Winter is coming, and off-road training is a good way to stay fit during winter. Here are Colnago Cyclocross and Mountain Bike 2014 series by the legendary Italian frame builder Ernesto Colnago.
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Quote of the day, from Dino Buzzati. Buzzati was an Italian novelist, short story writer, painter, and poet, as well as a journalist for Corriere Della Sera. He was also a cycling enthusiast.
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Cannondale SuperSix Evo 2014 is the admiral ship of American bicycle manufacturer Cannondale. It is coming with 13 different build options.
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In the 1946 Giro d’Italia, a new jersey has been introduced: The “Maglia Nera” (black jersey). It was awarded as a symbolic prize given to the last man to finish the race within the time limit.
But why the jersey was black? The riders chose the black because it was the color of the jersey worn by the soccer player Giuseppe Ticozzelli.
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End of en era. Euskaltel-Euskadi, the Basque team completes its last Grand Tour, Vuelta a España 2013, and says goodbye to the peloton.
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Founded in 1987 by Roland Cattin, the French bicycle manufacturer TIME creates, manufactures, and distributes highly technical bicycle products. Here is the TIME 2014 collection.
In 1993, TIME began to diversify with carbon composite frames using Resin Transfer Molding (RTM) technology. TIME weaves its own custom tubular carbon layers in its RTM factory in Vaulx-Milieu France, outside of Lyon. This gives TIME’s engineers control of the technical characteristics of each carbon layer, as well as freedom of shape of the frame component parts.
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De Rosa 2014: The Italian bicycle manufacturer has unveiled its 2014 collection. There are 11 road bikes, 1 time-trial bike, and 1 fixie model in the collection.
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Italian bicycle manufacturer De Rosa has unveiled its 60th anniversary special series of road bikes: “De Rosa 60th Anniversary – The Black Label”. There are four Black Label models, and each model is representing an era of bicycle frame materials, (and also the year that De Rosa has started using these materials): Steel (1953-the year De Rosa was founded), Titanium (1992), Aluminium (1996) and Carbon (2000).
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Andy and Steve Hampsten brothers unveiled a new version of their lugged steel racing bike, Team Pro. The new Team UOS has a new color scheme.
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The Swiss company SCOTT Sports SA has unveiled its 2014 model mountain bikes. There are 10 main series of Scott mountain bikes: Spark 900, Spark 700, Scale 900, Scale 700, Genius 900, Genius 700, Aspect 900, Aspect 700, Aspect 600, and Genius LT.
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