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Ivan Gutierrez. One of the super domestiques with all around capabilities. He has won in time trials, sprints, solo and is quite accomplished in the mountains. If his GC contender is in yellow he is usually found pulling the entire peloton. When he is not he is oft found in a break away. I...

How about getting the announcers to pronounce Matt Bushe and Tyler Farrars' names correctly?

You see a hot guy on a bike, but are distracted as to which components he is using. Then sadly judge him. You don't like to admit it outloud, but that moment of drafting, then grabbing the right time to launch in a sprint, that feeling is replayed in your head again and again more so than...

You **** off all of the cars behind you because traffic is heavy comming at you, and you are holding them back to wait to give ample room when passing the cyclists. Also, your swear a whole heck of alot when you see a cyclist not obeying traffic laws (whatever they might be for your...

Please, is anyone aware of an available detailed list of each stages' penalties for riders and teams--to go further, with infractions and subsequent recourse mentioned--for the Tour, but also for all races?

I now believe all of the innuendo and fodder. How old is this besides way done and dusted? Some of the posters I actually have respected for their opinions on other threads, but to take part in this is simply '...I'm a twelve year old boy and, "ha huh, yarw, you, you look funny and you smell...

The Hog and hef07 were the most astute in their replies. One must blame the translator, not the writer if not understood in the original. Ivan has always been an intermediary with the 'powers that be' so it does give a right to speak, and is one of the most respected and far from illiterate of...

IVAN GUTIERREZ: One of the most passionate riding now--amazing time trialist, accomplished climber, always aggressive and one of the hardest working domestiques (also a rep for all cyclists.) A pleasure to watch. ROMAN KREUZINGER: Anxious to see where is career goes. NRC PROS: It's great...

One has to get to a point and either simply say they are all doping or leave off. When one questions great results and immediately starts thinking that something is off, I am saddened. Perhaps I am idealistic and am in no way ignorant (yet, I remarked last year how stultifying Ricco's ascent...

This is brilliant and highly satisfactory. Thank you, I am tired of people not mentioning the obvious for fear of His Livestrong. Off the bike is indicative of his integrity, yet strickly in the cycling world, I applaud his accomplishments, yet at the expensive of whom if it "takes a team" to...

I feel better knowing I'm not alone. The only problem I ever had with the old site was the "search" which when anything was entered a quagmire of obscurity offered its assistance. Goggle brought me more directly to the articles I sought from CN. This is simply painful, personally and the...

New Format Slccyclist stated all very well. I turn to CN 1st thing when I'm looking to catch myself up on the news, issues and most importantly, the results. (This does happen daily.) I applaud the want to move forward, but, information, not web tech is what makes you the virtual cycling...

Valverde y Contrador Has anyone taken into consideration the fact that Berto said he came to test himself, not to win. We all know he probably could have, and his team did. All was fair and Valverde, who most likely will not be given the chance to prove himself in July already has at the...

All of my prayers Wow, I heard about this before my boss and broke the news to him. He had raced with him many times. He told me how stunningly talented he was--blew everyone away from age 13 on in California. The parents of my boss ran a bike shop in the 80's that Steve frequented often. He...

Worst crashes you've had or seen first hand 210 lb. father slamming into 120lb. me at about 25km/h 1/2km from home...chipped tooth, copious amounts of blood and skin preferred components and tarmac to their maker, multiple contusions and can't remember if concussed (can't remember much, was...