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Bicycle Racing News and Opinion,
Tuesday, December 18, 2018

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2018 Tour de France | 2018 Giro d'Italia

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Simon Yates to ride 2019 Giro d'Italia

Yates' Mitchelton-Scott team sent me this update:

After three stage victories and 13 days in the Maglia Rosa this year, Simon Yates will return to the Giro d’Italia in 2019 looking for more.

It was a performance that made the cycling world stop and take notice, at his general classification potential and as some of the most exciting racing for the 2018 season, but a stage 19 downfall left Yates and Mitchelton-SCOTT with unfinished business at the world’s toughest three-week race.

The 26-year-old will return 12months on as a Grand Tour winner, with the confidence he has what it takes following his success at the Vuelta a Espana and a burning fire for redemption.

Simon Yates

Simon Yates in pink during the 2018 Giro d'Italia. Sirotti photo.

Simon Yates:
“I’m looking forward to returning to the Giro d’Italia next year. It’s a race I have great memories from but one which also left a bitter taste in my mouth so I want to go back to try to finish the job off.

“I’m already working hard to arrive in great shape and I can’t wait for the season to begin. The Giro is always an extremely difficult race and next year, with three time trials, it’s maybe not perfectly suited to me but we will still give it a real go and see what we can achieve.”

Matt White – Head Sports Director:
“I had a gut feeling that Simon would want to go back to the Giro d’Italia. It was Simon’s first Giro d’Italia this year and it’ll be a Giro he will never forget. He liked the style of racing there, he liked his experience at the Giro, he had the most success he has ever had at any race and then the biggest disappointment that he has ever had.

“Experience does matter. He will return with the self-assurance that he’s been there, he knows what to expect with the different style of racing and he and the team know they can win a Grand Tour.

“It’s a decent course for Simon. There’s three time trials but all of them have a degree of climbing in them so they are not your pure specialist courses. We’ve come a long way with his time trialling and we still see there’s more room for improvement but if anything, it’s turning into a bit of a strength for Simon.

“There’s very little climbing in the first ten days but it’s still the hardest Giro I have seen in the last decade. There’s around three of four stages of more than 5000m of climbing. It’s a massive load, there’s some big long days.

“Regardless of who is on the start line, Simon will go in as one of the favourites and we’re comfortable with that. We’ll go back with a strong climbing team, including with Spanish climber Mikel Nieve, similar to our approach in 2018.”

Suspect ID'd with facial recognition software, held in string of SoCal bike test-ride thefts

Bicycle Retailer and Industry News sent me this:

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (BRAIN) — Police here have arrested a suspect in a series of thefts at Southern California bike shops in which fake identification and credit cards were used to take high-end bikes out on test rides and never return them.

Anthony Negreary was arrested in Santa Monica and is being held in Los Angeles County Jail on charges of grand theft. Negreary was identified using facial recognition software on security camera footage taken at Newbury Park Bicycle Shop, where a $6,600 MSRP bike was stolen on a test ride. The Conejo Valley retailer subsequently recovered the bike through a Craigslist ad, owner Ben Cox said.

Det. Paul Ferruzza of the Ventura County Sheriff's Office said Negreary used stolen identity information to create fraudulent credit cards and identification bearing his own photo. Santa Monica police arrested Negreary in connection with two thefts in the coastal city.

Retailer Cox has compiled a list of as many as 14 shops in Ventura, Los Angeles and Orange counties who have had bikes stolen in the same or similar fashion in recent months.

You can read the entire story here

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