My Post De Panne Report
I flew home the last day of De Panne right back to the states. It’s so horrible going from such great form to nothing, barely able to put on a T-shirt. I sometimes feel things are meant for a reason. In this case, there was a really good but horribly […]

The big news of De Panne today was that Magnus Backstedt is back on form and riding strong. He - wisely - spent most of the day riding at the front of a nervous peloton and finished a solid tenth place in the massive field sprint. Martijn Maaskant was in good position for the final, […]

Damn, I hate calls like this. Johnny Weltz called to let me know that Steven went down in stage 3 of De Panne and landed badly on his shoulder breaking his clavicle (”collar bone”). The x-ray showed a crack near the end of the clavicle where it joins the scapula (”shoulder blade”). For a refresher […]

Today’s stage 1 at De Panne was both good and bad for our classics crew. For the first three quarters of the stage, it was fairly mellow. One single rider went off the front and gained up to ten minutes at one point. Then we approached the first of two 38 km finishing circuits with […]

The classics crew made it back up to Belgium today. First up on our plate is Three Days of De Panne on the windy coast of Belgium. This race is three days, just like the title implies.
What’s missing from the title is three “windy, rainy, sand-in-your-eyes, cow-poop-in-your-face, dangerous” days.
De Panne is known for […]

Steven Cozza writes a regular blog for CycleTo.com from his Spanish base in Girona. Look for updates on his efforts at Castilla y Leon this week.

CyclingNews.com featured Michael “Meatball” Friedman and his Het Volk ride, complete with very special bike plate. Cozza turned a few heads at Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne with his moustache and breakaway attempts.

On this second day of the first weekend of hard Belgian classics racing, Slipstream/Chipotle kept the blue and orange flying at the front.
Said DS Johnny Weltz: “Steven Cozza was up there in the right split from the start. But when the group split again, he got caught in second group. Martijn Maaskant came from behind […]