Breaking bikes in Girona while chasing pigeons

Live from Girona, it’s Ripp and Jonny! The boys cover the latest on the Katusha business, and uncover a new faction in the cycling political fight – ToC BS Schipp. We head over to BikeBreaks in Girona to see why everyone in the professional peloton heads there for their cycling needs of any flavor. Jonny Gunn goes in search of Ted King in a supersized version of “Undercover Gunn.” Saddleblaze is back to talk Puerto updates, Dani Di Luca, and Team Katusha. The Twitter news explodes this week with appearances by Alex Dowsett, Jonathan Vaughters, and even Mark Cavendish. And was that Tyler Farrar on a podium in Andalucia? All this and a few pro cameos… .

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Paul Kimmage Defense Fund

The UCI are taking Paul Kimmage to court for writing that cycling’s international governing body covered up a doping positive for Lance Armstrong (story on Velonation here). The same accusation is leveled by Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle in The Secret Race, and will likely be further corroborated when USADA present their case against Armstrong to the public. As David Walsh and Charles Pelkey in his piece for RKP have pointed out, the UCI are vindictively suing only Kimmage and not the publications in which those accusations appeared (that includes The Sunday Times and NYVelocity.com). We’ve set up a ChipIn for Kimmage’s defense fund below.

Paul Kimmage (center) confronts Lance Armstrong at the Tour of California. (Photo: Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)

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