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Australian follows Nibali on the Galibier

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The number of riders who showed up for this 16/25/50 Narragansett Bay Wheelmen ride looked to be around the hundred mark. The first group of 19+ MPH average speed riders was the largest, followed by the 15+mph. The rest of us filled in at the back of the pack.My riding companion for the day. We got very lost.I decided to stay with a woman who was on her first NBW ride and opted to take her on the 26 mile option. While we were yakking away, we missed an arrowed turn in Dighton. We only had to backtrack a mile to find the red arrows for this ride. As we were following I couldn't shake the feeling that something was amiss. Why didn't the faster riders doing the 50 miler start to overtake us. The feeling intensified as were were riding through Somerset, MA. I kept thinking that we shouldn't be in Somerset but in Swansea. We decided to trust the red arrows and carry on. I knew the area somewhat and my sense of direction (which is pretty good), confirmed that we were heading toward Swansea. Up, up, up some hills till we finally saw some of the hammerheads who rode their bikes to the start point returning home. Then we saw more, and more and I'm thinking, gee, a lot of people rode their bike to the lot. Finally I asked one guy "is this the way to the bike shop". He pointed emphatically that I needed to turn around. My riding partners twice pulled out her phone and was going to call family to come and pick her up. I convinced her that we were close and only had to back track a couple of miles to get to the finish line. That's when I saw the ORANGE arrows. We had been following red and somehow stumbled our way back to the arrowed route. We finished our 26 mile ride in just over 34 miles. Not to bad for being off course by a whole city. It all worked out as it always does on a bike. I did have to convince our first time rider that getting lost should not be traumatic, it's an adventure. We came across this giant Tulip Tree and are saddened to see a piece of US history lost. Read about this tree planted by a signer of the Declarations of Independence HEREI shouldn't have been able to take this photo if it wasn't for the fact that that we were so far off course.

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Tejay van Garderen (BMC Racing) claimed the final yellow jersey in the 2013 Amgen Tour of California after Peter Sagan (Cannnondale) won the final stage in Santa Rosa. Thomas De Gendt (Vaconsoleil-DCM), Jason McCartney (Bissell) and Antoine Duchesne (Bontrager) formed the early break of the day, after a neutral stretch over the iconic Golden Gate Bridge, and 52km into the 130.4km race they had nearly four and a half minutes on the bunch. With 40km to race their advantage was under two minutes, though, as Garmin-Sharp pushed the pace for sprinter Tyler Farrar. As the gap slipped under a minute with 22km to go, Duchesne decided to go it alone. De Gendt sat up to wait for the inevitable. McCartney gutted it out, riding back up to Duchesne, as Omega Pharma-Quick Step and Cannondale began taking an interest in the chase. The two had 45 seconds in hand with 16km to race. But with 10km to go it was all over — Duchesne was the last man standing, and he too was swept up just before the bunch roared into downtown Santa Rosa for two laps of a finishing circuit. Cannondale took the front for the first go-round, hoping to launch Sagan to the stage victory, and then Garmin assumed command for the second. Going under the red kite Cannondale shouldered forward once again, as did Orica-GreenEdge. The bunch drove into the tunnel and toward the finish — and Sagan hit the sunlight very much a man on the move. He went early on the right, holding his advantage all the way across the line. Daniel Schorn (Team NetApp) took second with Farrar third. When the overall numbers were crunched, it was van Garderen clinching the victory by 1:47 over Michael Rogers (Saxo-Tinkoff). J.A. Acevedo (Jamis) finished third overall at 3:26. Editor’s note: Stay tuned for more from Santa Rosa.

