Race report: Vuelta a España, stage 2
It was a hot day for the peloton at the Vuelta. Director Sportif Bingen Fernandez sent this report. It was around 40C during the whole stage with little wind. Curiously this region is a notorious place for a lot of wind. After some attacks and the control of Movistar a small group of three riders [...]
Race report: Vuelta a España, stage 1
The third Grand Tour of the 2012 season started in Spain with a team time trial. Director Sportif Bingen Fernandez sent this report. First day in Iruña/Pamplona with a nice parcour in the old city where the running of the bulls pass every single year. We were the third team starting so we took avantage [...]
USA Pro Challenge ready to go
The USA Pro Challenge is set to kick-off in Durango, Colorado on Monday. On Saturday top riders were invited to the pre-race press conference, including last year’s runner-up Christian Vande Velde and Tom Danielson. Clif Bar delivered our ‘mobile kitchen’ to us and it is ready to fire-up some tasty meals for our riders!
Ride Argyle Apparel at the USA Pro Cycling Challenge!
We are very excited for the second edition of our hometown race, the USA Pro Cycling Challenge. This year, we will be working with Garmin in the race expo selling team merchandise, as well as Garmin cycling computers at special event pricing. We have also produced a fantastic special edition Ride Argyle tee shirt for [...]
Report: Le Mével takes fourth at San Sebastian
Christophe Le Mével posted a strong result in the Spanish Classic, heading into the final Grand Tour, La Vuelta a España. Director Sportif Bingen Fernandez sent this report. Nice and hot weather in San Sebastian, which means a lot of humidity for the riders. As usual a fast start was on the menu for the [...]
Talansky wins Tour de l’Ain overall!
Andrew Talansky took his first overall stage race win thanks to strong riding by him and his argyle teammates. Director sportif Johnny Weltz sent this report. We had to defend Andrew’s leader’s jersey on a short but bumpy circuit with a 1st cat. climb just 25km from the finish and only a 12 sec lead [...]
Report: Talansky takes over at Tour de l’Ain
Andrew Talansky took his first stage win in his argyle career, while also taking over the GC lead at the Tour de l’Ain. Director Sportif Johnny Weltz sent this report. Today was the Queen stage, a bumpy road from the beginning and high speed! We planned a hard stage to mix up the GC and [...]
Argyle take Utah TTT, Vande Velde into leader’s jersey!
The arygle armada set the Miller Motorsports Park auto racing track a blaze, more than 30 seconds faster than the second place team over just 21.75km. With the win Christian Vande Velde moves into the leader’s jersey. “The team was great today,” said Vande Velde. “We were motivated as usual and knew that this was [...]
Eneco Tour – stages 1-3
The first three stages of the Eneco Tour are in the books and Heinrich Haussler is looking strong in the sprints. Director Sportif Geert van Bondt sent this report. A lot of wind and mostly headwind with some showers as well from time to time. In the final there was a local lap of [...]
Recapping development teams’ nationals success
The Slipstream development teams had a great 2012 national championships, capped off by Rob Bush taking the U23 national road race title. Podium Placings Road Race Nationals Rob Bush – U23 RR – 1st Gregory Daniel – Junior 17/18 TT – 1st Zeke Mostov – Junior 15/16 TT – 1st JAKE SILVERBERG – Junior 15/16 [...]
Le Tour: Vande Velde makes the break
Christian Vande Velde kept the argyle fight up front and center on stage 15, getting into the main breakaway and riding valiantly into the final for second. The action for the first half of the stage was relentless as numerous teams tried to get into the breakaways, none more so than the argyle armada with [...]
Le Tour: Millar time!
David Millar turned the Tour de France around for the argyle with an amazing win on a tough stage 12! Millar was in the five rider break for most of the tough climbing stage, with the first part made even more difficult by a fast moving peloton chasing sprint points. Then again the finale the [...]
Le Tour: Zabriskie ‘most combative’ as bad luck run continues
David Zabriskie launched and drove the day’s main breakaway on stage 6. That effort combined with his solo attack at the end earned Zabriskie the ‘most combative award, the lone bright spot on an otherwise dismal day for the argyle. “We tried pretty hard to be smart about it,” said Zabriskie about the break. “[The [...]
Tour de France: Strong start and bad luck in opening stages
The Garmin-Sharp-Barracuda team began this Tour de France in great position after the opening prologue. But like many previous Tours, the opening road stages are wrought with danger. Fortunately through the first three stages Ryder Hesjedal has escaped the bad luck and sits in great position on the overall in eighth! After putting two in [...]
Ryder Hesjedal wins Giro d’Italia
Today is a historic day for Garmin-Barracuda team managed by Slipstream Sports, LLC, as Ryder Hesjedal won the General Classification of the Giro d’Italia — the first Grand Tour victory for the team started by Jonathan Vaughters.
Report: Hesjedal regains Maglia Rosa on first mountain stage
Ryder Hesjedal showed just what he is capable of on the first true mountain stage of the Giro d’Italia. As the race moved north towards the Swiss border the high mountains finally came into play in this year’s race, and the true contenders came to the top. But it was Hesjedal who proved to be [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
