The spring classics season opens this weekend with both the Omloop Het Volk and Kuurne Brussel Kurrne races taking place.
Italian Filippo Pozzato won the Omloop last year, so look for the Belgians to try and take back their race. Belgian powerhouse Quick Step will of course be there, and Tom Boonen, Gert Steegmans and Stijn Devolder […]

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Sure, they’ve made some questionable business decisions, and they can’t seem to hold onto Directeur Sportif’s, but you have to admire Rock Racing for being unabashedly bold.
I love the Caddy’s. Your team car is a Volvo? Booooring.
I pick on these guys, but at least they are bringing some attention to the sport.
And thank God for […]

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Here are some of the latest headlines from around the web:

Rock Racing has announced plans to implement an aggressive anti-doping program.

Specific details have yet to be released, but sources close to the team say that team owner Michael Ball will hire the re-animated corpse of Ronald Reagan to urge his racers to “Just Say No.”

After […]

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Here are some other web reports I’ve found about the Tour of California: 

Stage 7 race and podium pics from Pez.
Stage 7 coverage from VeloNews
Richard Pestes of Pez Cycling News rides a small part of the Stage 6 route with Mark-Paul Gosselar.
The Lemond Triomphe Carbon of Dan Bowman of the Kelly Benefits Strategies team.
Levi Leipheimer’s time trial bike
VeloNews […]

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The third edition of the Tour of California drew to a close yesterday. Under less than standard California weather conditions, George Hincapie pulled in a stage win for Team High Road, while Levi Leipheimer of Astana stayed close enough to take the General Classification.
The attacks began at the very start of the race with Doug Ollerenshaw […]

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Mark Cavendish of Team High Road thought he had the win today, but officials apparently spotted him hanging on to a team car and was given a 20 second penalty. Because of the penalty, Luciano André Pagliarini Mendonca (Saunier Duval-Scott) took the stage win, with Juan Jose Haedo (Team CSC) in second and World Champion […]

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Levi Leipheimer (Astana) put in a commanding performance in today’s time trial, besting his nearest rival by nearly half a minute and pulling to an overall 49 second lead to stay in the leader’s jersey.
David Millar and Christian Vandevelde of the Slipstream-Chipotle team took 2nd and 3rd place respectively. Former race leader and World Time […]

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Today’s stage was yet another rainy slog along the California coastline.
Dominique Rollin of the Toyota-United Team was part of a large breakaway of 11 riders that started just before the first intermediate sprint. Joining him were Bauke Mollema (Rabobank), Bryce Mead (Jelly Belly), Danilo Wyss and Jackson Stewart (BMC Racing Team), Edward […]

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The TOC has been getting a lot of coverage on the web. Here are some of the features that I’ve come across:
Stage Pre-Rides:

A pre-competition ride starting from Specialized Bike’s HQ�
Category 2 Trinity Grade from Stage 2
A ride up the Category 1 Sierra Road from Stage 3
The HC Mt. Hamilton Climb from Stage 3

2008 Bikes and Tech:

Time […]

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In the TOC’s first mountain stage, we saw defending TOC champion Levi Leipheimer (Astana) working with Robert Gesink (Rabobank) to take the overall lead away from Tyler Farrar. Farrar, incidentally, dropped out of the race early in the stage due to trouble with a stomach virus.
Today’s stage rolled out in the new starting city of […]

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