Foldable Bikes Party: January 2016

Sunday 31 January 2016

Elite, U23 men close out CX Worlds

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Logan Owen(Bremerton, Wash./Cal Giant-Specialized) picked up a 13th-place finish in the U23 menandrsquo;s race to led all American riders Sunday, as the2016 UCI Cyclo-Cross World Championshipsclosed in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium, with elite and U23 menandrsquo;s competition.

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Race Face Ride XC crankset

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SRAM might have started the whole chain-safe single-ring revolution but Race Face is the brand that’s grabbed the idea and spread it as far and wide as possible through its crank range. That includes the Ride XC package, which delivers a proven durable axle and arm with quality single-chainring – and even a bottom bracket.

Race Face’s forged Ride XC cranks have been around for years, gradually evolving to their current adequately stiff, acceptable weight state. If that sounds like we’re damning them with faint praise remember that these cranks considerably cheaper than the nearest opposition.

While it had some teething troubles at first, the splined EXI axle standard has also gradually evolved to become a consistently secure and quiet system that runs without issue as original equipment on a huge number of the complete bikes we test. The bottom bracket bearings are sound too and even if you need a different standard to the conventional threaded cups supplied at least you’ve got something to barter with.

The narrow/wide ring mounted onto the one-piece drive-side arm and spider is a proper top quality laser-etched piece, and the complete package is available with 32- or 34-tooth rings. The Ride’s spider is also double- or triple-ring compatible but there’s no 30mm axle option.

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Litespeed C1

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For those who know Litespeed for its titanium, seeing the name on carbon is still a surprise. The C1 sits just beneath the C1R at the top of its aero road range, and shares its shaped AeroLogic tubes.

Burly junctions

Our ML model’s 16cm head tube allowed plenty of scope for setting the 3T cockpit up in a low position. Its minimal frontal profile comprises narrow fork legs with a compact crown, a slim hourglass head tube opening up to a truly vast junction with the tapering top tube, and giant wing-profiled down tube. The seat-tube has a large cutout for the rear wheel and tyre up to 25mm, and creates a beefy connection with the BB30 bottom bracket area, which is swamped in a sea of carbon.

Yet another take on the aero road bike down tube

Power transfer is handled by the asymmetric chainstays – fairly round on the left side, and much larger and deeper on the drive side. The gear cables are housed in an unbroken outer casing from shifter to bottom bracket, but allowing enough cable for the bars to turn means they still bow out on each side of the stem, and our knees hit them on every standing pedal stroke.

Adding a cable tie behind the stem is an effective but inelegant solution, and on an aero bike we wouldn’t expect the rear brake cable to run externally between two top-tube stops.

Litespeed by name…

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Quiz: Match the A-list celebrity to their bicycle

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Celebrities may not actually be aliens after all, if their interest in riding bikes is anything to go by.

From Harrison Ford to Hugh Jackman, Justin Bieber to Bono, it seems they're all answering the siren call of Lycra, carbon frames and leg burn. Good for them, we say. But which celebrity rides which bike?

There are 11 stars of film, music and TV here, with their chosen mounts including carbon road bikes, hardtail mountain bikes, folders and fixies. See if you can guess who rides which bike...

So how did you get on? Tough, wasn't it? Never mind, share your result on Twitter and come lament with us on Facebook.

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The Fontus Ryde and Airo self-filling water bottles turn air into water

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Imagine never running out of water because your bottle refills itself as you ride.

While it sounds like the stuff of science fiction, the science is very straightforward. Fontus, named after the Roman god of springs and wells, is a small startup developing a pair of self-filling water bottles that collect moisture from the air and condense it into drinkable water, allowing you to ride further (and perhaps putting some domestiques out of their jobs!)

The Fontus Ryde is powered by solar cells that cool a series of hydrophobic teeth. As air moves over these teeth the temperature of the air drops, causing water vapor in the air to condense into water droplets. The droplets run down the teeth and are collected in the bottle.

The Ryde relies on the forward movement of the bicycle to push air through the condensing system. Presumably the speed of the rider could also have an effect on the rate condensation.

