Gilbert’s Tour of Flanders one-off bike

Philippe Gilbert will start next Sunday’s Tour of Flanders on a specially painted Canyon frame. The reason for the special paint job is to recognize the “silver anniversary” between the National Lottery and cycling. Artist Jacques Charlier painted the frame for the leader of Omega Pharma and the motif is called “Balls and Glory.” After [...]

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The great battle that never was and children, the harbinger of disease

Like most people this past weekend I was expecting a great showdown at the Criterium International between the two current titans of cycling: Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador. The media built the hype like it was the shootout at the O.K. Corral. However as we know, it was all blanks. Contador said he suffering from [...]

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Race report from Garmin-Transitions Weltz: Catalunya [press release]

Team Garmin-Transitions started the Volta a Catalunya with a short 3.8km prologue under wet conditions. Director sportif Johnny Weltz has the report: The prologue today turned out to be a tricky affair, on a really technical circuit and on top of that a wet one. The outcome was an unknown winner, but still a indication [...]

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Steaming vids, Milan, the Giro and why it’s important to send a Vermont Teddy Bear

RadioShack Giro update at bottom of post Every morning for quite a while I have woken up and connected my laptop to watch streaming video of a European race. Sunday, out of habit, I started to hook up my laptop to my big screen when I realized there wasn’t anything to watch. However a Facebook [...]

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Armstrong out of Milan-Sanremo

Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong will not be able to participate in Milan-Sanremo, the second ProTour event of the 2010 season. The Team RadioShack leader, suffering from acute gastroenteritis, will be replaced by teammate Fumiyuki Beppu. “It would have been good to have Lance lineup for the start but we prefer not to [...]

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The squeaky wheel gets the lube

I’d heard about the Tony Kornheiser’s comments about running over cyclists a few days ago. To be honest, it really didn’t faze me. He’s a sports commentator whose whole schtick is to be controversial. His bosses expect that and pay him to be controversial. Did I honestly think that he believed what he said, that [...]

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My two favorite things combined: Beastie Boys and Battlestar Galactica

I got this link courtesy of WIRED Magazine and couldn’t help myself. Katie King skillfully combines both the Beastie Boys Sabotage video and montages from Battlestar Galactica. Sit back and enjoy nerds…

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Tom Boonen – bike racer and now author

Classics winner, former world champion and now author – what can’t Tom Boonen do? This Paris-Roubaix winner has a book coming out later this month called Tom Boonen – The Ultimate Cycling Handbook. Details of what’s between the covers of his self named tome are as sketchy as his recent drug excuses. However, one piece [...]

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Hunter wins stage at Murcia – A director’s report

Johnny Weltz, team director of Garmin-Transitions, recounts Hunter’s stage win. After a storm the whole night we where lucky to wake to a blue sky. It was perfect conditions for racing and right from the start there was attacks. 10 km into the race we had Danny up the road with another guy and two [...]

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The start of Belgium classics and other stuff

That was an interesting weekend. The Belgians got flicked from the two classics that had their name all over it. Of the past ten editions of Omloop Het Nieuwsbladand, six have been won by Belgians. Out of the abysmal weather conditions came Spaniard Juan Antonio Fleche. He’s been known as the guy who comes close, [...]

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