It’s that time of year again – awkward team photos! It’s hard to design a kit because something on paper can look entirely different when actually produced. And sometimes an idea for a photoshoot might sound good in conception but the reality turns out quite different. Case in point: do...

Sometimes it’s hard to get a whole organization to a photo shoot. In the case of Leopard Trek it seems that sports director Lars Michaelsen couldn’t make it to the location. So the webmaster at the team did the next best thing – Photoshopped his head onto Torsten Schmidt’s...

Team RadioShack-Nissan-Trek just wrapped up an informal training camp in the Belgian town of Spa. And following tweets from the riders that made the cut onto this new merged team it seems like everything was fantastic. Chris Horner posted that it was good to meet up with the new guys and...

One team that has made a splash in the European peloton is the Luxembourg based Leopard-Trek team. Their line-up includes the Schlecks, Fabian Cancellara, Jens Voigt and several other strong riders. While victories at E3 Prijs, Criterium International and the Tour of Luxembourg earned them...

As a journalist your e-mail inbox can be full of requests from companies and athletes. Sometimes it’s a press embargo (please don’t announce our new widget before this date) which never works. This time of year, and because cycling’s sponsors swap around as much as a two dollar whore, we...

If you are reading my site chances are you already know who Frankie Andreu is. A quick primer: he was the backbone of the U.S. Postal team with rides in the Tour de France as well as the Classics. You have also seen him on television doing pre and post stage interviews during the Tour and in...

As the season approaches and teams are conducting training camps, Rock Racing has been surprisingly silent. No press releases of upcoming training camps or even a 2010  team roster. In 2009 Rock rode in a splashy kit proclaiming “Rocks not dead”. For 2010 team owner Michael Ball stated he...