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How to ride on rollers

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Rollers are viewed with suspicion, incomprehension or downright fear by many riders – a dangerous liability only suitable for hardcore experienced riders. But once mastered, they can provide a valuable addition to the training armoury of any cyclist, regardless of experience.

Although essentially based on the same simple design that’s been used for years, modern rollers have evolved and are much more user-friendly than those of old. Improved bearings offer a smoother ride, and smaller drums are easier to get spinning and mean less distance to fall. Some roller sets now have parabolically shaped rollers which make it easier to stay on.

Roller rewards

There are two major beneﬁts to rollers when compared with using a turbo trainer. First, rollers improve your balance and bike handling skills. If you struggle on the road with basics such as holding a straight course when getting a bottle out of its cage, digging an energy bar out of your jersey pocket or taking off a jacket, then you can deﬁnitely from the balance and core stability training that rollers deliver.

Edmund Burke, coach, former physiologist for the US cycling team and author of Serious Cycling, agrees. “It takes weeks to be able to ride on rollers and feel relaxed enough to lift your hands off the handlebars,” he says. “Once you get past the learning stages though, the bike handling skills you obtain will make you a more conﬁdent and successful cyclist.”

Key strokes

Technique

Example sessions

0-10 minutes: Start off spinning in an easy gear at 90-100rpm and, over 10 minutes, increase the gear incrementally.
10-15 minutes: Continue building cadence (100-110rpm) and progressively work through the gears so that by the 15-minute mark you’re riding at tempo effort. This pace will feel sustainable but will need concentration to keep it up and equates to around 80-90% of maximum HR.
15-20 minutes: Hold the tempo effort.
20-25 minutes: Put in three hard 20-second efforts with 90 seconds of easy spinning recovery.

0-5 minutes: In a medium gear (39x18), ride easily, building your cadence to 100rpm.
5-5:30 minutes: Staying in the same gear, ‘spin up’ to the maximum cadence you can manage without bouncing. Hold the cadence through to the end of the 30-second period. Concentrate on getting your lower legs and feet to relax.
5.5-20:30 minutes: Repeat the spin-up on every ﬁfth minute (10, 15 and 20). Spin easily at 90-100rpm for each ﬁve-minute recovery.

0-5 minutes: Warm up, spinning at 90-100rpm in a medium gear (39x18).
5-10 minutes: Ride a cadence of 100rpm+ and a gear that allows you to ride at 60% of max heart rate.
10:00-10:30: In same gear, do 30-second all-out effort.
10:30-13:30: Recover: spin easily in medium gear.
13:30-18:30: Ride a cadence of 100rpm+ in a gear that makes you ride at 65-75% max HR.
18:30-19:00: In same gear do 30-second all-out effort.
19:00-23:00: Recover: spin easily in medium gear.
23:00-29:00: Ride a cadence of 100rpm+ in a gear that allows you to ride at more than 80% MHR.
29:00-29:30: In same gear do a 30-second all-out effort.
29:30-34:30: Recover: spin easily in medium gear.
34:30-END: All-out in top gear for as long as you can.

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Iserbyt wins dramatic under 23 race

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After a thrilling race, Eli Iserbyt (Belgium) captured the gold medal at the World Championships in the men’s under 23 category. Iserbyt beat Adam Toupalik (Czech Republic) in a two-man sprint on the former F1 car racing circuit in Heusden-Zolder. Quinten Hermans (Belgium) was a close third.

Last year 18-year-old Iserbyt was the runner-up in the World Championships race in the junior men’s category. This season, Iserbyt also won the World Cup. There was major consternation at the end of the penultimate lap when Toupalik raised his hands thinking he’d won the World Championships.

“I didn’t expect it; early on I was really bad. My heart rate was five beats lower than usual. In the end, I saw Toupalik raising his hands one lap too early and I realized his best strengths were gone. Then, on the last lap, I started to believe in it and found my good legs again. I knew Toupalik’s focus was gone, even though he bridged back up. I had to await the sprint,” Iserbyt told Sporza.

