A few shots from Paul (Sneaky D) Damato from Redlands prologue.

Here are some of the first pics of Lance’s bike for Milan San Remo tomorrow.
The bike is painted by the artist “KAWS” and is running as usual the full SRAM Red Gruppo, Bontrager setup and following the Liverstrong theme. This will be Lance’s first race in Europe since he won the 2005 Tour de France and he’s leading a strong Astana team here with Thomas Vaitkus, Yarosalav Popovich and Gregory Rast.

Astana’s Andreas Klöden has won the 5th stage of Tirreno Adriatico and taken the overall lead. Klödey, riding his Trek TTX with SRAM Red beat Stijn devolder by 20 seconds and now leads Thomas Lockvist by 6 secs on General Classification.

Results Stage 5 - March 15: Loreto - Macerata (ITT), 30km
1 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 41.32
2 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Quick Step 0.20
3 Thomas …

Alberto Contador (Astana - SRAM RED) has won stage six of the 2009 Paris Nice and in doing so has taken back the Yellow Jersey from France’s Sylvain Chavanel (Quick Step).

Contador used his climbing strength to ride away from the opposition 5km before the Mountaintop finish at La Montagne de Lure. Alberto won this race in 2007 and now leads Luis Leon Sanchez (Caisse d’Epargne) by 1:13 and Chavanel by 1:24 with two stages remaining.

Paris-Nice Stage Six Results
1 Alberto Contador (Spa) Astana 4.47.46
2 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank …

Chances are if you’ve been to a bike race Down Under you’ve seen the SRAM Neutral Service guys getting riders back on the road after punctures, crashes, mechanicals or just tuning up the riders bikes before the race. The SRAM Team led buy Australian Mountain Bike legend Rob Eva and former Australian TT Champion Kristjan (Snozza, Snoz, The Iceman or even Snorraz) Snorrason are at races from Criterium events all the way around Australia like the Noosa Multisport Festival to UCI Tours such as The Herald Sun Tour.
If you’re at the races and you see …

Two time German Champion Fabian Wegmann is one of the big guns on Germany’s only Pro Tour Team ‘Milram’. Always at the front in the Classics and a great Tour rider, with a Giro d’Italia KOM title to his name Fabs has a bike that certainly stands out from the crowd. Focus Bike guru Jörg Arenz is the genius behind these German bikes that are taking the Pro Tour by storm and he has created Fabs something special to go with his Deutsche Meister title.

Opening week in Belgium is huge and the SRAM presence at the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad on Saturday was pretty big as well. SRAM was represented by 5 teams in the race with Astana, Milram, Agritubel, ISD and Elk Haus Fugi all flying the Red colours. Zipp was also everywhere with Cervelo, Garmin and Saxo Bank sporting fast Carbon wheels.

Thor Hushovd took the win on Zipp wheels and SRAM although having some bad luck in the final sprint crash chaos …

As the crimson sun rose it was a stark reminder that things were still not good for a large number of fellow Victorians. As the transition area was bathed in the light of the bushfire smoke filtered sun, all I can see is a sea of bikes… two and a half thousand to be exact!!!
The Gatorade Triathlon Series’ race at Elwood is massive!
To win what is the most popular of all the domestic sprint distance races is well deserving of props and well earned kudos.

Kristian McCartney did just that, dispatching his competitors with a stellar run …