OK, actually, you won’t see it ALL here, yet. We’ve still got a number of posts to do, but we think we have the biggest collection of bicycle, component, clothing and gear coverage anywhere. See that big Interbike button up on the top right of our site? Click on it (or just click here) and you’ll get the full list. We’re adding more and will update the list again when we’re done, but there’s plenty to see!
Found another shiny new Phil Wood nicety, their stainless steel outboard bearing bottom bracket. It’s machined from SS and has a pair of Phil bearings spinning through Phil waterproof grease and sealed with the same seals that are used on underwater pumps. The sleeve is machined from alloy and polished.
Found via Sideways Cycles, they have it listed at £85, which puts it at roughly $140 US.
We’ve got our full coverage of Scott’s new bikes coming soon. In the meantime, here’s some eye candy courtesy of Mark Cavendish’s custom painted Scott Addict race bike. Click to enlarge any of the images.
And there’s one more treat for you after the break…
La Gazzetta della Sport has reported that the race organizers for the Giro d’Italia are considering a U.S. kickoff for the 2011 event.
The 2010 race starts in Amsterdam for the first three stages (see route and stage info here), then the riders are transported to Italy for the remainder of the race. That’ll be a test as to whether a long transport is acceptable to the teams and riders, with the success or failure of it helping determine if a jump across the pond is realistic.
Giro director Angelo Zomegnan and other race officials are currently in NYC opening “From Past to Future”, a 100-year photographic history of the Tour of Italy. If you’re in the neighborhood, check it out at Eden Fine Art Gallery. If talks are successful and it works out, it would mark the first time a major grand tour would start outside of Europe…until, of course, the Tour of California and Tour Down Under reach “grand tour” status *wishful thinking*
Check out the news article on this link (should open a Google Translated version of the page in English). Photo: AFP file photo.
A $158,000 grant by the Alabama Department of Transportation will fund an educational and awareness campaign in Huntsville starting in 2010. The planned campaign comes on the heels of three cyclist fatalities since 2008.
From the news article on AL.com:
Rolling billboards attached to city buses will try to hammer home the point “that bicycles are vehicles, they’re allowed on the road,” Miernik said Wednesday.
“There’s a percentage of drivers out there,” she said, “that really think bikes are not safe to be on the road with them.”
James Moore, a senior planner with the city, said the ads need to be compelling enough that drivers can’t ignore them.
“I’m hoping to make the buses loud, so to speak, so that it generates some interest,” he said Wednesday. “It’s trying to bring awareness and wake the drivers up.”
Both Moore and Miernik are working to make the city a more bike friendly place and have made efforts to widen streets and include bike lanes in future development. In addition to the awareness campaign, Huntsville police are undergoing training regarding cycling laws and rights.
Hopefully, some of those funds will also go toward getting cycling laws and awareness included on their Drivers Licenses test like they’re starting to do in Colorado.
PRESS RELEASE: International Cycling Union - U.S. Paralympic Team November 04, 2009.
The new Para-cycling World Cup will begin in May 2010 and will feature three events to be held in France, Spain and Canada. It will consist of three rounds on two continents:
May 21 - 23: Corrèze, France
June 11 - 13: Segovia, Spain
July 2 - 4: Baie-Comeau, Canada.
The organisers of the first two rounds have already organised P1 events on the 2009 UCI Para-cycling calendar. All three events are strongly backed by their respective National Federations.
Each round of the new World Cup will enable participating nations to gain qualification points for the 2011 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Roskilde, Denmark.
The three World Cup events will feature on the UCI Para-cycling calendar alongside the discipline’s major international events such as the World Championships and the Paralympic Games, organised respectively every year except an Olympic year and every four years.
Para-cycling was fully integrated into the UCI in February 2007 and is enjoying constant growth. A record number of para-cyclists participated in the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games, and the organisation of the UCI World Cup is an important step for the development of the discipline.
According to the UCI Para-cycling Coordinator Chantale Philie, next year’s UCI Para-cycling World Cup is just the beginning: “The UCI is confident that this first edition will be very successful. Indeed, the series should include four events from 2011. The new race should be organised in Asia or Oceania, which will contribute to the universal development of the discipline.”
More information on the UCI Para-cycling World Cup will soon be available in the Para-cycling section of the UCI website.
(Found via Media dis&dat)
Found on the San Francisco Exploratorium’s website, a special series on the Science of Cycling. Check out some of their interesting articles on the history and science of bicycles. In the section about aerodynamics, they’ve come up with a calculation of “Aerodynamic Drag And Propulsive Power Of A Cyclist“. Simply input your velocity, the winds’ velocity (+ for a headwind and - for a tailwind), your weight, and the grade of the road–and the formula will give you the relative velocity, drag, and the power it takes to maintain a constant velocity. Despite a few notes as to why this calculation is not perfect, it is still interesting to see the Watts your 156lb body will expend as you ride at 20mph into a headwind of +12mph up a hill with a 3% grade.
Sotheby’s auction of Lance Armstrong’s race bikes from the past 12 months generated $1.3 million for the Livestrong Foundation. The Damien Hirst-designed Butterfly bike (above) generated almost half of the total by selling for $500,000!
Hit ‘more’ to see each bike and the final bid price, and check our prior post for links to the PDF auction catalog that tells about each artist and their collaboration with Lance…
FROM TOUR DOWN UNDER: Team Columbia-HTC is fielding a strong, experienced and competitive line up for the 2010 Santos Tour Down Under, ready to take victory.
Santos Tour Down Under, Race Director, Mike Turtur is pleased that two previous overall Tour Down Under winners in Andre Greipel (2008) and Michael Rogers (2002) will be competing at the 2010 Santos Tour Down Under.