He was asked about how he suffered to keep up with Toupalik in the final lap, showing grit and determination. “That’s right. I died three to four times, but I also started to get stressed because of the crowd. My ears were hurting. Luckily we had a moment of silence at the Sacramentsberg.”

The man who thought he was world champion for almost ten seconds was able to put his mistake in perspective. The 19-year-old Czech rider created a minor gap in the penultimate lap and then started celebrating on the finishing straight. He closed the gap to the two Belgian leaders and managed to take a few metres but then got beaten in the sprint.

“I’m probably the biggest idiot in the world,” Toupalik said. “During the penultimate lap I thought it was the last lap, and I heard somebody shouting ‘last lap’ at me, but it was the penultimate lap. It was my mistake. I lose the world title. I raised my hands, but that’s sport. I learned that I have to keep my focus and check the numbers.”

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Solo ride from Peter Kennaugh lands Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race victory

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Peter Kennaugh came up trumps in the second edition of the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race following an aggressive final lap of the Geelong circuit. The British national champion jumped away on the Challambra climb and held off the peloton for Team Sky's first win of 2016. Local lad Leigh Howard won the bunch sprint for second place six seconds back, after IAM Cycling worked hard for the chase as Niccolò Bonifazio crossed the line for third on his Trek-Segafredo debut.

"I have to thank Luke Rowe really. The whole race he was saying 'stay calm, stay calm'. I went up the road with just over a lap to go with a couple of riders and right away he said 'sit up, it's not going to work.' He just kept me calm during the race and said 'hit it', like Richie Porte did on Willunga, just don't look back and I did it," Kennaugh explained in a post-race television interview.

With Rafa Valls his carrot on the Challambra climb, Kennaugh bridged across then rode away from the Lotto Soudal rider as the splintered peloton was attempting to organise a chase with 12km to go. However, Kennaugh explained that once he got away, he was racing for the win.

"People go on about power all the time these days, I’m not one that likes numbers, but to be honest I’ve been doing a lot of work on that kind of stuff and I just tried to pace myself all the way to the finish and I had the legs," said Kennaugh, whose previous one-day wins both came in the British national championships. "I felt terrible for the first half of the race, but then my legs came around."

Kennaugh's win was reminiscent of his stage 1 victory at the Critérium du Dauphiné in Albertville last year, repeating his late attack to also hold off a fast finishing peloton.

"To be honest, I didn't want to look back once. I am quite an emotion rider, the littlest things if I've see them close to me, that's all it would have took for me to crack. So I just thought 'head down, don't look back until you're on the finishing straight' and that's what I did," Kennaugh added when asked if he knew of the situation behind him.

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Challenge Mallorca: Cancellara swoops to victory in Deia

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Fabian Cancellara (Trek-Segafredo) signalled his intentions for his final season in the professional peloton as he powered clear to claim a fine solo victory in the Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana.

Former world champion Michal Kwiatkowski (Sky) took second place for the second successive day at the head of the chasing group, just in front of Belgian talent Tiesj Benoot (Lotto Soudal).

If Cancellara’s sixth place in Friday’s Trofeo Pollenca-Andratx suggested that he had begun the campaign in fine form, then the final ten kilometres of Saturday’s race provided emphatic confirmation.

On the hilliest of the Challenge Mallorca’s four events, Cancellara had highlighted his eagerness by infiltrating the 23-man break that forged clear around the midway point, and he paced himself expertly when that group began to fragment on the day’s toughest climb, the Puig Major.

Dayer Quintana (Movistar), Tao Geoghegan Hart (Great Britain), Hugh Carthy (Caja Rural), Daniel Teklehaimanot (Dimension Data) and Benat Intxausti (Sky) were among the sizeable break that built up a maximum advantage of a little over two minutes over the main peloton, but all had to give best to Cancellara in the finale.

"I had no expectation to be in the breakaway," Cancellara said. "It was unclear if the break would make it. At the end, I was just trying to save as much energy as I could and followed the attacks from the group. In the last climb somehow I managed to survive, and then I felt some good feelings return."

