Cruxpearl

I have heard via some singletrack (grapevine, whatever... nothing official yet) that Giovanni might apparently have resigned as Chairman of CGC... Does that mean there are some more things that were hidden from the riders that might surface?? or is he just buckling under the pressure of his rather abysmal reign at the helm of CGC???

Yep, It says it has succesfully paired, but I don't know where to set the SRM offset yet?

and da Whole White Cannondale Family http://www.tcsn.co.za/downloads/F800Spid5.jpg

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Spinnekop het nieuwe speelgoeterkies http://www.tcsn.co.za/downloads/F800Spid1.jpg

There was a security slipup where all CGC riders details were open to everyone for a while on the internet from the system that Entelect is developing for CGC, Now I've heard that Std Bank got wind of the slip up and is a little (actually a bit more than a little) concerned as Entelect is one of their (Std Bank) developers... So wanted to know if anyone knew how Std Bank found out

is the Road champs about a BIG turnout or a GREAT turnout?\\ Have it in March and you will have both a BIG and a GREAT turnout

Who told Standard Bank that there was a slip up with Entelect and data-security?

Preliminary 2009 Race calender have SA's Scheduled for 25-28 June in Oudtshoorn

At the end of last year there was a big discussion & drive to get SA Championships moved to an earlier slot, like Just before Argus, so that the New SA Champion could showcase his/her new SA Colours at SA's premier Cycle race... the Argus. Now it seems that the date allocated for SA's has been moved back to the end of June, when quite a lot of riders are taking a break, and where the weather plays havoc with your planning & training by causing a lot of illness because of training in the cold conditions and in cold/flu season What is your opinion and preference re date of SA Championships I'm setting up this poll to gauge what the average cyclist thinks, as well as getting some kind of petition together, so please feel free to participate with constructive comments / reasons (bullsh*t comments & hijacking of topic will be removed...)Cruxpearl2008-10-30 10:11:06

From Cyclingnews.com 2009 route turns Tour de France upside down http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2008/tour08/tour086/DV358487alt.jpg After what was widely described as a modest Tour de France parcours in 2008, the 2009 edition ? July 4 to 26 ? looks to be far more spectacular. Instead of the final weekend coming down to the usual individual race against the clock, the final showdown will be on the slopes of Le Mont Ventoux ? the last of four summit finishes ? on the day before the race finishes in Paris. It will also be the most international Tour for many years as ? as well as starting in the Principality of Monaco ? it will pass through the countries of Spain, Andorra, Switzerland and Italy before finishing on the Avenue des Champs-?lys?es in Paris. "The objectives of the race designers nevertheless remain exactly the same: to provide a varied terrain, in terms of both sport and aesthetics, in order to fire the imagination of champions and thrill enthusiasts, and to stimulate interest and suspense throughout the event," said Tour Director Christian Prudhomme. The race will begin on July 4 with a 15-kilometre time trial around the millionaires' playground of Monte Carlo, which will include several iconic sections of the Monaco Grand Prix motor racing circuit, before heading west along the south coast of France. Despite this longer-than-usual first test though, the time triallists will once again feel slightly short-changed with only 55 individual kilometres against the clock. The team time trial returns, to replace some of those individual kilometres with a 38-kilometre stage in Montpelier before heading south and ? as leaks and rumours over the past months have indicated ? venture over the border with Spain for a stage between Girona and Barcelona, where the race will visit for the first time since 1965. As this will be the first time the Tour has started this far south since San Sebasti?n, Spain in 1992, the clockwise route will visit the Pyr?n?es before the Alps. The race will then head back into France via a mountaintop finish at Andorra-Arcalis. Two more Pyr?n?en stages ? including one over the Col du Tourmalet come ahead of the first rest day in Limoges. A diagonal dash to Burgundy and Alsace will come before hitting the Alps. The first Alpine stage will end with an uphill finish to Verbiers in Switzerland, where the race will have its second rest day, before heading back to France via Italy and the Cols de Grand Saint-Bernard and Petit Saint-Bernard. The final time trial of the race will be 40-kilometre around the lake at Annecy, but this will not be in its usual place on the final Saturday, as there will be one more test for the overall contenders before they reach Paris. The final blows in the battle for the yellow jersey will come on a stage from Mont?limar to the legendary Mont Ventoux, where the race returns for the first time since 2002. "The stage is set for a dream of a landmark finale, exactly twenty years after the most extraordinary final in the history of the tour. Never, in over one hundred years, has a mountain been so close to Paris," said Prudhomme. Unusually, it will be the time triallists who will need to take time from the climbers before the final weekend instead of the other way around. Stages July 4, stage 1: Monaco ITT, 15km July 5, stage 2: Monaco - Brignolles July 6, stage 3: Marseille - La Grande Motte July 7, stage 4: Montpellier - Montpellier, TTT 38km July 8, stage 5: Cap d?Agde - Perpignan July 9, stage 6: Gerona - Barcelona, 167km (Spain) July 10, stage 7: Barcelona - Andorra-Arcalis, 224km (uphill finish) July 11, stage 8: Andorra-la-Vella - St-Girons July 12, stage 9: St-Gaudens - Tarbes (via the Tourmalet) July 13, rest day and transfer to Limoges July 14, stage 10: Limoges - Issoudun, 192km July 15, stage 11: Vatan - St-Fargeaud, 200km July 16, stage 12: Tonnerre - Vittel, 200km July 17, stage 13: Vittel - Colmar (via col de la Schlucht) July 18, stage 14: Colmar - Besan?on July 19, stage 15: Pontarlier - Verbier (Switzerland) July 20, rest day July 21, stage 16: Martigny - Bourg-St-Maurice (via col du Grand-St-Bernard and Petit-St-Bernard) July 22, stage 17: Bourg-St-Maurice - Le Grand Bornand (via 5 climbs, starting with Cormet de Roselend, finishing with col de la Colombi?re) July 23, stage 18: Annecy, ITT 40km July 24, stage 19: Bourgoin - Jallieu-Aubenas July 25, stage 20: Mont?limar - Le Mont Ventoux July 26, stage 21: Montereau - Paris/Champs-Elys?es Cruxpearl2008-10-22 06:53:06