Race Results Giro d'Italia (2013) - Stage 15 Cesana Torinese to Col du Galibier (149km) 19 May 2013 Stage 15 | Stage 14 | Stage 13 | Stage 12 | Stage 11 | Stage 10 | Stage 9 | Stage 8 (ITT) | Stage 7 | Stage 6 | Stage 5 | Stage 4 | Stage 3 | Stage 2 (TTT) | Stage 1 Stage Position Name Nationality Team Time 1 VISCONTI, Giovanni ITA MOVISTAR 4:40:48 2 Alberto BETANCUR GOMEZ, Carlos COL AG2R LA MONDIALE 42 3 NIEMIEC, Przemyslaw POL LAMPRE - ISD 4 MAJKA, Rafal POL Saxo Tinkoff 5 DUARTE AREVALO, Fabio Andres COL COLOMBIA 47 6 SCARPONI, Michele ITA LAMPRE - ISD 54 7 NIBALI, Vincenzo ITA ASTANA 8 EVANS, Cadel AUS BMC RACING 9 SANTAMBROGIO, Mauro ITA FARNESE VINI 10 URAN URAN, Rigoberto COL SKY PROCYCLING 11 KISERLOVSKI, Robert CRO Radioshack Leopard 12 CARUSO, Damiano ITA Cannondale Pro Cycling 58 13 PELLIZOTTI, Franco ITA ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI 14 KELDERMAN, Wilco NED Blanco +1:00 15 TROFIMOV, Yury RUS KATUSHA 16 SANCHEZ GONZALEZ, Samuel ESP EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI +1:06 17 DI LUCA, Danilo ITA FARNESE VINI +1:09 18 ATAPUMA HURTADO, Darwin COL COLOMBIA +1:24 19 INTXAUSTI ELORRIAGA, Benat ESP MOVISTAR 20 CAPECCHI, Eros ITA MOVISTAR +1:27 21 KANGERT, Tanel EST ASTANA 22 DUPONT, Hubert FRA AG2R LA MONDIALE +1:39 23 POZZOVIVO, Domenico ITA AG2R LA MONDIALE 24 ROSA, Diego ITA ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI +1:49 25 RABOTTINI, Matteo ITA FARNESE VINI 26 GESINK, Robert NED Blanco +1:52 27 PANTANO, Jarlinson COL COLOMBIA +1:55 28 ARU, Fabio ITA ASTANA +2:02 29 Luis HENAO MONTOYA, Sergio KHM SKY PROCYCLING +2:04 30 MOUREY, Francis FRA FDJ-BIG MAT +2:12 31 GARATE, Juan Manuel ESP Blanco 32 CLEMENT, Stef NED Blanco 33 HERRADA LOPEZ, José ESP MOVISTAR +2:27 34 PETROV, Evgeny RUS Saxo Tinkoff +2:34 35 DE GREEF, Francis BEL LOTTO BELISOL +2:47 36 MARTINEZ DE ESTEBAN, Egoi ESP EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI +2:58 37 GRETSCH, Patrick GER ARG +3:05 38 KNEES, Christian GER SKY PROCYCLING +3:23 39 MORABITO, Steve SUI BMC RACING 40 SERPA PEREZ, Jose Rodolfo COL LAMPRE - ISD +3:26 41 RUIJGH, Rob NED VACANSOLEIL-DCM 42 KRUIJSWIJK, Steven NED Blanco +3:41 43 VERDUGO MARCOTEGUI, Gorka ESP EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI 44 WEENING, Pieter NED ORICA-GREENEDGE +3:55 45 DAMUSEAU, Thomas FRA ARG +4:33 46 SIUTSOU, Kanstantsin BLR SKY PROCYCLING +4:59 47 SANTAROMITA, Ivan ITA BMC RACING +5:13 48 KARPETS, Vladimir RUS MOVISTAR +5:28 49 ZANDIO ECHAIDE, Xabier ESP SKY PROCYCLING +6:32 50 AGNOLI, Valerio ITA ASTANA +7:07 51 PIRAZZI, Stefano ITA BARDIANI VALVOLE - CSF INOX 52 RUBIANO CHAVEZ, Miguel Angel COL ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI +7:09 53 LUDVIGSSON, Tobias SWE ARG +9:53 54 BENNET, George NZL Radioshack Leopard 55 STETINA, Peter USA Garmin-Sharp 56 PRONI, Alessandro ITA FARNESE VINI 57 AZANZA SOTO, Jorge ESP EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI