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De Jong wins elite women's cyclo-cross world title in Heusden-Zolder

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Despite a poor start 22-year-old Thalita de Jong (Netherlands) bounced back and captured the world title in the women’s category on Saturday afternoon. De Jong won ahead of Caroline Mani (France) and pre-race favourite Sanne Cant (Belgium).

“After [messing up] my start I thought to myself ‘OK, this was it. Just try to make a nice race from it and get a decent result’,” De Jong said. That decent result was the first place at the 2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World championships in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium.

De Jong follows in the footstep of Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, who won the Tábor 2015 Cyclo-cross World Championship. The six editions before Tábor were won by De Jong’s compatriot Marianne Vos. Vos is also the Rabo Liv teammate of De Jong. She opted to skip the cyclo-cross season in order to recover fully from earlier injuries.

In contrast to the previous two races on Saturday, the weather briefly improved ahead of the start of the women’s race. Ellen Van Loy (Belgium) stated before the race that she was ill but still she was able to take the best start and lead out the 42 other riders into the first muddy stretches around the former F1 car racing track. Van Loy was marked by Helen Wyman (Kona Factory Team), Cant, Sophie de Boer (Netherlands), Sabrina Stultiens (Netherlands), Nikki Harris (Great-Britain), Katie Compton (USA) and Kaitlin Antonneau (USA).

In one of the first corners US-champion Compton slipped away, causing her to lose a lot of positions. A few spots further back De Jong was struggling too. She lost about five spots when she got stuck into the car racing circuit gravel trap. A few moments later the future winner lost even more time, briefly riding outside the top-20. During the second half of the course De Jong made up ground. When hitting the second lap she went full speed on the long asphalted finishing straight in eleventh position at 21 seconds from the leaders, flying by compatriot Sanne van Paassen (Netherlands), who was riding her last World Championship race. At that time those leaders were Cant, De Boer, Harris and Mani.

“Once again I [messed up] my start dearly despite a second-row start position. I wasn’t able to keep up or something and suddenly it got quite a bit smaller. Then I started a long chasing race which is quite often what I have to do,” De Jong told Sporza shortly after her big win.

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Richards wins inaugural U23 women's cyclo-cross Worlds

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The inaugural UCI Cyclo-cross World championships race in the Women’s Under 23 category has been won by Evie Richards (Great-Britain). At a rain-soaked course in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium on Saturday afternoon, Richards completed a nearly race-long solo effort. Nikola Noskova (Czech Republic) finished second at 35 seconds, ahead of Maud Kaptheijns (Netherlands)

Halfway through the opening lap, Richards blasted away from the fast starting Chiara Teocchi (Italy) with a small gear. “I wanted to see how long I would last away. It feels amazing. It is my first cyclo-cross race abroad. I wouldn’t want it any other way,” Richards said afterwards.

Richards welcomed the new race category at the world championships. “If the category didn’t exist I wouldn’t have raced. I wouldn’t have had the chance to race. The sport needs female riders. It needs this category for riders to move up to elite.”

The race was run off in terrible weather conditions, with rain falling hard on the rider’s backs. The tailwind at the start blew the riders off the asphalt into the field with Teocchi leading the way ahead of Ellen Noble (USA), Noskova, Alicia Gonzalez Blanco (Spain), Alice Maria Arzuffi (Italy), Sina Frei (Switzerland), Nadja Heigl (Austria) and Kaptheijns. Richards was in the middle of the pack.

“I started quite far back, I was in the third row. I didn’t know where I was,” Richards said. Pre-race favourite Femke van den Driessche (Belgium) didn’t feature in front and was never a factor during the World championships on home soil. The European champion missed her start and rode just outside the top 10 when she had a mechanical that forced her to run the long finishing straight on the former Formula 1 racing circuit in Zolder. Van den Driessche abandoned the race shortly afterwards.

During the first half of the opening lap, Teocchi opened up a gap on the rest of the field. Noble, Noskova and Gonzalez Blanco were the first chasers. Halfway through the opening lap Frei bridged up to the chasers with Arzuffi, Richards and Kaptheijns following swiftly.

