Neal Rogers
BACKGROUND: Rogers came into cycling through mountain biking in the redwoods while a student at the University of California, Santa Cruz. After a few post-graduation years spent competing in road, mountain bike, cyclocross and triathlon events, he moved to San Francisco, where he briefly worked as a bike messenger before joining the dot-com boom. Once the bubble burst, he moved to Boulder, Colorado, in 2001 to take an unpaid internship at VeloNews, threatening to never leave. He still hasn't.
BIKES IN THE GARAGE: '05 Seven Axiom, '08 Cervélo P3C, '07 Kona Major Jake, '98 Hunter custom steel hard tail, '01 Hunter custom steel road bike
Stories by Neal Rogers »
Posted: Sun, Oct 18th
Bradley Wiggins reflects on a stellar 2009 and his plans for '10If Bradley Wiggins is going to ride for Team Sky in 2010, you won’t hear it from him.
The British rider is midway through a two-year deal with Garmin-Slipstream but has been heavily linked to the new ProTour team —an organization born with the mission statement of ...
Posted: Sat, Oct 17th
Cantwell takes final stage, Wiggins wins overall title at Sun TourThe mystery surrounding Garmin-Slipstream’s tactics for the final stage of the Jayco Herald Sun Tour, a 62km circuit in Melbourne, was solved Saturday evening as the team committed to defending the lead of yellow jersey Bradley Wiggins, rather than triple-stage winner Chris ...
Posted: Fri, Oct 16th
Wiggins wins TT, leads GC at Sun TourOver a technical and windy 10km time trial course in Geelong, Garmin-Slipstream’s Bradley Wiggins took not only the stage 5 win at Australia’s Jayco Herald Sun Tour, but also the race lead with one stage remaining.
Wiggins blitzed the course around Geelong’s Botanical ...
Posted: Thu, Oct 15th
Sutton nails another at JaycoWhile Garmin-Slipstream’s Chris Sutton made it a hat trick at Australia’s Jayco Herald Sun Tour Thursday, beating out Fly V Australia’s Jonathan Cantwell in a bunch kick for a third consecutive stage, what was more interesting was how the general classification now sets up ...
Posted: Thu, Oct 15th
A bike to match the rider: Bradley Wiggins’ race-bike modificationsIn the cutthroat pro peloton, Garmin-Slipstream rider Bradley Wiggins is the exception — a non-stop joker with outside interests in music, fashion, Mod-era scooters and when he’s not preparing for a race, a pint or two of beer.
Take, for example, this exchange between the ...
Posted: Wed, Oct 14th
Sutton takes another, and the race lead, at Sun TourThe scenario was different but the outcome the same for Garmin-Slipstream sprinter Chris Sutton, who took his second consecutive stage win at Australia’s Jayco Herald Sun Tour Wednesday.
Unlike his win Tuesday, which came from a group whittled down through attrition in the ...
Posted: Wed, Oct 14th
A conversation with Ben Jacques-MaynesAmerican Ben Jacques-Maynes is quietly having a strong Jayco Herald Sun Tour. Riding in his second Sun Tour, the Bissell rider finished 10th on stage 2, making the crucial 13-man split with 30km remaining before he lost contact with the leaders and ceded one minute. On stage 3 ...
Posted: Tue, Oct 13th
A conversation with Fly V Australia director Henk Vogels.The Fly V Australia team is a bit of an enigma. It’s an American/Australian team, sponsored by an Australian airline (V Australia, a branch of Virgin Blue Airlines) as a marketing tool to promote a new non-stop flight from LAX to Sydney.
Posted: Tue, Oct 13th
Garmin takes control in wind at Sun TourGarmin-Slipstream took control of the Jayco Herald Sun Tour Tuesday during a 141km battle of attrition from Colac to the coastal town of Warrnambool that was marked by strong winds that fractured the peloton into pieces.
By the finish only six riders remained at the front of ...
Posted: Tue, Oct 13th
The man behind the Herald Sun TourBehind every great cycling event are its race director and management company. At the Tour de France, it’s Christian Prudhomme and ASO; the Amgen Tour of California has Jim Birrell and Medalist Sports; at the Jayco Herald Sun Tour it’s Michael Hands and TL Sports, a ...
Posted: Mon, Oct 12th
Lowe's back in the saddle after fighting chronic fatigueOne man competing at the Jayco Herald Sun Tour after a long spell off the radar is Garmin-Slipstream’s Trent Lowe, who has been absent from the pro peloton for nearly the entire 2009 season.
Posted: Mon, Oct 12th
Kirsipuu takes sprint, race lead at Jayco Herald Sun TourProving that age is just a number, 40-year-old Estonian Jann Kirsipuu of the Malaysian team LeTua took the opening stage of Australia's Jayco Herald Sun Tour Monday in Ballarat.
A four-time Tour de France stage winner, Kirsipuu out-sprinted Garmin-Slipstream’s Chris Sutton ...
