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PezCycling News - Main
Giro ’12 St.14: Costa Rica 1st In Cervinia!
Saturday, May 19, 2012 10:42:47 AM PT
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Race Report: You don’t see the Costa Rica flag next to a Grand Tour stage winner's name very often, but today Andrey Amador won the hardest stage so far of this Giro d’Italia. Behind him Ryder Hesjedal jumped Joaquim Rodriguez to take back that pink jersey for Canada (and Norway). Will we ever have a boring stage of the Giro d’Italia?
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ATOC’12 St.6: Sylvain Solos to Big Bear Win
Saturday, May 19, 2012 9:35:53 AM PT
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Photo Report: Sylvain Georges of AG2R La Mondiale took an impressive win on his own, while Dave Z held on to Yellow. PEZ’s Darrell Parks captured all the action of stage 6 here…
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Giro di PEZ: A Day For Fast Men And Bella Donna
Friday, May 18, 2012 1:32:53 PM PT
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Dave gives me the lead out, past Ag2r, past Renshaw, past Brown - and there's Cav ! I'm up to him, past, elbow the guy to my right and snap, snap, snap ! We got the Cav picture we need to complete the piece. If this was le Tour a gendarme would have us face down on the tarmac by now. But the Giro is different, if you're cheeky enough, you can go straight through the bunch to the front, at the start - but only if your lead out man is the best . . .
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Top Ride: PEZ Tackles L'Etape du California
Friday, May 18, 2012 12:21:24 PM PT
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Sometimes the ride I set out to do ends up a complete disaster, while the whole event ends up being an experience I wouldn’t trade. My recent day riding the L’Etape du California along the ATOC's 8th stage route produced more personal on-bike suffering than I care to remember, but was a weekend well worth the effort.
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Giro’12 St.13: Cav Grabs Three in Cervere
Friday, May 18, 2012 10:47:53 AM PT
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With a much shorter day than yesterday at just 121 flat kilometers from Savona on the coast heading inland to Cervere, one had to think it might be a day off of sorts in the peloton. Wrong. Sparks flew as the opportunists seized the moment, and Cav took his third win of the race.
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EuroTrash Thursday!
Thursday, May 17, 2012 12:40:11 AM PT
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The Giro d’Italia is still coming up with the excitement we love, but is it too dangerous? ”Top Story” asks the question. The Giro has been great though and we have the up to date results and video’s. More from the Tour of California, plus last Sundays Lincoln Grand Prix from England, add in some Tom Boonen info and some Gino Bartali retro and we have a full EuroTrash Thursday. Cappuccino e un biscotto Garibaldi?
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PEZ Reviews: Mavic Altium Level Summer Kit
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 4:05:28 PM PT
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Mavic's new Altium skins are no place near the typical schwag level product produced by most hardware companies... This is top spec product that you would expect from the better names in apparel.
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Giro Counterpoint: David McLean
Saturday, May 05, 2012 2:24:10 AM PT
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The Giro, Liquigas, space age buses, gorgeous PR girls, Ivan Basso, Vincenzo Nibali, bikes into five figure values . . . But there’s another side to Italian Cycling – Continental teams, getting by, low budgets, no stars, no PR and riders making do as they fight to get to Liquigas Nirvana. Take the Italo/Croatian Meridiana Kamen team, and 28 year-old Englishman David McLean, for example.
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PEZ Talk: Track Worlds With Andreas Müller
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 1:26:55 PM PT
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The Track Worlds - do they have to be on the same weekend as Paris-Roubaix? For the answer, you would have to ask the UCI – personally, I don’t think it’s a good idea. But the UCI pays little attention to the likes of me.
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PEZ Talk: Team Type 1's Rubens Bertogliati
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 9:50:18 AM PT
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It would be difficult to name a more experienced professional than Rubens Bertogliati (Switzerland & Team Type 1) he’s been in the pro peloton since 2000, ridden all of the Grand Tours and pretty much every other race you can think of, from New Zealand to Normandy by way of the United States. Ed Hood recently caught up with Rubens after a solid day in the Ardennes at La Fleche Wallonne.
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Travel: Thomson Bike Tours' Top 50 Cols
Tuesday, May 01, 2012 8:33:41 AM PT
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Thomson Bike Tours is firmly established as a leading provider of Performance cycling tours to the mountains of Europe. Peter Thomson, co-founder of Thomson Bike Tours, has been riding Europe’s most spectacular and daunting mountain passes for over 25 years.
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Roadside PEZ: Liege-Bastogne-Liege
Monday, April 30, 2012 3:35:25 AM PT
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Roadside Report: We arrived in Europe the day before the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad - the first major classic of the Classics season. Two months later, we were there for one last big day out to draw the Spring Classics season to a close: Liege-Bastogne-Liege. Let's take a look back at the day that was.
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The Adventures of Gino Bartali Continues
Saturday, April 28, 2012 2:50:07 AM PT
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By 1943, Italy was in chaos. For even a well-known sporting hero such as Gino Bartali, his public profile was no guarantee of his safety. Yet Bartali chose an even more risky course of action, as foreshadowed in Part 1. He would subsequently go on to even greater sporting and public glory.
