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Pinarello Dogma 65.1 2015

Post author By M. Özgür Nevres
Post date October 2, 2014
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Pinarello DOGMA 65.1 - Carbon Torayca® 65HM1K - 863 FP50 Nero Giallo Fluo Shiny - side view

Until last year, Pinarello Dogma 65.1 was the admiral ship of the Italian bike manufacturer. This year Pinarello Dogma F8 is carrying the flag. But still, Pinarello Dogma 65.1 2015 models are really high-quality road bikes.

Dogma 65.1 already has two Tour de France titles in its palmarès: Team Sky riders Sir Bradley Wiggins in 2012, and Chris Froome in 2013 won the Tour with Dogma 65.1 bikes. It also won the 2013 UCI Road World Championships Elite Men Road Race title with Portugal’s Rui Costa and more than 100 Pro Tour races.

Bicycles and Equipment

Cannondale CAAD8 2015

Cannondale CAAD8 2015 is a good entry-level racing geometry road bike. If you want to enter the road biking world, but don’t want to spend a lot of money, this is a really good option. Tubes inspired by its CAAD10 sibling, a lightweight frame (Cannondale claims it’s the lightest in its class), with more forgiving Heads-Up Race geometry, Cannondale CAAD8 may be your best option.

Bicycles and Equipment

Cannondale CAAD10 2015

“Lighter, stiffer, and smoother than many elite carbon frames”. This is the slogan of the Cannondale CAAD10 2015, the new model of the American bicycle manufacturer’s most popular aluminum frame series. CAAD10 is lightweight, stiff, and fast. Its EVO-like geometry gives you razor-sharp cornering and aggressive race positioning.

For the first time ever, this year also two disc-brake build options are available.

Cannondale is producing award-winning CAAD (Cannondale Advanced Aluminum Design) series of road bikes since 1983. It is the first United States-based bicycle producer to supply frames under its own name to a European professional team (Saeco). Saeco was a top-level European team, with the world’s fastest sprinter Mario Cipollini on the squad. Cipollini raced an “R4000” model (CAAD3) in the 1997 season.

Bicycles and Equipment

Cannondale SuperSix EVO 2015

Post author By M. Özgür Nevres
Post date September 29, 2014
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Cannondale has revealed its 2015 model road bike series. Like the previous year, there are 3 elite road models (Carbon SuperSix EVO, aluminum CAAD10, and CAAD8) and 2 endurance road models (Synapse Carbon and Synapse). Cannondale SuperSix EVO 2015 is the admiral ship of the American bike manufacturer.

Price ranges of SuperSix EVO 2015 carbon series from $2270 for a Shimano 105 model to $4870 for the Ultegra Di2 machine. Bikes with High Modulus frames are starting from $5420 with mechanical Shimano Dura-Ace, up to $9210 Team Edition (equipped with SRAM Red). The high-end model is the SuperSix EVO Black Inc at $11920.

Hour Record Cycling Records History and Legends

Eddy Merckx’s Hour Record in 1972 [Video]

Post author By M. Özgür Nevres
Post date September 22, 2014
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Eddy Merckx hour record, 1972 — In 1972, On 25 October, Eddy Merckx set the Hour Record, after a great season: he started the year winning “la primavera”, Milan-San Remo, the first classic of the cycling season. He then won Liège-Bastogne-Liège, one of the five “monuments”[1], the Giro d’Italia, the Tour de France (both general classification and points classification), and another monument, Giro di Lombardia (currently “Il Lombardia”) as well as many other races. Then he attacked the Hour Record.

In 1972, On 25 October, Eddy Merckx set the Hour Record, after a great season: he started the year winning “la primavera”, Milan-San Remo, the first classic of the cycling season. He then won Liège-Bastogne-Liège, one of the five “monuments” (see notes 1), the Giro d’Italia, the Tour de France (both general classification and points classification), and another monument, Giro di Lombardia (currently “Il Lombardia“) as well as many other races.

Then he attacked the Hour Record.

Tags Ernesto Colnago, Ronde van Vlaanderen

History and Legends Classics Paris-Roubaix Races

Pino Cerami passes away

Pino Cerami in 2004 — Since 1964 the GP Pino Cerami professional cycling race has taken place every year in Belgium. Here, Pino Cerami pictured at the finish of the 2004 edition of the race.

Pino Cerami, 1960 Paris-Roubaix and La Flèche Wallonne winner, and the oldest Tour de France stage winner (1963) after second world war, has died aged 92, after a long illness.

Tags La Flèche Wallonne, Paris-Roubaix, Paris-Roubaix 1960, Pino Cerami

Cycling and Music, Cinema, Art Cyclists and Teams

Song for Vincenzo Nibali

Famous Turkish Jazz musician and keen cyclist Yahya Dai (a friend of mine) composed a song for the Tour de France 2014 winner Vincenzo Nibali and performed it with his daughter Damla. Enjoy.

Women's cycling Cyclists and Teams

Colombian women’s cycling team not ashamed of their kit (video)

Post author By M. Özgür Nevres
Post date September 18, 2014
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A Colombian women's cycling team 'not ashamed' of their team kit

A Colombian women’s cycling team defend their choice of uniform which has led to criticism from the International Cycling Union president and online commentators and said they would not stop wearing flesh-colored uniforms that earned them criticism from the International Cycling Union president.

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History and Legends Cycling Books Cycling Records Hour Record

And the hour shuts up: Jens Voigt breaks the Hour Record

Post author By M. Özgür Nevres
Post date September 18, 2014
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Jens Voigt breaks the Hour Record by 1,410 meters at the Vélodrome Suisse in Grenchen. The recently-retired German, who turned 43 on Wednesday, covered 51.110 kilometers (31.76 miles-205 laps) in one hour on 18 September 2014. The previous record was 49.700 km (30.88 miles) set by Ondřej Sosenka of the Czech Republic in 2005 in Moscow.

Voigt said after the record that: “51 kilometers in an hour, it’s a lot more than I had imagined. I gave it everything in the last 20 minutes. I knew that I still had the energy, that I was ahead of the mark. I felt euphoric – it was the last 20 minutes of my sporting career. I was super-motivated. Now I am on the list of all the famous names, I am so proud to join the likes of Merckx, Indurain. It’s fantastic to finish like this.”

Tags Jens Voigt, Ondřej Sosenka

Hors Catégorie

The road to Mont Blanc (video)

Post author By M. Özgür Nevres
Post date September 17, 2014
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This is absolutely epic: The road to Mont Blanc – the British cyclist Mike Cotty rode 1,012 kilometers, including a total of 21,250-meters climb with 21 mountain passes, sleepless!

During this epic journey, Cotty spent 50 hours 29 minutes in the saddle, with a total elapsed time of 53 hours 29 minutes.