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UCI confirms motorised doping uncovered at cyclo-cross World Championships

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UCI President Brian Cookson has confirmed that the governing body found evidence of a motor in a bike at the cyclo-cross World Championships on Saturday. Following the under 23 women’s race on Saturday, the UCI issued a press release stating that they were investigating a rider’s bike for possible “technological fraud.”

Reports in the Belgian press, including race broadcaster Sporza, revealed the rider as Femke Van den Driessche (Team Kleur op Maat) and that a motor had been found inside the frame of the bike.

“It is no secret that a motor was found,” Cookson said during a press conference held ahead of Sunday’s racing programme in Zolder. "We believe that it was indeed technological doping.”

Motorised doping has been a topic of discussion since 2010. The regulations on technological doping were brought in last January and could see a rider given a minimum suspension of six months and a fine of anything between 20,000 and 200,000 Swiss Francs. The UCI had introduced bike checks for the World Championships, the same as those that have been done in road racing over the past season.

"Throughout the 2015 season, we carried out unannounced bike checks at major road events and we will conduct similar controls throughout the 2016 season,” the UCI tweeted Cookson as saying during the press conference. “We have introduced in 2015 a set of Regulations that enables us to take action

“We’ve been trialling new methods of detection but you’ll understand why I don’t want to go into details of those methods."

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Michael Rogers returns to racing at Dubai Tour

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Tinkoff have announced Michael Rogers will make his 2016 debut at next week's Dubai Tour following an interrupted start to his final season in the professional ranks due to a heart condition. All four stages of the race start in Dubai with finishes expected to suit the sprinters on all but one day. With the flat parcours, Tinkoff will be backing 23-year-old Michael Kolar as sports director Tristan Hoffman explained.

"We will approach this race with no designated GC leader but with a very motivated squad that will seek to help Michael Kolar in the sprints. He had a very productive training camp in Gran Canaria and now has taken great steps forward. I think Michael has shown his potential in the past to be good at the finish line and if he can grab the time bonuses, he will be in the mix for the GC," Hoffman said of the team ambition.

"Stage 3 of Dubai Tour will see the peloton race again to Hatta Dam. Here the riders will face two climbs and the last three kilometers are the hardest part with a 200m stretch that has a 14% gradient. In that stage, the squad will work to support Bennati. The stages near the coast and across the desert could be affected by cross winds although this hasn't been the case in the first two editions. However, if the wind picks up, we need to be at the front and fight."

Kolar added he is ready for his first race of the season, particularly as it suits his characteristics.

"Everything went well at the training camp," said Kolar. "I think I'm in a good shape prior to the start of the season although it's still too early to say. I'm happy to take the leading role into the sprints at Dubai Tour. It's a nice race, fast-paced, and I think that even the third stage will be decided in a bunch sprint. Degenkolb took it last year and he's no climber! It's a sprinter's stage race."

Rogers hasn't raced since the World Championships team time trial in September and explained he is excited for his return to the peloton.

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Hepburn confident in Australian team pursuit success at Rio Olympic Games

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In September last year, Michael Hepburn announced his intention to make a return to the track and claim a place in the Rio Olympics team pursuit squad. In his first competitive team pursuit race in over two years, the 24-year-old was part of the squad that set a new national record of 3:53.010 to claim gold in the Cambridge Track World Cup round in December.

Hepburn's quest for gold in Rio started at the Australian national championships earlier this month before heading to Adelaide for the Tour Down Under, riding the majority of the six-stage race on the front of the peloton for Orica-GreenEdge who claimed four stage wins and the overall with Simon Gerrans.

"A little bit of both, obviously coming here with Caleb and Simon we are really targeting every stage so there are guys to help Caleb in the finish, there are guys to help Simon as well in the finish of the race," Hepburn told Cyclingnews of his role in the team for the Tour Down Under. "Then we have a couple of guys like myself and Durbo [Luke Durbridge] who are in charge of the stuff earlier on and keeping the breakaways in check. It's just my job for the race. I knew coming into the race that this was going to be my job and I think it will help the track stuff as well. Just a big block on the road, I haven't got a whole lot of road racing at the start of the year so I am just making the most of it."

