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 [...]
Stage Preview: 2011 Giro d’Italia, Week Three
Moving into the third week of the Giro d’Italia, the general classification is still wide open, and Christophe Le-Mével is poised for a great result in Milan! The third week of the Giro starts with a 229 kilometer stage over 5 mountain passes, including the Passo Giau at an elevation of 2,236 meters (7,378 feet). [...]
Stage Preview: Giro d’Italia, Stages 1-7
The 2011 Giro d’Italia starts Saturday with a pan flat 21.5 kilometer team time trial, but quickly moves into mountainous terrain featuring 8 mountain top stage finishes. This year’s Giro is simply too epic to summarize with one race preview. With that in mind, here is the first of three previews for the Giro! The [...]
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 [...]
Race report: Millar wins Criterium International ITT
Team Garmin-Transitions’ veteran David Millar won the final stage of the Criterium International in France, a short but technical time trial, moving him up to fifth overall. Millar said his time trial has been improved by some coaching from teammate Christian Vande Velde: Christian Vande Velde was my TT coach from afar today. After I [...]
Race report: Paris-Nice, stage 6
Team Garmin-Transitions starts the second-to-last stage of Paris-Nice with David Millar in the top ten overall. Director sportif Bingen Fernandez brings us the blow-by-blow from a fast and potentially dangerous stage: Today was a lightning-fast stage. Early in the day there was a 23 rider breakaway with some dangerous riders for the GC. Astana, Caisse [...]
Video: In the car for Millar's Algarve TT
Sit shotgun for David Millar’s rough-and-tumble time trial at the Volta ao Algarve!
Race report: Paris-Nice, stage 2
It was another day of strong cross winds in Paris-Nice. But it was the final run-in to the finish line that caused the problems. Dan Martin was caught in a crash but made it to the finish, while David Millar remains in the top five of GC. Director sportif Bingen Fernandez sent us this report: [...]
Race report: Paris-Nice, stage 1
Team Garmin-Transitions dodged a bullet today in Paris-Nice, with strong winds causing many riders to crash. David Millar was able to make it into a key breakaway and moved up into third on the overall. Our newest director sportif Bingen Fernandez sent us this report: Today it was one of those typical Paris-Nice stages — [...]
Millar Time: Showing off the new ride
Welcome to another installment of Millar Time. This week David Millar shows off his brand new Felt F1 SL, with some mysterious prototype wheels from Mavic. Jealous? Well you too can have one of your own in our Argyle Store!
Team beginning to gel – Volta ao Algarve, stage 5
Director’s report from Matt White: In today’s final time trial, David Millar was in his normal all or nothing TT mode. Dave rode an incredible start to the TT absolutely flying and as usual taking incredible lines — but he slightly over cooked one corner and was a lucky man to walk away with only [...]
Video: Millar Time – Aero Wheels
In response to a recent reader comment we present to you another edition of Millar Time, with your host David Millar. In this episode Canadian cyclist of the decade Ryder Hesjedal gets grilled about his mysterious new wheels:
Gone camping: Chattin' with David Millar
Team Garmin-Transitions’ intrepid camp counselor Will Frischkorn is busy arranging various camp activities for his charges — not exactly arts and crafts but definitely fun activities to go in between the physiological testing and training rides. But even with all this he was able to sit down with one of the Argyle Armada’s team captains, [...]
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 [...]
The Millar Diaries: Winning.
I am so relieved that I won — I am so happy that I felt as good as I hoped to — and above all, I am over the bloody moon I won a sword! But what makes this great is that I can share my success with my team. Kiwi Guy is sitting here [...]
Millar close in wet ITT – Vuelta a Espana, stage 7
Director’s report from Johnny Weltz: Like the prologue the day was rain, but it was 15 degree warmer which was good for us. David lived up to his favorite role as a TT champ, leading the stage all the way to the very end where world champ Fabian Cancellara beat him by only 30 seconds. [...]
The Millar Diaries – Crash
Follow David Millar’s diary entries here and on Cyclingnews.com throughout the Vuelta a España. Crash v. crashed, crash-ing, crash-es a. To break violently or noisily; smash. b. To undergo sudden damage or destruction on impact. This happens often in bike racing, often due to one or more of these six reasons: 1. Mechanically induced (puncture [...]
The Millar Diaries – Hotel hunting sessions
Follow David Millar’s diary entries here and on Cyclingnews.com throughout the Vuelta a España. Ryder Hesjedal and I have become talented skeeter hunters. ‘Skeeter’ is Ryder’s name for mosquitoes and a term I have quickly come to adopt. Last night, Ryder was sufficiently pleased and impressed to be woken at 3:00 a.m. when I, in [...]
The Millar Diaries – One for the ages
Follow David Millar’s diary entries here and on Cyclingnews.com throughout the Vuelta a España. Millar battles the elements in the Vuelta prologue Well that was a bit crap. The weather was always going to be a bit of a lottery today, since first thing this morning it has been intermittent torrential rain and blue skies, [...]
The Millar Diaries – Grand Tour número tres
Follow David Millar’s diary entries here and on Cyclingnews.com throughout the Vuelta a España. On the bus in northern Holland, on the way to the start of my third Grand Tour of the year (I didn’t finish the Giro, a planned retirement on stage 15 saw to that, so it’s not as if I’m attempting [...]
