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CONTURSI TERME, Italy, May 14, 2008 (AFP) - Russian Pavel Brutt, riding for the Tinkoff team, won the fifth stage of the Tour of Italy here on Wednesday with Liquigas’ Italian rider Franco Pellizotti retaining the leader’s pink jersey.
Brutt managed to get away from his four breakaway companions on [...]

Results from the 203km fifth stage of the Giro d’Italia from Belvedere Marittimo to Contursi Termo on
Wednesday:
5th stage
1. Pavel Brutt (RUS) TCS 5hr 4min 42sec, 2. Johannes Frohlinger (GER/GST) 4sec behind, 3. Luis Laverde (COL/CSF) 10, 4. Francisco Perez (ESP/GCE) 25, 5.
Paolo Bettini (ITA/QST) 31, 6. Daniele [...]

PESCHICI, Italy, May 15, 2008 (AFP) - Italian Matteo Priamo, riding for the CSF team, broke away to win the sixth stage of the Tour of Italy here on Friday.
Priamo’s compatriot Giovanni Visconti, who rides for Quick Step, took the leader’s pink jersey.
Priamo built up a [...]

CONTURSI TERME, Italy, May 14, 2008 (AFP) - Russian Pavel Brutt, riding for the Tinkoff team, won the fifth stage of the Tour of Italy here on Wednesday with Liquigas’ Italian rider Franco Pellizotti retaining the leader’s pink jersey.
Brutt managed to get away from his four breakaway companions on [...]

For the longest time, I’ve thought the spectrum of bike riding folks who shop at our store had no end or beginning. Lately though, I’m convinced that I beat Stephen Hawking in finding both ends of the universe. Granted, it’s just both ends of a puny little universe confined by four concrete walls but [...]

Join the forum discussion on this postOriginal Essay by: The Cranky Mechanic
All right stop. Collaborate and listen.
Remember way back in the last century when Vanilla Ice unleashed “Ice Ice Baby” on our unsuspecting ears?
Not only did he give us the gift of the greatest one hit wonder followed by the saddest career this side [...]

Bikes, helmets, shoes – they all get cooler every year, but the humble bike bottle has stayed pretty much the same.
CamelBak® Products, LLC, building on its successful innovation in the bottle category, has changed all that. We’re introducing the new Podium™ Bottle, featuring a high flow rate, self-sealing squirt valve. Rather than opening and [...]

Stage Three - Washington to Gainesville
GAINESVILLE, Ga. (April 23, 2008) – After knocking on the door of a stage win yesterday, Greg Henderson (NZL) of Team High Road launched himself through the tight downhill turns of the Gainesville circuit finish to narrowly defeat teammate Andre Greipel (GER) and win Stage Three of the Tour de [...]

If you have ever been to Los Angeles and driven the freeways on a Friday at 5:00pm you will be able to relate without description. For the rest of you, here goes. The Freeways these guys ride their bikes onto are the 10 & the 405. Two of the most highly traveled and [...]

In honor of Team Slipstream putting on the Pink Jersey at the Giro d’Italia for the 1st time since Andy Hampsten did in 1988 with Team 7-11.

Join the forum discussion on this postWritten by: Jeff Stevenson
Right now people in the industrialized world are facing two very grave problems: obesity and a growing scarcity of oil. Compounding this problem is the new food shortage brought about, in part, by the conversion of food cropland to bio-fuel crop production. Most [...]

Team Will Auction of Signed Team Jersey on eBay to Raise Additional Funds
Bend, OR – The Toyota-United Pro Cycling Team announced today that its riders and staff donated $5,000 cash to Fausto Munoz Esparza, the rider who was paralyzed in a horrific high-speed crash in last Sunday’s final stage of the Tour of Gila [...]

Join the forum discussion on this postWritten by: Jeff Stevenson
Right now people in the industrialized world are facing two very grave problems: obesity and a growing scarcity of oil. Compounding this problem is the new food shortage brought about, in part, by the conversion of food cropland to bio-fuel crop production. Most [...]

Following is the end of “rolling thunder” — a cycling novel
Subject to copyright.   
 
ROLLING THUNDER (cont’d)
 
 
 
Chapter 25
Raleigh Spriggs was the seventy six year old Chairman of the Board of Continental Tire, which was a fifty four year old company with annual revenues of over twenty billion Euros.  When Shamus scanned further articles Google suggested best [...]

I saw this article this morning in the Los Angeles Times about how a little strength exercise can help keep Osteoprosis away. This email went around my local bike club, and atleast one member confirmed that he has this same problem. But has been told that within a few years he should be able [...]