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  Remembering Roubaix: Ten things that made the North so Hellish

  After such a brutal and eventful race there’s no way you can pick out just the one talking point. So, in his weekly column for Cyclismas, Saddleblaze has ...

  On April 8, 2013 / By Saddleblaze
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  From Lance to Landis to Walsh

  This piece originally appeared on irishpeloton.com on 3 April 2013 Earlier this year I had an online conversation with an editor of a popular cycling news website. The ...

  On April 4, 2013 / By Cillian Kelly
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  Small stories from the Ronde

  Bed thieves There were only double beds left, explained the receptionist in our hotel in Gent to us and she added she felt really sorry for us. But ...

  On April 3, 2013 / By Marijn de Vries
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  Salacious Sagan feeling the pinch after monumental gaffe

  With a string of second places this season, Slovak sensation Peter Sagan is certainly getting a bum deal in the current spring classics campaign. Renowned for his wacky ...

  On April 1, 2013 / By Saddleblaze
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  Mediocre “Scumbag” Tyler Hamilton keen to dig up cycling’s bad apples

  This article first appeared on Eurosport.Yahoo.com on Saddleblaze’s weekly Blazin’ Saddles blog page. “We would have wanted to invite Tyler Hamilton for other reasons. But he has done ...

  On March 28, 2013 / By Saddleblaze
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  Ronde van Vlaanderen

  The road to Oude Kwaremont surprises me. It appears to be a nasty uphill one. Typical, I really don’t remember that. The only thing I can remember is ...

  On March 27, 2013 / By Marijn de Vries
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  Leaked: Sky’s plans for total podium domination in Tour

  It was a sickening move. He was clearly under team orders to hold back and yet he acted on his own impulse, threw caution to the wind and ...

  On March 26, 2013 / By Saddleblaze
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  Nicknames

    It all started with Mandarijn (mandarin) when I was a young girl, for obvious reasons. Especially the boy next door, Patrick, loved to call me Mandarijn. Of ...

  On March 20, 2013 / By Marijn de Vries
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  A different approach to comparing climbing performances

  “Initially my aim was to test the hypothesis that the metrics of cycling performance are not relevant to discussions on the subject. Arguments are often based on the ...

  On March 20, 2013 / By Scott Richards
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  ‘First it was comical, then it was only hell’

    The Hell of the (Italian) North came a few weeks early in Sunday’s snow-spattered Milan-San Remo, which reduced a peloton of grown men to frozen tears and ...

  On March 18, 2013 / By Saddleblaze