Below is the schedule for all the big European professional bike races this year, all of them held under the auspices of the International Cycling Union (UCI). Tourists and fans are allowed to travel to parts of these races and stand on the side of the road, climb or finish and watch the race...
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Love the wobbly wheel in the start for the time trial. Also, isn’t that Mary Ann Miller of Century Road Club Association in there somewhere? The video is a sales piece for one of the UCI-endorsed races for amateurs and masters who love the idea of being in the Tour de France, Tour de...
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March 22, 2013 OPINION, By Jen Benepe A recent post in the Brooklyn Paper has unfairly stigmatized neighborhood activists who have gathered a petition to prevent the building of a bike lane through their historic district. The article points to two recent petitions being circulated by residents asking the city’s Department of Transportation to...
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Greg Lemond, the man who was the first American to win multiple Tour de France races says he is vying for the top post at the International Cycling Union. In an interview with French newspaper Le Monde about whether he was prepared to run for president of the Swiss based union against incumbent Pat McQuaid, the 51-year-old...
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The Omega Pharma-Quick Step team has fired Levi Leipheimer after learning of his confession to doping as part of the Lance Armstrong investigation. Acting as Armstrong’s teammate for five years at the United States Postal Service, Astana and RadioShack teams, the 38-year-old Leipheimer joined Quick Step in 2012. Team management expressed surprise last week...
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A new book about Eddy Merckx, the infamous racer that dominated his generation so much that his tag name was the Cannibal, has hit the book stores. Written and compiled by Ron Reuman, Stephan Vanfleteren, Jan Maes, and Frederik Backelandt “Merckx 525″ is a biography with many previously unseen private photos said David Trendler, Press...
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  By Jen Benepe, July 4, 2012 Posted on his Twitter account, check out the injury that Phillipe Gilbert, BMC Team sustained in stage 3 of the TDF 2012. Nasty. Don’t forget how well Gilbert did in last year’s Tour and that this year his goal is to assist Cadel Evans bring home another...
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By Jen Benepe, July 3, 2012 An early break of five riders was 3 minutes 55 seconds ahead of the peloton at Therouanne, some 95 km from the start, and inlcuded riders Andriy Grivko (AST), Ruben Perez (EUS), Sebastien Minard (ALM), Michael Morkov (STB, and Giovanni Bernaudeau (EUC). Leave it to Morkov, to take...
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Stage three is guaranteed to have a breakaway from the start, with a question mark for the winning rider. One reason, though the first half of the 197 km stage that passes onto French soil is mostly flat, at 95 km from the start, the climbing begins. Then there are a series of category...
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In characteristic missile fashion Mark Cavendish won the final sprint for his 21st Tour de France victory, and his first stage for 2012. The Manx Missile answered all questions about who could win a freelance sprint, and in delicious irony, used the wheel of his previous teammate Andre Greipel to come across the line...
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Sagan Wins Stage 1: Cancellara Still in Yellow By Jen Benepe, July 1, 2012 A 22-year-old rookie Peter Sagan racing his first Tour de France challenged the Swiss time trial champion to the line in Saraing, Belgium, clinching his first stage win at the big race. It was strong showing for the Slovak who...
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Fabian Cancellara, the Swiss time trial champion and overall time trial specialist was expected to win today’s prologue being held in Liege, Belgium, and so he did with a crushing seven-second win over the second best time set by Bradley Wiggins. British Sky Team rider Wiggins who is being bandied by the media as...
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By Jen Benepe, June 30, 2012 This year’s Tour de France starts today, and the biggest buzz surrounds predictions about who will win. With favorites Andy Schleck out with a broken pelvis and planning for competition in the Olympics, and Alberto Contador out for penalties from the Court of Arbitration for Sport for alleged...
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July 25, 2011, Paris, France Cadel Evans brought a new spirit to the Tour de France this year, and perhaps a new methodology. The oldest rider since World War II to win the Tour, the 34-year-old Evans rode a sensible, if not patient Tour in which he worked hard to protect his gains when...
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Tom Boonen of Team QuickStep has quit the Tour de France. Boonen rode alongside his team car, speaking with his directeur sportif Patrick LeFevre, then stopped and got into the car. The team’s doctor was also there, and took his bike to another QuickStep car. Boonen crashed two stages ago, in stage 5 from...
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Belgian rider Jurgen Van de Walle of the Omega Pharma Lotto team has left the Tour de France. “Very bad news, Jurgen Van de Walle has left the race. Our unfortunate rider felt heavily on the first stage,” wrote the Omega Pharma Lotto Twitter account. The rider also left the Tour de France early...
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Reforms being Proposed while Stage Four is Neutralized Leopard Trek Team to Stay in Race May 10, 2011 Belgian cyclist Wouter Weylandt crashed in stage three of the Giro yesterday and died from his injuries. The Leopard Trek team member was only 15 miles from the finish of the 107.5 mile stage in a...
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