Velochimp: Astrochimp on Cycling

At a recent get-together to honor Ivan Basso, Yaroslav Popovych and Paolo Salvodelli, the issue of riding the Giro was discussed. In seems that the “will he or won’t he” question is not yet put to bed on whether Ivan Basso will ride the Giro.
Upon looking at the course which seems more tailor made for [...]

Team support cars are what separates the big teams from the not so big teams. You know you made it when you are on a team with a huge bus. While other teams simply get by with a few brightly colored cars.

If you every wonders what Jelly-Belly’s team car looks like or what does the [...]

The Tour de Georgia’s route was unveiled yesterday.
Stage 1: Tuesday, April 18 – Augusta, Ga. to Macon, Ga. • Augusta: Third year to host the Tour, with a Stage Start venue in 2003 and Overall Start in 2005 • Macon: Fourth consecutive year as a host city, having participated as a Stage Finish and Stage [...]

Not a huge story, but more news wires are picking up that Igor Astarloa signed for Liquigas for 2006. This is false as the Yahoo! News story below has a profile of Liquigas for 2006 and the roster does not include the former World Champ. I emailed Liquigas to see what the bottom line is, [...]

Gilberto Simoni will be racing in California next February. This trip will also include a stop to the Scott USA headquarters and a visit to a wind tunnel to test out Simoni’s aerodynamic positioning.
BiciRace.com :: News :: November 2005

Dick Pound is on a rampage again, but not about cycling. He is hitting out at the NHL where he caims that 1/3 of the entire NHL is doping. This remark was made after Pund met with NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman who made is clear to Pound that player taking performance enhancing drugs was not [...]

The ProTour is under pressure with the precarious relationship with the Organizers of the Grand Tours. RCS, the organizers of the Giro have decided to keep the split-stage format citing the fact that the Giro (along with the Tour de France and Vuelta Espana) will not be part of the ProTour, and so will not [...]

This came off of the news at TuttoBici this morning saying that reports saying that Igor Astarloa has signed for Liquigas are not true. Last heard around Velochimp offices was that Astarloa was mulling over a contract offer from Lampre, but that wasn’t sweet enough. Todociclismo has the story about Astarloa and buddy Peio Arreitunandia [...]

Roberto Heras’ second sample came up positive for EPO. Does this mean that the test is flawed? or that doping controls to catch cheats are working? Either way, we will not be seeing Roberto Heras racing next year as he will soon be fired by his team. Heras will appeal this finding, but as the [...]

Claudio Corti was left without a team after Lampre and Caffita sponsors went their separate ways. The longtime team manager of Saeco may be the new team manager for Barloworld, the Italian/South African Team. With this move, he may bring in Caffita as a co-sponsor and of course Cannondale bikes with which Corti has a [...]