Having completed his road miles for the month, Hepburn will return to the velodrome at next week's Australian track nationals to get some further experience on the boards in the build up to Rio.

"I am going to stay in Adelaide the week after the race for the track nationals after this and hopefully the Worlds as well in London. I just need that little bit more track time as well so I am trying to get every session I can in and get a lot more comfortable riding the track again before the serious part with the Olympic build up later in the year," the three-time team pursuit world champion said of track programme.

Hepburn's run into the 2012 London Olympic Games, where Australia finished second to Great Britain in the gold medal final, included the Melbourne World Championships in which he won gold in the individual pursuit and silver in the team pursuit. Asked how he would compare his preparation for a second Olympic Games appearances to four years prior, Hepburn explained "I am feeling pretty confident about things. We have a really good group with about 10-15 guys in the squad and a lot guys with a shot of going to the Olympics," he said.

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Cancellara shows early-season form after surprise win in Mallorca

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Fabian Cancellara showed his top early-season form after winning the third and arguably toughest day at the Mallorca Challenge - Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana. The Trek-Segafredo rider surprised himself by being in the day’s breakaway and then soloed to his first victory of his last season before retirement.

"I wasn't sure about the time gap in the last kilometers," Cancellara said of his breakaway success in a team press release. "I knew that Sky was moving behind, and so I knew that I had to just give everything. I was fully exhausted at the finish. But so was everyone – it has been a harder race this year with the nice weather. It was full gas all day, not one minute of relaxing."

Cancellara’s time in the breakaway was not a planned scenario, and once he was there he said he didn’t think that it would make it to the finish line. The breakaway did stick and Cancellara used his form to make it over the top of the day’s big ascent Puig Major. After catching four riders just ahead coming off the climb, he took advice from his team director Alain Gallopin to push his time advantage out further on the descent. He passed the day’s final, smaller climb over the Coll d’en Bleda alone and held a 17-second gap after crossing the line to win the race.

"Alain told me to go full gas in the downhill, to just try, and by the bottom, I had 45 seconds. Then I was just fighting and fighting to the end,” Cancellara said.

The Mallorca Challenge is made up for four events; Trofeo Campos-Santanyi-Ses Salines, Trofeo Pollença-Port de Andratx, Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana and the Trofeo Playa de Palma. Andre Greipel (Lotto Soudal) won the opening race and Gianluca Brambilla (Etixx-QuickStep) won the second. Cancellara had already shown that he is in good form when he placed sixth behind Brambilla.

"I tried hard yesterday, and it didn’t work, and today I did not go to the [team's] plan, and it did,” Cancellara said. “These things, the way they happen, are like for a storybook. I am happy, very satisfied, and now I can relax and then go to Dubai."

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De Jong brings cyclo-cross world title back to the Netherlands - Women's News Shorts

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De Jong brings cyclo-cross world title back to the Netherlands

Thalita De Jong won the world title at the 2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Heusden-Zolder on Saturday, which brought the elite women's rainbow jersey back to the Netherlands.

Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (France) won the title in 2015 but she was not in attendance for this year’s championship race due to struggles with injury earlier in the season. Vos was the last Dutch winner of the women's cyclo-cross world title and held that prestige in 2006 and from 2009-2014.

De Jong’s victory was a surprise, even to herself, after she said she had a poor start from the second-row and then had a couple of mishaps in the opening laps. She was forced to play a game of catch-up and did so steadily until she reconnected with the front group. She made her winning attack on the last lap and took a solo win.

“After [messing up] my start I thought to myself ‘OK, this was it. Just try to make a nice race from it and get a decent result’,” De Jong said after the race.

