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Armstrong, Evans assured spots as Dutch Professional Continental teams
are shut outBy: Cycling NewsPublished: March 30, 11:34, Updated: March 30, 23:36Edition:First Edition Cycling News, Tuesday, March 30, 2010Race:Tour de France
Garmin-Transitions, Team RadioShack, BMC Racing Team, Team Sky, Katusha and Cervelo TestTeam have received wild card
invitations to the 2010 Tour de France, race organisers Amaury Sports Organisation announced Tuesday.

These six squads join the 16 teams which were automatically selected under a September 2008 agreement with the UCI.

Neither Skil-Shimano nor Vacansoleil was selected. Both Dutch Professional Continental teams had hoped to ride, since the Tour
starts in the Netherlands on July 3. New French team Saur-Sojasun also missed out.

The wild card invitations mean the Tour de France will feature all the big names in the peloton, including seven-time Tour winner
Lance Armstrong (RadioShack), World Champion Cadel Evans (BMC), Christian Vande Velde (Garmin-Transitions) who finished
fourth overall in 2008 and Bradley Wiggins (Team Sky), who was fourth last year.

The 16 automatically-selected teams under the 2008 agreement are: Team Milram, Quick Step, Omega Pharma-Lotto, Team Saxo
Bank, Caisse d'Epargne, Euskaltel-Euskadi, Footon-Servetto-Fuji, HTC-Columbia, AG2R La Mondiale, Bbox Bouygues Telecom,
Cofidis, Francaise des Jeux, Lampre-Farnese, Liquigas-Doimo, Astana, and Rabobank.

Wild card invitations: Garmin-Transitions, Team RadioShack, BMC Racing Team, Team Sky, Katusha, and Cervelo TestTeam.

As of next year, the selection process will change under an agreement between the organisers of the three Grand Tours and the UCI.
The first 17 teams in the world ranking as of the end of the 2010 season will automatically be invited to the 2011 Tour de France and
the organisers can issue wildcard invitations to fill the remaining places.

This year, ASO was required to invite the 18 ProTour teams from 2008. Two of those teams - Crédit Agricole and Gerolsteiner - no
longer exist, so the remaining 16 ProTour squads from 2008 were invited, freeing up two extra spaces for team invitations.

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Raleigh Bicycles has some unique, retro styled bicycles for 2009 which really set them apart from

Sojurn - When your destination is ‘nowhere in particular’.When your
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Clubman - Raleigh is the original all-steel bicycle maker. So it only makes sense that we make an attractive all-steel road bike that resembles the very first Raleigh road bike you ever Brooks saddle, Shimano compact drivetrain, and a beautiful finish
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In 1987, Joe Parkin was an amateur cyclist
racing in California when he bumped in Bob
Roll, then a pro with the powerhouse Team
7-Eleven.Bobke told him that, to become he pro, he must go to
Belgium. Years later, riding along a canal in Belgium,
Bobke encountered Parkin who he described as "a
wraith...an avenging angel of misery, a
twelve-toothed assassin." Bobke barely recognized
him. Belgium had forged Parkin into a pro. A Dog in
a Hat is Parkin's remarkable story of his unordinary
education and his love for bike racing, set in the
hardest place in the world to be a bike racer.
A Dog in a Hat is the remarkable story of Joe Parkin. In 1987, Parkin left the comforts of home to become a
bike racer in Belgium, the hardest place in the world to be a bike racer. As one of the first American pros in
Europe, Parkin was what the Belgians call “a dog with a hat on” — something familiar, yet decidedly out of place.

Parkin's memoir reads like a novel. In plainspoken and fast-paced prose, Parkin describes the true life of the
professional bike racer, putting the reader into the whirlwind of this hardest of athletic educations. A Dog in a
Hat begins with Parkin's terrifying first visit to his team doctor, where he is strapped to a table and monitored by
humming electrodes as men in white lab coats coldly divine his future as a pro.

Parkin's story is honest. A Dog in a Hat celebrates the glory of bike racing, but Parkin thrillingly tells the hard
reality of the life—the drugs, the payoffs, the betrayals by teammates, the battles with team owners for contracts
and money, the endless promises that keep you going, and the rider's sheer physical agony of racing day after

Twenty Nine Inches Interviews: Joe Breeze Of Breezer Bikes
comes to Fayetteville Bicycle Company. The Legendary Joe Breeze is back in
the Mountain Bike game and more specifically the 29er game, whoa nelly this is gonna be awesome!

In conjunction with our coverage of Breezer Bikes 29″er line up for 2011, which you can check out here
and here, we decided to ask for an interview with Joe Breeze. Joe Breeze is one of the founding fathers of
mountain biking, built the first purpose built frames for mountain biking, and is a charter member of the
Mountain Bike Hall of fame. Joe founded Breezer Bikes in the 70’s and for over 30 years has quietly
made some of the most renowned 26 inch hard tail mountain bikes, highly acclaimed urban bikes, and
now- 29 inch mountain bikes.

Joe Breeze has been around bicycles all his life. His father was a automotive engineer/machinist, and a
bicycle commuter and racer. Joe raced road bikes in California in the 70’s, and then was smitten by the
beginnings of the “balooner craze” which turned into mountain biking as we know it. Joe brazed up the first
purpose built mtb’s and went on to champion commuting when commuting wasn’t cool in the late 90’s.
Breeze has influenced cycling and what we ride off road in many ways, and now he’s turned his attention
to 29″ers. We wanted to find out what he is up to with the big wheels. Here is the Twenty Nine Inches
Interview with Joe Breeze:Read More....