Ferretti Blue Love

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Published Aug. 11, 2010 at 12:41 a.m.
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1971: a good Italian year for Gosta Pettersson! ... Love is this beautiful Ferretti blue from the Italian team's 1970 De Rosa replica team bike. This is the color I'll try to match for my upcoming Marinoni restoration ... An amazing specimen of a simpler racing bicycle with a setup now refer to as ... retro: Columbus steel frame, Campagnolo Nuovo Record gruppo, 3ttt bar/stem, Maillard Dural 6-speed freewheel, Regina Record Chain, Unicanitor saddle, & Mavic Monthlery Route tubular rims ...

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The 1978 Tour: Heroes & Anti-Heroes.

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Published Aug. 5, 2010 at 1:07 a.m.
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Heroic escape by the Jailer ... Christian Seznec goes solo for 200kms ... Twenty-three year old Bernard Hinault had his mojo going. He was already a classics star winning the 1977 Liege-Bastogne-Liege & Ghent Wevelgem. He proved to be a top time triallist by winning the Grand Prix des Nations. The Criterium du Dauphine Libere was a mountainous one where he crashed on a descent and climbed out from the roadside back on his bike for the victory. Tough as nails. Two months before the 1978 Tour he

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The Quiet Goombah

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Published July 17, 2010 at 2:41 p.m.
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"The former Soviet state of Kazakhstan is the size of Western Europe, and is not so much of its own country as its own planet, a vast sameness of boreal forests and grasslands, boiling in summer and frozen in winter, a land the Soviets found ideal for growing wheat and testing nuclear bombs - 470 tests between 1949 and 1989, most of them thoughtfully done on Sundays, so as not to disrupt the happy productivity of the proletariat. The ensuing years have only added to its charms : the

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Freddy Maertens

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Published May 4, 2010 at 10:29 a.m.
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some pictures and a wiki bio of one of my favorite racers from the 70's and perhaps the greatest sprinter never to win one of the classics: ... Freddy Maertens (born 13 February 1952 in Nieuwpoort) was a Belgian professional racing cyclist and twice World Road Race Champion ... Maertens also won the 1977 Vuelta a España, taking more than half the stages; 13 in total, and took the spinters' maillot vert in the Tour de France three times (1976, 1978 and 1981). In 1976 he won a record-equalling

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Win a signed Hincapie Paris-Roubaix print

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Published April 9, 2010 at 9:19 a.m.

On Sunday, VeloNews.com will give away an autographed, high-quality print of this photo of George Hincapie, which was produced for the cover of the December 2009 issue of VeloNews. The winner will be chosen at random from among the followers of the VeloNews.com live coverage of Paris-Nice ...

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Monday Musette - Milan-San Remo Wrap-up

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Published March 22, 2010 at 2:43 p.m.

Saturday’s Milan-San Remo went-off without a hitch--despite the weather’s best attempts to ruin the day ... After 298 kilometers of racing in cold, rainy conditions, it was a Spaniard who ended-up with the victory ... Funny how two men from warmer, sunnier climates have taken wins in two of the season’s grimiest races thus far ... Here’s what we learned: ... 1. I remember watching the 1999 World Championship Road Race in Verona, Italy with friends on a television in my apartment in

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Monday Musette - Paris-Nice Wrap-Up, Sad News from Poland, & One Great Ride

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Published March 15, 2010 at 2:31 p.m.

Here’s today’s Monday Musette: ... 1. Let’s begin with yesterday’s completion of Paris-Nice, where Astana’s Alberto Contador kept his cool to survive an onslaught of attacks from Caisse d’Epargne to win his second Paris-Nice ... Give me some credit for predicting the top-3—even though I had Contador and Valverde in the wrong positions ... Here’s what we noticed: ... --Astana and Katusha work well together ... Maybe it was just a coincidence, but I found it interesting to see

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Hope, Springs Eternal.

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Published March 15, 2010 at 11:01 a.m.
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Spring means ... a new look! ... I bought a set of cork tape, seven dollars from my local neighborhood outdoor shop. A good deal considering the price goes over 10 dollars. With Spring around the corner (this upcoming Saturday), I felt the time was right for a Spring clean up ... French Spring ... Amael Moinard wins the final stage 7, P-N ... www.cyclingnews.com ... Come to think of it I've use black cork tape for over four years. I started off with white cello tape, my favorite by Benoto. I

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Contador slugs it out with Valverde and Sanchez in Paris-Nice finale

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Published March 14, 2010 at 1:14 p.m.
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It could have been deja vu all over again for Alberto Contador at the Paris-Nice bike race on Sunday ... The Caisse d'Epargne team was attacking Contador's precarious position as overall leader in the final stage of the week-long race, just as it had in the penultimate stage in 2009 ... But instead of succumbing to the pressure and losing the yellow jersey to final champion Luis Leon Sanchez last year, Contador survived the attacks to win his second Paris-Nice championship. His first win came

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2010 Paris – Nice: Stage 7/Final Results

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Published March 14, 2010 at 10:57 a.m.
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Amaël Moinard (Cofidis) took a surprise stage victory over breakaway companion Thomas Voeckler (Bbox Bouygues Telecom) and Alberto Contador (Astana) secured his second overall Paris-Nice victory ... For the full story, go to http://www.bikeworldnews.com ...

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