finally begin to get ahead of the dopers [...]
Farrar featured in hometown event
Team Garmin-Slipstream’s speedster Tyler Farrar spent some of his off-season downtime back home in Washington state, speaking at a fundraiser for the Cascade Bicycle Club. He was also featured on Seattle’s KING 5 news.
Farrar third in Vuelta opener!
Director’s report from Johnny Weltz: As we are up north in The Netherlands, close to the sea, there was no doubt the weather would have an impact on the race today — and so it did. For us a flying David Millar didn’t get what he deserved as the worst of the storms hit right [...]
NY Times: A peek into the Garmin-Slipstream kitchen
Soldiers are not the only ones that march on their stomachs. Enduring the grueling 21 stages of the Tour de France requires special fuel, and a lot of it — from the range of Clif products, such as Clif Bloks and Clif Bars, to the 5-star meals prepared by our very own team chef, Sean [...]
