This is a very cool feeling. My roommate Christian (left and below on podium) won the time trial today and just got back to the hotel. Actually, he didn’t just win it, he smashed everyone else. A ten-second difference over 9 km is a hell of a lot. To be honest, I think Voekler […]

A quiet peloton gathered early this morning under a slow, cold drizzle to compete in the first of a two-stage day of day two of Circuit Cycliste Sarthe. A three-man break animated most of the stage. The fugitives were caught just before the finish by a handful of riders with the main peloton only 3″ […]

Et bien bilan de la 1ère étape. Il faisait super froid et nous devons joué au chat et a la souris avec les échapees. Puis une chute avec CJ, Christian et Pat! On a perdu du temps…mais pas trop. Et il reste encore quatre étapes!
Demain lever a 6h45 et départ 9h45! Et ils annoncent 1 […]

The report from stage 1. It was super cold and we had to play cat and mouse with a breakaway of two. Then Chris Sutton, Christian Vande Velde and Pat McCarty got caught up in a crash. We lost some time, but not much. And there are still four more stages left.
Tomorrow we get […]

Race report direct from DS Johnny Weltz
“The race turned out to be just as hard as expected. We really wanted a group to go from the start. We tried hard to make it happen, but a strong tailwind made the pace too fast for anyone to go.”
“As we got close to first feed zone, […]

Though Slipstream/Chipotle’s squad in France might have thought they were steering clear of the ugly conditions that typify Flanders, today was a completely different story. The riders in Rennes faced rain, cold, snow, hail and ice and the race saw an unusual number of abandons.
As the frozen (”frigorifié” in French) peloton continued to dwindle, the […]

The Redlands Crit is now done with and we all got through it without incident. Like most years, it starts out fast and doesn’t let up. The speed picked up considerably in the closing minutes as other teams with a chance in the sprint tried to bring back the break. Tom and Peter finished safely […]

The Argyle Armada lit up today’s 185.3 km Adèlie de Vitrè road race from the beginning, flying the blue and orange in break after break. About 30 km into the race, Christophe Laurent was the first one to go off with fellow Frenchman Christophe Moreau.
The next big break came when Dan Martin, Danny Pate […]