Velochimp: Astrochimp on Cycling

Weather has been extremely good for cycling in Upstate New York. Usually in January you wouldn’t dream of riding on clear roads with little to no salt. Sunday called for a club ride, even though I missed out on my first team ride (My email wasn’t coming through from Yahoo Groups for an odd reason). [...]

T-Mobile is following the latest trend among Tour contending teams by announcing their riders for the Tour long before anyone “turns a pedalin anger” as Phil and Paul like to say. There are 5 riders preselected for the Tour are Serhiy Honchar, Andreas Kloden, Eddy Mazzoleni (whos is dating Ivan Basso’s sister) and TT World [...]

Cool short film about bike racing in New York City. Even though the Metro New York area has loads of scary traffic, there is a very active racing scene. Here is a breif glimpse into the life of a Cat 2 racer in NYC.

The new kits for 2006 are slowly dribbling out. Some teams have stayed the same, such as Bouyges Telecom and T-Mobile, while others are changed for various reasons.
Each year provides subtle gasps at the Euro-uglyness of some team kit, or the new cool style. Case in point is the Lampre team kit for 2006. Squares [...]

Allan Davis, the Aussie sprinter of Liberty Seguros took stage 2 of the Tour Down Under. The stage did not end in a sprint as Davis was in a two man break with Paul Crake of UniSA-Australia. Davis was able to outsprint his breakwaway companion to take the second stage win.
Stage 2 Results:
1 Allan Davis [...]

The Tour Down Under tackled a few climbs today, and that broke up the final sprint. Robbie McEwen is in great form coming in third behind riders who are better climbers.
Gerrans , the young Australian on the AG2R squad is stepping up to the leaders jersey of the TDU. The stage win is significant since [...]

Cycling legend Claudio Chiapucci much like Museeuw is lending his name to cycling. This time Il Diablo is giving his name to a small Italian team named System Cars-Co.Edil-Chiappucci. Claudio himeself was on hand for the recent team presentation. He has longer hair, darker tan and still looks like he could climb up Sestriere [...]

Johan Museeuw will be lending his name to the Three Days of Flanders. The Johan Mseeuw Classic is scheduled to take place March 3rd to the 5th.

(A fatter Velochimp with Museeuw in Hamilton, Ontario 2003)
The former King of the Cobbles wants to help build cycling further in cycling crazy Belgium by bringing big names [...]

Robbie McEwen seems to be in top form throughout the year. The Australian sprinter is always primed when he rides on home turf in Australia. Robbie took the first prologue stage of the Tour Down Under which was a 50km stage. He beat out Italians Daniele Colli of Liquigas and Simone Cadamuro of Milram in [...]

The T-Mobile Giro team is begining to take shape as Jan Ullrich and now Michael Rogers are looking to the Corsa Rosa as part of their agenda.

(Ulle:Hey Mick, you going to Italy with me?…Rogers: sure Jan, I am not going to push you up the climbs though…. Kloden:Yeah, Jan needs a push up climbs in [...]