Caroline Mani (France) finished with the silver medal, while pre-race favourite Sanne Cant (Belgium) sprinted for the bronze medal ahead of Sophie De Boer (Netherlands)

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UCI investigates possible bike fraud at cyclo-cross Worlds

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The UCI announced Saturday that a bike has been detained following the U23 women's event at the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Heusden-Zolder. According to a statement from the UCI, the bike in question was not ridden by any of the riders who earned a medal and it will provide further details in due process. However, the Belgian Cycling Federation confirmed to Sporza that the detained bike belonged to European and Belgium's U23 champion Femke Van den Driessche (Team Kleur op Maat).

The full statement from the UCI read, "The International Cycling Union confirms that pursuant to the UCI's Regulations on technological fraud a bike has been detained for further investigation following checks at the Women's Under 23 race of the 2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships. This does not concern any of the riders on the podium. Further details will be shared in due course."

The UCI added a new clause covering "technological fraud" to its regulations last January 30, which pertains to bikes that do not comply with Article 1.3.010 of the regulations handbook. The penalty includes race disqualification, suspension for a minimum of six months and a fine of between 20,000 and 200,000 Swiss Francs.

The technological fraud article 12.1.013 fully states:

"Technological fraud is an infringement to article 1.3.010. Technological fraud is materialised by:

"The presence, within or on the margins of a cycling competition, of a bicycle that does not comply with the provisions of article 1.3.010. The use by a rider, within or on the margins of a cycling competition, of a bicycle that does not comply with the provisions of article 1.3.010. All teams must ensure that all their bicycles are in compliance with the provisions of article 1.3.010. Any presence of a bicycle that does not comply with the provisions of article 1.3.010, within or on the margins of a cycling competition, constitutes a technological fraud by the team and the rider.

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Pick up the February 2016 edition of Procycling – out now

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Procycling interviewed cover star Mark Cavendish on joining Dimension Data and the ambitious season he has planned for 2016. Plus, Daniel Friebe examines the Manx Missile’s career so far and assesses how his incredible legacy is shaping up now that the greatest sprinter of all time is approaching his 31st birthday.

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Challenge Mallorca - Trofeo Playa de Palma start list

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Kennaugh wins Great Ocean Road Race

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British Olympic champion Peter Kennaugh beats a strong field to win the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race in Australia.

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Saturday 30 January 2016

'Motorised bike' confiscated at Worlds

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A bicycle is confiscated at the Cyclo-cross World Championships in Belgium after it is allegedly found to contain a motor.

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Noble, Antonneau lead Americans at CX Worlds

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Ellen Noble(Kennebunkport, Maine/JAM Fund-NCC-Vittoria) andKaitie Antonneau(Racine, Wis./Cannondale Cyclocrossworld) notched top-10 finishes in the U23 and elite womenandrsquo;s categories Saturday, leading the way for American riders at the first day of the2016 UCI Cyclo-Cross World Championshipsin Heusden-Zolder, Belgium.

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Aqua2Go Pro Washer

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At this time of year, your bike’s going to get dirty no matter where you ride so if you want it to last you’ll need a regular cleaning regime. Aqua2Go’s Pro washer weighs 5.22kg, stands 48cm tall with a footprint of 28cm x 35cm – not bad considering that includes the 6m hose, spray gun and battery.

Most of its volume is taken up by a 20-litre water tank, which is above average for this type of washer. Filling it up obviously adds considerable weight, and there are a pair of skate wheels on one side and a fold-out handle for pulling it along flat surfaces and a top handle for lifting it up.

Usefully, the mains-chargeable lithium-ion battery doubles as an LED torch when removed from the unit, and can power other devices from its lighter socket or USB port. You can also power the washer from a car’s 12v lighter socket; in this mode you can remove the pump and there’s a hose fitting for using an alternate water source.

A full two-hour battery charge will give around 30 minutes use. You’re advised not to use the unit for more than 20 minutes continuously but at its maximum flow rate of 2.2 litres per minute, the washer tank will be empty in under 10.

With a maximum water pressure of 145psi/10 bar and adjustable spray intensity, it easily slices through even the thickest mud, and effectively cleared three bikes of cyclo-cross race gloop.

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