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Local News: Slamfest to offer more courses
Mountain bikers will be relying less on peddling and more on gravity come next weekend’s Sima Slamfest.
On the opening day of the third annual event, participants will have the option of entering a chainless downhill race where the bike chains are removed, leaving gravity to do all the work.
“They’re pretty common, especially down in Whistler and places like that,” said race director Justin Mullan. “It’s honestly the best way to learn how to go fast, if you can’t peddle.”
... Yukon News
Published: Sep 02, 2010 - 07:40 AM
National News: Yukon’s Jackass
There are things that should never be done with Tabasco sauce and lime juice.
Snorting the peppery sauce up your nose and squeezing lime juice into your eyes is one example.
Unfortunately for Jason Lucas, he only found that out after the fact.
The whole thing was caught on camera on his newly released video, Idle Times.
It’s hard to watch without cringing.... Yukon News
Published: Sep 02, 2010 - 07:37 AM
International News: Report: Woman Tells Feds She Heard Lance Armstrong Admit to Doping
A woman repeated her claims that she heard Lance Armstrong tell doctors in 1996 that he used performance-enhancing drugs in a meeting with a federal investigator, the Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday.
Betsy Andreu, who was engaged to a cycling teammate of Armstrong's at the time, told the same story about the alleged hospital admission as part of a 2006 civil lawsuit. Armstrong, who won the first of his seven Tour de France titles in 1999 after coming back from cancer, has denied he ever doped.
... FanHouse
Published: Sep 02, 2010 - 07:33 AM
Vuelta a España Stage 4: Málaga - Valdepeñas de Jaén 184km
Igor Anton wins but can't take lead
Belgium's Philippe Gilbert retained the overall leader's red jersey on Tuesday after the fourth stage of the Tour of Spain, which was won by Spanish rider Igor Anton.
Anton, who rides for Euskaltel, launched an attack in the final metres of the mountainous stage from a front group of about 20 riders to cross the finish line one second ahead of Italy's Vincenzo Nibali of Liquigas.
... BikeRadar
Published: Sep 01, 2010 - 07:16 AM
International News: All eyes on Mont-Sainte-Anne for mountain bike Worlds
Team relay kicks off five days of championship racing
The 2010 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships get underway on Wednesday morning with the team relay and junior women's cross country. After finishing up the World Cup in Windham, New York, the top pros for all three disciplines - cross country, four cross and downhill - made the 800-kilometre trek north to Mont-Sainte-Anne, Quebec. They are joined by the trials athletes for the Worlds. A total of 719 athletes from 39 countries will participate in these championships.
Monte-Sainte-Anne has a long, long history with the sport - since the World Cup began in 1991 - and previously held the world championships in 1998. This year's World Championships courses are on par with previous courses built by the Gestev organization, and are already well received by the athletes.
... CyclingNews
Published: Sep 01, 2010 - 07:11 AM
International News: Laurent Fignon remembered
A look back at the Frenchman's career
Laurent Fignon stood out in the peloton during his 12-year career because of his distinctive round glasses, long ponytail and impulsive character.
He was nick-named the professor but was one of the classiest riders in the sport and one of the true greats of French cycling. He raced with panache, often throwing caution to the wind and making surprise, audacious attacks. However he had the ability to back up his aggression and won both Grand Tours and major classics.
... CyclingNews
Published: Sep 01, 2010 - 06:07 AM
Articles: Ridden & Reviewed: A Dedicated Commuter’s “Must Have” Light
As summer draws to an end and the days get shorter, those who are riding in the morning or evening may find that their rides are nipping into the dark edges of the day. So it’s time to start thinking about getting that headlight back out, mounting it to your bar, and keeping it on the bike. But is your current light up to the task of keeping you riding through the Fall and Winter’s shorter days? If you’re considering a new light because you want something brighter (and thus safer), easier to mount, and rechargeable, look no further than the Nightrider MiNewt Mini 150 USB Plus!
