Bike World News

Here in the U.S., the Tour of California is our first opportunity to see a lot of the European pros, and for those of us who are equipment geeks, their bikes. There have been a number of sites posting pictures of bikes lately, but I’ll try to pull it all together into one post.
First off, we have Levi Leipheimer’s time trial bike:

Next, we have Carlos Sastre’s new Cervelo S3. We already covered this one in a separate post, but it’s so sweet, I had to show it again.

Velo News had …

We’ve given a fair bit of coverage to the new Cervelo S3 on these pages, but how about the 2009 Orbea Orca that was under gold medal winner Samuel Sanchez?
The 2009 Orca sees a 10% reduction in weight while gaining 20% more stiffness. The advances have been achieved through a mixture of M40j and M30s carbon fiber from Toray. The M30s fiber, in particular, is said to gives greatly increase the durability of the frame, to better absorb vibrations and to optimize the transmission of strength.
The weight reduction in the frame …

A couple of days ago, we noted that Fabian Cancellera and some others were riding a new Cervelo for the Olympic road race. Cervelo made it seem that there would not be any additional information about the bike for several weeks, but I received an e-mail this morning letting me know that I could buy one at Competitive Cyclist.
A little more about the bike: The comfort level is said to be on par with their R3 model – very comfortable for long hauls on bad roads, yet still offers the …

There will be no cycling action in Beijing until the men’s and women’s time trial events tomorrow, but there is, as usual, plenty going on:

Yes, I’d probably have a panic attack, too: Old news by now, but Maria Isabel Moreno arrived at the Olympics on July 30th, got tested the next day, and pretty much immediately flew home. She said it was a panic attack, but in reality, she had a drug test and knew what was going to happen. This after Spain’s Olympic director said that none of their athletes would be …