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Aug. 22, 2008Team Type 1's Ed Beamon defeated Michael Ball to win an At-Large seat on the USPRO board.
Rock Racing's flamboyant team director and owner Michael Ball failed in his bid to attain an At-Large position on the USPRO Board of Directors, losing by nine votes to Team Type 1's director, Ed Beamon. The USPRO contest was one of several ...
Aug. 22, 2008Columbia's George Hincapie will throw out the first pitch at a minor league game next week.
Next week will be a big one for Team Columbia's George Hincapie. He starts the week by throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at a minor league baseball game in his home town in Monday. He finishes the week competing at the USPRO time trial and ...
Aug. 22, 2008Cervelo recalls some carbon forks
Cervélo SA Recalls Bicycle Forks Due to Fall Hazard WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should ...
Aug. 20, 2008Southern California bike builders plan a custom show for San Diego next April.
Fans of curly-lugged seat clusters, fillet-brazing and hand-painted frame cut outs will have a new place to appreciate their objets d'art next spring. The San Diego Custom Bicycle Show is set ...
Aug. 18, 2008Boulder cyclists hope their planned bike park is a model for other communities.
Even in one of the most bike-crazy communities in the country, this is something special. The city council in Boulder, Colorado, has approved spending $700,000 next year to develop a 40-acre bike park that will include a cyclocross course, a ...
Aug. 16, 2008Fred Dreier’s Olympic Notebook
While dodging taxis and buses on my morning ride I saw another cyclist spinning his wheels a few hundred meters up the road. There are millions of people on bicycles in Beijing, but cyclists are a novelty, and in the sea of riders on the road he ...
Aug. 12, 2008Jelly Belly's Nick Reistad running for Rider Representative position
Editor's Note: In the last two weeks, VeloNews.com has published letters from pro racer Fred Rodriguez, urging his fellow pros to vote for Michael Ball for the position of at-large member of the USPRO Board of Trustees and a letter from Team Type ...
Aug. 11, 2008Ed Beamon makes the case for his candidacy for the USPRO board at-large position.
Editor's Note: Last week we published a letter from pro racer Fred Rodriguez, urging his fellow pros to vote for Michael Ball for the position of at-large member of the USPRO Board of Trustees. Today we publish a letter from Team Type 1 director ...
Aug. 7, 2008Beijing Olympic Road Race roster
ALGERIA (1) ● Hichem Chabane (Konica Minolta / Bizhub)ARGENTINA (3) ● Alejandro Alberto Borrajo (Colavita / Sutter Home) ● Juan José Haedo (CSC Saxo Bank) ● Matias Medici ...
Aug. 7, 2008After a few days in Beijing, VeloNews' Fred Dreier says masks seem like a really good idea.
The racing hasn’t yet begun at the Laoshan Velodrome, site of the Beijing Olympics’ track events, but the USA track team has already been jumped. No, it wasn’t a team of big-legged brawny sprinters that pounced on Team America’s ...
Aug. 7, 2008Lehman Brothers invests in SRAM
Component giant SRAM has a new minority owner: Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking. The fund manager is making an undisclosed investment in SRAM, which will retain its senior management, the company announced Thursday. SRAM, which markets products ...
Aug. 7, 2008Team Columbia sends 18 cyclists to Beijing
Team Columbia is sending 18 riders from twelve different nations to the Olympic games. While the riders will wear uniforms representing their home nation, it's still a remarkable turnout for the U.S.-based team. “To have so many riders ...