Bike Racing News and Opinions
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Mostly news and some commentary on pro cycle racing, bikes, riding and anything else that we feel needs saying.
Special feature. Dueling essays: Which is the greater race?
Larry says The Giro d'Italia
Padraig says The Tour de France
January 2012
January 18: Hot new bikes, The Green Bullet is back, Tour Down Under. January 23: First UCI rankings of 2012. January 30: Jaw-dropping cyclocross worlds. More details
December 2011
December 15: Bikeraceinfo news
November 2011
November 2: Podium Cafe book contest. November 8: Bike company stock prices. More details
October 2011
October 8: The UCI did that? Please go home, Mr. McQuaid. October 12: GM versus bikes. October 13: GM loses. October 16: Giro route announced. Oct 17: UCI World Tour rankings. October 18: 2012 Tour route announced. October 26: Cycling Heroes review on Podim Cafe.com. More details
August 2011
July 5: Farewell, HTC-Highroad. More details
July 2011
July 9: Bike Raceinfo and McGann Publishing news. July 19: Ban hard descents in the Tour? July 26: Giro boss gone. July 28: Green Jersey mean anything? More details
May 2011
May 21: More idle speculation, this time about US Postal. May 25: Tyler's confession. More details
April 2011
April 30: Idle speculation about Liège-Bastogne-Liège. More details
March 2011
March 17: More on radios. March 21: Another Giro history book. More details
February 2011
February 6: Get rid of the damn radios. February 15: Contador skates. More details.
January 2011
January 18: Upcoming races, trouble for Lance. January 20: Tour de France invitations. Contador no longer 2010 Tour victor. More details
December 2010
December 7: Money matters for bikies. December 17: Don't hit a bike rider unless you're rich. Dec 30: Who should have won the 1949 Paris-Roubaix? More details
November 2010
November 14: Sorry for the dead air time. November 16: Armstrong investigator in France. November 30: Watch Bobet, Coppi, Bartali, Kubler, Robic etc. More details
October 2010
October 1: Contador in trouble again. More details
September 2010
September 4: Herlihy strikes again. September 28: Interbike bike show More details
August 2010
August 3: Riis finds pot of gold, buys best racer in the world. August 5: Feds and Armstrong, other Postal riders talking. August 27: Cervelo and Garmin joining forces. August 28: Wait, there's more! August 30: Where's Thor? More details
July 2010
July 3: Landis tells lots more about team doping. June 6: TDF stage 2 crashes. June 7: Rider reactions after Tour stage 4. July 9: Rider reactions to stage 5. July 10: Feds moving quickly on Landis charges. July 16: Renshaw's TDF ejection, Stage 12 comments. July 19: Thoughts on Stage 15. July 21: Contador moves to Riis? July 27: Tour lessons? More details
June 2010
June 1: Valverde gets to see what justice looks like. June 10: Bike stuff getting more expensive? June 18: The big crash stink, No Radio Shack at the Vuelta. More details.
