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Piepoli climbs to stage win at Giro d'Italia; Noe in the pink

Italian Leonardo Piepoli powered through an elite group of climbers, including two teammates, on the steep finish at Santuario to win the 10th Stage of the Giro d'Italia on Tuesday.

Another Italian, 38-year-old Andrea Noe, finished early enough to take the overall lead in the three-week race, becoming the third Liquigas cyclist to wear the pink jersey this year.

American George Hincapie (Discovery Channel), riding in his first Giro, joined a six-man breakaway and gained enough time on the peloton for a while to be the “on the road” virtual leader. ….

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Napolitano wins his first Giro stage; Pinotti still in first

Team Milram pretty much controlled the latter part of Monday's Giro d'Italia Stage 9 for sprinter Alessandro Petacchi.

They chased the breakaway, determined when the breakaway would get caught, perfectly led the peloton through the streets of Lido Di Camaiore, and watched as Lampre cyclist Danilo Napolitano took the win.

The Italian was one of the cyclists who set up right behind Petacchi. The other opportunists included ….

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/05/21/napolitano-wins-his-first-giro-stage-pinotti-still-in-first/

Arvesen takes Bettini at finish; Pinotti still leads Giro d'Italia

Norwegian cyclist Kurt-Asle Arvesen slipped past Italian Paolo Bettini in front of a 21-man breakaway to win Stage 8 of the Giro d'Italia on Sunday.

Discovery Channel's George Hincapie found himself in the break that escaped from the peloton in the Apennines early in the day. Although he and teammate Jose Luis Rubiera couldn't turn that good luck into a …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/05/20/arvesen-takes-bettini-at-finish-pinotti-still-leads-giro-ditalia/

Landis, under oath, denies doping

Floyd Landis finally got to the witness stand on Saturday to testify — I assume to no one's surprise — that he did not take performance-enhancing agents to win the 2006 Tour de France.

The surprise is that Landis was present, but unaware, when his business manager made that infamous call to Greg LeMond threatening to make public the story that LeMond had been sexually abused as a child.

Apparently they were sitting apart at dinner on Wednesday night, and Landis saw Will Geoghegan make a short phone call. Soon thereafter he got a call back but didn't answer it. Later, Geoghegan appears shaken up and tells Landis what he did. …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/05/20/landis-under-oath-denies-doping/

Petacchi nails another Giro win; overall leaders unchanged

Italian sprint specialist Alessandro Petacchi scored his second stage win at the Giro d'Italia bike race on Saturday, beating a crowd that included Norway's Thor Hushovd and Italy's Paolo Bettini.

That marks 21 Giro wins for the bicyclist known as “Ale-Jet” since his first in 2003 and emphasizes the fact that he's definitely recovered from a kneecap injury he suffered …

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Breakaway succeeds at Giro d'Italia; slight reshuffling of leaders

This hardly ever happens, but sometimes the breakaway does stay out in front until the finish line.

Two cyclists celebrated that rare good luck on Stage 6 of the Giro d'Italia on Friday, when Colombia Luis Felipe Laverde (Ceramica) won the stage and Italian Marco Pinotti (T-Mobile) took the leader's pink jersey.

It marks the first time in the 2007 that a member of the Liquigas team — primarily Danilo Di Luca — didn't don the pink jersey at the end of the day. Di Luca sits in 3rd place overall, 4-minutes-12 in back of Pinotti …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/05/18/breakaway-succeeds-at-giro-ditalia-slight-reshuffling-of-leaders/

Visitors at Enatai bike station

Bike commuters take advantage of services offered at one of 42 bike commuter station set up by the Cascade Bicycle Club.

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Free bike adjustments

Gary TeGantvoort, manager of Montlake Bicycle Shop in Seattle, provided free bikee service at the Enatai bike commuter station.

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Bike commuters on bike path

Seattle Bike to Work Day 2007

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Seattle area bike commuters hit the road for Bike to Work Day

Sunny skies, crisp temperatures. What's not to like about a bicycle ride on a day like Friday in the Puget Sound, even if you are commuting to work?

Thousands of cyclists took to the streets in the Puget Sound this morning to participate in the 2007 Bike to Work Day.

The Cascade Bicycle Club was looking for 10,000 people to ride to work. Cities across the nation were looking at similar numbers on a day when gasoline prices set a record for the fourth straight day. …

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