The Big Interview: Aqua Blue’s Larry Warbasse
A few weeks ago, VeloVoices sat down for a chat with Aqua Blue’s Larry Warbasse, just before he took his first … Continue reading
Tweets of the Week: Horns, hulas and triumphant tears
The Tour de Suisse, with its fresh Alpine air and Bjorn, the mountain goat warlock, gave us a lot of … Continue reading
Final KM: Tour de Suisse Stage 9
It’s a BMC podium clean sweep as Rohan Dennis takes the final time trial. Top three overall remains unchanged as … Continue reading
Tour de Suisse 2017: Spilak reigns supreme
It’s the Tour de Suisse and, as usual, we’ve enjoyed beautiful scenery, a variety of stage winners and leader’s jersey wearers, … Continue reading
Final KM: Tour de Suisse Stage 8
Round and round and round they went. There were attacks, but no one was as strong or as cunning as … Continue reading
Final KM: Tour de Suisse Stage 7
Race organisers might have designated stage 6 as the queen stage, but today featured a brutal final climb to 2,780m above … Continue reading
Final KM: Tour de Suisse Stage 6
Tour de Suisse served up a wet Queen stage, fine attacking racing, a diminutive winner and the best darn trophy we’ve seen so far.
Final KM: Tour de Suisse Stage 5
The World Champion gets his annual Tour de Suisse victory and celebrates in style.
Final KM: Tour de Suisse Stage 4
The GC contenders stretch their legs and and we all reach for the tissues after a beautiful victory. Tour de Suisse got very emotional.
Videos
Davide Formolo (Cannondale-Garmin) delivered for the team at this year’s Giro d’Italia with a popular solo win on stage four. Called up only a fortnight before the start, he hadn’t specifically trained for the race, which leaves us wondering whether he might have bettered his overall 31st place if he’d targetted this race. Keeping the pink glow going, he looks back at his first Grand Tour.
Created in 1993 to enable amateur cyclists to personally experience a stage of each year’s Tour de France, L’Etape de Tour is THE cyclosportive. This year’s event takes place on Sunday 19th July over 142km from Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne to La Toussuire.
All places are taken for this year’s Etape (unless you get a place with a tour operator or through a charity). Places go fast as soon as registration opens so if you want to get a jump on proceedings for next year, take a minute to register with ASO Challenges. Registration details are here. Also, follow l’Etape on Twitter and Facebook for news all year round.
Links: Official website
Images
To many of us, the Grubers’ work really epitomises the Belgian Cobbled Classics. If you haven’t seen their gallery for Cannondale-Garmin, go now!
http://slipstreamsports.com/2015/03/30/gallery-gent-wevelgem-gruber-images/
“We’ve tried to go down roads and go through places that are far more interesting than the number of watts we’re putting out and the speed we’re averaging.” Gus Morton
The Australian cycling site, Cycling Tips, just goes from strength to strength in my book. Up on the site now is Thereabouts, a 45-minute documentary made with Gus and Lachlan Morton about their experience riding from Port Macquarie to Uluru – riding over 2,000km in just 12 days. Why did they do it? To reconnect with the reasons why they started riding in the first place. Click here to read more about their story.
Read about it, watch it, get inspired by it.
Asides
All of the history and excitement of the world’s most famous one-day bicycle race in one coffee-table book. Paris-Roubaix: A Journey Through Hell is an essential read for anyone interested in this spectacular race.
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http://www.calameo.com/read/003111411e32746b42755
Quotes
“Riders like me and Cancellara don’t think about the points, just the win.”
Vincenzo Nibali bemoans the lack of fierce joy in the riders of the peloton, many of whom he believes play it safe and ride just for points, not the win.
Read his straight-talking interview on Velonews.
When asked what animal he would like to be, Bernie Eisel answered ‘My cat. She has the best life you can imagine!’
I happen to know that there are a whole lotta ladies out there who would kill to be Bernie’s cat. I’ll leave that there …
The face a million women love (Image: Team Sky)
Here is Team Sky’s 20 Questions to the Ladies Favourite