Race Results Tour of California (2013) - Stage 7 Livermore to Mt. Diablo (147km) 18 May 2013 Stage 7 | Stage 6 (ITT) | Stage 5 | Stage 4 | Stage 3 | Stage 2 | Stage 1 Stage Position Name Nationality Team Time 1 KONIG, Leopold CZE TEAM NETAPP - ENDURA 3:54:17 2 ACEVEDO COLLE, Javier Alexis COL JAMIS - SUTTER HOME 7 3 VAN GARDEREN, Tejay USA BMC RACING 12 4 ROGERS, Michael AUS Saxo Tinkoff 5 FRANK, Mathias SUI BMC RACING 23 6 BUSCHE, Matthew USA Radioshack Leopard 29 7 CRADDOCK, Lawson USA BONTRAGER LIVESTRONG TEAM 32 8 MANCEBO PEREZ, Francisco ESP KENDA - 5-HOUR ENERGY 38 9 PIMENTA COSTA MENDES, José Joao POR TEAM NETAPP - ENDURA 44 10 DE MAAR, Marc AHO UNITEDHEALTHCARE 11 DENNIS, Rohan AUS Garmin-Sharp 12 MEYER, Cameron AUS ORICA-GREENEDGE 48 13 DEIGNAN, Philip IRL UNITEDHEALTHCARE 53 14 MOINARD, Amaël FRA BMC RACING 56 15 MEERSMAN, Gianni BEL OMEGA PHARMA-QUICKSTEP +1:02 16 HAGA, Chad USA TEAM OPTUM PRESENTED BY KELLY BENEDIT STRATEGIES 17 VOSS, Paul GER TEAM NETAPP - ENDURA +1:06 18 JUNGELS, Bob LUX Radioshack Leopard +1:09 19 ZUBELDIA AGIRRE, Haimar ESP Radioshack Leopard 20 VANDBORG, Brian DNK Cannondale Pro Cycling +1:17 21 DE GENDT, Thomas BEL VACANSOLEIL-DCM +1:22 22 MANNION, Gavin USA BONTRAGER LIVESTRONG TEAM +1:27 23 BALDWIN, Christopher USA BISSELL CYCLING +1:31 24 DE LA CRUZ MELGAREJO, David ESP TEAM NETAPP - ENDURA +1:38 25 FLECHA, Juan Antonio ESP VACANSOLEIL-DCM +2:00 26 ZAUGG, Oliver SUI Saxo Tinkoff +2:08 27 BEYER, Chad USA CHAMPION SYSTEM +2:17 28 BUTLER, Chris USA CHAMPION SYSTEM 29 PINOTTI, Marco ITA BMC RACING 30 HUZARSKI, Bartosz POL TEAM NETAPP - ENDURA +2:22 31 GAZVODA, Gregor SLO CHAMPION SYSTEM +2:33 32 DIDIER, Laurent LUX Radioshack Leopard +2:41 33 VOIGT, Jens GER Radioshack Leopard +2:44 34 STEMPER, James USA KENDA - 5-HOUR ENERGY +3:03 35 VAN KEIRSBULCK, Guillaume BEL OMEGA PHARMA-QUICKSTEP +3:26 36 CHAVANEL, Sylvain FRA OMEGA PHARMA-QUICKSTEP 37 BOOKWALTER, Brent USA BMC RACING +3:37 38 ENGLISH, Nathaniel USA KENDA - 5-HOUR ENERGY +4:13 39 WESTRA, Lieuwe NED VACANSOLEIL-DCM +4:39 40 FAIRLY, Caleb USA Garmin-Sharp 41 EUSER, Lucas USA UNITEDHEALTHCARE 42 JONES, Christopher USA UNITEDHEALTHCARE +5:09 43 STUYVEN, Jasper BEL BONTRAGER LIVESTRONG TEAM +5:34 44 DE WEERT, Kevin BEL OMEGA PHARMA-QUICKSTEP +6:11 45 VERONA QUINTANILLA, Carlos ESP OMEGA PHARMA-QUICKSTEP 46 SULZBERGER, Wesley AUS ORICA-GREENEDGE 47 MORTON, Lachlan David AUS Garmin-Sharp +6:14 48 SCHLECK, Andy LUX Radioshack Leopard +6:19 49 TOSATTO, Matteo ITA Saxo Tinkoff 50 MCCARTHY, Jay AUS Saxo Tinkoff +6:40 51 MCCARTNEY, Jason USA BISSELL CYCLING +6:45 52 JENKINS, Max USA KENDA - 5-HOUR ENERGY +6:54 53 DUCHESNE, Antoine CAN BONTRAGER LIVESTRONG TEAM 54 SCHÄR, Michael SUI BMC RACING +7:16 55 RATHE, Jacob USA Garmin-Sharp +8:10

Carousel short title: Forme Longcliffe 1.0 Price: £1099.99 Gallery Image Reference: Forme Longcliffe 1.0 - riding 1 Gallery Reference: Forme Longcliffe 1.0 (2013) The Forme Longcliffe 1.0 follows a bit of a trend we've seen this year. With so many manufacturers making ill-advised componentry compromises in order to squeeze in a carbon frame close to the £1000 price point, more and more often we're finding the best bikes feature a middle budget aluminium frame that's offering the same sort of performance, comfort, weight and looks advantages as its carbon framed price competitors. Road.cc verdict: A sweet-handling sub 20lb all-round speed machine with an aluminium frame that makes price room for Campagnolo Veloce gears Road.cc rating: 8 Weight: 8940g Contact: www.formebikes.co.uk read more