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Reflections On Horner Missing Out On Astana Tour Team

By On June 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Check out Chris Horner’s latest blog post with his account of “getting that call” informing him he wouldn’t be riding this year’s Tour. I think they should rename this team ASStana. The Kazakh sponsors don’t pay the team riders’ salaries while they are competing in the Giro, but then [...]

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T-Bird Makes the New York Times

By On May 4, 2009 · 1 Comment

The only things you can rely on these days with any degree of certainty are death, taxes, and Burke Swindlehurst making the final group in the Gila Monster stage of New Mexico’s Tour of the Gila bicycle stage race. Utah’s homegrown nice guy badass flyfishing book reading espresso drinking loud music listening to pro cyclist [...]

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Zabriskie 2nd in ToC Solvang Time Trial

By On February 20, 2009 · 2 Comments

Davey Sprocket rocked it in the critical Amgen Tour of California Solvang individual time trial. Last rider on the course Levi Leipheimer won by 9 seconds, which will make it hard for Z to take the race lead, but at least while Leipheimer was on course, Dave clocked the [...]

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