Le Tour: Vande Velde makes the break
Christian Vande Velde kept the argyle fight up front and center on stage 15, getting into the main breakaway and riding valiantly into the final for second. The action for the first half of the stage was relentless as numerous teams tried to get into the breakaways, none more so than the argyle armada with [...]
Video: Recap of Millar’s stage 12 win
Bicycling Magazine spoke with David Millar and Allan Peiper following stage 15.
Le Tour: Millar time!
David Millar turned the Tour de France around for the argyle with an amazing win on a tough stage 12! Millar was in the five rider break for most of the tough climbing stage, with the first part made even more difficult by a fast moving peloton chasing sprint points. Then again the finale the [...]
Le Tour: Zabriskie ‘most combative’ as bad luck run continues
David Zabriskie launched and drove the day’s main breakaway on stage 6. That effort combined with his solo attack at the end earned Zabriskie the ‘most combative award, the lone bright spot on an otherwise dismal day for the argyle. “We tried pretty hard to be smart about it,” said Zabriskie about the break. “[The [...]
Point Garmin
For our French speaking fans (or those with Google Translate) check out the “Garmin Point of the Day” at Point Garmin! La deuxième étape du Tour de France ralliera Visé à Tournai, toujours en Belgique. Aujourd’hui, notre point Garmin est donc la Citadelle de Namur. Les coureurs passeront par ce point entre 14h25 et 14h40, [...]
Team Garmin-Sharp-Barracuda unveils new team kit
TEAM GARMIN-SHARP-BARRACUDA UNVEILS NEW TEAM KIT, TO BE DEBUTED AT THE 2012 TOUR DE FRANCE Slipstream Sports recently welcomed Sharp as a new co-title sponsor and today unveiled its new team kit, which will be ridden for the first time at the 2012 Tour de France. The kit was created by the team’s innovative technical [...]
Press release: 2012 Tour de France roster
TEAM GARMIN-BARRACUDA ANNOUNCES 2012 TOUR DE FRANCE ROSTER June 21, 2012 – Team Garmin-Barracuda today announced its much-anticipated 2012 Tour de France roster. The squad is headlined by recent Giro d’Italia winner and former top-ten finisher, Ryder Hesjedal, along with 2011 top-ten finisher Tom Danielson and Christian Vande Velde, a two-time top-ten finisher. Time [...]
Race report: Garmin-Cervélo claims team prize; Danielson top-10 in Tour – Tour de France, stage 21
Garmin-Cervélo proudly took victory laps on the Champs-Élysées on Sunday after securing the team’s prize in a spectacularly successful Tour de France. Garmin-Cervélo earned a spot on the final podium in Paris with victory in the prestigious team’s competition and Tom Danielson secured a top-10 with ninth place overall in a solid Tour performance that [...]
Race report: Danielson secures top-10, Garmin-Cervélo’s poised to win team GC
Garmin-Cervélo secured likely victory in the prestigious team classification while Tom Danielson sewed up a spot in the top-10 with another strong performance in Saturday’s decisive time trial at the Tour de France. Danielson powered to 11th on the stage at 2:08 slower than stage-winner Tony Martin to secure ninth place overall with just one [...]
Race report: Ryder attacks up Alpe d’Huez as Garmin defends top-10, GC lead
Garmin-Cervélo rode with strength in Friday’s short but explosive stage over the Galibier and up Alpe d’Huez to keep Tom Danielson in the top-10 and defend its lead in the team classification. Ryder Hesjedal attacked up the Alpe d’Huez and later led the team with 10th on the stage. Danielson crossed the line with him [...]
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 [...]
Race report: Danielson defends top-10, Garmin-Cervelo tightens grip on team GC
Tom Danielson bravely defended his spot in the top-10 as the squad defended its hold on the team classification in Thursday’s grueling, three-climb 200.5km 18th stage across the French Alps. Danielson hung with the top GC favorites over two hors-categorie climbs and fended off wind and high altitude to cross the line ninth at 3:25 [...]
Race report: Danielson carries top-10 hopes into Alps – Tour de France, stage 17
Tom Danielson rides into two decisive stages in the French Alps with hopes of defending his spot in the top-10 overall at the Tour de France. Garmin-Cervélo defended its lead in the team ranking in Wednesday’s 179km 17th stage from Gap, France to Pinerolo, Italy. Norwegian Edvald Boasson Hagen won the stage out of a [...]
Race report: Thor de France continues, Hesjedal third – Tour de France, stage 16
Garmin-Cervélo’s dream run through the Tour de France continued Tuesday with an impressive stage victory by Thor Hushovd in the 162.5km 16th stage into Gap. Hushovd sprinted to his second stage win of the 2011 Tour while Hesjedal crossed the line third for his best-ever Tour stage result. Hushovd and Ryder Hesjedal rode into the [...]
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: Rest Day #2 with the chiro
Team chiropractor Matt Rabin checks in with us again after the second rest day, with another week of racing to reflect upon. The second rest day certainly comes with a touch more optimism. We are further south, the sun is shining, and Paris seems close, but yet so far. There is far more of a [...]
Race report: Farrar second in windy stage – Tour de France, stage 15
Tyler Farrar sprinted to second in Sunday’s windy 193km 15th stage from Limoux to Montpellier. Julian Dean positioned Farrar well for the sprint finale, but the finish line came too soon for the surging Farrar. The yellow jersey stayed the same in a stage that saw no major shakeups in the overall classification, with Garmin-Cervélo’s [...]
Race report: Hushovd claims dramatic stage victory over the Aubisique – Tour de France, stage 13
Garmin-Cervélo won its third stage of the 2011 Tour de France in dramatic fashion as reigning world champion Thor Hushovd rode a tactically perfect race to attack over the daunting Col d’Aubisque to claim victory. Hushovd snuck into the day’s winning breakaway and then timed it just right over the hors-categorie steeps of the Aubisque, [...]
Tech & Training: Tyler Farrar’s Garmin Edge 500 data – Tour de France, stage 11
Tyler Farrar’s podium finish on stage 11. See more data on Garmin Connect.
Race report: Danielson ‘climbs’ into top-10 overall – Tour de France, stage 12
Tom Danielson climbed into the top-10 with a superb ride in the first day of the mountains in Thursday’s 211km 12th stage into the Pyrénées. The Tour rookie stayed with the GC favorites until the final, late-stage attacks with just a few kilometers to go in the grueling, three-climb 211km stage from Cugnaux to Luz-Ardiden. [...]
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 [...]
Race report: Farrar dashes to third in rainy sprint
Garmin-Cervélo surged close to victory in Wednesday’s fast and rainy stage across the Massif Central as Tyler Farrar sprinted to third in the 11th stage at the Tour de France. Farrar – already a winner in stage 3 — was right in the thick of the action for the stage victory after a threatening breakaway [...]
Race report: Hushovd sprints to fourth as Tour rolls on – Tour de France, stage 10
Garmin-Cervélo came close to victory in Tuesday’s 10th stage by sprinting to fourth in the 158km stage from Aurillac to Carmaux as the 2011 Tour de France clicked back into gear following Monday’s rest day. Thor Hushovd kept himself in good position at the end of a high-speed, technical final kilometer to charge toward the [...]
Feature: Resetting on the rest day
Our chiropractor Matt Rabin took a few minutes out of his busy rest day of realigning various body parts to send us this first week recap and an insight into the happenings of the first Tour rest day. The first rest day could not have come soon enough for what seems like most of the [...]
