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:
Today [...]
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 — fast, [...]
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 [...]
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 at high speed, snapped [...]
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 his [...]
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, with [...]
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 to [...]
Millar in the breaks again – Tour de France, stage 19
Team Garmin-Slipstream’s veteran racer David Millar was once again in the breakaway today, continuing his aggressive racing over the three-week Tour de France.
In the finale, the young Martijn Maaskant was up in the field sprint, but had to brake in the final 150 meters as he was nearly put into the barriers by a [...]
The Millar Diaries: Them are the breaks
Friday, July 17 — I’ve been trying really hard to get in the break the last two days. Thursday I ended up trying too hard, I was probably one of the strongest in the race that day — well I certainly was of the riders who wanted to go for the stage win, but [...]
The Millar Diaries: Just plain crazy
About 30km into the stage today, Fabian Cancellera (aka: Swiss Bear, Spartacus, Big Baby, Freak…) pulled up beside me, sat up and reached inside the front of his jersey while shouting in his loud cheery way, ‘Millar! I have a present for you!’ This was the conclusion to what had been the [...]
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 [...]
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, matching [...]
