Froid, pluie, grèle, neige et vent toute la journée pour ce grand prix de la ville de Rennes. J’ai rarement connu des conditions météo plus difficile. A l’arrivée, moins de 50 coureurs sont classé!
L’équipe Slipstream a encore une fois fait une belle course présente dans les principales échappées. Comme à la Route Adélie, j’ai trouve […]

Though Slipstream/Chipotle’s squad in France might have thought they were steering clear of the ugly conditions that typify Flanders, today was a completely different story. The riders in Rennes faced rain, cold, snow, hail and ice and the race saw an unusual number of abandons.
As the frozen (”frigorifié” in French) peloton continued to dwindle, the […]

Your favorite Swede is back and better than ever! After a relatively calm morning stage, Magnus demonstrated his quiet strength and finesse with a solid second place finish in the afternoon time trial. His powerful performance moved him up from 19th to finish the grueling Three Days of De Panne 8th overall!
The morning’s 119 […]

So I’m just getting going on a night shift in Emergency at Queen of the Valley Medical Center in Napa, CA (my day job as it were). My cell rings and the caller ID shows a country code 34 number: Spain. Probably Girona and something from a rider.
In fact it’s assistant DS Matt White […]

The relatively uneventful and sunny stage 5 of the 2008 Volta a Valencia resulted in no significant changes to the overall results. Slipstream/Chipotle worked as a team to protect Trent Lowe’s position overall and succeeded. Timmy Duggan maintained his second place in the overall mountains classification.
Slipstream stage 5 results
1. Alessandro Petacchi 3:12:54 +
14. […]

Ryder Hesjedal winds up for a 5th place finish.
Slipstream/Chipotle came out firing for today’s penultimate stage of the 2008 Volta a Valencia. The four-climb stage was animated by repeated attacks with several members of the burrito brigade joining in the fun.
Hoping to build on his 11 mountain points, Timmy Duggan joined an early break […]

Having joined the day’s decisive breakaway early in the longest stage of the Volta a Valencia, Timmy Duggan (right) stayed away and earned enough points to put him in a tie for second place in the mountains classification.
Initially a five-man break, the Timmy group shrunk to three riders who maintained a 4-minute gap on […]

Slipstream/Chipotle’s Ryder Hesjedal and Trent Lowe managed to hang with some of the sport’s best climbers today on what was a surprisingly challenging first stage of the Volta a Valencia. The final climb of the day - Alt del Garbi - with widely varying 15-18% grades - broke the front group down to ten, two […]