Velochimp: Astrochimp on Cycling

The civil war that was threatening to destroy cycling may not happen. The UCI and ASO, Unipublic and RCS (organizers of the Grand Tours) have called a ceasefire in their struggle for power and control of their events and cyclign in general. This is good news only one week before the first ProTour race of [...]

The Tour of California bike race is in its second year and growing. Latest word is that the organizers want to grow the race to become a major Grand Tour. Of course with a successful bike race following the same format for two years in a row, the organizers have nothing to do but dream [...]

The Giro D’Italia will feature only 18 of the 20 ProTour Teams and will make the final announcement on February 12. This is a move that signals a large fissure in the battle between the UCI’s and the three Grand Tours. This situation was not helped much when Pat McQuaid made some very odd comments [...]

The Holiday cheer is missing in the cycling world. The Grinch has stolen all of the good cheer from anyone related to pro cycling. Sure Discovery Channel, CSC and Tinkoff among many others have already met for their first training camps for the 2007 season. Discovery Channel played paint ball in Texas while CSC was [...]

Not surprising news, but the organizers of the Vuelta, Tour and Giro are not going to include the races in next year’s ProTour. The UCI and Grand Tour organizers have been at odds since the formation of the ProTour which was to integrate all major cycling races into a year long points competition. The [...]

Team support cars are what separates the big teams from the not so big teams. You know you made it when you are on a team with a huge bus. While other teams simply get by with a few brightly colored cars.

If you every wonders what Jelly-Belly’s team car looks like or what does the [...]

The ProTour is under pressure with the precarious relationship with the Organizers of the Grand Tours. RCS, the organizers of the Giro have decided to keep the split-stage format citing the fact that the Giro (along with the Tour de France and Vuelta Espana) will not be part of the ProTour, and so will not [...]