Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Battaglin, bicycle racing, blood doping, CERA, Di Luca, doping, EPO, Garmin, Giro d'Italia, Neal Rogers, Vaughters, VDV, Velonews, weasel power
This strikes me as hypocritical and simple-minded stuff from Neal Rogers, cheering Di Luca’s getting caught by young unknown riders who have yet to be caught in any doping dragnets.
Garmin is packed full of “riders with controversial pasts.” Let’s see if he has the same venom for them as they defend their Giro title.
While his move was bold, that Di Luca was unable to hold his attack on Tuesday is encouraging.
The day when the pro peloton is clear of suspicion will likely never materialize. However, the day when the peloton is clear of riders with controversial pasts may be only a few years away.
via Commentary: Why Battaglin’s Giro stage win matters.
Translation: Di Luca’s defeat helps us pretend that they’re not all still doping.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: BMC, BMC RAcing, Campagnolo, Campagnolo Hyperon, carbon, carbone ultimate, Crampngoslo, Europcar, Garmin-Sharp, katusha, Lotto-Belisol, mavic, Movistar, Orica-GreenEdge, Shimano, Shimano C50, Sky, Velonews
Not an aluminum rim in sight on the cobbles this year.
Via Velonews:
Carbon ruled on Sunday. Sky, Argos-Shimano, Blanco, Orica-GreenEdge, BMC Racing, and others had only their normal Shimano C50 tubulars on hand; Garmin-Sharp and Katusha brought only their usual Mavic Cosmic Carbone Ultimate, a wheel so abhorrent of metal that it uses carbon spokes and a carbon hub shell; Movistar, Lotto-Belisol, and Europcar used Campagnolo’s ultra-light Hyperon and aerodynamic Bora carbon rims. There was no discernible spike in rim failures, long considered the Achilles heel of carbon on cobbles.
via The Torqued Wrench: Ambrosio Nemesis wheels expire in the pro peloton.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Boulder, energy, joules, kilojoules, national championship, power, powermeter, the human engine, Tim Duggan, Timmy Duggan, US champion, US cycling champion, Velo, Velonews, watts, watts-per-kilogram
Lotta Joules for a Timmy.
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Via Velonews:
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