It features 150 lumens that can be used in three steady settings (low, medium, high) as well as a flashing mode for added visibility. With a run time of 3 to 6 hours, depending on the setting used, there’s plenty of power for a trip home from work, or an early morning training session. And at 175 grams it is perfect for the commuter that is already carrying everything and doesn’t want to add anything else to the load, the roadie looking to keep that lightweight rig ready for a spin up the local monster climb, or the trail rider looking for a feathery helmet light.
... Bicyclesportshop
Published: Sep 01, 2010 - 05:47 AM
National News: Bell wins four gold, one silver at cycling nationals
HOMEGROWN – Watson Lake’s Zach Bell, front, stormed the 2010 Track Cycling Canadian Championships at the National Cycling Centre in Bromont, Que., by winning four gold medals and a silver last weekend
Once Zach Bell gets rolling there are few in this country who can stop him.
The Watson Lake native dominated the 2010 Track Cycling Canadian Championships at the National Cycling Centre in Bromont, Que., last weekend.
Bell won all the titles up for grabs in the Elite Men’s Endurance category, including gold in the individual pursuit, points race, scratch race and men’s omnium, and a silver medal in the team pursuit as a member of the B.C. team.
... Whitehorse Star
Published: Sep 01, 2010 - 05:42 AM
International News: Chilkoot Challenge Cyclocross Race
Date: Saturday September 11. Registration begins @ 4pm, Racing @ 5:30pm.
Location: Dyea Tidal Flats near Skagway AK.
Categories: Everyone Welcome!
Category A (Advanced): Riders should be comfortable riding a cyclocross bike on a variety of surfaces and have some experience in a competitive cycling event.
Category B (Recreational): Any experience level and type of bike are welcome.
Course: The flat course loops through dirt roads and trails for 2-3 miles. Loose sand, loose gravel, smooth and rough hardpack dirt, and mud are all possibilities.
Race Schedule: Category B will start at 5:30 and ride 2 - 3 laps. Category A will start at 6:30 and ride 4 - 5 laps. Total riding time should be 30-45 minutes for each category and racing should be finished by 7:30.
Cost: $5
... DyeaRace
Published: Aug 30, 2010 - 07:16 AM
Articles: Garmin-Transitions confirm Cervélo partnership
Vaughters breaks silence to speak to Cyclingnews
Garmin-Transitions has confirmed that Cervélo will supply bikes to the team for the 2011 season. Since the announcement of the demise of Cervélo TestTeam earlier this week, there had been widespread speculation that the Canadian bike manufacturer would remain in the professional peloton with Garmin-Transitions.
It has yet to be confirmed whether riders from Cervélo TestTeam will be joining Garmin-Transitions as part of the arrangement. A statement from the Slipstream Sports organisation behind the team said that Garmin-Transitions “will join forces with Cervélo for 2011.” Cyclingnews spoke to Garmin-Transitions boss Jonathan Vaughters who elaborated on why the two teams will work together. “Because of that stable background we’re going to be able to build the best team in the world," he said.
... Cycling News
Published: Aug 27, 2010 - 12:36 PM
Articles: Paralympian makes English Commonwealth cycling team
England’s team for the Commonwealth Games in Delhi will feature 20 cyclists - with only the second Paralympian to represent the country in an able-bodied competition among them.
Sarah Storey follows Paralympic archer Danielle Brown into the squad.
Olympic champions Victoria Pendleton and Chris Hoy have elected to miss the Games in order to concentrate on November's European Championships.
... CyclingNews
Published: Aug 27, 2010 - 12:04 PM
Funny News: Chuck Berry chats with Armstrong. Will join legal team?
Berry and Armstrong to battle Kid Rock and Landis?
The Boss is hanging with the boss, if that makes any sense.
Chuck Berry, Johnny B. Goode, the Rock n Roll legend. According to Lance’s twitter feed, the two are spending some quality time together “with no particular place to go.” Except maybe to talk a little legal stategy.
