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Crashing the UCI WorldTour party
The Tour Down Under is a UCI World Tour Event. So far as I can tell, the traditional kick-starter around the streets of Adelaide, the 50km People’s Choice Classic, is not. A super exciting and super...
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Take a number, Senor Sanchez
A few people are questioning how well GC veterans Cadel Evans and Sammy Sanchez will get along in 2014, now the Spaniard has been snapped up by BMC? I’d have thought just fine thanks, given the...
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If the sponsor’s shoe fits…?
Now here’s something to open a can of carbon worms. Whereas his new UCI WoldTour team Lampre-Merida is sponsored by Sidi, when it comes to shoes it seems reigning World Road Champion Rui Costa prefers...
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No horses…lots of action
I first stumbled upon the enigmatic game that is bike polo on Vimeo about 18 months ago. It seemed fascinating at the time, a strange mix of both skill and brutality, but despite being invited to come...
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Tour de Stats
Just reading through the Official Tour de France 2014 Guide (as always a superb production from the guys at RIDE) and thought it might be interesting to distill some of the team/race data to present...
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Please Brian, save out sport
AN OPEN LETTER TO MR BRIAN COOKSON OBE, UCI PRESIDENT Dear Mr Cookson, As you know, the 101st edition of the greatest event in our sport starts today in Yorkshire. It signals three spectacular weeks of...
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Froome, Jag and the Chunnel
It’s hard to be original these days, but Jaguar have come up with a great bit of marketing to leverage their sponsorship with Team Sky. Very nice guys. Chapeau. Tagged: Chris Froome, Chunnel, Jaguar,...
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Classic Cycling Quotes #107 & #108
“With each crash we slowly lose the fearlessness of a child. Caution, which blossoms with maturity, has lengthened my career but also may have cost me victories.” “Whatever our daily suffering, every...
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School photo day
There’s funny. Then there’s cycling team photos. Of course things are a little different nowadays. Tagged: Cycling teams, team photos
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All black? Why are the kiwis kicking our Aussie butts in the NRS?
As I write this Pat ‘Paddy’ Bevin has just won back-to-back events in the 2014 Subaru National Road Series, claiming superb victories in the National Capital Tour and, two weeks later, the prestigious...
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Classic Cycling Quotes #115
“Fundamentally my job is to display the sponsor’s logo as predominantly as possible, preferrably crossing the line with my hands in the air.” Mark Cavendish. Tagged: cavendish, Manx Missile, sponsors
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Who’s who in the WorldTour zoo?
A new season typically means new sponsors, and 2015 has plenty of them. In case you’ve been wondering who’s financing the world’s top cycling teams in 2015, here’s a quick summary. Teams with new...
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WANTED: green and gold bands
The Elite Men’s National Championship Road Race has become something of a numbers game in recent years. And it may well happen again. But you get the feeling things won’t be quite so easy for the OGE...
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The World Tour circus moves on…and quickly
Stage 6 of the 2015 Tour Down Under only finished at 3:30pm local time in Adelaide. But by 5pm it’s fair to say 85% of the team bikes were cleaned, broken down and packed, ready for transporting at the...
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TdF Week 1 : Report Card
Sky A+ Yellow jersey, solid time gains on all major GC rivals, no major incidents, what a difference a year makes. Looked steely in the team time trial. Looks like they have their 2012/13 mojo back....
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Return of the sponsored team kit saga…
Not sure what it’s like where you live. But here in NSW there’s been plenty of chat and, yes, aggravation in 2015 with regards to the wearing of registered club kit in bike races. Over the past few...
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Friendly fire
The history of elite cycling is strewn with ego clashes, often within the same team. It can prove an epic juggling act for team managers and often ends in acrimony. It’s one of those epiphanies we all...
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Froome, Jag and the Chunnel
It’s hard to be original these days, but Jaguar have come up with a great bit of marketing to leverage their sponsorship with Team Sky. Very nice guys. Chapeau. Tagged: Chris Froome, Chunnel, Jaguar,...
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2016 World Chumpionships
So then. It’s now 5 weeks until the 2016 UCI World Road Championships in Doha on October 16. As has been well documented, the 257km course is pretty much flat, although often prone to pesky cross...
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6 observations from the TDU
1. Richie Porte was in a class of his own when the road tilted upward. We never saw him at the Nationals this year and his revised summer program seems to have worked a treat. It’s only early days,...
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