How much hair does Johan Bruyneel have left? After this mornings’ news that Jakob Fuglsang will not ride the Giro d’Italia because of a knee problem, Bruyneel must be yanking his hair out. The RadioSHack-Nissan Trek boss had gone on record saying that Fuglsang had a good shot at a top five in the [...]
Lil’ Kim has landed in Europe. The sexy female rapper who has replaced Kim Andersen as mentor, has arrived at the high altitude training camp in the Sierra Nevada to work with Andy Schleck on his Tour preparations. According to an undisclosed source at RadioShack Nissan-Trek, Lil’ Kim picked up Schleck and took him on [...]
The Specialized S-Works Prevail road helmet was envisioned as a Giro killer. Given that the head design people used to work at Giro, they know exactly what it would take to stab the beast. In all honesty, we’ve been a Giro evangelist for at least ten years. Their sense of industrial design and style [...]
Now that the big Spring classics are over, the grades have been issued for riders and teams. At the top of the UCI rankings is the King of the Cobblestones, Flanders and Paris-Roubaix winner, Tom Boonen. His Omega Pharma Quickstep team is also on an astonishing tear with 24 wins so far this [...]
This one sounds funny but let’s roll with it: Bradley Wiggins, sprinter. A top rated contender for this year’s Tour de France, Wiggins continues to impress with his form and confidence. Already this season he’s won a tough Paris-Nice and picked up two time trial victories. Today in the Tour of Romandie, Wiggins not [...]
To win the Tour de France, your build-up for the three week torture test must be near flawless. No crashes, no extended illness, no screw-ups in race calendar, no extraneous events adding stress or discord, no doping suspensions. You only have to look at last years’s winner Cadel Evans and perennial runner-up Andy Schleck [...]
Johan Bruyneel and Andy Schleck have agreed to a compromise on Kim Andersen’s participation at this year’s Tour de France. While Andersen will not be guiding the team from the RadioShack Nissan-Trek car, Andy Schleck will have a Kim by his side. The famous female rapper Lil’ Kim will ride in the car [...]
By Lyndon Ferguson The human memory is a strange and mysterious thing. Most of life’s experiences and observations pass through our mind with nothing more than a fleeting blip of conscious recognition. Every now and then, life throws something at us that seems to imbed in our memory like dinosaur footprints in Jurassic mud. In [...]
Is there a power meter that measures cycling data like this? Andy Schleck wants long time-mentor Kim Andersen at the Tour de France despite team manager Johan Bruyneel’s decision to hand the keys of the team car over to his man Alain Gallopin. It’s part power struggle and part psychological ploy as Bruyneel asserts his [...]
