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Wooden rims via Cycling Tips (This post is a year old...so sorry if you saw it ages ago.) Anyone...

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Wooden rims via Cycling Tips (This post is a year old...so sorry if you saw it ages ago.) Anyone ever ridden wooden rims? They are beautiful, but hadn't ever considered it as an option at all (of course at that price it's a luxury I am not sure I can afford)...

11 teams considering break away from UCI

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Cyclingnews story, based on comments from Zomegnan and Vaughters; it's unclear where the "11 teams" part of the story came from, or which teams might be involved.

Old Friend Cuesta Beats Sastre in Spain

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Sastre comes in at +13:17 (168th place), whereas Cuesta shows up with the leaders group at +28secs in 88th place. Link to a complete result list via VeloNews.

My plan is to start a cycling team, consisting of my nephews and niece (I will tell my sisters,...

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My plan is to start a cycling team, consisting of my nephews and niece (I will tell my sisters, soon). Here's nephew number two's first bike. And he's in it to win it.

Marijn de Vries' new book! She describes it as cycling for women for dummies, and it's out on...

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Marijn de Vries' new book! She describes it as cycling for women for dummies, and it's out on Wednesday. Sadly, it's only published in Dutch - but still, if you read Dutch, you should buy it! (Marijn rides for AA Drink-Leontien.nl, and has possibly the best blog out there, full of stories about life as a pro cyclist. She also let me interview her last year for the Café - if you haven't already read it, you know what you should do right now...) (Photo pinched from Marijn's site....)

Pro Conti riders wins don't count toward WC qualification?

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"Voeckler’s exploits at Paris-Nice as well as FDJ’s Jérémy Roy and Rémi Pauriol’s second places on stages will also not help France to qualify for the world championship via the world rankings this year. Until last year, Pro Continental teams and riders were still taken into account for the world rankings." Can this possibly be right?

Some insight into how the Louder change may have gone off

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A former race mechanic discusses bike wheels selection, cars organisation and bike placement on the team car. velonews.com

Patrik Sinkewitz provisionally suspended

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"Stinkewitz" again, "Recombinant Human Growth Hormone".

O/T When Sports Stars have to Think for Themselves

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Here we have Manchester City's young star Balotelli trying to put on a bib during a warm up session.