“After Greipel’s mishap at the race this year we are pleased he will be back in South Australia,” said Mike Turtur.
“History shows that our race is a great start to Greipel’s season. In 2008 he took overall victory and this year started with a stage win in the 2009 Tour Down Under, and continued a winning form all season, with four stage wins at the Vuelta and a total of 20 victories.”
Michael Rogers is the current Australian Time Trial Champion and a hot favourite when racing on Aussie ground.
Joining the team in 2010 and making their team debut at the Santos Tour Down Under are Australian Matt Goss (formerly Saxo Bank) and New Zealand track specialist Hayden Roulston (formerly with Cervelo Test Team).
INTERBIKE 2009 - Time announced their 2010 road bikes a little earlier in the year, and we posted a few shots and info on them here. But Interbike gave us the opportunity to take a closer look and learn a little more about the two top-end NXR Instinct (above) and RX Instinct bicycles.
One of the unique features of the Instincts is the Monobloc front triangle with bonded carbon tubes for the stays. This construction method allows Time to repair the bike in the event of a wreck by replacing the stays if they get damaged.
Hit ‘more’ for additional photos, pricing, details and weights…
Dr. Christopher Thomas Thompson was found guilty on Monday of assaulting cyclists and could face up to five years in prison.
Thompson, who abruptly stopped his car in front of two cyclists, was handcuffed and ordered held without bail following the guilty verdict by the Los Angeles Superior Court Jury. He was charged with six felonies and one misdemeanor.
Thompson was accused of assault with a deadly weapon, reckless driving causing specified bodily injury, battery with serious bodily injury and mayhem. The most serious charges stem from a July 4, 2008, incident on Mandeville Canyon Road, the road where Thompson lives, where he was accused of abruptly stopping his car in front of two cyclists. Other charges relate to a similar incident on the same road that did not result in injuries.
Get the full story on VeloNews, photo by Chris Roberts.
INTERBIKE 2009 - Look Cycles was showing off several new track bikes, some that won’t ever see the florescent light of day at your local shop, some that are meant for elite racers and the new aluminum ALP 496 that should be showing up under hipsters with real jobs soon.
The bike above falls into the first category, but shows off how sweet the new bikes look, and it’s not that far off from the full carbon 596 Track bicycle that you buy…assuming you’re pretty serious about racing the planks, it’s $10,999.99. Fortunately, the frame on the 596 is the same shape and weight and has many of the same features as the 596 Track, but comes in at less than half the price, and comparatively, the aluminum ALP 496 frameset is a bargain.
Hit more to see them all with specs, pricing and details…
INTERBIKE 2009 - Time Sports had their new i-Clic road pedals on display in several models, plus their new Allroad Gripper clipless pedals that feature their ATAC system on one side and a replaceable platform on the other, letting you ride your bike with both cycling and normal shoes.
Speaking of shoes, Time also has some new road, mountain and triathlon shoes. The Road and Tri are Ulteam models with carbon soles and the mountain bike shoe has a carbon sole with some aggressive TPU treads.
Above is the bottom of the i-Clic pedal and the cleat. Hit ‘more’ to see the various models with specs, weights and pricing…
Ritchey has a Fit Logic poster available to retail shops by mail and to anyone via downloadable PDF. It explains their philosophy behind the range of sizes, angles, widths and drops on their road components (stems, handlebars and seatposts). It’s a bit of a bummer that it doesn’t get into how to choose the right sizes, particularly with regards to handlebar width and drop, it’s still something to look at besides those TPS reports you’re toiling away on.
Download the PDF here.
Sotheby’s is getting ready to auction off Lance Armstrong’s custom Trek bicycles on Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 7pm in New York. Proceeds will benefit Livestrong, and all seven custom bikes are there to bid on: Yoshitomo Nara, Kaws (above), Shepard Fairey, Damien Hirst, Kenny Scharf, Mark Newson and even the Project One time trial bike that was stolen from the Tour of California! Here’s Lance’s letter about the auction, more pics of the bikes after the break:
It’s not about the bike. Never has been. But if 2009 taught us anything, it’s that change is truly the only constant in life.
When I returned to professional cycling this year to address the global cancer burden, I needed every bit of ammunition I could find. To help engage the creative community in this mission, I invited six very different artists to customize my Trek racing bikes to raise awareness for the STAGES art show benefiting LIVESTRONG that debuted in Paris during the Tour de France.
Presented in conjunction with Nike and featuring more than 20 of the most important established and upcoming artists in the world, STAGES brought an incredibly diverse range of painters, sculptors and photographers together in a visual dialogue about cancer - a disease that touches everyone and is expected to be the leading cause of death worldwide by 2010. The results were nothing short of incredible, and these bikes you see now proved to be the perfect rolling billboards for this unprecedented collection.
I’m not a gearhead, and my garage is anything but a cycling museum, but I can honestly say that letting go of my bikes has never been harder. From Damien Hirst’s masterpiece Tour de France “finale” Trek Madone covered in real butterflies, to the KAWS “Chompers” cycle that I broke my collarbone on in the Vuelta Castilla y León, every ride is a treasured piece of personal history that I’m proud to offer up to benefit LIVESTRONG.
Each of these artists gave their time freely to this cause, and, because of their generosity, all proceeds from the sale of these bikes will go directly to help LIVESTRONG continue to inspire and empower people affected by cancer. Through the dollars that we raise, we’ll increase awareness, fund research, and work to end the stigma about cancer that many survivors face. For the first time in my life, I can now say, “it’s about the bike” and mean it.
Please bid generously and LIVESTRONG,
Lance Armstrong
Hit ‘more’ to see the rest of the bikes…
