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Short, fast and explosive Giro stage!

The yesterday’s stage of the Giro can be described with three words – a short, fast and explosive stage with the final mountaintop finish at Blockhaus. Carlos Sastre commented after the race, “I would like to thank all my teammates who have done a sensational job, helping to make the race as hard as possible for my benefit. But my rivals were stronger than me today and they managed to secure an important advantage in the lead up to the general classification of the Giro d’Italia.” “The tactic today was the same tactic we’ve had for all three weeks,” said Sports Director Jean Paul Van Poppel. “Working for Carlos and to make sure to get him in the best position. Of course we know that Carlos is the man for very long stages with lots of climbs; that’s when he’s at his best. This stage was pretty short, so the team tried to make it hard by giving full gas throughout the stage. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAyEDl1RxAY[/youtube] As we got closer to the climb, we had Serge Pauwels, Vlody Gustov, and Philip Deignan driving for Carlos, and unfortunately, Philip took a corner a bit too fast and crashed. It was OK for us, ...

Sastre conquers Monte Petrano!

Carlos Sastre came out of the anonymity of the peleton Monday with a dramatic stage victory in a grueling, seven-hour march across the Apennines to re-energize his hopes of overall victory at the Giro d’Italia. Sastre finished 25 seconds ahead of the maglia rosa holder Denis Menchov (Rabobank) and Danilo Di Luca (LPR Brakes – Farnese Vini). Sastre is now in third place in the GC 2’19” behind Menchov. “The sixteenth stage of this year’s Giro has been a very important day for me and the rest of the team,” said Sastre after his win. “Thanks to the whole team’s hard work I was able to secure a very nice and very important stage victory. “I felt protected by my team mates throughout the day, who were close by at all times, giving me water when I needed it. Then, in the last part of the race, Serge Pauwels made a very important play that allowed me to see that some riders were struggling. That made me ride on stronger upon seeing a chance to get past the odd rider and earn important time against riders who were ahead of me in the general classification. “Tomorrow is the second rest ...

Tour of California, Behind the scenes of Cervélo TestTeam.

In the High-Definition documentary Beyond The Peloton, film makers Joe Finkleman and Booker Sim follow the creation and first racing season of the Cervélo TestTeam. With their all-access passes, they will show you what race footage fails to capture, everything “beyond the peloton”. “One of the main goals of Cervélo TestTeam is to provide fans with better access to the world of pro cycling,” said Gerard Vroomen, co-founder of Cervélo. “Joseph Finkleman and his small crew have unlimited access to the team and we hope the series will show fans how a team is built, and what life is like on a professional cycling team. Fans can always watch race footage on television and online. But this is something different. We want to take the viewer, as the title implies, beyond the peloton to reveal everything that happens before and after the actual race. We’ll show the personalities of riders and staff, the equipment testing and all the effort it takes for a small team to compete against the biggest teams in the sport. I have always thought this is the most interesting part of cycling and I believe that cycling fans of all stripes will find it equally compelling.” ...

Croce d’Aune, first climb in this years Giro!

This year’s 100th anniversary Giro d’Italia visits some of the great Italian cities, including Feltre (the home town of Castelli) which will be hosting the Castelli24h race on June 12-13. Tomorrow, the Giro will hit the first mountains with Croce d’Aune as the first climb. You may recognize this as the name of a Campagnolo component group in the late 1980s. This is due to the fact that it was at the top of this very pass that Tullio Campagnolo got the idea of the quick-release skewer. He was competing in a springtime race in the 1930s that included the Passo Croce d’Aune. At the time, riders had single-speed bikes with a cog on either side of the rear wheel of different sizes. They rode up the passes with the larger cog and flipped the wheel around at the top to take advantage of the smaller cog for the descent. On this fateful day, it was snowing and cold. Tullio’s hands were too frozen to unscrew the wing nuts on the rear wheel. As a solution to this problem, he invented the quick-release skewer. Its pretty much an average Giro stage with great rolling hills from Padova to Maser before ...

Keep the good times rolling!

Justin Hoy (Team Felt Racing / Castelli) raced to his fith victory of the year on Sunday winning the Eelmore Rd2 (UK). The early part of the race was marked by a lot of attacks and fast racing. Justin Hoy and John (Team Felt Racing) made the front group with 8 others gaining over half a lap on the bunch. With John Wager leading Hoy out for the finish, an attack was set in from Chris Minter with a lap togo, Wager rode accross slowing up the others and making them chase, unfortunatly for him they did just that and coming into the last corner the pack was all back together. With the finish insite, all 10 riders were across the road looking at each other, and with 400m togo the speed-rocket Hoy just kicked hard and increased the speed with every pedal revolution taking his 3rd win in one week. For more information, visit Team Felt Racing: Click here >

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Short, fast and explosive Giro stage!

Sastre conquers Monte Petrano!

Tour of California, Behind the scenes of Cervélo TestTeam.

Croce d’Aune, first climb in this years Giro!

Keep the good times rolling!

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