Local busses with bike racks also in Orlando Florida

New laws give US cyclists a boost US cyclists are to benefit from their government's $700 billion bailout of the banking system. And moves are in the pipeline to make sure bikes are taken into account whenever new transport schemes are planned. Washington's emergency response to the credit crunch includes numerous tax incentives designed to support the economy. One of these is the Bicycle Commuter Act, which provides tax money to employers who pay employees to cycle to work. Pro-cycling groups had been lobbying for the incentive for years, but progress stalled after the first attempt to pass the bill in 2005. In the face of the ongoing global financial crisis, it has now been introduced. League of American Bicyclists president Andy Clarke said: ?Bicycle commuters will now be extended similar benefits to people who take transit and drive to work. "It?s an equitable and sensible incentive to encourage greater energy independence, improve air quality and health, and even help tackle climate change.? Cycling activists have now turned their attention to planning legislation. They are trying to get the US Congress to pass an act to force developers of transport schemes to consider cyclists at the design stage. The planned Complete Streets Act would mean that the safety and convenience of all users of the <?: PREFIX = ST1 />USON> transport system - including pedestrians, cyclists and public transport users as well as children, older people, motorists and those with disabilities - would be catered for in all phases of project planning and development.

Cyclesure's gonna ban you soon !!!!

It's not lost, it's filed somewhere unknown...

I SAW That!!!!!

800 pixels wide works just fine!!!!

Sooo Why aren't they posted here?

Jaco, Spinnekop, Alexander Lamberts (all tCS) and Paul Cordes won the Grace to Grace ahead of team Fritz Pienaar...

Epoh's in the land of milk & honey

I wonder if they will. Maybe the teams with their so-called 'independent anti-doping programmes' had a warning on the developement of the CERA test. I mean that Damsgaard guy must be in the loop, knowing what advances are being made in dope controls. The pattern so far has been CERA positives mostly in 'smaller' teams (Gerolsteiner, CSF-Navigare, Barloworld, Saunier-Duval Scott). Hope I'm wrong, but I think the bigger teams won't be linked to doping by testing urine/blood - They'll only get caught be thorough investigations of bank accounts, phone records, etc. which is fairly unlikely to happen. Don't think Barloworld guy tested positive for CERA, I think he just got caught off guard on random test on Normal EPO... If I remember correctly

To further elaborate what Joss mentioned From Cyclingnews.com There may be more positives from the Tour de France, as French anti-doping boss Pierre Bordry has said that his agency will go after riders who used autologous blood transfusions. "We already have serious evidence about cases of such autologous transfusions," Bordry said in an interview with the German television sender ZDF. "As to who might be involved, we will be able to say that later." The AFLD, the French anti-doping agency, has a new method of detecting such transfusions, a method which was not available earlier. The agency will use the method to test the doping samples of suspect riders. At the moment the agency is busy checking samples for CERA, the new EPO, "but soon we will be able to prove autologous transfusions and we will then test with it." The agency already has its eye on riders who demonstrated irregular blood values before the Tour, about 30 altogether, (hmmm so much for Cooke'ies only 5 out of 200) and has already informed the riders and their teams. Some of the riders had their blood values returned to normal during the Tour, but others did not. "Some of the suspect riders got back to their normal values. We were very surprised to see, how weak their performance became," Bordry said. (Very interresting!!!!!)

Yes Please Yes Please!!!!! Then they can catch out ASStana!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!