Slurrrp - Cycling News http://cycling.slurrrp.com The worlds cycling headlines, updated every 5 minutes. en-us 30 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:42:22 MDT Slurrrp http://cycling.slurrrp.com/images/slurrrp-logo-100.gif http://cycling.slurrrp.com/ 100 29 DailyPeloton: 2010 Cascade Cycling Classic - Stage 3 - 5 Men UnitedHealthcare Rory Sutherland on Top at Cascades - Fly V Australia's Ben Day & Darren Lill join Sutherland on final podium

]]> http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=17356 DailyPeloton Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:00:04 MDT DailyPeloton: 2010 Lakes Oil Tour of Gippsland - Stage 3 Report Rico Rogers sprints to second consecutive win - Ben Grenda retains overall lead.

]]> http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=17355 DailyPeloton Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:00:04 MDT DailyPeloton: 2010 Cascade Cycling Classic - Stage 3 - 5 Women Peanut Butter & Co's Mara Abbott Wins - Colavita's Cath Cheatley and Webcor Builders' Erinne Willock top final Podium in Cascade

]]> http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=17357 DailyPeloton Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:00:03 MDT Biking Bis: Comments in bicycle fatality stories are hard to stomach

Cyclists in the Winston-Salem area of North Carolina are coming to grips with the latest tragedy on local roads:

Two bicyclists riding single file along the white line were struck from behind by a Jeep Friday morning on a rural road south of the city. One cyclist, Donald Sunday, 62, of Winston-Salem, died at the scene. The other, Barry Leonard, 49, suffered a broken pelvis and rib.

News stories about the tragedy were accompanied by sinkening rants from motorists with a superior right to the roads....

]]> http://www.bikingbis.com/blog/_archives/2010/7/29/4590767.html Biking Bis Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:07:02 MDT Yahoo Cycling: Phinney to ride for Armstrong's RadioShack team (AP) Track cycling world champion Taylor Phinney has been promoted to ride for Lance Armstrong's Team RadioShack for the rest of the road race season. The 20-year-old American will step up from Armstrong's Trek-Livestrong development squad to compete in the Aug. 4-8 Tour of Denmark. Team manager Johan Bruyneel said Thursday he was giving Phinney and teammates Jesse Sergent and Clinton Avery the...

]]> http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/sc/SIG=11u8l7a7t/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/sc/news?slug=ap-radioshack-phinney Yahoo Cycling Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:07:02 MDT BBC Sport: Sky's Downing triumphs in Belgium Team Sky's Russell Downing sprints to victory in the final stage of the Tour de Wallonie to secure overall victory.

]]> http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/sport2/hi/other_sports/cycling/8865243.stm BBC Sport Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:21:02 MDT BBC Sport: Contador & Astana to part company Tour de France winner Alberto Contador will leave Astana at the end of this season after turning down the offer of a new deal.

]]> http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/sport2/hi/other_sports/cycling/8864170.stm BBC Sport Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:21:01 MDT PezCycling: Tour Talk: Team Sky's Michael Barry Message by Edmond Hood
At last year's Paris-Nice I asked Cervelo (now Raleigh) man Dan Fleeman who was impressing. The answer was surprising, none of the 'heads' were mentioned, rather a man of whom Dan said, 'I've never seen anyone chase like that, he just sat there on the front and rode and rode!' Who was Dan talking about? None other than Team Sky's Michael Barry.

]]> http://www.pezcyclingnews.com/?pg=fullstory&id=8503 PezCycling Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:49:04 MDT PezCycling: Tour de Pez: Roadside Redux Message by Gordan Cameron
Gord's Roadside Wrap: It’s always a weird, exhausting, exhilarating experience following the Tour de France, and it takes days before you emerge, blinking in the daylight of real life, from the mayhem of driving, chasing, writing. Then you start to look back. You start to scan through the photos that didn’t make the stories; the ideas that you didn’t use; the things that just didn’t fit at the time.

]]> http://www.pezcyclingnews.com/?pg=fullstory&id=8505 PezCycling Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:49:02 MDT Biking Bis: LA mayor gains insight about bicycling from near miss

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa experienced an epiphany moments after he narrowly missed being right hooked by a taxicab and fell to the ground, breaking his elbow.

Bicycling in LA can really suck.

Mayor of LA since 2005, Villaraigosa already knew that his city needed to support bicycling as a way to reduce traffic congestion and improve air quality. He learned more about that by attending the climate conference in Copenhagen last December ....

]]> http://www.bikingbis.com/blog/_archives/2010/7/28/4590347.html Biking Bis Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:42:11 MDT