Our new racing bike, the Venge, was codesigned with McLaren, the Formula One team.
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We folded the passenger seat completely flat (it will recline to an airplane sleeper-seat level of recumbence) and, after removing both bike tires (these fit neatly in the front trunk), we were able to gingerly pass an adult-size racing bike into the cockpit.
"Crashing is part of bike racing I just try not to worry about it, " Stevens said.
You get used to the fact that bike racing in the U.S. is mostly an unglamorous place.
Carpenter and Stevens both refer to London as Stevens's "starter Olympics, " but strange things always happen in bike racing.
Team Herbalife Leisure Lakes Bikes said he was "a young man with an enormous talent and enthusiasm for bike racing".
Two-time World Superbike champion Toseland, 28, said the crew switch was sparked by his difficult first season in bike racing's elite class.
His new network, RipeTV, offers only short shows packed with cheap thrills--3- to 15-minute snippets of dirt bike racing, lingerie models and guys barrel-rolling off a two-story roof.
Under the leadership of Weisel, who invested large sums of his personal fortune, the United States Postal Service team became the most dominant and important team in the sport of professional bike racing.
Bike racing is a sport that fetishizes suffering.
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In the days since, there's been a rush of memories in the New York bike-racing community.
"The only slight breakthrough is that Aprilia have asked me to go down to Jerez to test the bike that I was supposed to be racing since the beginning of the season, " he said.
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Carpenter has schooled Stevens on bike handling how to absorb the bumps that come in pack racing, and how to bump back.
The main outer handles feel very similar to what you'd find on a bike, and they can even be shifted to a horizontal position for motorcycle racing by sliding two tabs that rest near your thumbs -- the right handle can even be used a twist throttle, but it's dependent on title support.
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Racing apparel may explain why no American city landed last month on an index of the world's 20 bike-friendliest cities.
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