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- Nov. 20, 2009Quick Step to ride Merckx bikes for three years
In choosing its bikes for the next three years, Quick Step team will be going back to its Belgian roots, signing a new sponsorship deal with Merckx cycles.
By inking a deal with Merckx, the team marks an end to its three-year relationship with ...
Nov. 20, 2009Tech Feature: Clinchers for 'cross - three good choices
You might have noticed that the VeloNews crew often preaches the use of tubulars for cyclocross, particularly if you’re serious about the discipline. Tubulars do offer tangible advantages clinchers, largely because of the ability to use ...
Nov. 17, 2009Technical Q&A with Lennard Zinn - Getting those 'cross tires on right
As promised, here’s the procedure for gluing a ’cross tubular tire so it won’t come off. Though it can still ruin your day, the downside of rolling a tubular in ’cross is generally not as big as in a criterium or on a winding mountain ...
Nov. 12, 2009Tech Report: Amy Dombroski’s new Primus Mootry cyclocross bikes
Pint-sized ’cross diva Amy Dombroski is following an interesting path this season. Last year she graduated from the Kona-supported Velo Bella program and moved to the East Coast frame-building artisan, Richard Sachs’ team. Now, close to three ...
Nov. 11, 2009Tech Updates: New winter clothing from Craft and Castelli and saddles from Cobb.
There’s no shortage of sweet gear and clothing to keep you rolling through the winter. Check out some of what we like lately.
Craft proZERO Base Layers
Craft proZERO base layers are made for the transitional temperatures of autumn. ...
- Nov. 11, 2009Technical Q&A: questions (and answers) on cyclocross flats, tire sealant and tubeless tires for ’cross racing
Next week I will talk about gluing tubulars to carbon rims, as I promised, but this week I want to address the huge influx of mail I got on flats on the Xilinx cyclocross course, sealant, and on tubeless ’cross tires.
First, on the Xilinx ...
Nov. 6, 2009Tech Gallery: Seen and heard in the pits at the Blue Sky Velo Cup
Saturday’s Blue Sky Velo Cup cyclocross race on the Xilinx campus in Longmont, Colorado, might already be a fading memory, but there’s a good chance that a few bikes (and riders for that ...
Nov. 3, 2009Technical Q&A with Lennard Zinn - It's all about the tires
Cyclocross season is in full swing, and it came to Boulder over the weekend in the form of the Blue Sky Velo Cup and the Boulder Cup. For some ...
Nov. 2, 2009Wrenched and Ridden: Time Hi-Tense wheels
Time is better known for pedals and high-end carbon bike frames than wheels. But the 2010 Time catalogue includes not just bikes and pedals, but also stems, bars, shoes, saddles, gloves, shoe covers, and now, wheels.
Like many companies these ...
Oct. 30, 2009“It’s About the Bike:” A gallery from the Lance Armstrong bike exhibit and auction
Remember all those sweet, custom painted Trek bikes that Lance Armstrong rode in various comeback races this past season? Well, now the bikes are making a post-season, cameo comeback of their own.
A number of them were designed, and in some cases ...
Oct. 27, 2009Tech guru Lennard Zinn tells how to remove a stuck seatpost. WARNING: Not for the faint of heart.
No adjustment
Dear Lennard,
I recently tried to adjust my saddle height on my Trek Fuel 98 and
unfortunately found that it is no longer adjustable. I have an aluminum
seatpost and the frame is carbon. I don't think I put any ...
Oct. 26, 2009Tech Update: New stuff from Cateye, Skins and Blackbottoms
For every hot piece of gear that we stuffed into our Interbike show coverage both online and in print (see the coming December issue of VeloNews, on stands November 1), there are ten bits that we missed. Here’s some of what’s new from a ...
