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Features

Riding the New Forest Sportive 2009

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2009 New Forest Sportive

The New Forest 100 sportive is organised by UK Cycling Events and sponsored by Wilier – they of the rather nice Italian bikes – and while there may not be many Giro-style climbs in this part of the world, it’s definitely a great place for riding a bike.

Show. Off.

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Cycle Show 2009 - TR's gallery

Well, that's the end of bicycle exhibitions for the year. The Cycle show in Earls court was a good show although I am still not that sure what its exact purpose is? It isn't quite a trade show for brands to show case new kit and it definitely isn't a place where you can purchase the latest bit of bike jewellery.

Bike Blenheim Sportive, words and pics on some great riding and a rather fine tea stop

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Blenheim Sportive 2009

The days are getting shorter, the leaves are turning brown. Autumn is definitely here. You may’ve hung up your racing wheels until 2010, but there’s still fun to be had on the end-of-season sportive circuit as David Else found out at Blenheim Palace.

Eurobike… Details

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Eurobike 2009 Details by lefthandedsweat

Not even ten minutes in the door and already I’m show-blind.

Deutschland Über Halles

A walk through Shimano, completely oblivious to the Eddy Merckx stand on my left that I would only discover three days later - as they were packing up, and blitzkrieg blinged by the triumvirate onslaught of the Bianchi, DeRosa and Campagnolo stands with a sneaky south-paw kidney-punch by Cervelo to the side and my brain rolls over and surrenders.

Two cols on a Commencal

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Two cols on a Commencal

A 30lb Commencal hardtail. Not the weapon of choice for col bagging but that's all the lady at the tourist office in Bedous could offer me, and at €10 a day I wasn't really complaining: any bike is better than no bike.

Our base for our family week in the Pyrenees, the Fontaines D'Escot, is smack bang at the bottom of the Col de Marie Blanque – the steep side – and that was to be the first challenge of the day.

Museeuw – 2010 bikes and some flax stats

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Museeuw feature

One of the more welcome distractions for bike journalists during the second rest day of the 2007 Tour De France was a press conference by none other than the Lion of Flanders himself, Johann Museeuw.

But the Leeuw wasn't here just to add his support for protégé Tom Boonen's bid for the points competition or speculate whether or not Rasmussen could hold the yellow jersey all the way to Paris.

Interview: Heinrich Haussler - Cervelo's Racing Kangaroo enjoys his best season

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Haussler is one of the new skool

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Heinrich Haussler

Heinrich Haussler grew up in Australia but, showing typical Aussie grit and determination, left for Germany - his Father’s homeland - at the age of 14 to pursue a career as a professional cyclist. His results this year are a reflection of his determined character and a change of team from Gerolsteiner to the newly formed Cervélo Test Team.

Bike Pure – seeking to repair “a damaged sport”

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Bike Pure

Since its launch last autumn, Bike Pure has become an online phenomenon in the cycling world. The non-profit website, founded by cycling fans and ex-racers Myles McCorry and Andy Layhe, seeks to promote clean riders and pave the way to a drugs-free future for cycling, and has quickly grown to almost 14,000 members, uniting fans, riders, professional teams, component manufacturers and governing bodies alike in an attempt to restore health to what its founders describe as “a damaged sport”.

Tour de France 2009 review

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Contador and Armstrong on Mont Ventoux (Photosport International)

So for another year the carnival (or circus, or freak show, depending on your point of view) is over. After the crowds disperse on the Champs Elysées, all that's left on the roads of France are memories, fading chalk messages and discarded energy gel wrappers as the Tour packs up for another year. And it's certainly been an interesting Tour de France. A classic? no. But interesting.

Mont Ventoux - tackling the Giant of Provence and riding in the tyre tracks of legends

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Nothing – not the severity of the ascent, the driving snow and ice or my non-cycling wife, was going to stop me getting to the top. I had driven 11 hours to get to Mount Ventoux and, with all my fellow riders having dropped out, there was just me – yards from the summit but on a track that had turned from warm tarmac hundreds of feet below into a covering of snow and ice. Tom Simpson died on this mountain in 1967 and I was here to pay my respects to him. The cold was freezing my hands and the wind threatened to blow me over the side of the mountain. But I couldn’t fail now.

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