12 years ago in Barcelona, Italian Fabio Casartelli won the last Olympic Gold Medal for amateur cyclists for Italy and today, perhaps the late gold medalist was smiling down on his countryman Paolo ...
To get the low-down on Lance Armstrong's rig, we caught up with his mechanic Jean-Marc Vandenberghe as the team were preparing the day before Milan-San Remo. Jean-Marc is from Moorslede, in the heart ...
The T-Mobile team has been riding Giant bikes ever since it switched from Pinarello at the end of 2003, and in that time the partnership has only continued to grow stronger. While the past few months ...
A large French-based chain of sports stores, Décathlon isn't the sort of brand you immediately associate in the same company as Colnago and Look. But since the start of its association with the AG2r ...
Start time No. Name (Country) 13:00:00 25 Tatiana Guderzo (Italy) 13:01:30 24 Nataliya Kachalka (Ukraine) 13:03:00 23 Dori Ruano Sanchon (Spain) 13:04:30 22 Trixi Worrack (Germany) 13:06:00 21 Rasa ...
The Tour de France pays homage to fallen rider Andrei Kivilev. The Kazakhstani rider had made Saint-Etienne his home and died here in a crash in Paris-Nice in March, 2003. The second ITT of the Tour ...
Mostly a formality, Stage 20 is an all-flat stage that has one final Cat. 4 KOM and a sprint halfway in Livry Gargan before entering Paris for the most famous criterium in the world, eight laps of the ...
Lance Armstrong (US Postal) won the Tour du Luxembourg after his teammate Frankie Andreu made a solo escape to win the last stage over 179 kms which started and finished in Diekirch. 26-year old ...
Mapei is one of the teams favoured by the patronage of Ernesto Colnago, the bike builder whose history goes back to mechanicking and building bikes for Eddy Merckx. The carbon fibre C40 is one of the ...
This article will describe the use of the Road Positioning Chart for competitive road bicycles. A similar article for MTB bikes is at MTB Bike Positioning. The chart is intended primarily for the ...
Just after the Olympic Individual Time Trial ended, Team USA riders Tyler Hamilton and Bobby Julich embraced each other on a windy summer evening in the Greek coastal town of Vouliagmeni with a hug of ...
This article will discuss the mounting and gluing of tubular tires. The tubular tire is made from a tire casing that is then sewn around an inner tube. The stitching is covered with a strip of cloth ...