Cycling continued

**Garden Kitty** · 08-09-2011, 05:49 PM

Twitter Fun: Cancellara is at Trek World - a conference for Trek dealers in Chicago with the Schlecks, and he tweets a pic of a unique time trial bike that is small enough for a 4 year old and isn't available for public sale.

Leipheimer tweets back that Cance should shut up because that's Levi's bike.

**susan6** · 08-09-2011, 07:22 PM

I love that Levi has a sense of humor....after the craptastic tour he and his team had.

In other news....Thor will be SMASHing with BMC for the next few years!
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/hush...g-team-in-2012
Having to play lead-out boy for Tyler while wearing yellow AND world champion stripes was probably a bit chafing.

**Garden Kitty** · 08-10-2011, 06:01 PM

HTC riders supposedly can't confirm new jobs until Sept 1 (for some reason, although not sure why or how it's binding), but every other source is saying that Renshaw signed with Rabobank to be their number 1 sprinter at the Tour.

ETA: Renshaw article

**Garden Kitty** · 08-12-2011, 05:45 PM

Jan Ullrich turns to "cyclosportiv" for fun.

**Theatregirl1122** · 08-12-2011, 06:57 PM

Preliminary start lists for the Vuelta.

Taylor Phinney is riding for BMC. Looks like most of the top name sprinters will be riding. Cav is riding without Renshaw. This preliminarily lists Hushov for Garmin Cervelo but Velo News is reporting that Garmin Cervelo has left him off the team. They also say that the entire TDF podium is riding the USA Pro Cycling Challenge.

**Garden Kitty** · 08-16-2011, 05:49 PM

Toto takes on this weeks noteworthy tweets from the cycling world.

Hushovd definitely not riding the Vuelta, and some Australian riders seem to feel strongly about it for some reason - directing all sorts of critival tweets to Vaughters about disrespecting the rainbow jersey.

**Garden Kitty** · 08-19-2011, 06:39 PM

Gilbert joins Thor and Evans at BMC next year

**Theatregirl1122** · 08-19-2011, 08:04 PM

Wow, it's getting really crowded at BMC. It doesn't seem like there is really room for Thor and Gilbert on BMC for grand tours, especially with Evans already saying that BMC will not work for Thor.

**Garden Kitty** · 08-20-2011, 12:39 PM

Vuelta starts today with the always entertaining team time trial.

**Theatregirl1122** · 08-20-2011, 04:19 PM

Is it just me, or did the Vuelta start like a week later last year? I remember it starting the weekend before my orientation, which is next week. I was watching Gymnastics on Universal sports and they mentioned that the Vuelta started this weekend. Otherwise I'd have missed it because I thought it was a week away!

**Garden Kitty** · 08-23-2011, 05:20 PM

Wheee, podium boys for the women's race!

ETA: Cav drops out of the Vuelta

**Garden Kitty** · 08-25-2011, 07:15 PM

Public Service Announcement: Children should not run across the road when a professional bike race is coming

**susan6** · 08-25-2011, 09:53 PM

Yikes. It looks like the cyclist had plenty of time to see any pedestrians in the road, so the kid must have just darted out in front of him obliviously. It's good to see an ambulance in the background!

**fan5** · 08-26-2011, 01:36 AM

An amazing picture. The peloton must have hoped the boy would hold up quick or was a fast runner because they're coming like a freight train.

It looks like the rider tried to slide the bike under him while doing a step and roll over him, but the front tire maybe caught on the boy's firmly planted foot?

"Burghardt hits a dog" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0dzMp61G5w from the 2007 Tour shows a relatively happy outcome.

**Garden Kitty** · 08-26-2011, 03:02 AM

Yay for Rachael Flatt - she just tweeted about the US Pro Challenge race going on in Colorado.

**Theatregirl1122** · 08-26-2011, 05:05 AM

Originally Posted by Garden Kitty

Yay for Rachael Flatt - she just tweeted about the US Pro Challenge race going on in Colorado.

I did a massive double take when I realized that she'd tweeted that instead of one of the many cyclists I follow.

**Garden Kitty** · 08-26-2011, 06:19 PM

Some great pics from the US Pro Challenge

ETA: Tyler Farrar crashed out of the Vuelta today. Latest update from twitter by one of the Velnews guys:

Farrar transported to local hospital, could not put weight on left leg; no official confirmation yet, but looked bad

**Garden Kitty** · 08-31-2011, 05:33 PM

A really sweet guest column on the Fat Cyclist website about a kids chance to meet some of his cycling heroes

Reports that Leipheimer and Tony Martin have signed with Omega. Didn't see that one coming. I wonder if this has anything to do with a rumored Leopard-Trek/Radio Shack merger? However, Levi has emphasized that he hasn't made any official announcement of a team for next year.

**fan5** · 09-01-2011, 01:35 AM

Originally Posted by susan6

Yikes. It looks like the cyclist had plenty of time to see any pedestrians in the road, so the kid must have just darted out in front of him obliviously. It's good to see an ambulance in the background!

It sounds like the boy spent the night in the hospital but wasn't seriously hurt.

http://velonews.competitor.com/2011/...h-child_189646

**Garden Kitty** · 09-01-2011, 04:12 PM

Thanks for the update on the boy!

Pinotti and Van Garderen confirmed to BMC.

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