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2013 Tour of Qinghai Lake | Stage 6: Xihaizhen – Qilian
Under normal circumstances, individuals engaged in sporting activities above 4’000 metres are usually tethered to a safety apparatus of some sort. At 4’120 metres though – about the altitude a flight...
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2013 Tour of Qinghai Lake | Stage 7: Qilian Circuit Race
By way of a monstrous 34.8km climb from 2’739m to 4’117m, Continental Team Astana’s Yevgeniy Nepomnyachshiy realized his first stage win in a UCI professional event and catapulted up into 2nd on GC...
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2013 Tour of Qinghai Lake | Stage 8: Qilian – Zhangye
Points classification leader Sacha Modolo elevated the coveted green jersey further from the reach of his rivals, completing a hat-trick of victories in this year’s race so far and continuing to...
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2013 Tour of Qinghai Lake | Stage 9: Zhangye Circuit Race
The worrying thing for Sacha Modolo’s rivals in this year’s Tour of Qinghai Lake is not the fact he won his fourth stage today, it’s the fact there are still four remaining. Does anyone else have a...
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2013 Tour of Qinghai Lake | Stage 10: Wuwei – Jingtai
With appearances in Tour of Qinghai Lake, Tour of Hainan and Tour of Taihu ticked off in the second-half of his 2012 season, Benjamin Giraud was in China a lot last year; the 27-year old Frenchman...
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2013 Tour of Qinghai Lake | Stage 11: Yinchuan
In winning today’s 123 kilometre stage, Sacha Modolo joined Australian Allan Davis (2007) and Slovenian Luka Mezgec (2012) with five stage wins in a single edition of Tour of Qinghai Lake. Bardiani...
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2013 Tour of Qinghai Lake | Stage 12: Zhongwei Circuit Race
When Sacha Modolo today won his sixth stage in this year’s Tour of Qinghai Lake, he joined an exclusive club of riders who have achieved the same feat in a single race. With a final stage remaining, he...
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2013 Tour of Qinghai Lake | Stage 13: Lanzhou Circuit Race
Eligible to race again following a two-year suspension for EPO use, Iran’s Mirsamad Pourseyedi Golakhor returned to the peloton in time to participate in arguably the hardest event on the UCI AsiaTour....
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2013 Tour of Beijing route unveiled
With a little under two months until the third edition of the Tour of Beijing begins, a detailed overview of the parcours for Asia’s only WorldTour race has now been released. In breaking through the...
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Hengxiang Cycling bolsters roster with Ma
Courtesy of ex-Discovery Channel rider, Li Fuyu, there’s a chance Hengxiang Cycling may already be on the radar of some Euro-centric cycling fans. However, there’s more substance to the roster than an...
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New Chinese stage race added to UCI AsiaTour
The 2.2-ranked ‘Tour of Nansha’, to be held 19-21 November in Guangdong – China’s most populous province – is now one of seven UCI AsiaTour stage races scheduled to take place in China within the...
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Market Talk // 2.01
This week: Giant wishes you a Happy MY2017; Biketo.com’s car vs bike brand analogy; Bicycle Cafe retail concept finds flavour in Cambodia; Deadline looms for 2015 Jelajah Malaysia prize money payments;...
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Chinese investment everywhere, but where is cycling?
China’s sports industry is on the cusp of a boom unlike anything previously seen. But even with trillions of yuan on the line, will cycling be a beneficiary or just a second-tier sport ailing behind...
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Market Talk
This week: Alibaba shakes up global sports sector; Starkenn Sports to manufacture ‘high-end’ bicycles in India; Specialized announces global layoffs; European Bicycle Manufacturers’ Association (EBMA)...
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InSight: Tianjin Fuji-ta Group
In marketing a bicycle, it helps to have a unique selling proposition which often includes “lightest”, “fastest” or some other superlative adjective. In pitching themselves to potential clients,...
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No place in Europe for Chinese-made road bikes
It is by now well established that the majority of the professional peloton’s bikes come from factories in Taiwan as do most of the carbon road bikes on European shop floors. So why is China not...
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Market Talk
This week: two new ‘Smart road bikes from China; Ridley to sell ‘localised’ bikes in India; the Australian Bicycle Industry discusses how to deal with the internet; Campagnolo back in the hunt for OEM...
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This is my life: the rise, fall and dreams of Li Fuyu
When I first emailed Li Fuyu (李富玉) last week to see if we could have a chat on Friday, the only condition stipulated by the 37-year old Shandong native was that I call after midday, because he was...
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Market Talk
This week: SCOTT Sports opens first Technology Centre in Bangalore, considers local assembly; India’s bicycle manufacturers concerned with imports of Chinese-made bicycles; Shimano announces...
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High-end bicycle manufacturing zone to open in India’s north
Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal continued to spruik the establishment of a ‘cycle valley’ in the district of Ludhiana after a joint meeting of the national bicycle associations of...
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