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Balls Enough To Do It, Lance?
In category Racing
Written by jlawhea

"If Armstrong rode both the Giro d'Italia and then the Tour de France we'd see how good he really is, for better or worse," Simoni said after the Giro presentation in Milan Saturday.

"He has said he wants to ride the Giro at least once during his career and this could be the right moment to do it," he added. "Next year the Giro finishes at the end of May and the hardest stages of the Tour de Fran

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U.S. 'cross team needs francs for France
In category Racing
Written by Albino Squirrel

Fellow r.b.r. denizens:

The 2003 nationals are in the history books, and the American Cyclo-cross
Foundation is cranking up its annual drive to raise enough funds to send a full U.S. team to cyclo-cross world¹s Jan. 31-Feb. 1 in Pont-Chateau,
France.

USA Cycling will underwrite the cost of travel for its automatic qualifiers -- elites Jonathan Page and Alison Dunlap, U23¹s Jesse Anthony and Je

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re:Can Hincapie win?
In category Racing
Written by weBphishin

If Bettini is such a "sure win", then Georgie should be able to mark him the whole race, follow him when Bettini hits the nitrous button, on a climb, near the end, and hopefully have enough gas in the tank to come around him at the line.
Sounds easy, huh? Too bad every other "hopeful" is probably thinking the same thing.

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re:Economics of Custom Frame Building in non Ferrous Materials
In category Tech issues
Written by Atremis

I was wondering why there are very few custom frame builders working in Alu,
Ti or carbon.

30 Years ago almost everyone rode steel frames and many cities would have several frames builders turning out custom and off the peg frames for racing and touring cyclists.

There were very few mass produced top quality frames, the process did not seam to scale well. On the other hand the capital costs to e

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