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Video: Castelli 24H, Racing all night

I’m at the Castelli 24 hour criterium in Feltre, northern Italy, and can’t remember the last time I had this much fun on two wheels. Between 10pm and 1:00am on Friday, I was racing around a 1.8km circuit in front of huge crowds against the likes of Manuel Boaro, Paolo Bettini, Filippo Pozzato, and various amateur riders, Italian industry insiders and local weekend warriors. The Castelli 24-hour race ticks all the boxes for a great cycling party central, its fun, sociable, enjoyable, sociable, fast and exhilarating as 80 teams of 12 riders tackle the 24 hour race. Each of them had their own tactic for the race, splitting the team in to groups of three who rotated in a two – three hour shifts, typically riding between 15-25 minutes throughout with crowds screaming all the way around the circuit. Amongst those riding for the victory, measured in total number of laps, were some of Italy’s top amateur teams, a few professionals and ex- world champions, you know it’s no walk in the park. With no really sections to rest on the 1.8km circuit, riders were forced to 24 hours of criterium style racing – something that normally goes on for no longer ...

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Ryder Hesjedal, Defending Champion

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No defending champion has won the Giro d’Italia since Miguel Indurain in 1993, but defending champion Ryder Hesjedal could pull it off.

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Video: Garmin’s special weapon for epic mountain stages

Creating clothing for athletes at the highest level of the sport is the most demanding proving ground for Castelli. Ryder Hesledal will not only be reaping the benefits of his lightweight Cervélo R5ca bike on the epic Giro mountain stages, the super light weight and quick drying Castelli Inferno shorts and Climbers jersey gave him an extra advantage in the big mountains. CLIMBERS JERSEY – its almost impossible to see the difference between the Garmin Aero Race jersey and the Climbers jersey on television. Made from our super light weight Strada Light 3D mesh, and an aero Velocity fabric, it’s cut to hug the torso and to eliminate any excess fabric flapping when battling into the wind. It’s 90 grams of next-to-nothing, our quickest drying jersey ever, and it gives up just 3 watts at 40 km/h compared to the Aero Race jersey. Super light weight and fast drying Strada Light 3D mesh. One of the jersey’s advantageous properties is that it hardly absorb water. After all, what good would a lightweight jersey be if it soaked up water like a standard cycling jersey. So it’s light whether wet or dry, and the fabric is knit as a mesh. This ...

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Video: Johan Vansummeren Interview

Johan Vansummeren is almost two meters tall, 1,98cm to be more precise,  that’s tall for a cyclist, but how tall must he have stood after winning the 2011 Paris-Roubaix? Johan made the important break and left his companions to ride solo into the famous velodrome. We managed to catch up with the tall Belgian at the Roubaix velodrome during a photoshooting for the Castelli Winter’13 catalog. Use the timer to jump between the questions. 0:13 How does it feel like standing on the Roubaix Velodrome? 0:37 Did you know you could win the Roubaix? 1:09 How did you get into cycling? 3:10 When dd you realize that you were good on cobbles? 4:18 Any bad experience on cobbles? 4:42 What tyre pressure do you run on cobbles? 4:49 Are there other races that you dream of winning? 5:36 When was your first time in the SanRemo SpeedSuit? 6:20 Whats the benefits of wearing the SanRemo SpeedSuit? 6:39 What about the winter SanRemo Thermosuit? 6:54 Whats your favorite Castelli product? More info on Vansummeren’s favorite Castelli products? SanRemo SpeedSuit SanRemo ThermoSuit Gabba Jersey          

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Video: Vansummeren talks Gabba and SpeedSuits

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Johan Vansummeren (Garmin-Sharp) talks about his favorite Castelli products, the Gabba Jersey, SanRemo Speed Suit and SanRemo ThermoSuit.

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