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With their sights set on the Philly Cycling Classic at the end of May, the Colavita-Fine Cooking team nevertheless put time aside to do a summer ’14 catalog shoot and team feature with us recently while we were in Philadelphia.

After winning the XTERRA European Tour season-opener, the XTERRA Spain Championship in Cieza, Spain, the Castelli equipped Ruben Ruzafa took second place in the XTERRA France Championship on Sunday after Frenchman Nicolas Lebrun.

A short photogallery of the Dan Martin’s victory of the last stage into the Pyrenees (Bagnères de Bigorre).

A short photogallery of the firts three stages in Corsica of the 100th Tour the France.
Photos by Team Garmin Sharp.

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 ...