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Get Shirty with Peloton Racer(0)

Ed and I spent a week recently working on the Giro d’Italia, and after doing quite a few trips like this we have our routine down to a tee; we always travel light, just carry-on baggage: it makes getting through airport security checks and moving around in a hire car for a week or two far easier.

Since we’ve got cameras, laptops, BlackBerrys, all the related paraphenalia to go with such as cables and chargers, and we know we’ll collect a lot of extra stuff when we’re on the race, such as roadbooks, race manuals and so on, there’s not much room left for anything else in our wee trolley bags. As we often find when it’s time to fly home and our bags are weighed!

Gregor Russell – On His Eurobike 2009(0)

It’s in its 18th year, it takes up 14 halls and two open air areas of the Friedrichshafen Messe – that’s 1000,000 square metres of exhibition space – there are 1,000 exhibitors, 5,000 brands with 30,000 trade visitors and 1,200 journos.

“EUROBIKE 2009” on the beautiful shores of Lac Constance – and VeloResults was right there, courtesy Gregor Russell.

Bikes of Le Tour(0)

Bicycles, we love them! With the Tour well underway, we thought it would be interesting to take a first look at some of the bikes being used by the teams making the news.

When we join the race next week we will of course be bringing you more bike-geek articles!

Riccardo Riccò debuts the new Scott Plasma2 at the Giro(0)

The big manufacturers always wheel out their new weaponry at the Grand Tours to catch all those eager lenses – and here’s the latest TT machine from Scott, the “Plasma2″…

Riccardo Riccò, the young team leader for Saunier Duval–Scott and winner of Stage 1 on Sunday, used the new bike in the opening Team Time Trial last Saturday.

The New SRAM “Red” Groupset(0)

SRAM brought out the new Force and Rival groupsets a while back [read our Review of the Force groupset here], and the Saunier Duval ProTour team used it on their Scott bikes to great effect last season. Now SRAM have released the Red group set and as well as Saunier Duval, the new Astana team will be using the Red group on their Trek Madone frames for the 2008 season as well.

We managed to get a sneak preview and a short ride on an Astana team bike recently when they were in Spain for their first training camp.

Dugast – Fastest Tyres in the World(0)

Which are the fastest tyres in the world? – Dugast, no question.

Check out the exotic machines ridden by the world’s top track squads, Australia, France and GB, the common denominator? Dugast.

Grand Tour Time Trial Bikes(0)

With the prologue of the Tour taking London by storm, we thought it would be good to take a look at some of the hardware used. These shots came from the Giro.

Cannondale’s Synapse makes a successful debut at the Classics(0)

Cannondale’s Synapse was the frame of choice for many of the riders of Team Liquigas at last weekend’s Tour of Flanders, including Filippo Pozzato and eventual podium-finisher, Luca Paolini.

The frame offers a number of features which make it well suited for the cobbled classics, the most physically demanding races of the calendar, both for the riders and their equipment.

SRAM – the new kids on the block(0)

It’s been tried before – trying to grab a slice of that top-end equipment pie from those greedy Campagnolo and Shimano dudes who want to keep gobbling it all up between them.

In the 70’s a French union of Stronglight, Simplex and Mafac failed, despite Bernard Thevenet winning two Tours on the kit. Shimano’s Japanese rivals Sugino and Sun Tour tried to get in on the act and despite the neat Sun Tour groupset being ridden by Jan Raas-managed Dutch pro teams in the 80’s, it never made the breakthrough.