G+D News

We’re looking forward to hopping on a jet plane for Interbike next week and seeing all of our favorite people in the bike biz in one place. Even if that place happens to be a convention center in the middle of a godforsaken city in a desert. Look us up in you’re in town. [...]

As the road racing season winds down, there are still a few local roadie events coming up that have attracted our interest. Our friend John Eustice, former two time US National Champ and Euro-pro, has been putting on some of the best racing here in the Northeast for quite a while. John organizes both the long-standing Harlem [...]

  Last week we reported on something that wouldn’t have been out of place on an episode of That’s Incredible! : a 10-man squad in Switzerland attempted to ride a 10-man bicycle (which we now know is called a décacyle) 400 meters. And they did it! The Guinness Book of World Records will be publishing the feat in their next [...]

Our Winning Magazine cover countdown hits a decade marker – 1990. You can see that this is the year that helmets are starting to be seen on more cover stars (especially in the U.S.). And in case you’re having trouble remembering what you were doing in 1990, you were probably busy slipping into an oversized sweater, pegging your jeans, [...]

If you find yourself in Geneva, Switzerland this Labor Day weekend (and who doesn’t?), you’ll have a chance to see potential history in the making. Former Swiss racer Daniel Girard is celebrating his eponymous bike store’s 30th anniversary with a heretofore undocumented feat . He has gathered together 10 local ex-pros, including Tony Rominger and Jean-Claude Killy, to [...]

Sometimes the stars align and amazing things happen. The pairing of Gage+DeSoto and Ritte Racing happens to be one of those very things. Earlier in the year, Brett took leave of NYC to LA for a few weeks to escape the city and put some miles in a town where the weather is always great. As it turns [...]

We’re not typically in the movie-recommending business, but with the summer counting down its last few weekends, we can’t help but suggest Senna. It’s the tragic story of Brazilian superstar Formula 1 racer Ayrton Senna. Tons of great archival footage reveals not only a true champion, but the politics, psychological warfare, and motivations of racers at the [...]

It’s time for another Grand Tour, which means it’s time for another Velogames fantasy competition! We’ve created a league for the upcoming Vuelta a España, and anyone can join. Once you login and create a team, scroll down to the lower right of your roster and you’ll see “League Manager”. Click “Join League” and enter in the league code [...]

We continue our Winning countdown, creeping up on the beginning of the 90s, when C&C Music Factory topped the charts and Coors had a cycling team. As an added bonus for this installment, we managed to track down one of the magazine’s original editors – John Wilcockson – and put a few questions to him.   G+D: As one of [...]

Back to our archeological dig… hey look, it’s Abdou!

 Gallery :: Winning 1992

Wow. We can hardly believe it, but – It’s a wrap! There wasn’t much racing today – Mark Cavendish easily outsprinted any competition on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées to retain the Green Jersey overall. We love to hate this little bastard. So… on to the podium action: Ladies and Gentlemen, your 2011 Td(wt)F* winners: Flanked by The UCI Overlord and The Lavender [...]

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Congratulations to Cadel, BMC, and Australia. A classy win for a new champion. (We have to admit, this little ripper is growing on us!)
Stage 20 Results :: cyclingnews.com

It only took him the entire Tour de France, but Andy Schleck is wearing yellow. The baby’s all growns up. On Friday he managed to wrest the maillot jaune from Thomas Voeckler’s back, with some help from his brother. The stage was all about L’Alpe d’Huez. Known for its 847 switchbacks, its drunk and disorderly fans, and its [...]

That pretty much sums it up.   Shit. Just. Got. Real.   After 2 weeks of belittling (betwittling?) at the hands of pretty much every cycling fan on the Internet, Frères Schleck went for the jugular on Thursday. And oh were the spurts of blood glorious. Andy Schleck attacked on the Col d’Izoard – something that’s as difficult as [...]

You know what they say, the more things change, the more the Schlecks complain. Actually, that’s not quite accurate. There was some racing today. The day ended with a Cat 2 climb up the Pramartino, and a healthy descent down the other side and into the finish. In Italy. Buongiorno!  Edvald Boasson Hagen took an adventurous downhill run after [...]

Did you hear the one about the two riders in a TdF breakaway who are sideswiped by a speeding press car, one sent directly into the pavement, the other landing in a barbed wire fence on the side of the road, but both finishing? Or maybe you caught the one where a veteran racer tumbles 30 feet down [...]

Today was the first day of any real vertical challenge, so that meant climbers to the front and sprinters to the back.   As it turns out, Thor Hushovd is both. We were treated to some impressive racing by American Tejay Van Garderen, who was joined at various times off the front by a selection of climbers. All but [...]

Today was supposed to be the long, boring day with the sprint finish tailor-made for Mark Cavendish. Boring.   Still boring: With only 700km to go, the average speed was about 15mph. Riders at the back of the peloton were spotted playing backgammon.

  So boring: Jose Ivan Gutierrez nearly crashed after wiping boogers on the camera lens. Movistar was immediately [...]

While the Tour’s longest stage was playing out somewhere in France, the TV helicopters were busy reconnoitering every last château, église and maison they could find in Normandy. “This single family residence is home to France’s largest collection of combs for miniature poodles.” – Paul Sherwen But Mother Nature had other things in mind. As the daily, obligatory [...]

It seems at some point in this stage, every rider had hit the pavement. With 75k to go, French TV cut away to Danish National Champion and Contador super-domestique Nicki Sørensen looking bewildered on the side of the road after a crash. That’s odd….Um, where is his bike? Oh, of course – A CAMERA MOTO HOOKED HIS BARS, YANKED [...]