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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Contador takes stage 3 at Volta ao Algarve (press release)

Home rider Tiago Machado (Team RadioShack) finished second atop the Alto do Malhão in the 3rd stage of the Volta ao Algarve (Portugal). Teammate Levi Leipheimer (USA) finished third. Stage winner Alberto Contador attacked at the bottom of the final climb, immediately took ten seconds and managed to keep that advantage. “It was our job [...]

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My Plaid Thermos: The Twitter war is over, The Art of War and Androids

Well it looks like the Twitter war is over before it even got started. Vaughters has clarified his “soft-pedaling” comment on the Versus site, much to my disappointment. I was hoping that it was going to elevate to some real back and forth, possibly dragging Wiggins into the fight creating a virtual Twitter “death-match” – [...]

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Looking Back: Tour Down Under and the new business model for cycling sponsorship

As January winds down the first UCI race of the year is almost complete. The Tour Down Under seems to have been tough enough in 2009 for Armstrong to cause him to have a gut check on whether his return to professional racing was a good idea. This year it’s a different story. He’s been [...]

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2010 speculations and musings

The racing season is right around the corner and all the pro teams are counting the days till their specific race rendezvous. Taking a quick glance at the various team sites you can see where riders will be. In the case of Kenda p/b Geargrinders it’s the Tour de Taiwan in March. The Tour of [...]

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Alex Wassmann discusses the SRAM/Lance Armstrong relationship

As a stock holder of Trek Bicycles it was a no-brainer that when Lance came out of retirement he’d be once again on a Trek bicycle. What wasn’t so obvious was what components were going to hang on the Trek frames. Alex Wassmann of SRAM took the time to talk to me about how this [...]

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Team RadioShack Trek Madone

The first images of the official RadioShack Madone were released on the Trek Bicycles Facebook fan page. However, unless you’re riding for the Shack, you’ll have to wait till March before they become available to the public. IMAGES: Trek Bicycles Facebook Fan Page

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RadioShack Camp – Day 2

Day 2 of the RadioShack camp is in the books. Ace photographer Brian Hodes of Velo Images has returned from a day of facing backwards on the moto, thawed off and downloaded images. Hodes reports that the day started off with Johan Bruyneel telling the assembled media to obey the rules of the road. “In [...]

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RadioShack camp- Day 2

“Dude, it’s fucking cold!” That’s Brian Hodes of Velo Images first words to me today as he prepares to mount up on the back of a motorcycle and shoot. A late night run to the store got him rain slickers, but the one piece of clothing he’s missing is ear warmers. “They’re cold.” The forecast [...]

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Working version of Team RadioShack jersey (press release)

We wanted to say thank you for your support and give you a sneak preview of a working prototype of the jersey the guys will be riding in in 2010. While the final Jersey is expected to look very similar, it will be officially unveiled in Australia in January during the Tour Down Under. It [...]

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