Monthly Archives: November 2009

The thankless job of the domestique

November 24, 2009

The fact that cycling is a team sport isn’t all that obvious to the casual observer. Of course, only one person can cross the finish line first at the end of a race, but the work that his team mates … Continue reading →

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Time to shine for Kim Kirchen

November 21, 2009

Next year Kim Kirchen will ride for the Russian Katusha squad having made the move from the Columbia-HTC team of Mark Cavendish. Kirchen’s best year in terms of results was undoubtedly 2008. He finally won the Fléche Wallonne classic having … Continue reading →

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Tom Boonen: Time Trial Specialist?

November 17, 2009

Tom Boonen is a cross between a sprinter and a strong cobbled classics rider. He’s a multiple winner of both major cobbled classics, Paris-Roubaix and the Tour of Flanders. He’s also won six stages of the Tour de France along … Continue reading →

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Roche: The shape of things to come

November 12, 2009

Next season is a very important one in the career of Nicolas Roche. He will probably always have the label of being a Tour de France winner’s son put on him. However, while Stephen was undoubtedly a G.C. rider for … Continue reading →

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The cycling season: A musical journey

November 7, 2009

The stage is set, the musicians are ready, this is what they’ve been practicing for all winter. All that hard work, monotonously reeling through chord progressions, day after day of repeating the same sequences of notes over and over again. … Continue reading →

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