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Cyclingnews has a story today about a new cycling organization – North American Cycle Sport – that promises exists to provide a simplified framework for grassroots events - lower membership fees, reduced costs for promoters, etc. Here is the article...

Champion System... ...has five national champions on its roster for 2013.

Interesting view of why cycling sponsorship is often a fail in the U.S.: http://tinyurl.com/3dp56nq

@HerriottSP The team's strength and conditioning coach tweeted that it's a custom-made Italian trainer used for medical testing: http://bit.ly/eyw4jl

If I'm not mistaken, that's the BMC kit (non-TdF version) from 2010.

If the team was so hell-bent on winning – then why does it still have Scott Nydam on the roster? He suffered a traumatic head injury and won't be available to race until at least June.

They already had Nathan O'Neill on board, who was dinged for two years...

George Hincapie's U.S. Champion Kit BMC has posted a photo of George Hincapie in his new U.S. champion kit.

America's next great hope, Taylor Phinney, took quite a tumble at the Cascade Cycling Classic yesterday. He suffered a concussion, but appears to be otherwise OK. Cyclingnews doesn't have photos, but CycleTo does and there is video on YouTube.

The Team Weighs In Team Type 1 has a response (printed in its entirety on Podium Cafe) in today's first edition of cyclingnews: The Team Type 1 founder Phil Southerland made a statement to Cyclingnews on the topic. "Willem Van Den Eynde was a valued member of Team Type 1, someone we felt had...

Re: Willem Van den Eynde So we're to understand that Willem doesn't want to talk about things now? Didn't he just spill his guts to a newspaper? Is he backing away from his story? Here's my two cents: A responsible journalist would have contacted the team to get its side of the story. If this...

Thanks, John. Much appreciated.

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