Thread for Cycling Fans. The wheels are a spinning!

[HuckleB]

I'll start it off with a bit about UCI's ProTour:

Hopes and doubts abound as ProTour debut nears

http://www.velonews.com/race/int/articles/7518.0.html

"Lance Armstrong and Jan Ullrich could cross swords on more than one occasion this season if the Union Cycliste Internationale's ambitious plans for major reforms come to fruition.

Ullrich, the 1997 Tour de France winner, and Armstrong, the six-time winner and record holder, hardly ever race each other outside of the Tour. But that could all change. Or at least that is what UCI president Hein Verbruggen hopes will happen when the system that has been in place for nearly two decades is ripped up and replaced by an elite league which, in theory, will guarantee cycling's top stars ride in the most prestigious races.

Verbruggen's brainchild, the 27-race UCI ProTour, aims to revolutionize a sport that, in many European countries, is enshrined at both the regional and local levels. The benefits of the reforms, which will exclude tens of popular races from the elite calendar, remain to be seen. And there are still plenty of detractors, including cycling legend Eddy Merckx.

Merckx, considered the sport's greatest champion, feels that many popular races in cycling-mad countries like his native Belgium will die after being excluded from the ProTour. And he feels that getting the likes of Armstrong and Ullrich competing together is not so simple.

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Explaining the ProTour points system
http://v1.velonews.com/race/int/articles/7519.0.html

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OK. Have at it!

[MousePlayingDaffodil]

1. Do you score more points under this new system . . .

. . . if you happen to win one of these races while NOT using EPO?

[HuckleB]

3. Hmm. Not a bad idear.

[Mika]

2. There's nothing more hideous than healthy people riding bikes

The last thing 'Murica needs is insurgents on bicycles.

;)