Velochimp: Astrochimp on Cycling

It is not Paolo Bettini at the top step of the podium, but another Italian Alessandro Ballan with teammate Damiano Cunego in second at the World Championships in Varese, Italy.

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The winning move came from a breakaway of 12 that had a decent enough gap and a selection of enough big names to last. [...]

pic from Flickr user mnorri
Paolo will be passing Lance on the way to the punch clock. The small Italian rider with huge thighs earned the nickname “Il Grillo” since he looks like a cricket ready to pounce from his bike. The plucky one day racer has a long list of big Classics victories from Milan [...]

An article in Live Science gives some insight into why athletes such as Dara Torres, Brett Favre and Lance Armstrong decide to come back to the sport after retiring.
With Armstrong, he never really left the limelight since he was either competing in the New York or Boston Marathon, running around with Matthew McConaughey or [...]

Cross season is here already. So what is cyclocross?

Thanks to Maxpower teammate Noel for the link! Checkout the Syracuse Grand Prix of Cyclocross on October 18th and the cool banner I designed for the club site too.

Lance Armstrong plans on announcing his plans for 2009 over the next two days. First at the Clinton Global Initiative and next at Interbike.

Lance Armstrong will hold a pair of press conferences in the next two days — the first on Wednesday in New York and the second on Thursday at the Interbike trade [...]

Hornman is my name for the superfan who runs along the peloton with a giant flag and huge antlers attached to a football helmet. He has been a busy guy at the Grand Tours running along side the peloton with his flag and holding the torch for a Lance Armstrong return which is now happening.
During [...]

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Look out Lance, Astana has a multiple Grand Tour winner on the roster. Alberto Contador became one of five people to ever win all three Grand Tours. Contador won the Giro and Vuelta this year after missing out on defending his Tour de France title in July due to some odd reasoning by the [...]

Here are some photos of a recent ride with my new bike a Bianchi L’Una (2006) with SRAM Force gruppo.
Look for a review of the bike soon.

Lance Armstrong is coming back with an expanded announcement on September 24th at the Clinton Global Initiative. The main goal of the comeback at least publicly is to help promote the fight against cancer. The thinking is that with Armstrong being out there back in the spotlight, he could have a better platform to push [...]

Alberto Contador would support having Lance join the Astana team.

Spaniard Contador said: “It’s good news for cycling. We would be delighted to welcome him with open arms at Astana.
“It’s news that awakes your attention and will create a lot of interest.”

The Contador relationship would be heabily scrutinized since the Astana team was not really hurting [...]