Velochimp: Astrochimp on Cycling

Syracuse Kids Race on Vimeo
The Syracuse Kids Race has to be the most entertaining race of the whole weekend. The little kids get free
helmets and a chance to race. It’s all fun and everyone gets a ribbon.

Another Syracuse Race Weekend has come and gone. It was very busy for everyone in the Onondaga Cycling Club since this is a three event race. This year it was called a stage race, but the GC was determined by points. It was a stage race mostly to force folks to ride all three events. [...]

Italians love a good polemica between riders. A duel between riders is not quite enough, there has to be some sort of hatred or antagonism to add to the rivalry. If it was the battle between Coppi and Bartali in the 50s or Moser vs Saronni in the 80s, Chiaucci vs Bugno vs Pantani in [...]

The next few stages will fun interesting to watch even though Ivan Basso looks to have everything under control. Watch the race live as the Italians see it with the commentary of David Cassani and Aurio Bulbarelli.

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Good riddance to Manolo Saiz from the world of cycling. That of course is if the stories are true and he is guilty. But this is cycling and Europe, so he is pretty much guilty until he is found innocent.
Is it just too much to ask that if you sign a contract with a major [...]

Each day the talk on “Processo alla Tappa” is if the Giro is truly over or not. Each day everyone including Ivan Basso himself procliams that the Giro isn’t over especially with some brutal stages coming up in the next day. Each day however Ivan Basso crushes the competition so thouroghly that everyone is left [...]

Wladmir “Sugar Ray” Belli is in fourth place 7:35 behind Ivan Basso. Thanks to a breakaway that let the Italian veteran gain back some time on GC and a very good performance on La Thuile, Selle Italia has a new team leader. This is good news for a team that had to deal with the [...]

This week’s action in the Giro D’Italia has been about mostly Ivan Basso and a little bit about Jan Ullrich.
Ivan Basso is dominating the Giro to a degree that nobody outside of the CSC team expected. Last year we had a glimpse of the climbing ability and developing TT skills before a severe stomach bug [...]

Ebay is great to pick up used stuff that other folks just don’t need any more. This eBay ad is from a Cat 2 who just can’t take riding any more and is selling everything. A bad performance at Gila has made this guy just want to quit.

After two days at the GILA we have [...]

(pic from eurosport.com)
The Giro started this weekend and may have ended this weekend too. Ivan Basso put down a Lance Armstrong/Miguel Indurain type of performance on the first real mountin top finish of the Giro. As Carlos Sastre set a tempo reminiscent of Discovery Channel/Postal leadout of the past seven years, Basso simply clicked [...]