Powerful performances in California

Absalon triumphant at La Bresse XCO

Garmin-Barracuda, Katusha on top in Giro TTT

The Stage 4 Team Time Trial in the 2012 Giro d’Italia delivered excitement from start to finish. In the end, the riders of Garmin-Barracuda won by just 5 seconds over the Katusha team, who also did a fantastic effort. Powerful riding by both of these teams puts their GC contenders in strong position going into the next weeks of this iconic race.

Garmin-Barracuda’s Ramunas Navardauskas moved into the pink leader’s jersey with this win. In fact, the top 4 places in the Giro overall are now held by Garmin-Barracuda riders. And on the Katusha team, GC leader Joaqium Rodriguez stole precious seconds over the other contenders.

Rodriguez conquers Fleche Wallonne

Absalon, Pendrel victorious in Houffalize

Houffalize, Belgium hosted the second round of the UCI MTB World Cup on April 13-15, and the racing excitement suited this classic venue. Mavic riders won both the men’s and women’s cross country, plus the 4x gravity event held on the same weekend.

Julien Absalon (Orbea) rode a tactical race to take the victory in convincing fashion. After riding carefully in second place for most of the race, he attacked on the last lap to secure his first win of the season. Not far behind, Marco Aurelio Fontana of the Cannondale Factory Racing team finished in 3rd place, and his teammate Manuel Fumic came in 5th.

Among the women, Catharine Pendrel of the Luna Chix won the XC in commanding fashion. She was almost one minute ahead of the rider in second place.

And in the first UCI 4x of the season, Tomas Slavic (RDP) won with a strong performance in the final.

Mavic on Track at UCI World Champs

Success in the WorldTour peloton

2012 MTB World Cup Season begins

The first round of the 2012 UCI World Cup mountain bike series took place in South Africa, March 17-18, and Mavic-sponsored riders showed their intention to be among the best. Manuel Fumic of the Cannondale Factory Racing team pushed hard for 3rd place, with Olympic champ Julien Absalon (Orbea) hot behind him for 4th. In the women’s race, Catharine Pendrel of the Luna Chix team led for several laps before slipping back 2 places, finishing in 3rd. The downhill was exciting too, as Tracy Hannah (Hutchinson United Ride) won the women’s race and Mick Hannah was 3rd among the men. These results indicate an exciting season leading to the Olympics later in summer.

Nibali wins Tirreno-Adriatico

Mavic's Paris-Roubaix contest won by a Spanish cycling fan

Congratulations to Juan Jose Fernandez of Vitoria, Spain. He is the lucky winner of our Paris-Roubaix contest, and he'll be riding in a yellow Mavic support car during the upcoming Paris-Roubaix. Thanks to all who participated. We hope to see you on the course!

Pre-Olympic Track World Cup in London

Liquigas-Cannondale starts the 2012 season with victories

Congratulations to the entire Liquigas-Cannondale team!

Two months, two riders: winter in New Zealand!

Mavic extends success on the track in Beijing

The 2012 UCI Track World Cup continued in Beijing during the weekend of January 12-15. This 3rd round proved to be successful for Mavic-sponsored riders, who brought home a total of 17 medals, including 6 gold medals.

In the men’s individual sprint, Charlie Concord of France and Lei Zhang of China finished first and second, taking the top steps on the podium for Mavic. In the women’s individual sprint, China’s Shuang Guo secured victory with Lin Junhong in third.

Other race highlights:

• Mavic riders winning both the men’s and women’s Keirin (Francois Pervis for France in the men’s event and China’s Shuang Guo in the women’s race).
• Mavic riders Glenn O’Shea (AUS), Bryan Coquard (FRA), and Nikias Arndt (ALL) sweeping the podium in the men’s omnium.
• The Chinese women’s team winning the team sprint, with the men’s team taking second.

Spread good cheer this season with a Mavic e-card

Did you know that Mavic offers an e-card service every holiday season? Share your passion for cycling and for Mavic with your friends and family. Click on the link below to create and send your own e-card. Each e-card offers you a choice of distinctive Mavic photography and a space to enter your own personal message.