What we do know thanks to said tweets is that CB has a few rules. “Rule number 1, no performance unless payment as been received, in cash.” Left un-tweeted, Berry’s four month jail term for tax evasion.
... Twisted Spoke
Published: Aug 27, 2010 - 10:47 AM
International News: Cervélo confirms it will end cycling team
Bike manufacturer to stay involved in pro cycling
Cervélo confirmed today that it would not continue as a title sponsor for its cycling team after the end of this season. In a statement issued late Thursday, the bike manufacturer cited "certain subtle changes in the rules that govern pro cycling" which meant the team would have had to increase its budget to ensure it would be able to participate in the sport's biggest races. Cyclingnews reported yesterday that the team's future was uncertain after a number of riders were linked to Garmin-Transitions for next year.
... CyclingNews
Published: Aug 27, 2010 - 01:10 AM
Articles: Former USPS doctor denies doping at team
Del Moral says he saw nothing
The former team doctor for the U.S. Postal Service team has denied knowing of any doping at the team while he was there from 1999 to 2003. Spanish doctor Luis Garcia del Moral said he never saw any doping programmes at the team.
“I don’t know anything about all of this,” Del Moral told The Associated Press. “I never saw any such things.”
... CyclingNews
Published: Aug 26, 2010 - 12:49 PM
Local News: Bike park gets name, Gonda defends his crown
Massey Baker performs a stunt at the Dirt n’ Soul Bike Park at Mt. McIntyre on Sunday
Whitehorse’s mountain bike community was in high gear this past weekend, with local cyclists having their pick of events to attend.
After six years in the planning, the new skills park at Mt. McIntyre officially opened Sunday with a celebration including music, prizes, a barbecue and demonstrations.
The Dirt n’ Soul Bike Park, as it was named, was completed in early June after about a year after construction first began. The park was designed by Jay Hoots, a professional rider, coach and owner of the BC-based company Hoots Inc., a mountain bike clothing and safety equipment manufacturer.
... YukonNews
Published: Aug 26, 2010 - 01:52 AM
Articles: Q&A with Joseph Papp
This week Blazin' Saddles poses some questions to a friend he made on Twitter, the former pro cyclist Joseph Papp.
BS: So, Joe, tell everyone who you are.
JP: I yam what I yam and that's all that I am! Born in Ohio, bred in Pittsburgh, matured in South America, Europe and a few less exotic locales. Book-smart, no-common-sense romantic, imbued with a passion for cycling that's inexplicably intense. I started cycling and racing in 1989, the day after my father died, the day before my birthday. Tragedy turned to triumph, and between stints at university and graduate school, I travelled the world to race and represent my country. Bike racing even brought me love, in the form of the beautiful, lithe and blond then-national champion of Cuba. Now, I'm several years removed from the "farewell" race, pondering what comes next and where can I go from here. Geopolitics interfered with my marriage, and doping interfered with my cycling and may yet interfere with my freedom.
... Eurosport
Published: Aug 26, 2010 - 01:47 AM
Articles: Nygaard secures 20 riders for new Luxembourg team
Sponsors to be announced soon
The new Luxembourg-based team has confirmed 20 riders for the coming season and also has the money to pay them, according to the team's CEO Brian Nygaard.
Kim Andersen confirmed the 20 riders, although no names were mentioned. “We will present the first 15 riders to the UCI in October, but it was always planned that we must have 25 riders,” Nygaard told tv2sport.dk.
... Cycling News
Published: Aug 26, 2010 - 01:42 AM
Articles: Armstrong Cycling Team Doctor Rejects Landis's Blood-Doping Accusations
The chief doctor of the U.S. Postal Service-backed cycling team for five of Lance Armstrong’s Tour de France wins said allegations by former member Floyd Landis of a doping regime on the squad aren’t credible.
U.S. authorities are investigating after Landis made the claims in e-mails to cycling officials this year. In an April 30 e-mail, Landis said that at the 2003 Vuelta a Espana race a team doctor he didn’t name gave him blood transfusions to increase stamina along with Andriol, a synthetic testosterone.
