2010 archive

Capital BikeShare bikes at kiosk

The new bikeshare system in Washington DC and Arlington VA. From Capital Bikeshare Facebook page.

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Future looks bright for US cycling after youngsters win championships

Going to RadioShack next year

Trek-Livestrong's Ben King, 21, blasted off on a 50-mile solo flyer on Sunday to win the road race of the USA Cycling Pro Championships in Greenville, S.C.

Coupled with Saturday's ever-so close time trial victory by Trek Livestrong's Taylor Phinney, 20, and you'd have to agree that the future of US cycling is in very good hands.

The championships might have served as a passing of the guard from one generation to the next. Phinney beat Levi Leipheimer by a wink in the time trial on Saturday, and King out-rode the efforts of Leipheimer and defending champion Hincapie in their futile chase …

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Ben King

A member of the Trek-Livestrong U-23 team

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Big win for American on final day at Vuelta a Espana

Tyler Farrar capped off the Vuelta a Espana with a final stage win in downtown Madrid on Sunday by basically outlasting Mark Cavendish on the sprint to the finish.

It was the second Vuelta win for the Garmin-Transitions cyclist from Wenatchee, Wash. He also won Stage 5. Cavendish had three individual wins at the Vuelta.

The overall leaders all finished in the peloton on this flat final stage, marked by 12 circuits around Spain's capital city. Italy's Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas) earned the overall Vuelta championship ….

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It's official: Interbike moving to Anaheim in 2011

Don't be surprised to find Minnie Mouse working as a “booth babe” at next year's Interbike International Bicycle Expo as the industry show is relocating to the Anaheim Convention Center, right across the street from Disneyland.

At the same time, Interbike promotors are changing the dates of the giant bike expo to early August to better fit the business cycle of the bicycle industry.

After 12 years in Las Vegas, this coming week marks the finale for the outdoor expo in Boulder City and the indoor show at the Sands Convention Center. The Outdoor Demo is scheduled on Monday and Tuesday, followed by the expo Wednesday through Friday.

The new expo dates will be Aug. 8-12, 2011. The Outdoor Expo will be held at the Irvine Regional Park …

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Minnie Mouse

Interbike International Bicycle Expo moves to Anaheim in 2011.

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New U.S. time trial champion by less than the blink of an eye

Going to BMC in 2011

Seconds matter in time trial cycling races. So do tenths of seconds and hundredths of seconds.

That was proven in Greenville, S.C., on Saturday when Taylor Phinney won the USA Cycling professional time trial championship by a scant 14 hundredths of a second over Levi Leipheimer.

Phinney is the phenomenal 20-year-old up-and-comer on the Trek-Livestrong Under-23 development team. The strapping 6-4 son of cyclists Davis Phinney and Olympic gold medalist Connie Carpenter-Phinney …

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Taylor Phinney

Genes matter

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Awesome battle for lead on monster final climb at the Vuelta

Vincenzo Nibali refused to be beaten down on the steep slopes of the Bella del Mundo on Saturday and survived the last mountain stage of the Vuelta a Espana in first place overall.

Try as he might, challenger Ezequiel Mosquera couldn't put away Nibali on the final climb. Mosquera at one point had a 20-second lead over the Italian near the summit, but Nibali battled back in the fog and finished right on Mosquera's wheel.

Barring a catastrophe in the final stage, Nibali is set to win the Vuelta championship on Sunday in Madrid.

The penultimate stage of the Vuelta dawned …

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That Paris Mountain ascent near Greenville, South Carolina; Cycling pro championships this weekend

George Hincapie will be cycling on his home turf this weekend when he defends his US Cycling Pro Road Race Championship title this Sunday in Greenville, S.C.

The 112-mile race includes four climbs up and over Paris Mountain, which looms as the highest Blue Ridge Mountain summit in this region of South Carolina. In spite of a bum knee suffered during the Tour of Utah last month, Hincapie has an advantage here because that ascent serves as a training ride for the 37-year-old cyclist.

Meanwhile, the field for the national time trial on Saturday is wide open because four-time defending champion David Zabriskie is cycling in the peloton for the penultimate stage of the Vuelta a Espana.

In fact, several cyclists such as Tom Danielson, Tejay Van Garderen, Tyler Farrar, Tom Peterson and Christian Vande Velde …

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