The Young Guns races in the Grand Tours are within a bigger race with a general classification of their own. Rarely, a young rider gets all out support from his team in vying for the jersey.
It has been a remarkable race for neo-pro Richie Porte in his first Grand Tour. He won the Maglia Bianca this year as a pro with Bjarne Riis’s crew Saxo Bank. Though signing late in 2009, he made his first pro win in the Tour of Romandie and wore the leader’s jersey at the Giro for three days. In the general classification he took the third place on stage 14 and wore the white jersey to the finish today in Verona. He finished 11th in the time trial and an impressive 7th ranking in the overall standing.
A few years back, it was Andy Schleck who exhibited such an impressive record. Following his acceleration to…
HTC-Columbia’s Maxime Monfort finished safely in the peloton to take the overall title in the Bayern Rundfahrt road race in Germany.
Monfort who took the lead after winning the previous days time trial, topped the final general classification ahead of Italy’s Adriano Malori and Slovenian Simon Spilak, both riding for the Lampre team.
The stage was won by Marcin Sapa (Lampre) who outsprinted breakaway companion, Australia’s Travis Meyer (Garmin-Transitions).
Monfort, earlier in the time trial days before the race, was on the top of the general classification taking the lead over Adriano Malori of Italy and Slovenian Simon Spilak both of Lampre team.
Sapa (Lampre) took the stage race from fellow breakaway companion Travis Meyer (Garmin-Transitions) of Australia.
Wouter Mol, Monfort, and Alex Rasmussen, a threesome breakaway group pedaled hard to create a 3 minute gap. Alex of Saxo Bank was leading the rest into the race as Mol dropped off. Monfort finished in…
In Peronne, France, the 44th edition of the U23 Paris-Roubaix kicked off under cool and rainy weather conditions. Taylor Phinney of Trek-Livestrong makes his “Number 2”, the only rider to capture two U23 Paris-Roubaix wins in its 44 year history seasons’ event. The race was expected to be tough, muddy and difficult due to scattered rains before the event. However as the peloton went underway, strong cold winds replaced the rain.
In the 179 kilometer race of 27 sections, an early breakaway group of seven riders took the front. The group was a composite of Trek-Livestrong and Team Holowerko Partners with Benjamin King of Australia and Walker Savidoe of USA, maintaining a hard two-minute gap over the rest of the peloton up to the last 50 kilometers of the race.
Maintaining a sustained position up front was the defending champion Phinney. “Ben King was up the road and with about 50k to…
The 2010 Ironman 70.3 in St. Polten, Austria was a display of all European triathletes’ capacity to smash the men’s and women’s course records. Filip Ospaly, a Czech, overwhelmed the depending champion Chris McCormack of Australia by finishing at 3:46:02, setting a new course record only a minute ahead of Mecca.
Chris McCormack commented later after the race, “Great race in Austria. These ITU boys are fast on the run. I had an awesome run, 69 minutes, felt strong, but he kicked past me to win.”
The Dutch triathletes, Yvonne Van Vlerken finished the race in 4:18:56 over Hungarian Erika Csomor, setting a new course record on the women’s field.
The two triathletes smashed into the finish line with only 0.2 seconds separating the runner up from the victor. Indeed, it was a classic photo finished.
Ironman 70.3 Austria
St. Pölten, Austria
Top 5 professional men
1. Filip Ospaly (CZE) 3:46:01
2. Chris McCormack (AUS)…
A new kind of doping method has been circulating. Dubbed as “mechanized doping”, it was said to be that a hidden motor can be placed in the downtubes on pro bikes.
Davide Cassini, Italian TV commentator and former pro road cyclist shares that he has ridden a pro bike that weighed 10kg, rigged with an electric motor. The device was hidden in the frame at the crank.
Two weeks ago, Italian newspapers released a story that says some riders in the Giro have used bikes with electric motors to give them an advantage in the race. Later on, the riders changed to standard bikes to avoid getting caught.
The Gruber Assist motors which costs £1800 is a retrofit kit that won a Eurobike Award in 2007. Cassini claims that a pro team can afford to use the Gruber Assist item and somehow find a way to hide the battery pack on the…
SE Bikes and DC Shoes have done an exceptional job over the years at meeting the demands of riders with its collaboration efforts. The two companies first collaborated in 2007 with ’30 Years of Radness’, a limited edition project to celebrate SE’s 30-year anniversary. Coming to the market in 2009 was the DC x SE PK Ripper Fixed Gear, which received mixed reviews. Today, DC and SE have teamed up once again to bring you a PK Ripper Fixed Gear for 2010.
After 2 months of rigorously testing the 2010 model, we have reached a consensus on the latest PK Ripper:
In 2009 the DC x SE fixed gear collaboration captivated the fixed gear world with its appeal – and this year’s revamp is turning out to be no different. Like its predecessor, the PK Ripper…
Rotor, a company famous for their products such as cranks, non-circular chain rings and handle bar stems now introduces their latest addition to their product, the Rotor SX Handlebar Stem. This stem is somewhat identical to a previous stem they had before, only better.
They made two models on this handlebars, the S2 and the SX. The S2 is almost the same to the old Rotor S1 Stem, only that the S2 has adopted the T25 Torx-Headed Dual Thread Technology which has clamping bolts in place and a 3mm Allen-head DTT bolts of the S1 thus making this new change way better.
The SX model however, was a pre-production sample before. The changes made is that the SX uses four bolts while the S2 uses 2. SX was also raised to a 2.5 degree instead of the 7.5 degree, it is much heavier than that of the regular handlebar by…
