Report: Team launches Hesjedal into pink
Ryder Hesjedal became the first Canadian to wear the Giro d’Italia Maglia Rosa today when the team put in an enormous effort to place him on the door step in the uphill finale. Five argyle jumped to the front of the peloton with less than 40km to go to start chasing down the breakaway before [...]
Report: Team owns Giro TTT, Navardauskas in pink!
It was another amazing team time trial for the boys in argyle, taking the win on the fourth stage of the Giro d’Italia and earning the race leader’s maglia rosa for Ramunas Navardauskas. Director of Competition Allan Peiper sent this report. After some good results during the hilly classics and second in the GC at [...]
Press release: 3T partners with Garmin to integrate electronic instrumentation
INTEGRA stem houses Garmin electronic devices, for systemic wireless device integration: easier to use, more aerodynamic, and more robustly protected for sporting use. 3T is partnering with Garmin to integrate electronic instrumentation into the bicycle. It will build the INTEGRA stem as a platform for Garmin’s range of GPS and performance measurement devices. The 3T [...]
Report: Talansky powers to podium and best young rider in Romandie
A great week for the argyle in Romandie was capped off by Andrew Talansky showing the cycling world just what he can do. He nearly won the mountain time trial, resulting in second overall and securing the best young rider jersey. Allan Peiper sent this report. We have had a great week here. Lots of [...]
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 [...]
Kreder, Dekker win Sarthe sprint stages
Thomas Dekker took his first sprint win in the argyle on the final stage of the Circuit Sarthe. Earlier in the race Michel Kreder repeated his first win as pro from 2011, winning the sprint on stage 2a! “I am really happy with my first sprint win for Garmin-Barrucuda,” Dekker said after the race. [...]
Video: Pre-Flanders training with DS Geert Van Bondt
DS Geert Van Bondt discusses the upcoming Tour of Flanders while accompanying the riders on a training ride.
Report: Tour de Langkawi, stages 8 & 9
After many days of hot, sweltering sun with temps in the triple digits, rain cooled off the Tour de Langkawi and the argyle armada took many shots for another stage win. DS Allan Peiper sent this report. Did you know Langkawi was the 4th longest stage race of the year? After the 3 Grand Tours [...]
Report: Tour de Langkawi update, stages 6 & 7
Though the first half of the race went great for the Garmin-Barracuda, illness and crashes have taken a toll on the argyle armada. Sporting Director Allan Peiper sent this report. Tommy D really took some skin off his right leg in his crash on stage 3. It got infected and the medical staff has been [...]
Report: Vanmarcke proves strongest in Omloop!
Sep Vanmarcke shelled favorites out of the main break with a ferocious attack and bested the remaining two in the sprint for the win! “A dream came true today!” said a nearly speechless Vanmarcke after the race. “It was a fast day right from the start and our first real meeting point where we said, [...]
Zabriskie dusts the field in Langkawi, retains lead
Dave Zabriskie obliterated the competition in the opening time trial of the Tour de Langkawi, besting the rest by a whole minute to take the first lead. He and the team then defended the yellow jersey on the second stage. Director of Competition Allan Peiper sent this report. Coming from Australia I love the heat [...]
Report: Michel Kreder does it again!
Michel Kreder doubled-up on his wins at the Tour Méditerranéen, taking the shortened stage win as well as the leader’s yellow jersey. “Due to bad weather the race was adapted to eleven laps of the 10km finishing circuit,” said director Bingen Fernandez. “A breakaway of two riders was controlled by the FDJ team for most [...]
Report: Michel Kreder turns lead-out into win!
Michel Kreder was responsible for leading-out his brother Raymond and teammate Koldo Fernandez, but a gap turned into an impressive win for himself and the team! “Today was a short and very nervous stage of 135km,” said team DS Charly Wegelius. “The group was made especially nervous by the strong winds, and there were several [...]
Report: Punctures riddle Qatar stage finish
Garmin-Barracuda survived a day of bad luck in the fourth stage of the Tour of Qatar with Tyler Farrar solidly in second overall and Ramunas Navardauskas still in the best young rider jersey. After the team worked hard all day to help establish a decisive split in the peloton, bad luck struck Farrar and others [...]
Report: First win of 2012 is a team win – Tour of Qatar, stage 2
Garmin-Barracuda scored its first victory of the 2012 campaign in true team fashion, winning the TTT of Stage 2 in the Tour of Qatar. The boys in argyle blasted through the 11.3km out and back ‘Merckx-style’ time trial course, setting an early time of 12 minutes and 38 seconds which held throughout the day. The [...]
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 [...]
Report: Young argyle riders impress – Tour Down Under, stage 5
Today’s stage was a show for the young guns of the argyle armada — Nathan Haas and Jack Bauer. Sporting Manager Allan Peiper and Director Sportif Geert Van Bondt sent this report. Today we had three flat laps of 40km and then two times up Willunga, all with a strong wind and 25C. From the [...]
Data: Martijn Maaskant – Tour Down Under, stage 1
Martijn Maaskant’s Garmin Edge 800 data on Garmin Connect. More photos from the Tour Down Under:
Race report: Tour Down Under, stage 2
Team DS’ Allan Peiper and Geert Van Bondt sent this report from the second stage. 148 kms today with start in Lobethal in the Adelaide hills. Two riders got away early and the bunch let them go. They got a good lead and there seemed to be no trouble. Vacansoleil rode for the GPM sprint [...]
Garmin-Barracuda Team Members to lead out the Echelon Sonoma Napa Gran Fondo
A benefit for Charity of Choice SONOMA, CA (January 18, 2012) – For the third year, the Echelon Gran Fondo is back in the wine country announcing a new start/finish in Sonoma, just 21 miles from the start of the Amgen Tour of California (ATOC). In honor of Sonoma Valley Hospital and Charity of Choice, [...]
Report: Crash limits sprint chances – Tour Down Under, stage 1
A crash in the final kilometer took the argyle sprint crew out of the running, with Heinrich Haussler looking otherwise strong for the finish. DS’ Allan Peiper and Geert Van Bondt sent this report. Temperatures hit 42C yesterday and everyone suffered. Four riders were away after 5km and after 15km we turned right into the [...]
Preview: Starting 2012 Down Under
The first race of the 2012 season is finally here, the Tour Down Under. Team Garmin-Barracuda’s always smiling Chiro Matt Rabin sent us this preview of what has happened so far, what’s to come, as well as what his role will be this first week. Birthday boy Andreas Klier and Heinrich Haussler show off their [...]
