Category: Racing
We'll be seeing Dave Zabriskie (left) and Levi Leipheimer (right) in the stars and stripes when they take to the cycling peloton next year.
Both won at the USA Cycling Pro Championships in Greenville, South Carolina, over the weekend. As national champions, each gets to festoon their regular bicycle team jersey with the red, white and blue in 2008.
Zabriskie, winner of the individual time trial for the second year in a row, will be bicycling for the up-and-coming US-based Team Slipstream/Chipotle. Leipheimer, who won the road championship from Discovery teammate George Hincapie, has yet to sign a contract with another team for next year…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/09/03/leipheimer-wins-road-zabriskie-time-trial-at-pro-championships/
If you're still interested in pro cycling, the 2007 Vuelta a Espana kicks off Saturday for a three-week tour of Spain.
The online bicycle racing network Cycling.tv is webcasting the race and offering a low-resolution webcast for free to those who don't know if they want to shell out 21 Euros for a better view.
Only three Americans are competing in the event, as it conflicts with the US Cycling Pro championships that run Saturday and Sunday in Greenville, South Carolina, and the Tour of Missouri (Sept. 11-16)….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/08/30/where-to-watch-2007-vuelta-a-espana-4-americans-in-peloton/
When you read about bicyclist Saul Raisin, it's easy to draw comparisons to two former Tours de France winners; Greg Lemond, who fought back from gunshot wounds in a hunting accident, and Lance Armstrong, who beat cancer.
Raisin has been battling back from severe head trauma he suffered in a race in 2006 to compete on Saturday in the individual time trial at the USA Cycling Pro championships in Greenville, South Carolina.
The Dalton, Georgia, cyclist for Credit Agricole has come a long way from laying in a coma in a hospital bed in France. Still, Raisin's team is being cautious about his ability to make a full recovery to the pro peloton…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/08/27/comeback-kid-saul-raisin-to-race-at-pro-cycling-championships/
Team Slipstream/ Chipotle got some more mountain muscle with the signing of Discovery Channel's Tom Danielson this week.
He joins David Zabriskie and Christian Vande Velde (both of Team CSC) from the US and the UK's David Millar (Saunier Duval) on a team that appears to be filling the void of the departure of the pro cycling team sponsored by Discovery…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/08/25/tom-danielson-signs-with-team-slipstream/
Tailwind Sports is abandoning its search for a sponsor to replace Discovery Channel at the end of this season.
After putting two cyclists on the podium in the Tour de France last month, the team that Lance Armstrong made famous will race for the final time at the Vuelta a Espana and Tour of Missouri in September.
That means current members George Hincapie, Levi Leipheimer, Alberto Contador and others are free to find other cycling teams to ply their trade….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/08/10/end-of-an-era-discovery-sponsored-pro-cycling-team-disbands/
It looks like both Floyd Landis and Lance Armstrong will be racing at the Leadville 100 mountain bike race on Aug. 11 afterall.
Rob Lucas at UltraRob Adventures first had the scoop last week, as he pieced together some info about Armstrong riding part of the Leadville course with trainer Chris Carmichael and scheduling a charity event in Colorado Springs — 3 hours away — on Aug. 9 …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/07/15/landis-armstrong-face-off-back-on-at-leadville-100/
Photo by Aaron Teasdale
Adventure Cycling AssociationIf you were as amazed as I was about the Great Divide Race (“No support for cyclists in Great Divide Race“), you might want to know that Jay Petervary, left, set a new record in the 2,490-mile endurance bike ride of 15 days, 4 hours and 18 minutes.
When he pulled into Antelope Wells, New Mexico, a couple of days ago to complete the world's longest mountain bike race, he had crossed the Continental Divide 28 times and accumulated more than 200,000 feet of elevation gain.
Riding a 29-inch wheeled Orbea, he beat the previous record, set by bike race organizer Mike Curiak in 2004, by about 21 hours. In making the announcement, Adventure Cycling Association spokesman Aaron Teasdale said Petervary “can now lay claim to being the fastest long-distance mountain biker on the planet.” …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/07/03/great-divide-bike-race-winner-sets-record/
Forget about the dishes in the sink. Forget about mowing the lawn and posting your blog. Forget about sleep. If you had 24 hours, how far could you ride your bicycle?
More than 400 bicyclists met at the National 24-Hour Challenge last weekend near Grand Rapids, Michigan, to seek the answer to that question. It was the 24th meeting for the event.
Seattle resident Craig Ragsdale, 29, learned he could set the course record by covering 502.6 miles. Just as amazing, 67-year-old Dave Thomsen of Austin, Minnesota, bicycled 403.9 miles. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/24/how-far-can-you-ride-your-bicycle-in-24-hours/
Photo by Aaron Teasdale
Adventure Cycling AssociationNo support vehicles. No support crews. No calling anyone on a cell phone. No prizes. Few paved roads. What the hell kind of a bike race is this?
It's the Great Divide Race, the world's longest mountain bike race and arguably the most grueling.
Twenty-four mountain bikers set off from Port of Roosville, Montana, on the Canadian border on June 15 to tackle the 2,490-mile route to Antelope Wells, New Mexico, at the Mexican border.
They're following the stunningly beautiful and remote Great Divide Mountain Bike Route charted by the Adventure Cycling Association. It's pretty much all dirt road and trails criss-crossing the Continental Divide, with 200,000 feet of elevation gain along its course. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/22/no-support-for-cyclists-in-great-divide-race/
Although Slovenian ultra-cyclist Jure Robic rolled across the Race Across America finish line in Atlantic City on Tuesday, about a dozen solo riders are still struggling on their bicycles two days later.
One of them, diabetic Vail cyclist Kerry White, is continuing her ride despite being disqualified with 1,300 miles to go for failing to meet a time cut off earlier this week.
After starting on June 10 for 25 solo men and five solo women, RAAM is winding to a close. Most of the teams, which started June 12, have finished, except for two 2-man teams. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/21/robic-wins-race-across-america-more-than-a-dozen-still-on-course/
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