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Team Garmin-Cervelo will head into the Tour of Flanders with three strong names consisting of Tyler Farrar, Thor Hushovd and Heinrich Haussler.

Despite strength in numbers they are well aware that the man to beat will Fabian Cancellara, but Farrar, who finished fourth last year, is confident that the team can play all their cards in a bid to not just stop Cancellara, but also win the team’s first Classic.

One week Emma Pooley (Garmin-Cervélo) won the Trofeo Alfredo Binda that kicked off the 2011 UCI Women’s World Cup, the women’s peloton heads to Belgium on Sunday for the Ronde van Vlaanderen Vrouwen, the Women’s Tour of Flanders, for the series’ second of nine rounds.

Pooley will start in defence of her World Cup leader’s jersey, but she doesn’t expect to be a factor on the cobbled parcours.

There are very few climbs in modern bike racing that can bring a bike racer to his knees. With the evolution of intelligent gearings, the steepest climbs have been tamed, well, as much as they can be. The Koppenberg, however, defies all technological advances and takes us back to a time when plodding upward on foot was just as common of a means of forward movement as pedaling.

A keen eye may have noticed a slight change in the bib shorts and jerseys of Garmin-Cervèlo’s Tyler Farrar, Johan VanSummeren, Heinrich Haussler, and Matt Wilson at Milan-San Remo this year. That’s because they weren’t wearing bib shorts and jerseys anymore – at least not as we know them.

Take an inside look at the team at Milano-San Remo in the first episode of Beyond the Peloton. In the episode, we join the team as they line up for the longest one day race on the calendar: Milan-San Remo. With three riders who can win, they’ll be reminded that even with a strong team and a plan in place, somethings are out of your control.  Thanks to: Team Garmin-Cervélo.