Floyd Landis: Living the dream behind the car wash

Since my last conversation with Floyd Landis his luck has turned around. With a record setting time trial victory in the Tour of the Bahamas, Landis has been offered a lucrative job. Not content with just working, Landis has also taken a group of young cyclists under his wing and is guiding them in the [...]

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Floyd Landis: Rumors, Rock Racing and bowling

As the season approaches and teams are conducting training camps, Rock Racing has been surprisingly silent. No press releases of upcoming training camps or even a 2010  team roster. In 2009 Rock rode in a splashy kit proclaiming “Rocks not dead”. For 2010 team owner Michael Ball stated he was taking the team to the [...]

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Rock denied Pro Continental status

The UCI posted their list of 2010 Pro Continental teams and Rock Racing was not included. With aspirations of racing in Europe, this is a set back for the team. Team owner Michael Ball issued a statement. “We’re obviously very disappointed but are working diligently to satisfy every requirement that is being asked of us. [...]

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Opening up the mailbag

It has been awhile since I blogged. I have various excuses. Most notable excuse was the Amgen Tour of California. Once we returned from that it was time to spew forth that issue. We finished the other day and it is 140 plus pages devoted to just the race. So to ease myself back into [...]

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The ToC is on!

Its the usual chaos at the start. The big buzz of course is Rock. We are going to do a video interview with Ball in a few minutes. Check out the ROAD site for all our video schinanigans.

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Media scrum at Rock Racing Camp

All types of media outlets are here at the camp and just not cycling only magazines. Versus is out here with a camera crew as is various sporting magazines. I can safely say that I’ve never been to a team camp like this before.

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Training camp after party

Never been to a training camp that had an after party. This could go awhile.

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Rock’s rig

DeRosa is the bike of choice for Rock this year. Campy equiped with what looks like Cole Wheels.

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I’m at the Rock Racing camp

It's raining in Malibu and the guys just got done riding. Very Euro!

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I finally got a cover!

This is the cover. It will be cropped a little but you get the idea It’s been awhile since I blogged. I’ve had stuff to write about from the Tour of California, like Tim Johnson telling me how the Health Net squad and the Slipstream team got into a food fight. Johnson is great at [...]

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