Posted: Sat, Jul 5th
2008 Tour de France: Valverde leaps uphill to stage win and yellow jerseyWith his Pinarello painted bright yellow and red, Spain’s new national champion Alejandro Valverde clawed his way up to and past an attacking Kim Kirchen (Columbia) on the steeps of the Côte de Cadoudal to take the first stage and yellow jersey of the 95th Tour de France.
Posted: Fri, Jun 27th
Specialized Roubaix SL2 goes wideSpecialized is on a roll with its sponsored athletes and not-yet-released bikes. Christoph Sauser just won the world mountain bike championships on a new Epic, which will be formally introduced next week and available later this year. But the bike that’s here now is the ...
Posted: Fri, Jun 27th
Dura-Ace on testAs the bike industry continues its headlong charge for stiffer-lighter-faster hardware, Shimano is keeping up its end of the deal with the upcoming Dura-Ace road group. VeloNews got a chance to ride the 10-speed group. Here are some brief first opinions.
Posted: Fri, Jun 27th
Roval wheel and Specialized Turbo tubeless road tire system to debut for 2009More than 30 years after company founder Mike Sinyard brought the Specialized Turbo to market as a high-performance clincher, the Californian company is releasing another Turbo. This time, it’s a tubeless road model.
Not yet available, the Turbo Tubeless was designed in ...
Posted: Mon, Jun 16th
High Road to become Team ColumbiaTeam High Road will start the Tour de France in a new uniform featuring the U.S.-based team's new title sponsor: Columbia Sportswear Company.
High Road Sports, Inc., the team’s owner, announced the deal Monday. The team will don its ...
Posted: Fri, Jun 13th
Saris to release Garmin-compatible PowerTapsAmerican manufacturer Saris will soon be selling wireless PowerTap power meter wheels that work with Garmin 705 GPS units. The move represents an important intersection of a GPS player and a major power meter company. Also, French wheel giant Mavic has joined the growing list of ...
Posted: Fri, Jun 13th
Tour de France 101 Bike racing is quite unlike the mainstream “stick-and-ball” sports that most Americans grew up playing, and can often be confusing, or a even a complete mystery. Even other endurance sports, such as marathon running or triathlon, lack the complexities and tactics of ...
Posted: Sun, Jun 8th
CSC’s Breschel wins Philly After quietly sitting in for most of the 156-mile race, CSC’s Matti Breschel went boldly to the front of the Philadelphia International Championship when it mattered most — coming across the finish line. The young Danish rider took the sprint win on Benjamin Franklin Parkway ...
Posted: Sun, Jun 8th
Beltman takes Liberty ClassicHigh Road’s Chantal Beltman won the Commerce Bank Liberty Classic in a late-race solo move. After Beltman and her High Road teammates Mara Abbott and Kim Anderson went clear with Tibco’s Joanne Kiesanowski on the last of four trips up Manayunk Wall, America’s strongest ...
Posted: Sat, Apr 26th
Sivtsov takes stage 6, seizes lead in GeorgiaKanstantin Sivtsov (High Road) attacked Levi Leipheimer (Astana) and race leader Trent Lowe (Slipstream-Chipotle) in the final 500 meters to win the sixth stage of the Tour de Georgia and move into the overall lead on Saturday.
Sivtsov, the ...
Posted: Sat, Apr 26th
Morning-of thoughts on — and cassettes for — Georgia’s decisive climbAt the Tour de Georgia, mechanics spent the night before Saturday’s decisive Brasstown Bald stage switching cassettes on wheels. In place of 10-speed units with a 21, 23 or 25 as the lowest gear, riders’ rear wheels for today have 26, 27 and even 28 teeth. Unfortunately for ...
Posted: Fri, Apr 25th
Brasstown Bald climb will determine Tour de GeorgiaAfter days of racing, hours of hard labor, crashes, strategizing and dozens of employed strategies, attacks and counterattacks, the overall competition at the Tour de Georgia comes down to a simple question: who has the best power-to-weight ratio?
The few favorites still in ...
