A Weekend for the Workers

Jeff Louder and Danny Pate earned some well-deserved results this last weekend with Louder taking the Redlands title and Pate scoring second at the Criterium International.

This is an awesome and interesting year for U.S. cycling- even without the two comeback kids. Leipheimer, Vandevelde, Farrar, Phinney, Hincapie, etc are in the mix in Europe and here at home there is no clear domestic powerhouse. Fly V takes San Dimas, BMC takes Redlands and Ouch, Rock, Bissell, and Jelly Belly are all right there in the hunt. Now there isn't another NRC or USACPT event until April 26th at Dana Point.

I know our guys are chomping at the bit to get in the mix and it's going to be exciting to see what happens.

Cancellara Learns a Training Lesson

From his recent interview in VeloNews Cancellara talks about being dead last at this year’s Tirreno-Adriatico

“That was a bit different, to see the Olympic champion, the double world champion, starting first in a time trial, that doesn’t happen often!” he said. “I was sick, then I crashed, and now I have sinus problems. That’s what happens when you use your body hard without any training.”

Even the champs get a little eager, or maybe just his team and the sponsors.

I love riding bikes

Really, UCI? Are you serious?

CyclingNews reports that five ProTour teams may not be allowed to start Paris Nice unless they plop 60k Euro into the biological passport coffers by the end of business today. Granted, these teams should have paid up a long time ago, but it still sounds a bit mafioso. I’m picturing Patrick Lefevere walking into the back of some smoky French cafe and dropping a briefcase full of money onto Pat McQuaid’s table. McQuaid counts the money, nods, says, “Thank you, Patrick”, and hands over the teams’ bibs numbers.

2009 ABD Team Bike

Pretty sweet. Rode it for the first time today.