Velochimp: Astrochimp on Cycling

Alexandre Vinokourov is showing some great time trialling abilities as he captured the bronze medal in the World Time Trial Championships. Vino’s third place spoiled the Team CSC domination as he displaced Brian Vandborg to forth. Fabian Cancellara and David Zabriske two of CSCs time trialing specialist took first and second.
David Millar had a bad [...]

Danilo Napolitano the Sicilian sprinter for Lampre Fondital won the first semi-stage at the Settimana Coppi and Bartali. Napolitano improved on his fifth place showing in Milano San Remo. Although most of the top sprinters that beat him were not present today.
In the second half stage- a team time trial, CSC got a rare [...]

The tattered ProTour begins it’s second year on Sunday with Paris Nice. The ProTour may or may not be in disarray since the three Grand Tours pulled out of the competition only to setup their own Grand Tour Cup or prize. The ASO meanwhile has kept Paris Nice on the ProTour schedule. This year’s race [...]

Sorry, this title had to be used at some point. The Tour of California starts Sunday with a prologue Time Trial in San Francisco that sweeps along the Embarcadero and finishes at the famous Coit Tower. The first edition of the hopefully long running Tour of California will kick off with plenty of American riders [...]

Ivan Basso improved his personal best climbing time up the Monte Serra climb in Tuscany. BiciRace reports that the CSC training camp currently underway in Italy had all of the CSC team tackle the 6.3k climb as a group. The group became a duo of Basso and David Zabriske. The Z man actually beat Basso’s [...]