Putting the podium in your sights!
Jeremy Powers (CyclocrossWorld.com/Cannondale) and Katie Compton (Planet Bike/Stevens) both took a solo victory at today’s Cyclo Stampede, the opener of this year’s Cincinnati UCI3 Cyclocross Festival. But the race was truly dominated by Mother Nature, as she delivered days of rain prior to the race to turn the off-camber straights and turns on the course … Read more
On Saturday, 3500 cycling enthusiasts along with an army of 600+ volunteers got together to celebrate cycling at the inaugural Levi Lepheimer’s King Ridge Gran Fondo, in Sonoma CA. In many ways, the event was bigger than Levi Leipheimer, and in other ways, it was much smaller and personal. While he came up with the … Read more
A few weeks ago, I chatted with Mike Creed of Team Type 1 to catch up on all the changes in his life since our last conversation back in the fall of 08. So much had happened since then from his mis-adventures with Rock Racing to his move to his current team at the start … Read more
After two podium finishes this week, Thor Hushovd of the Cervelo Test Team finally got the better of Mark Cavendish of the Columbia-HTC team to take the win in a chaotic sprint in Rolla and claimed the yellow leader’s jersey after stage 3 at the Tour of Missouri. Once again, Saxo Bank’s JJ Haedo made … Read more
The field exploded at the bottom of Mt Nebo in the second stage at the Tour of Utah and who’s who of climbers were off the front, in the hunt for a stage win and the possibility of moving up in the GC. The select group included yellow jersey Francisco Mancebo and Rock Racing teammate … Read more
One year ago, then riding for the BISSELL team, Teddy King unleashed a late attack to win a stage at the Joe Martin Stage Race in Fayetteville, AR. Fast forward to now, and the 26-year old King is racing in his first Grand Tour, the Giro d’Italia with his Cervélo TestTeam. I had a chance … Read more
As first reported by cyclingnews, the Tour of California is moving up in the calendar from its original February timeframe to May 16 to 23 starting in 2010, which conflicts with the Giro d’Italia. Harsh weather conditions at the 2009 Amgen Tour of California During two of its four years, riders at the Tour of … Read more
Reports and photos from the 36th Anniversary SugarCRM Cat’s Hill Classic Bicycle Race held on Saturday, May 2, 2009. Scroll down for photo gallery and as usual, click for larger images. Shelley Olds Sprints to Win the 36th SugarCRM Cat’s Hill Classic Bicycle Race by Stephanie Gutowski Cat’s Hill Classic Bicycle Race is renowned as … Read more
BISSELL’s Burke Swindlehurst driving the break at Sea Otter We started off the Gila coverage with a conversation with 3-time overall winner Burke Swindlehurst of the BISSELL team and who better to give us the final word on the race than the gentleman (in the truest sense of the word) from Utah. Four-time winner of … Read more
Attacks fused to try and unseat the leader’s jerseys in stage 2, the Inner Loop Road Race, of both the men’s and women’s at the Tour of the Gila but in the end, both Kristin Armstrong (Cervélo TestTeam) and Levi Leipheimer (Astana) survived all attacks to stay on top of the leaderboard going into tomorrow’s … Read more