Feature: Young Haas reflects on Ardennes experience
Look up the word enthusiasm in the dictionary and you ought to find a picture of Garmin-Sharp’s Australian rider Nathan Haas. Since not long after the age of 13, when he began spending after-school hours launching his bike off dirt jumps in his native Brisbane, Haas has dreamt of rolling his wheels over the starting [...]
Feature: Beating the cold
The word in the European peloton this year was that summer happened in November and winter came back for March and April. Races like Milano-Sanremo and Ghent-Wevelgem were hammered by snow and sub-zero temperatures. And back in the United States it was still snowing in some parts of the nation in mid-April. How do the [...]
Feature: Dan Martin’s Ardennes Ascent
After finishing fourth at the 2013 edition of La Flèche Wallonne, Dan Martin says he was “gutted” to have missed a third-place podium position by a matter of centimeters. At the same time, the fact that the Irishman was climbing with the best, and dropping names like Philippe Gilbert, Alberto Contador, Alejandro Valverde, and Peter [...]
Feature: Hesjedal uses Ardennes as prep for Giro
Competing at his eighth Amstel Gold Race, 32-year old Ryder Hesjedal said he is going into the hilly Ardennes Classics week with better fitness and confidence than ever. “The legs feel good,” Hesjedal said. He explained that last month’s six-day Tour of the Basque country in Spain tuned him for one of his favorite weeks [...]
Gallery: Amstel Gold Race
Johan Vansummeren drove the main break to earn the most aggressive award, Ryder Hesjedal attacked in the finale, and Fabian Wegmann sprinted for a top-ten!
Feature: Post-Classic clean-up
At the Spring Classics the day after a race is calm for riders. They sleep in, have breakfast and then head out for a recovery ride. Eat lunch, have a massage and their day is done. For the Garmin-Sharp team staff however, the day is anything but leisurely. That’s when all the team’s support materials [...]
Feature: Home team ready for the USA Pro Cycling Challenge
Racing the USA Pro Cycling Challenge in Colorado has special significance for Team Garmin-Cervélo. Boulder, Colorado is where sporting director and president Jonathan Vaughters founded the team in 2003 and where its U.S. headquarters remain today. Back in 2003, Vaughters started out with a dream, a chunk of his personal savings and a humble objective: [...]
Feature: In the team car at Clasica San Sebastian
Moments before the start of the the Basque one-day Clásica San Sebastián, I slip into the team car and ask Garmin-Cervélo director sportif Bingen Fernandez how many times he has done this race. He shakes his head and smiles. “Phewwww…too many!” Fernandez knows this 234-kilometer course from the Atlantic beaches of San Sebastián, over five [...]
Feature: Sean and Olga Fowler – Keeping the Tour boys fed and happy
When American chef Sean Fowler opened his restaurant, El Racó d’Urús, in the Catalan Pyrenees, just southeast of Andorra, he had no idea it would lead to a life on the road with the Garmin-Cervélo pro cycling team. But then in one day in the spring of 2008, Fowler was out riding his bike when [...]
Feature: A Provencal Rest Day With Chipotle
For the Garmin-Cervélo team, the second rest day of the Tour de France starts off with a ride through the Rhône Valley. “Nothing special, just spinning the legs out” Tyler Farrar says of their two-hour ride through vineyards that spread like green blankets around the flanks of the Mount Ventoux, also known as the Giant [...]
Feature: A day as a soigneur
While the mechanics keep the Garmin-Cervélo bikes performing, a special group of people keep the riders performing, the soigneurs. This is their story. Two groups of people keep the Garmin-Cervélo riders going at the Tour de France: the mechanics who keep the bikes singing and the soigneurs who keep their bodies fueled and supple. Soigneurs [...]
Gallery: Seven days in yellow
Thor Hushovd rode beyond himself this past week and spent a glorious SEVEN days in yellow. Here is a compilation of those podiums! Stage 8: Aigurande – Super-Besse Sancy Stage 7: Le Mans – Châteauroux Stage 5: Carhaix – Cap Fréhel Stage 3: Olonne-sur-Mer – Redon Stage 6: Dinan – Lisieux Stage 4: Lorient – [...]
Feature: An Irishman in the Golden State, Dan Martin talks Tour of California
Before May 2011 Garmin-Cervélo rider Dan Martin had never been to California. His introduction to the state at this year’s Amgen Tour of California gave him a vivid view of the Golden State’s varied terrain and weather. From a 30-degree Tahoe blizzard to raking Central Valley winds to 75-degree Southern California sunshine, the 24-year old [...]
Feature: Garmin-Cervélo Fans at the Tour of California
Nevada City is a gloriously picturesque Sierra Nevada foothills mining town. And it is here, outside the Garmin-Cervélo bus where the riders are inside having a pre-race meeting ahead of the day’s Tour of California stage, that we take time to chat with a trio of argyle fans. Chris Blancett and Regina Molina are from [...]
Feature: Tour of California Cuisine from the Clif Bar Food Mobile
Walk into a team hotel at the Tour of California at dinnertime and the Garmin-Cervélo table is empty. While the other teams load their plates from buffet tables then gravitate to their assigned seats, to find the Garmin-Cervélo boys you have to go to the parking lot. This year the team brought along the Clif [...]
Garmin-Cervélo Girona Training Camp—An Inside View
What happens at a pro team training camp? To find out, we spent seven days with the Garmin-Cervélo team at the camp that ended on February third in Girona, Spain, the town that is also the team’s European headquarters. Long days in the saddle are the backbone of the camp. Yet for riders, the experience [...]
Feature: Dinner in Girona with Peter Stetina
We recently caught up with 24-year old Garmin-Cervélo rider Peter Stetina on one of Girona’s staple routes, the Mare de Déu dels Angels climb. A peaceful two-lane road that peaks out at 1,600-feet, the climb seems to see more cyclists than cars and at the top delivers views from the Azule Mediterranean to the white-tipped [...]