Luis Garcia del Moral, who said he oversaw two other medical staff members on the team from 1999 to 2003, said Landis’s claims are “ridiculous” and he wasn’t aware of any cheating. Landis also accused Armstrong of blood doping, a claim the seven-time Tour champion denies.
“It seems crazy, I don’t know this part of the story of the U.S. Postal team, of course,” Garcia del Moral said in a telephone interview. Landis, stripped of his 2006 Tour title for doping, is trying to “make some money” after losing his fortune, Garcia del Moral added.
Landis said in 2007 that he spent more than $1 million in legal fees fighting his Tour disqualification, about half of which was paid through donations. He hasn’t secured a berth on a top-level team since serving a two-year ban. Landis didn’t return an e-mail seeking comment.
Landis’s Account
Garcia del Moral, who now runs a sports medicine practice in Valencia, Spain, joined Armstrong and team sports director Johan Bruyneel in denying Landis’s account. The New York Times reported on Aug. 5 that another former team member, speaking to federal investigators, backed Landis’s claims about widespread doping. The newspaper didn’t identify the rider.
The investigation is pursuing “dated and discredited allegations,” Bryan Daly, Armstrong’s attorney, said in an Aug. 5 statement. Bruyneel, of Belgium, formally denied Landis’s claims as part of an inquiry by his national cycling federation, the organization said on July 8.
Garcia del Moral, who had worked with the Spanish cycling federation, said he was hired by Bruyneel and oversaw another Spanish doctor, Jose Aramendi, and an Italian physician he identified as Nino on the U.S. Postal team. He also worked with a fitness trainer, Pepe Marti, another Spaniard.
Landis said he was sold human growth hormone by the team trainer in 2003, according to the April e-mail to USA Cycling Chief Executive Steve Johnson. Marti worked with Tour de France champion Alberto Contador on the Astana team this year and is likely to switch with him to the Saxo Bank team next year, Contador’s spokesman Jacinto Vidarte said.
Willing to Speak
Marti is “not going to make any comment,” Vidarte said. Astana officials didn’t respond to requests by phone and e-mail for a comment from Marti. Aramendi didn’t immediately return an e-mail sent to his clinic, and a staff member said he was on vacation and unavailable.
Garcia del Moral said he’d be willing to speak to U.S. investigators if asked, although he is unable to break patient confidentiality rules.
“I can’t speak freely on medical matters because of medical confidentiality,” he said. “If a judge asks me, then I’ll have to consider that when the time comes.”
... this story comes from Bloomberg
Published: Aug 26, 2010 - 01:19 AM
Absolutely nothing to do with cycling but ...
Published: Aug 25, 2010 - 08:09 AM
Local News: New ‘Dirt ‘n Soul Bike Park’ an immediate hit with young riders
... Alex Chisholme had only one wish regarding Whitehorse’s bike park – that it had gotten here sooner
The 19-year-old entered the pro category of the Goat Style Bike Jam held in Creston, BC, in July, and said that, while he failed to reach the final round, the experience of riding alongside the pros was worth the trip.
Growing up in Whitehorse, Chisholme was just one of the riders looking to reach that next level.
“For me, when I was in a prime age, trying to find jumps, there wasn’t that much at that time,” he said.
“I enjoyed the park last year, it was good, I rode these dirt jumps a lot, and it was nice to finally see a rhythm section in town, because most of the jumps that I’d ridden previously were just one-hits, and then you go back and hit one jump and come back again.”
... Whitehorse Star
Published: Aug 25, 2010 - 07:20 AM
Local News: Gonda retains his crown as King of the Canyon, Queen category returns
The King of the Canyon offered riders two choices: keep your head down and peddle or look up and enjoy the checkpoints.
The Yukon Mountain Bike championships, held on the Grey Mountain and Yukon River trails on Saturday, featured 50 kilometres of grind for those vying for king and queen honours and a 25-km haul for the prince and princess.
