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Cyclismas Cycling News Network – Season 2 Episode 7

Ripp and Jonny are on hand for the start of the Volta Catalunya where they stalk Dan Martin, catch up with Chris Horner for some Tirreno recap and get the…

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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 a lot…

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Juggler Sagan

I’m not very impressed with Sagan or his wheelies. Now if he’d do something like this I’d clap my hands.

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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 the fight…

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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 defied the…

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Secret videocam footage reveals truth about Gilbert and Greipel

In a shocking joint exposé by RTL in Belgium and ZDF in Germany, the channels simultaneously broadcast shocking hidden camera footage of Philippe Gilbert and Andre Greipel making shocking admissions…

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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 course I…

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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 observation that…

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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 congealed grimaces…

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Cyclismas Cycling News Network – Season 2 Episode 6

The boys head to Italy and are on the scene to check out the action first-hand during Tirreno-Adriatico, where they catch up with stage winners Matt Goss and Chris Froome….