Meet the argyle with Garmin
Thanks to Garmin, you can meet some of the Argyle Armada this month around the U.S. Tom Danielson at the Icon Lasik Tour to the Moon bike race Date: 6-October Time: 2:00-3:00 p.m. Location: Ruby Canyon Cycles (301 Main Street, Grand Junction, CO 81501) Christian Vande Velde and Tyler Farrar at the Garmin Store – [...]
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 [...]
Photo of the Day: July 18, 2011
Tom Danielson and Christian Vande Velde, 2011 Tour de France. View the Photo of the Day series here:
Stage Preview: Tour de France, Week 2
As the Tour moves on to the second week of racing, we have to say…WOW, what an amazing first week for team Garmin-Cervelo. At the time we write this, the team won stage 2′s team time trial, Tyler Farrar won stage 3, and Thor Hushovd has defended the yellow jersey through stage 6. Congratulations is [...]
Stage Preview: Tour de France Week 1
The Tour doesn’t really need an introduction, it’s the TOUR. Easily one of the largest sporting events in the world, and certainly the biggest race of the pro cycling season. For 2011, the Tour celebrates the 100 year anniversary of the first time the race was held in the Alps. The result is a route [...]
Preview: Tour of Romandie
Tour of Romandie starts April 26th with a week of racing in the Swiss countryside. The Tour of Romandie begins tomorrow with an exciting race format and great line up from Team Garmin-Cervelo. A 3.5km prologue opens things up with a pan flat course profile and what should be a sub 4 minute explosive effort [...]
Meet Christian Vande Velde at the Garmin store!
Here is your chance to meet Christian Vande Velde at the Garmin store on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile:
Update: Tour de France, stage 2
Here is an update to the status of the Argyle Armada after an unlucky and crash-filled stage 2 of the Tour de France: A crash-filled Stage 2 of the Tour de France saw five Team Garmin-Transitions riders hit the pavement. Christian Vande Velde, Tyler Farrar and Julian Dean were all taken to a local hospital [...]
Vande Velde out of Giro, confirms broken clavicle
Team Garmin Transitions’ Christian Vande Velde crashed today during stage 3 of the Giro d’Italia, suffering a broken right clavicle and forcing him to withdraw from the race. He will undergo surgery Wednesday in Antwerp and after that will work with the team’s medical staff on a recovery plan. “The amount of support I’ve received [...]
VeloNews: Vande Velde ready for Giro
Team Garmin-Transitions’ captain for the Giro d’Italia Christian Vande Velde tells VeloNews’ Andrew Hood that he is ready to repeat the performance of 2008 and forget the bad luck of 2009. Christian Vande Velde is hoping that’s going to be déjà-vu all over again at this year’s Giro d’Italia. Well, sort of. The Garmin-Transitions captain [...]
VeloNews: A conversation with Christian Vande Velde
Team Garmin-Transitions’ captain Christian Vande Velde is preparing for his first race of the year, the Volta ao Algarve in Portugal. VeloNews’ Andy Hood sat down with him last month during the training camp in Calpe, Spain. Christian Vande Velde is holding nothing back this season as he sets his sights on the ultimate prize [...]
Meet Tyler Farrar and Christian Vande Velde in person!
Team Garmin-Transitions riders Tyler Farrar and Christian Vande Velde will be making appearances in the coming weeks — Farrar in Portland and Vande Velde in his hometown of Chicago. Tyler Farrar: Saturday, December 19, 4:00-6:00 p.m. River City Bicycles 706 SE MLK Blvd. Portland, Oregon 97214 Pro Racer Tyler Farrar of Team Garmin-Transitions will be [...]
Vande Velde tries to overcome broken hand in Missouri
Team Garmin-Slipstream’s captain for the Tour of Missouri, Christian Vande Velde, crashed at the end of the first stage, breaking a bone in his hand. “Luck hasn’t been on my side this year,” said Vande Velde after the stage. “I went down in the big crash with 500 meters. I crashed into the guys who [...]
Vande Velde off to rough start in Missouri defense
The opening stage of the Tour of Missouri, a circuit race around St. Louis, was supposed to be routine day for Team Garmin-Slipstream — with no real implications for the overall classification. However, as any pro cyclist will tell you, uneventful days can be made very eventful in a split second. The Argyle Armada’s GC [...]
The queen stage: Tour de France, stage 17
Team Garmin-Slipstream’s top contenders, Bradley Wiggins and Christian Vande Velde, fought the good fight today in the toughest stage of the Tour de France. While Wiggins was not able to stay with the stage winners, he limited his losses with the help of Vande Velde. He now looks ahead to the crucial stage 18 time [...]
Support the juniors — Win a signed VDV jersey!
Team Garmin-Slipstream’s Tour de France captain Christian Vande Velde is donating a signed jersey from 2008 for an eBay auction to raise support for the Slipstream juniors team at the US national championships this July. All proceeds from the auction will go to this effort. As well, the winning bidder will receive a $250 shopping [...]
Finishing the Pyrenees: Tour de France, stage 9
Team Garmin-Slipstream is through the first part of the 2009 Tour de France in fine fashion, with two GC contenders sitting in the top ten — last year’s fourth place overall Christian Vande Velde in eighth, and for many the revelation of the Tour this year so far, Bradley Wiggins in fifth, just 46 seconds [...]
Wiggo, VDV hangin' tough: Tour de France, stage 8
Team Garmin-Slipstream’s GC contenders Christian Vande Velde and Bradley Wiggins rode an intelligent race today, staying right where they needed to be to hold their spots near the top of the overall leaderboad of the Tour de France. Neither Wiggo or Vande Velde were in any bother when the pace was lifted by the group, [...]
Vande Velde, Wiggins in the hunt for overall
Team Garmin-Slipstream’s GC contenders Christian Vande Velde and Bradley Wiggins showed everyone what they are capable of today on the longest stage of this year’s Tour de France — staying with and at times leading the elite group of overall contenders on the way to the mountain-top finish, including an attack by Wiggins at 1km [...]
Vande Velde's NY Times blog: Surviving a trial as a team
Read Christian Vande Velde’s blog on the New York Times web site. Tuesday’s team time trial was bittersweet given the circumstances: we lost four of nine riders with 28 kilometers, or about 17 miles, to go over an undulating, technical course with gale-force winds. This was a consequence of our team going fast from the [...]
Team Garmin-Slipstream Documentary Blood, Sweat + Gears premiers on Sundance Channel
See the preview of the Sundance Channel documentary Blood, Sweat +Gears: Racing Clean to the Tour de France and catch the premier on June 29 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT. Check out http://www.sundancechannel.com/films/500336483 for more information.
