As you probably know by know CSC not be continuing sponsorship of the cycling team after the 2008 season. Their fickleness works to your benefit as all of the team gear is being sold off at bargain basement prices at Competitive Cyclist.
Here are a few examples of the deals:

2007 Jersey/Shorts combo - Was $195, now $49.99
2007 […]

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I think that after my successful bike build experience using parts mainly sourced from eBay, that I will start to feature a “Find of the Week”. This will be what I consider to be an exceptionally good deal.�
This week, I’m featuring 2 complete road bikes, both “last year’s model” that bike shops are typically trying to unload. �
The first […]

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The Spring Classics are behind us and its time to start Grand Tour season.
The Giro starts on Saturday, and it is looking, like always to be a great competition. Defending champion Danilo di Luca had two doping challenges over the winter. He survived a challenge from the Italian National Olympic Committee, but ending up also serving […]

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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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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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Thanks to Michael Ball and Rock Racing, the prologue of the Tour of California did not start without a little bit of controversy.
Earlier in the week, there were rumblings that Ball donated a large some of money to be a title sponsor of the race as well as be the provider of clothing for the […]

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Tom Boonen (Quick Step) wins the stage and the overall race in the final stage of the Tour of Qatar. He narrowly edged out Alberto Loddo (Tinkoff Credit Systems) & Luciano André Pagliarini Mendonca (Saunier Duval-Scott) in the final sprint at Doha Corniche.

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Team Slipstream-Chipotle was dealt a major blow today as Magnus Backstedt, one of the team’s leaders, went down in a crash in the final 500 meters and broke his collarbone.
Tom Boonen managed to hold on to his leader’s jersey today, but saw yet another Italian rider, Danilo Napolitano (Lampre) slip by him in the final […]

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It’s still quite early in the year, but many of the Pro Tour teams are already gearing up the PR machines, introducing their 2008 teams to the public and holding early training camps. CyclingNews.com has a great directory of the team rosters here.

Saunier-Duval Scott is back with a fairly young squad (nine riders under the […]

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