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meanwhile there are some official profiles:

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Organisers of the Tour de France, the ASO, today announced the award of the Grand Départ for the 2016 edition of the race to the department of Manche in the Lower Normandy region.

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On which side does Sir or Madame... Braze?

Hello

I have for a long time, wanted to build my own Frame. I am a bit magnetised to older steel road bikes and latterly, mountain bikes. When I was a kid of about 14 years I went to a Bike Shop in Brighton, which, unlike many, was not a big storefront with well lit, off the peg bikes. It was a business called Rigden cycles. Up a staircase, on a slightly run-down bit of Central Brighton, was a ma...

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This turned into quite a debate on twitter, to catch up check @festinagirl @_Pigeons and myself.

Some against it saying it doesnt have the prestige, others arguing that with the hype around the hour at the moment it would be an excellent chance of promotion for the womens side of the sport..

the uci records:
46.065 km/h Leontien Zijlaard-Van Moorsel (NED), 1 October 2003
45.094 km/h Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli (FRA), December 2000
44.767 km/h Jeannie Longo-Cipre...

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Tinkoff-Saxo hopes that Chris Froome (Team Sky), Vincenzo Nibali (Astana), Nairo Quintana (Movistar) and other Grand Tour team leaders will face off with Contador in the Giro and the Tour to make a fair contest.

"We proposed in an very informal way to the other teams. We believe the best riders should go up against each other in the biggest...