As design objectives go, the luxury performance one is always tough to define and difficult to hit. Capo’s $200 Padrone long sleeve jersey pulls off that trick with style, beauty and yes, high end performance. Padrone is Capo’s top of the line and the Italian word for boss. There’s certainly a good deal of leadership [...]
In the immediate aftermath of the Tour Down Under’s stage one sprint, winner Andre Greipel claimed that rival Alessandro Petacchi had deviated from his line. “Petacchi went from left to right, he didn’t care about the crash. He’s a big star but he shouldn’t do this,” said the German sprinter for (Lotto-Belisol). Petacchi pleaded innocence [...]
Update on GreenBlunder: Exciting details continue to emerge in the story of Stuart O’Grady’s alleged assault on his chauffeur driver. While there are two sides to every story and police have yet — surprisingly — to question O’Grady — it’s clear he made a momental blunder days before GreenEdge starts its first ProTour race at home [...]
Now you know why they call Stuart O’Grady the Fighting Freckle. The popular Aussie rider was accused of assault on his chauffeur driver. Yeah, you don’t mess with a classics hardman who once won Paris-Roubaix. Twisted Spoke notes that the altercation occurred after the driver picked O’Grady up from a winery. Immediately, we recalled O’Grady’s [...]
For a brand new team that’s hardly got a ProTour race under its collective belt, GreenEdge has been subjected to a fair about of questioning about their roster composition. From day one team manager Shayne Bannan’s hiring strategy was “sign a sprinter, sign another sprinter, hire two or three more sprinters.” Some critics were left [...]
Details continue to emerge concerning the AP news story that WADA lawyers at the Contador hearing considered walking out after the judges refused to allow oral testimony by their doping expert Michael Ashenden. According to several sources, WADA lawyers were also shocked that while their scientific expert was not allowed to speak, several of Contador’s [...]
Life is good for George Hincapie. Storied career winding down, ready to break the record for number of Tour de France rides, basking in fan applause wherever he goes. Hincapie knows that soon he’ll retire to his beautiful house with his attractive former podium girl wife and two kids and run his thriving Hincapie sportswear [...]