May 2010
May 4: Sometimes cheaters prosper, sometimes they don't. May 11: Giro rest day thoughts. May 20: Landis spills his guts. May 21: National Mandy Rice-Davies Day, a Landis update. May 27: Hot diggity! A new Les Woodland book. More on Landis. More details
April 2010
April 1: Giro field firms up. British cycling in trouble? April 7: Another police doping raid. April 20: Big races fill the last third of April calender. April 24: Last Classic. April 27: Vino and LBL. April 30: Cavendish sent packing. More details
March 2010
March 4: Mea Culpa, Challenge steps up to the plate, forthcoming races. March 7: Bike production moving from China? A day in Tuscany. March 9: Petacchi crashes while training. March 16: Valverde gets smacked by CAS. March 19: Armstrong out of M-SR. March 20: HTC-Columbia still behind Cavendish. March 22: Giro team invites. March 30: TDF team invites. More details
February 2010
February 1:Di Luca gets real penalty for doping. February 4: Welcome to Challenge tires. February 7: Franco Ballerini dies. February 9: Ullrich keeps gold, Schleck rests, Falling Sky. February 15: More Landis trouble. February 16: Landis responds to French charges. February 18: Arnie Baker also responds to French charges. More details
January 2010
January 4: Armstrong to Amstel, Coppi and Merckx. January 7: ASO takes over Dauphiné. January 9: Saxo Bank splits, Menchov skips Giro, Dr. Thompson to the Graybars Hotel. January 12: Riis finds some shekels. Oh no, Saiz wants back in. January 16: Fignon fights on, Valverde has CAS hearing, Rasmussen finds team. January 26: Schumacher loses appeal, Tour going to the Vendée, Lampre gets to keep racing. January 27: Big guys change their racing schedules. More details
December 2009
December 2: WADA unhappy with Valverde; no Kreuziger for Omega Pharm; Pereiro jerked around by Kazakhs? Armstrong to Tour Down Under. December 4: Tax man wants a piece of Bettini. December 7: Wiggins really stays, pro bikes in India, Bruyneel throws rocks at Contador. December 8: Radio Shack Jersey unveiled. December 9: Pereiro confirmed to Astana, Bak to Columbia. What? Wiggins is going to Sky? December 10: Yes, Wiggins to Sky. December 13: Assorted rants. December 15: Evans to contest Giro. December 18: Vuelta jersey doins'. December 20: Some independent internal controls ending. December 24: No Tour de Georgia. More details
November 2009
November 1: Evans off to BMC. November 7: News from Saxo and Jef Mallett. November 11: Contador staying? November 16: Contador, Astana and Specialized, BFF? November 18: Rebellin squalificato. November 19: Contador stays put. November 21: Merckx supplies Quick Step, Liquigas-Doimo roster settled. November 22: Maybe Wiggins signs with Sky. Maybe not. November 24: More trouble for Astana while Armstrong builds a fortress. November 25: Astana might be in the clear. November 27: Saxo adjusts roster, Brard retires. November 28: Bye-bye radios. November 29: Gent 6-day over, Vaughters gets sponsor, Lampre gets rider. More details
October 2009
October 5: Weird UCI doping accusations, Valverde ends season, get rid of the radios, test and re-test. Oct. 12: Tour and Giro route leaks, AFLD and UCI spat, Vino says nyet. Oct 13: Frank Vandenbrouck dies. Oct 16: It's a go for Radio Shack, More Operacion Puerto delays. October 21: Tour route thoughts. Oct 23: Contador can split? Oct. 24: Yes, Contador can go. Oct 28: Want to buy Mavic? Oct 31: Grand Tour riders in flux. KOM coming back. More details
September 2009
September 1: Contador stuck? McEwen ends season. Sept 2: Rider team transfer news and guesses. Sept 2: Electronic shifting, good for the sport? Sept 10: SKY cycling team takes shape. Astarloza pleads innocent. Sept 14: Ukrainians, an Italian and dope. Sept 18: Buncha stuff: Contador, Team Sky, more Iberian doping. Sept. 22: Showtime, Worlds, Contador. Sept. 24: Kill the radios? Sept. 30: UCI team doings More details
August 2009
Aug 3: UCI releases rider, team, nations rankings. Aug 5: Vino returns. August 7: Di Luca third dope positive. Aug. 12: Di Luca Sacked, Caisse d'Epargne works on signing Contador, Vino4ever. Aug. 13: Rider team transfer rumors. August 17: UCI rankings after Vattenfall Cyclassics. Aug. 20: Updated rider team transfer rumor mill. Aug. 24: Vino's racing in Spain, Clean Tour?, Petacchi on Pro Tour team. Aug. 25: New UCI rankings for riders, teams and nations. Aug. 31: New UCI rankings. More details
July 2009
Alberto Contador turns down Astana offer. Astarloza, Di Luca dope postives. Armstrong's new team is Radio Shack. More details
January - May 2009
I've collected all the news bits in the 2009 race results page and moved them here.
All of 2008
All the news stories from 2008 are on this page