Velochimp: Astrochimp on Cycling

Ivan Basso is just about ready to start his ambititous 2006 season. Milano-Torino will be his first race pf the season and that takes place this Saturday. Recently the potential Giro Tour winner was promoting the marriage of Skoda cars and FSA wheels and TuttoBici got a chance to talk to Ivan and see how [...]

RCS, the organizers of the Giro D’Italia announced that 22 teams will compete in the next edition of the Giro D’Italia. The 20 major ProTour teams are included in the mix along with Panaria and Selle-Italia. Panaria has earned their place with great performances of Emanuele Sella and Brett Lancaster. Brett Lancaster wore the Maglia [...]

Mario Cipollini still wants to be involved in cycling and has his eyes on being a director on a team. Cipo is still recovering from a bad ski crash that resulted in a knee injury. The ex world champ made this thoughts on his future known at the unveiling at the Giro della Provincia [...]

What team has the current World Champion and the reigning Olymipic Road Race Champ, plus several top classics riders? Quick-Step looks strong this year and the team flexed its muscles in three separate races this week.

Remmert Wielinga won the GP Chiasso, Nick Nuyens won Kuurne Busselles Kuurne and Paolo Bettini took the GP Lugano.

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The first edition of the modern Tour of California is in the books with a win by Floyd Landis. Was the race worth the effort? Will it justify Amgen’s marketing budget? Did the organizers lose money or make money or break even? So many questions, but from my vantage point up in the armpit of [...]

The sublime and (this word is way overused) Felliniesque closing ceremonies will included the now retired Super sprinter. Mario Cipollini was saluted with many of Italy’s great athletes. He didn’t ride his bike around the stadium with a rocket attached to his back or dance like he is in Cirque De Soliel, but Cipo’s style [...]

This week has a common theme, sprinter type riders taking two stage victories. Ale-Jet Petacchi took two stages at Valencieana, JJ Haedo, George Hincapie, and Olaf Pollack like winning so much they did it twice.
Since Floyd Landis’ dominating Time Trial win on Wednesday the Tour of California was pretty much set for GC placings. The [...]

Yesterday I called Floyd Landis’ Time Trial position the “Flying Protological Exam” because of the extreme forward position that places Floyds butt at the extreme end of the saddle. Landis did use this type of position last year, so it is not new. Last week, Landis and his Phonak team did some wind tunnel testing [...]

Floyd Landis is fresh off wind tunnel testing that helped him improve his Time Trial position. This is the first time that Floyd tested the tweeked position that is similar to last year’s extreme forward motion position. Looks like the hard work paid off as Floyd Landis claimed the important Stage 3 TT win ahead [...]

Stage 3 lived up to some of the hype that was being built up as a decisive stage. The strength of the Discovery Channel and CSC teams showed as they both had numbers in the final run in. The Disco team worked hard for George Hincapie who was probably the best sprinter out of the [...]