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US sprinter Tyler Farrar paired up with Garmin-Transitions teammate Julian Dean to win Stage 10 at the Giro d'Italia on Tuesday.
It was the Wenatchee, Washington, cyclist's second stage win at this year's Giro and his fourth so far this year. He currently holds the points leader's red jersey.
The overall leaders remained unchanged, with Alexandre Vinokourov holding onto first place, 1:12 ahead of Cadel Evans.
The Garmin-Transition team shared time at the front of the peloton during the 143-mile race from Avellino to Bitonto to ensure that a successful breakaway didn't spoil what was expected to be a sprint finish. The three cyclists who led most of the bike race were reeled in about 10 miles from the finish.
HTC-Columbia didn't seem able …
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A couple of question and answer sessions regarding Seattle bicycling in general and a bike lane project in Bellevue are on tap this week.
The Stranger online website is hosting a Bike Q&A at Questionland in response to Bike to Work Week. The panel of experts includes reps from Mobius Cycle, Cascade Bicycle Club (David Hiller), and Bike Works (Qamuuqin Maxwell) and bike advocate Bryan McClellan.
Some of the questions they've tackled so far …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/17/questions-about-bicycling-answers-in-seattle-and-bellevue/
A bike ride to honor bicyclists killed or injured by motor vehicles gets underway at 278 locations beginning at 7 p.m. Wednesday in 22 countries around the world.
The Ride of Silence was founded in 2003 by Chris Phelan to memorialize the death of bicyclist Larry Schwartz in Dallas who was struck and killed by the exterior mirror of a passing bus.
Since then the silent ride has grown to every continent, including Antarctica where it will be conducted on two stationary bicycles in the gym of US research base Palmer Station …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/17/2010-ride-of-silence-is-wednesday-evening-may19/
You wouldn't expect to see the two top contenders for the overall lead of the Giro d'Italia going at each other in front of a mass sprint.
But there was race leader Alexandre Vinokourov chasing down Cadel Evans in front of the pack in the last 500 yards of Stage 9 in Cava de Tirreni on Monday.
The usual lead-out train of HTC-Columbia had derailed in the last couple of miles, and Evans took advantage of this free-for-all by attempting to beat Vinokourov in the sprint and gain some time on his 1:13 deficit.
Garmin-Transititions Tyler Farrar watched this develop …..
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/17/maglia-rosa-rivals-challenge-in-mass-sprint-at-giro/
Mark Cavendish escaped at least two crashes in the final circuit around Sacramento on Sunday to win Stage 1 of the Amgen Tour of California.
The speedster from HTC-Columbia just barely bested Juan Jose Haedo, who rode Cavendish's slipstream toward the finish but faded when he tried to pass.
With HTC-Columbia leading out their sprinter at the head of the peloton, there was no danger of him being caught in the carnage back in the field. Other well-known sprinters like Tom Boonen and Stuart O'Grady weren't so lucky, however.
One crash occurred soon after the bell lap started and the second occurred within sight of the finish line. So many riders went down or were held up by the collisions ….
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Chris Sorensen may have grown up in the flatness of Denmark, but he obviously trains in the mountains as the Saxo Bank cyclist beat the peloton to a mountaintop finish at the Giro d'Italia on Sunday.
The cold, foggy finish on the Monte Terminillo tested, but didn't take much of a toll on the overall leaders in the race on Stage 8.
Overall leader Alexandre Vinokourov and the group of rivals led by Cadel Evans all crossed the finish line about a minute after the Dane except for David Millar of Garmin-Transitions ….
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How tough was Saturday's Stage 7 of the Giro d'Italia?
For one thing, it was 138 miles long. Also, it rained, hard at times; hard enough that a short section of the course was closed due to a landslide.
Compounding that, the peloton cycled over about a dozen miles of Tuscany's strada bianche, dirt roads. The rain, of course, turned the dirt to mud and the racers were covered in it.
Plowing through all this to victory, however, was Australia's Cadel Evans (above), who beat an elite group ….
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A horrific rear-end collision between a pickup truck and a group of six cyclists left three dead and rocked the bicycling community in the Quebec province on Friday.
The five women and one man were members of a triathlon club who were riding to a weekend training camp at Sherbrooke, Quebec.
A pickup truck driven by an as-yet unidentified local volunteer firefighter slammed into the group as they pedaled single-file along the undivided four-lane highway south of Montreal.
One woman was pronounced dead at the scene and two other women died at the hospital.
The speed limit along Highway 112 is 90 km ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/14/3-cyclists-killed-on-rural-quebec-road-3-more-injured/
[Corrects Universal Sports schedule for Giro d'Italia]
The Giro d'Italia and Amgen Tour of California bike races will be running on simultaneous days for the week beginning this Sunday.
While the conflict created havoc for some teams that either had to choose between the two bike races or split their squads between California and Italy, all it's going to do for cycling fans is put them in front of the TV for more hours on days when they should be enjoying the fresh air.
Fortunately, the Giro is broadcast live in the mornings on Universal Sports, while the Tour of California will appear live in the afternoons on Versus ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/14/tv-and-online-coverage-for-2010-tour-of-california-and-giro-ditalia/
Attacking in the early miles of a Giro d'Italia stage doesn't seem to be hurting anyone's chances for a stage win this year.
For the second day in a row, a member of a nearly day-long breakaway won the 103-mile Stage 6 from Fidenza to Carrara.
Australian Matthew Lloyd of Omega Pharma-Lotto dropped his breakaway partner, Rubens Bertogliatia of the Androni Giocattoli cycling team, on the final climb and sailed across the finish line for a solo victory.
There was no change in the overall leaders ….
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