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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 >

Kristin Armstrong takes the GC at Tour of Gila.

Looks like Kristin Armstrong’s intention for WC titles is on track after winning the GC and third stages at tour of Gila. Cervelo’s Kristin Armstrong rode through a four-woman breakaway on the final climb, solo’ing nearly the last ten miles to a win of over a minute, her third stage win at this year’s Gila. The long breakaway members were Amanda Miller (Lip Smackers), Rebecca Much (Webcor), Hilary Billington (Lip Smackers) and Nicole Evans (ValueAct). The group built a lead of over four minutes, but dissolved on the first slopes of the final long climb. Evans was the last survivor, and was passed by Armstrong not far into the climb. Evans continued alone, in second place, for eight or nine miles until she was caught by a small bunch in the last 300 meters. (Velonews.com) (Velonews.com)

Sastre is ready for the Giro!

Defending Tour de France champion Carlos Sastre gave the clear sign that he’s coming into form when he finished with the group of favourites at Liège-Bastogne-Liège on Sunday. Sastre was part of the chasing bunch which crossed the line 1.24 minutes behind solo victor Andy Schleck (Saxo Bank), and rolled home in the same time as several of his rivals for the Tour. “The Liège-Bastogne-Liège, the last race that I have ridden before the Italian Giro, has left me with a very good feeling, he says on his web-site. I think that all the training I’ve done at home and the races that I’ve ridden have helped me to attain the level of fitness that I was looking for. I feel as though I’m ready to take on the Giro with guarantees”. ”My team has once again ridden a very nice race, with a great performance by Marcel Wyss, who stayed up front throughout the whole race and with a sixth position by Simon Guerrans. I think the team has covered a very important start of the season and it was really good for me because I was able to do the things that I wanted in terms of managing ...

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Tour of California, Behind the scenes of Cervélo TestTeam.

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

Keep the good times rolling!

Kristin Armstrong takes the GC at Tour of Gila.

Sastre is ready for the Giro!

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