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The Adventures of Gino Bartali, Part One
Friday, April 27, 2012 8:34:04 AM PT
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Gino Bartali, the great Italian rider of the 30s, 40s, and 50s, would be a legend if it were just for his exploits on the bike. But his career spanned tragedy and triumph for Italy as a whole and Bartali managed to be at the centre of the action.
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PEZ Field Trip: Alpina Spoke Factory
Monday, April 23, 2012 2:58:43 AM PT
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If you’re using Mavic, Bontrager, Campagnolo, Fulcrum or newer Zipp wheels, there’s a good chance that they’ve got Alpina spokes and/or nipples in them. If you’ve got a BMW, Husqvarna or KTM motorcycle with spoked wheels or maybe a set of Borranis, they’re also Alpina’s. How is it that such a prominent Italian company remains virtually unknown? PEZ visits the factory near Milan to find out.
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PEZ Books: He’s Not Heavy, He’s My Domestique
Friday, November 27, 2009 1:56:07 AM PT
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The members of the pro peloton are not usually noted for their intellectual pursuits. Laurent Fignon, considered a mental heavyweight, was nicknamed “le Professeur” because he wore glasses and spent a year in a veterinarian school. For many in the past, cycling was an escape from the coal mines or steelworks, an exchange of one physical labour for another and perhaps the chance for some small recognition and enough earnings to open a bar or bike shop.
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Giro di PEZ: Bellissime Cinque Terre
Thursday, May 17, 2012 2:18:20 PM PT
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Roadside St. 12 Jack Bauer, no, not the one on the TV - the real one, cooler than that Sutherland guy. The former Kiwi elite national champion ...
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Giro ’12: St.12: Bak To The Winners Podium!
Thursday, May 17, 2012 10:29:25 AM PT
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Race report: One of those days where you hear the old proverbials being trotted out. “You can’t win the Giro today, but you can lose it.” Or ...
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Giro'12 Preview: PEZ Rides Stage 12!
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 3:54:14 PM PT
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Thursday’s 12th stage visits one of my very favorite regions of Italia – Liguria. I’ve spent some good time here, and in 2009 rode what’ll be the ...
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Giro di PEZ: It's Good To Talk
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 1:24:15 PM PT
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Roadside St.11: 'It's good to talk,' the advertising campaign for British Telecom used to say. With that in mind, before the Assisi roll out ...
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BMC GF01: The PEZ First Ride!
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While their professional team was in the midst of a Tour de France winning performance last year, BMC and its small cadre of engineers were more than ...
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2012 Sea Otter: The Parts Page
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Some great gear on display at the 2012 Sea Otter Classic... Steel and Carbon bikes, new wheels, cranks, upgrades, power meters, things to stuff in ...
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SRAM RED 2012: Pez's First Ride!
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The big news in group sets right now is SRAM’s all new 2012 RED gruppo – every piece has been redesigned, it’s even lighter than before, and works ...
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TIME RXRS Ulteam
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The 2012 TIME RXRS Ulteam blends a shockingly smooth ride with agility that belies the bike’s exceptional high-speed stability. Its balanced ...
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Toolbox: Mental Boot Camp Re-Boot
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While I was racing I did some crazy mental training. Hours upon hours of affirmations. Up Topanga Canyon, down Tuna, up Latigo, down Kanan Dune, up ...
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Toolbox: Minor Changes Can Produce Big Results
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One of the primary aims in our sport is to improve. We wish to improve in our fitness, results, and positive experiences on the bike. These changes ...
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Toolbox: Post Exercise Appetite
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For amateur cyclists, one of the best reasons for cycling is the big appetite you can satisfy after a big ride. For pros, eating can be just as much ...
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Toolbox: Stopping the Train Before the Wreck
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Does anybody remember that great scene in Graeme Obree’s film, “The Flying Scotsman,” where the UCI bigwig pulls out his measuring tape and ruler and ...
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Tour de PEZ: Ed Looks Back
Friday, July 29, 2011 3:41:50 AM PT
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I don’t really like when folks ask me about my trips to continental races; ‘I bet you got plenty drinking done over there,’ or 'all those boys are on ...
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Tour de PEZ: Gord’s Look Back
Thursday, July 28, 2011 9:09:23 AM PT
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Roadside round-up: It was a weird Tour in a lot of ways, odder even than the full-on sensory overload of my first assignment there in 2008. ...
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Vuelta'11 St.21: Cobo Clinches It!
Sunday, September 11, 2011 10:44:43 AM PT
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Race report: He might not have been a favorite, even in his own team’s line-up but Juan Jose Cobo has finally fulfilled his considerable ...
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Vuelta’11 St.20: Bennati Victor In Vitoria!
Saturday, September 10, 2011 11:00:54 AM PT
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There was no change to the overall after the finish of today Vuelta a Espańa stage between Bilbao and Vitoria. There was still lots of action, a miss ...
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