Fabian Cancellara

Fabian Cancellara’s World Championship Winning SRAM/Zipp S-Works Shiv

Custom Gold TT rings for the World and Olympic Champ. Fabian Cancellara won his 4th World Time Trial Championship this week in Australia and it was his 2nd on the SRAM Red/ Zipp combo. Fabians Shiv is equipped with some trick custom peices like a Gold 55t TT ring and Golden Zipp wheel decals. He [...]

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SRAM Wins Men’s, Women’s, and U23 World’s Time Trial Championships!

After the three time trial events at the 2010 World Championships, three SRAM athletes hold three gold medals. Time trial superstars Fabian Cancellara (SWI), Emma Pooley (UK), and Taylor Phinney (USA) all won on SRAM RED equipped time trial machines. All three rode SRAM’s R2C shifters, giving an incredible start and TT sweep for the [...]

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SRAM commercials – The Collection

The link below is to the complete collection of the “I Chose SRAM” road commercials, which ran consistently throughout the 2010 Tour de France in the U.S. on the VERSUS channel and continue to run on a number of cycling sites globally. The message is simple, these athletes “Chose SRAM,” and messengers included Andy Schleck, [...]

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DoubleTap Victory in Paris!

SRAM and Zipp athletes Alberto Contador (Astana) and Andy Schleck (Saxo Bank) repeat on podium at 2010 Tour de France The 2010 Tour de France featured two SRAM & Zipp-equipped athletes battling for the overall until the final kilometers of the penultimate time trial in Bordeaux, a mere 24 hours from the Tour’s finale in [...]

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Andy Schleck gets the Yellow treatment from SRAM, Zipp and Specialized

Time to go yellow for Andy Schleck. When Andy Schleck smashed the peleton and took the Yellow Jersey on the  Col de la Madeleine he became the 2nd SRAM athlete to receive the new Limited Tour Edition (LTE) group as a Yellow Jersey wearer after Fabian Cancellara. Alberto Contador (2nd @ 40sec) is also using the LTE Group [...]

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Team Saxo Bank reveals secret weapon at 2010 TdF

Much speculation ensued around Team Saxo Bank as new machinery has been discovered among it’s already formidable technological support structure here at the Tour De France. And no worries, it’s nothing to do with high powered micro motors hidden in riders bikes. What the brain trust at ‘Saxo did invest in is arguably the oldest, [...]

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Fabian picks up his new Limited Edition Ride – a photo gallery

Fabian gives Red LTE the ‘Thumbs Up’! Fabian Cancellara picks up his new yellow Specialized SL3 with SRAMs Limited Tour Edition gruppo, the colors match perfectly, including his yellow-decalled Zipp 404 wheels Always very gracious, Fabian thanks SRAM’s Jason Phillips for helping put together his new bike for the stage one start in Rotterdam Fabian [...]

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Cancellara’s Limited Tour Edition bike build

After the stage Saxo Bank mechanics have to build this bike tonite for Fabian to ride in the morning on stage 1 – the Specialized SHIV 3 is fully equipped with SRAM’s Limited Tour Edition gruppo Fabian resplendent in yellow – the gruppo will be available in Spetember to consumers and was designed to match [...]

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Cancellara’s Rotterdam Rocket

Rocket man – out of the start like a flash! Here is Cancellara’s SRAM RED equipped Specialized SHIV 3 time trial machine which he rode to victory at today’s Tour prologue World time trial champion and SRAM RED rider Fabian Cancellara (Saxo Bank) won today’s Tour de France prologue in stunning fashion with a time [...]

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Specialized’s retro “American Flyers” bikes from AToC

Specialized Bicycles issued Team Saxo Bank riders each a special edition SRAM-equipped S-Works Tarmac SL3 American Flyers bike at last months Amgen Tour of California. The bikes featured a simplified paint scheme in Specialized’s classic pantone 485. The idea originated from Saxo Bank’s manager Bobby Julich, who mentioned that the 1985 cycling movie inspired him [...]

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