Dave Gonda, who has spent the summer training with the Calgary-based Cyclemeisters, reclaimed his crown as King of the Canyon with a time of 2:41.04.
... Whitehorse Star
Published: Aug 25, 2010 - 01:18 AM
Articles: Michael Creed: Why I never doped and my future in the sport
" think someone like Tyler Hamilton is a really moral guy, anyone would be lucky to have him as a neighbour....Some people just need to hang out for a couple of beats and figure out why a rider’s doing it."
Creed talks about his fears of doping; his 2005 San Francisco display and his future.
There’s an American hero in town and he’s lighting up a bike race with a performance soaked in everything that makes racing so exciting. It’s a ride of panache, guts, grace and a pure bloody-mindedness that says, today I’m going to leave everything out on the road.
This isn’t Lance Armstrong winning one of his seven Tours, nor Greg LeMond trailblazing through Europe as he skittles through the opposition.
... CyclingNews
Published: Aug 25, 2010 - 01:08 AM
Articles: Video: Chris Akrigg rides the Mega Avalanche
Chris Akrigg.TEOCALI MEGA.0 from chris akrigg on Vimeo.
>In his latest mountain bike video, Mongoose rider Chris Akrigg takes on one of the world’s most challenging downhill mountain bike endurance races, the Megavalanche.
Dropping 2,000 metres on a 30km course, the race takes in mountain-top glaciers, knee deep snow and some almost impossible to ride off-road trails - it’s a route that’s capable of battering both rider and bike, and in this video Akrigg feels the full force of the trails, crashing during qualifying and breaking his saddle in the race.
... BikeRadar
Published: Aug 24, 2010 - 07:22 AM
Articles: Video: What The Pros Ride – Darren Berrecloth’s Specialized SX
Darren Berrecloth is a freeride and slopestyle legend. Darren walked us through his 2011 Specialized SX showing us some of his part choices and tweaks. Check inside for photos and full video.
Darren’s Specialized SX is mostly a stock bike you can buy right off the shelves with only a few tweaks done to it for his liking.
... to see more pictures of his bike click Here - SickLines
Published: Aug 24, 2010 - 07:03 AM
Funny News: Bike racing and 80 year old retired ladies. The support hose ban
IS THIS THE REAL REASON LANCE RETIRED
Add this to the long list of things we fear.
Yes, along with the rising price of imported beer and the general frowning on extramarital affairs, we add this third scary humiliation: compression calf wear worn during professional bike races.
Okay, if some panel of science flunkies says recovery is 1.892% better when wearing these abominations after a race, so be it. We don’t have to see it in the race photos, our athletic and aesthetic sensibilities are not offended. It was okay on the rest day, excusable off the bike, but please do not pull the old lady thing on us.
... Twisted Spoke
Published: Aug 24, 2010 - 06:59 AM
Articles: You have to go to this site ...
A group of cyclist chronicle their journey following the 2010 Tour de France. Some great photos ...
... VeloDramatic
Published: Aug 24, 2010 - 06:54 AM
Articles: Biascagne Cicli
We recently received an email from Valentina in Italy, introducing her bicycle refurbishing business. In her own words:
Biascagne Cicli is made by a man and a woman in a garage. We prepare bikes for passion, not as a job: this allows us to make only what we like to, without stooping to compromises. Our jobs are so abstract that we needed to make something manual and creative.
... Urban Velo
Published: Aug 24, 2010 - 06:49 AM
Articles: Lance still centre of attention
He was never going to go quietly, was he?
Despite being 40 minutes off the pace and reduced to "tourist on a bike" status, Lance Armstrong's leaving of the Tour de France was in keeping with his 17-year relationship with the world's greatest bike race.
When Tour officials noticed Armstrong's Team RadioShack were wearing unauthorised jerseys for Sunday's final stage, they halted proceedings and made them put their official kit back on.
... BBC Sports
Published: Aug 24, 2010 - 06:00 AM
