Velochimp: Astrochimp on Cycling

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Cycling is in a good state at this point despite the doping scandals. It seems that there is now shortage of sponsors lining up to replace Saunier Duval after the Ricco/Piepoli debacle in the Tour. Saunier Duval is dropping sponsorship almost immediately. Scott bicycles decided to step in as title sponsor and a [...]

Ricco’s bike is put away on the SD Team Truck: PASCAL PAVANI/AFP/Getty Images
Beyond words-or actual words would be only expletives-would describe my reaction to Riccardo Ricco’s positive test for EPO and a newish EPO like drug called CERA.
Like synthetic erythropoietin (rEPO), CERA was developed to as a treatment for the anemia that results from chronic [...]

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The first major mountain stage of the Tour de France dealt Alejandro Valverde and Damiano Cunego a cold dose of Pyrennean reality. Jens Voight and the CSC power zombies crushed the field up the Col de Tourmalet climb. Voight is not a climber, just a power zombie bent on feeling pain. His twisting [...]

Active.com takes a quick look into the team buses. Team CSC looks clean and modern, Scandinavian style. Stuart O’Grady’s number is up as a homage to the hurt racer. Saunier Duval seems to have a mor eluxurious bus with a built in espresso machine, various sodas on tap and a swanky second level. By contrast [...]

Ivan Basso may have sparked the latest trend in cycling of racing both the Giro and Tour de France. Basso was unable to ride the double last year due to some doping investigation, but with the Giro win in his pocket he was able to get some trophies from the adoring Italian press by [...]

Gilberto Simoni is a happier man this year. He is on his own team with former team manager Pietro Algeri who guided his Lampre team when he won the Giro in 2001. Life is better than 2004 when Simoni felt up ended by the young upstart Damiano Cunego. Simoni was one of the few Italians [...]

AleJet Petacchi and Gibo Simoni are now free to model their new team kits for 2006.

The Team Milram look of Petacchi has a retro feel that almost brings to mind the? Motoroloa jerseys of the early to mid 90s. They keep the ratio of blue jerseys in the Pro Peloton very high. The Saunier-Duval [...]

Now that the ink has dried on the contract, David Millar is officially part of the Saunier Duval Cycling Team. Millar, the Scotsman who has been suspended for two years after he admitted using EPO. Millar is expected to return to competative bike racing in June when his suspension if over with any eye to [...]

Gilberto Simoni will be racing in California next February. This trip will also include a stop to the Scott USA headquarters and a visit to a wind tunnel to test out Simoni’s aerodynamic positioning.
BiciRace.com :: News :: November 2005