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Cervélo TestTeam’s Martin Reimer finished second in stage 6 of Tour of Britain behind Norway’s Edvald Boasson Hagen (Columbia-HTC), who underlined his fast developing star status with trademark sprint victory in four-stages of the Tour of Britain. Cervélo’s Belgian rider Serge Pauwels also had an active day taking part in a long breakaway with Geraint Thomas (Barloworld), Ian Stannard (ISD-Neri), Ben Swift (Katusha) and Thomas De Gendt (TopSport – Vlaanderen). Pauwels was also involved in all of the mountain and sprint bonus points available today and now sits in tenth position in the overall GC. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yDxttAUg9A[/youtube] Highlights from yesterday’s stage.

Cervélo TestTeam’s British sprinter Roger Hammond hit the deck with 3km to go as the peloton ramped up its speed for a sprint finish in the 16th stage from Córdoba to Puertollano at the Vuelta a España. Hammond was fighting for position to set up the mass arrival when Julian Dean clipped his handlebars on the barriers along the side of the road. Hammond had nowhere to go, went right over the top of the bars and landed among a half-dozen riders on the road.  Video clip: Click here >> German ace André Greipel avoided the mayhem and easily won his third stage of this year’s Vuelta. Alejandro Valverde  retains the leader’s jersey and Cervélo’s Philip Deignan remained within the top 20 placed 18th (7:49) “It was a little bit stressful in the finish. There was a crash just outside 3km to go. Roger went down, but I don’t think it’s anything serious. I just managed to avoid it and I didn’t get caught in the split, so I didn’t lose any time,” Deignan said. “I think tomorrow’s going to be a sprint and then there will be two quite hard days, so I hope to have good legs.” General ...

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In a spectacular sprint finale with strong support from Cervélo TestTeam, Thor Hushovd was victorious today winning the third stage of the Tour of Missouri. As the breakaway of the day with William Frischkorn (Garmin-Slipstream) and Matthew Wilson (Team Type 1) was brought back within the final 10 km, Cervélo stayed patient and in the last kilometre on a tough hill, Cervélo’s Heinrich Haussler launched an attack followed by teammate Brett Lancaster’s attack. When Columbia-HTC brought him back, Cervélo took it over and Thor was able to sprint to a first place finish. The 183.9 km stage from Farmington to Rolla was the third time lucky for Hushovd who finished third in Monday’s first stage and second yesterday. Juan Jose Haedo (Saxo Bank) and Quick Step’s Dario Cataldo finished 2nd and 3rd consecutively with Cavendish managing a fifth place result. The win puts Hushovd in the race leader’s jersey* although he is now equal on time with Cavendish. 1 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Cervélo Test Team 11:27:19 2 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team Columbia-HTC 3 Juan Jose Haedo (Arg) Team Saxo Bank 0:00:04 4 Moises Aldape Chavez (Mex) Team Type 1 0:00:12 5 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Astana 0:00:14

Saturday’s 110km ride through blazing heat, moderate climbing, and some of the rougher roads around the Veneto were a good test for prototypes of the futuristic Body Paint bibshort, due out in Summer 2010. The minimalist short absolutely disappears underneath you and you really don’t feel it on.  The fabric is great in the hot weather, and the bibs don’t rub your chest raw like most other bibs.  We’re on to something good here. As this is the first real heat wave of the summer, I also put the Superleggera Vantage jersey through the paces to make sure that the black color fabric stays cool in the hot sun. Yep, it’s good, but I still opened the long zip on the big climbs.  Overall it was a good testing day as I was on the new Wilier 101 with the Dura Ace Di2 electronic group (phenomenal!) and the matching patent leather red Sidi Ergo2 shoes.  At least I looked good. Sunday we did 140km up to the 1600m Passo Brocon where Fausto Coppi’s name is still painted on the side of a barn from when the Giro passed through in the ’50s. t I had on the latest round of ...