Portable Sublimation Technology Helps Hincapie Print Leader Jerseys On-site

Greenville, SC­­­­—Hincapie™ Sportswear, Inc. (Hincapie), manufacturer and marketer of distinctive clothing for the performance cyclist, has been named the official cycling jersey supplier of the Amgen Tour of California the largest cycling event in America. Hincapie will provide premium Amgen Tour of California custom cycling apparel for general race and other official category leaders. In addition to being the official cycling apparel supplier to the Amgen Tour of California, Hincapie will also have an extended on-site presence throughout the entire nine day event.

“We are very excited to be associated with such a prestigious event,” said Rich Hincapie, President of Hincapie Sportswear. “This is the best race on the North American calendar and there are many things that will make the 2009 edition the best Amgen Tour of California yet. Our portable sublimation technology really is popular with the riders and sponsors, because the logos are permanent and won’t fall off the jerseys. We’re proud to take the Amgen Tour of California leader jersey production to a whole new level.”

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“Rock Racing will continue to race in 2009. Tyler Hamilton, Rahsaan Bahati and Justin Williams will defend their U.S. national titles. More important information about the team’s plans will follow. We appreciate your interest and continued support of Rock Racing.”

More to come…

KANSAS CITY - The USA Cycling Cyclo-cross National Championships opened on Thursday with just over 50 master-aged riders tackling the demanding course at Kansas City’s Tiffany Springs Park. Gary Thacker (Louisville, Colo./Chipotle-Titus), Phil Bannister (Putney, Vt./Putney-West Hill), Rob Lea (Taneytown, Md./Team Fuji), and Walt Axthelm (Durango, Colo./Durango Wheel Club) won the first of 34 stars-and-stripes jerseys to be awarded at this year’s competition.

With sunny skies and temperatures comfortably in the 30’s the first national championship contest went off at 1:00 p.m. After the early week snow and the morning’s B races, the well-broken-in course made for a slow start to the master men’s 55-59 contest. The slick corners were however no problem for Louisville, Colorado’s Thacker who moved to the front on the first lap and never looked back. The 55-year old veteran mountain biker took up cyclo-cross only three years ago, but has quickly taken to America’s fastest growing cycling discipline.

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Louisville, KY - Endurance Films and indoor cycling mogul Mad Dogg Athletics, owner of the Spinning brand, announce the release of two new volumes in the popular RIDES training series. Joining RIDES: The Rockies and RIDES: Las Vegas, this year’s additions bring the canyons of Orange County, CA into the mix in RIDES: Southern California as well as North Carolina’s rolling pastures in RIDES: North Carolina.

RIDES first gained notoriety as being the first series to remove the viewer from the gym setting and place them on the open road within a group ride of pro cyclists and triathletes. To further enhance the training experience, on-screen tips, regional facts and motivational quotes keep the viewer engaged while a great soundtrack fills the room with catchy tunes. The newly released DVDs continue this great tradition but also give the viewers an optional coaching voice over track, adding audible direction from USA Cycling, USA Triathlon, and Spinning certified coaches. The DVDs feature newly designed consoles which provide additional guidance through the challenging 60 min workouts as well as alternate music tracks to enhance the variety.

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The new Multisport Collection fits the contour of a woman’s body like only Moving Comfort can!

Cadence Shorts and Capri - featuring 8 panel design, a women’s specific 4-way stretch chamois with Liquicell and a lower rise, flattering fit

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Cuban sprinter Ivan Dominguez (Toyota-United) will ride in the new team FUJI-SERVETTO in 2009. As a result, Dominguez (Havana, 1976) will make his debut in European cycling, after a successful, vaste career across the American calendar for eight years, achieving nearly sixty wins, some of them in Hors Categorie races, such as the Tour de Georgia and the Amgen-Tour of California, in which he used his speed to outsprint a great part of the best specialists in the international peloton, always on a FUJI bike, the same he’ll use in his new team.

“I am very excited to join the FUJI-SERVETTO team”, Dominguez, who took advatage of an appearance with his national team to desert from his country and establish himself in the United States, admitted. “I am happy to race for Fuji-Servetto, a ProTour-level team. It has always been a dream to race inEurope at the Pro Tour level and I think I can win races with FUJI-SERVETTO.”

With this signing, FUJI-SERVETTO’s lineup is made for the time being by 21 riders, with some newcomers expected to join yet -Colombia’s Fabio Duarte will finally not be part of the team-: Alberto Benítez, Iker Camaño, David Cañada, Eros Capecchi, Ermanno Capelli, Juanjo Cobo, David de la Fuente, Jesús Del Nero, Iván Domínguez, Arkaitz Durán, Alberto Fernández de la Puebla, Ángel Litu Gómez, Héctor González, Beñat Intxausti, Josep Jufré, Javier Megías, Daniele Nardello, Ricardo Serrano, Andrea Tonti, Davide Vigano and William Walker.

