Cancellara’s Shiv is a non-starter

First Alberto Contador’ Specialized Shiv was banned, now Fabian Cancellara’s Shiv has also been declared illegal by the UCI. Team Saxo Bank team manager Bjarne Riis was furious. “It is very annoying,” said Riis to Sporten.dk. “Fortunately we have not really had a major time trial, but it will not be long before we do [...]

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Contador takes overall win at of Tour of Algarve

Alberto Contador’s time trial bike drama didn’t seem to bother him today in stage 5′s time trial. He took second in the stage and secured his overall victory in the Tour of the Algarve. Luis León Sánchez won the stage with a time of 21 minutes, 32 seconds. Contador was 13 behind. The time bike [...]

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SRAM partners with Team Astana (press release)

 Since 2008, SRAM has partnered with Team Astana and their star rider Alberto Contador to clinch the three Grand Tours: The Giro d’Italia, the Vuelta Espana and the Tour de France. For 2010, SRAM has renewed its agreement with Team Astana and will continue as offi cial drivetrain supplier. Tour de France winner, Alberto [...]

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Astana will ride Specialized in ’10

It’s official— after ALBERTO CONTADOR requested the support of Specialized Bicycles in his bid to win his third Tour de France, the California brand will be the complete bike sponsor for Team Astana in 2010.

In a video conference with Specialized Founder and President, Mike Sinyard, Contador said, “I am very excited. I want to have the best bike. It is very important to have the best if you want to win the Tour de France. This is why I made it a requirement to have Specialized as the team bike for my return to Astana.”

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Checking back in with my little buddy

Well I’m proud to say that my BFF finished the Canadian TransRockies mountain bike stage race. For a moment I thought he might say f’ it and quit, however he dug deep and completed it several hours behind the winner. Mike states in his last blog post that he is amazed that Specialized rented an [...]

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Tour de France horn ringtone

I’ll say this right away, ringtones are stupid and nine times out of ten very embarrassing. However this all changed very recently. On my last press junket I went to the A2 wind tunnel to check out how aero the Specialized helmets and bikes are. During the Tour, Nic Sims from Specialized had his film [...]

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It’s press junket season!

It’s that time of year where companies unveil their ’09 products. I’m in San Jose for the Specialized launch and right now I’m in the back seat of a large sedan that is taking me to my hotel. I’ll blog about the new stuff Specialized is going to dazzle us with. For now though when [...]

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You’re so vain I bet you think this blog is about you

To celebrate Vino’s win at the Vuelta only 750 of these gold helemts were produced . I got number 3. In my normal non-cycling life I dress plainly. Jeans, a t-shirt and Keen shoes are my daily uniform. I don’t iron anything and I seldom shave. I have one suit that I wear for weddings, [...]

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