Easton EC90 Cranks - First Impressions

• Construction:CNT™ composite crank arms and spider 7050 aluminum pedal inserts 24mm CrMo steel spindle
• Chainrings: 53/39t standard, Ceramic Teflon coating, shift pins and ramps
• Length: 170, 172.5, 175mm
• Weights: 558 grams (crank arms, chainrings and CrMo spindle)
• Standard BB: 105 grams
• Hybrid Ceramic BB: 100 grams
• MSRP: $699

First Impression? Excitement. How can you not be excited with a feathery light carbon crankset (558 grams!) that is not only one of the lightest available, but rivals some of the stiffest cranks out on the market today. Sure the EC90 has been in development for quite some time, but when you’re setting out to make the best carbon crank in the world, as Easton has set to do, you want to take your time and do it right.

According to Easton, they throughly tested every high end crank currently available for ultimate strength, fatigue strength, and stiffness and aimed to best them. What the engineers and designers at Easton delivered is a carbon road crank packing the highest stiffness to weight ratio of any carbon crank currently available on the market. The continued use of CNT composite yields not only a stiff and strong crank, but an aesthetically pleasing one as well. The EC90 currently ships with a 53/39 standard and makes use of Stronglite’s CT2 ceramic and Teflon-treated rings.

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We are proud to announce a brand new section of our site. We have received numerous requests for a dedicated commuter section on the site, and now we have it!! The guide highlights the various RoadBikeReview resources to help you get started on your way to bicycle commuting, with links to

• featured articles
• commuter bike reviews
• gear reviews
• and forum topics of interest.

Bicycle Commuting Resource Guide!

We are excited about this new section, and would like to find bloggers to help build the resource. If you commute and want to write about your experiences, share tips of the road, and maybe do some commuting gear/part reviews shoot us an email at admin@roadbikereview.com with your ideas for an article or story!

Based on the evidence and further investigations made by the Luxembourg Anti-Doping Agency it was decided not to open a disciplinary case against Fränk Schleck and the agency has decided to close the case.

“First of all, I’m happy that I had to chance to prove that I was innocent. I have a lot of respect for the work the Luxembourg Anti-Doping Agency had to do and I have been totally available for all their inquiries. Throughout the whole process I have been confident that I would come out good because I have a completely clear conscience. Now, I can focus on the new season and I’m looking forward to coming back strong”, says Fränk Schleck.

“We are certainly very happy that the explanation that Fränk Schleck has given us, the press and our sponsors was now confirmed by the Luxembourg Anti-Doping Agency as true. It was vital to us that Fränk had not been involved in the wrongdoings concerning the case in Spain and we feel that the confidence that we have in Fränk has been rewarded. I’m sure that this has been quite a stressful time for him, but at the same time it will give him strength and motivation to be even better next season”, says Bjarne Riis and states that the team will continue to do its utmost in the fight against doping.

“All of our riders are ambassadors of a clean sport and with our groundbreaking, independent anti-doping program we can rule out any wrongdoing going on unnoticed and we take sincere comfort in that. The team has gone to great lengths in the fight against doping and we will continue to make our mark here along with our efforts on the roads”, adds Riis.

10 Tips to Avoid Looking Like a Cycling Rookie - By Kurt Gensheimer

With the recent explosion in cycling popularity through the dominance of Lance Armstrong, the United States is experiencing record growth in the sport of cycling. This is a particularly encouraging development in a country which has largely associated cyclists with automotive target practice using projectiles like Gatorade bottles and 7-11 Big Gulps.

Each day a new cyclist dons his or her two wheeled steed for the first time is a day where more people learn to tolerate the sport. However, if you go out on the road and look like the quintessential cycling geek who clearly doesn’t know what they’re doing, you will only hurt the cyclist’s cause for social acceptance.

We all have to start somewhere, and I was definitely not immune to being a neophyte. I had all the rookie characteristics: the obscenely large helmet, haggard looking shorts, baggy jersey, hairy legs, greasy chain marks on my calves, bobbing posture on the bike – oh yes, I was indeed a tool.
However, not all rookies have to be subject to ridicule. There is a way to look experienced without having thousands of miles under your legs; you just have to pay attention to the details. This article is targeted towards folks who are new to the sport of cycling and wish to avoid the potential embarrassment I was put through as a rookie.

Tip 1: No Pro Kits
The cardinal violation in trying to be a cool cyclist is when you buy a full professional team kit (jersey, shorts, socks, etc.) of a team you do not ride for. Nothing screams ROOKIE  louder than a full Discovery Channel uniform on a non-payroll cyclist. Steer clear of these overpriced kits.  The only time these types of jerseys are acceptable is when they are vintage. General rule of thumb is 10 years after a team’s disbanding. For instance, if you hit the road in a vintage Motorola or Coors Light jersey, you get big style points. Just make sure you know a few of the cyclists who rode for those teams so that when approached by other cyclists, you can sound knowledgeable.

Tip 2: Buy the coolest helmet you can afford
When it comes to helmets, don’t skimp. You are going to be wearing this piece of equipment all the time (hopefully), and you want to be motivated to put it on. If you have some cheapo brain bucket or a nicer one that is two sizes too small, you’ll never want to wear it. Back in the day when I was young and stupid, I thought riding around with no helmet and gel that made my hair glisten was cool - well, it wasn’t. My Giro Pneumo helmet looks far cooler than my bare cranium, especially when it’s hemorrhaging blood after a head-over-shammy 30 mile per hour crash.

Cool helmet or hemorrhaging cranium? I’ll take the helmet, please.

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