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Espoir Thermo Jacket and Equipe Bib Tight receive a “bikeTIPP”

One of the largest Mountainbike Magazines in Europe, the German title BIKE, tested 12 different winter apparel combinations in a cold chamber in its latest issue (01/2012). The test criteria included the insulating properties of jacket and bib tight against cold, wind and moistness. Testers used infrared imaging to show heat loss. The Espoir Thermo Jacket received a “Sehr gut” and the Equipe Bib Tight rated a “Gut”. Mavic’s Riders Equipment combination ended up with a “bikeTIPP” for the best cost/performance ratio. The tester highlighted the excellent insulation, comfortable cuff and outstanding fit.

7 gold medals at the first round of the track World Cup!

Gilbert wins in Canada and Belgium

Mavic riders triumph at MTB Worlds

Garmin-Cervélo tops USA Pro Cycling Challenge

Showing great strength in the mountains, the Garmin-Cervélo team secured first place over all the teams in the first-ever USA Pro Cycling Challenge. This race traversed some of the highest mountain roads ever climbed in a bicycle race. With top climbers Christian Vande Velde and Tom Danielson, the team showed depth and experience to capture the top team prize.

In front of huge crowds in Denver, Christian Vande Velde finished just 11 seconds behind first overall, taking second place, and Tom Danielson was fourth overall. Teammate Danny Summerhill took a fine fourth place in the sprint on the final stage. The week of racing proved to be popular among US racing fans and it was a great success for Garmin-Cervélo.

Sagan wins stage 6, and 4 Liquigas-Cannondale in the top 5

Peter Sagan, the Slovak champion from Liquigas-Cannondale won a dramatic sixth stage of the Vuelta a España with three of his teammates also in the top five finishers. After winning both the Tours of Sardegna and Poland earlier in the season, at only 21 years old Sagan showed us once again his great potential.

On stage six, in the last 20km where the challenge of the day was located, Sagan and his team rode a perfect finish to secure the stage win, pushing the opposition out and finishing with four riders in the top five.

Jesse Anthony wins first stage of Tour of Utah

Jérôme Clementz on top in French Enduro

Sagan wins Tour of Poland, Dan Martin wins a stage

Another Gilbert Success in San Sebastian

98th Tour de France: 10 victories and team prize!

Boasson Hagen takes stage 17

Hushovd sprints to win, again!

Vanendert wins stage 14, takes polka dots

MTB national champions across the globe

Thor thunders to win stage 13

In a daring and dramatic solo attack, Thor Hushovd of the Garmin-Cervelo team won the 13th stage of the Tour de France. The reigning world champion is having his best Tour in years, having worn the yellow jersey for almost the entire first week. Now with this win, Hushovd achieves his 9th total Tour stage win. And, he's the first world champion since 2002 to win a stage while wearing the rainbow jersey.

Hushovd joined a break of 10 riders and started the Aubisque climb with a 5 minute gap on the peloton. He surged from the break to gain extra time on the climb, but was caught and passed by Jeremy Roy (Francaise des Jeux)and David Moncoutie (cofidis). Roy crested the summit with a 2 minute lead, but Hushovd caught Moncoutie on the descent and the two chased for the final 13km to Lourdes. Hushovd dropped Moncoutie who was unable to pull, then caught and passed Roy with just 2km remaining. Winning alone with arms in the air, it was a masterful show of force from the 33 year old Norwegian.

"It's the most beautiful stage I've won on the Tour de France, for sure," said Hushovd.

Greipel gets one, Gilbert stays in green

Chausson and Clementz tops in the Mega

The Alpe d’Huez MegaAvalanche enduro is possibly the most famous race of its kind in the world. So, it was almost natural for Anne Caroline Chausson, one of the most famous women in downhill mountain biking, to find success in this event. Last weekend, she won her third Méga in a row on this famous track, and adding to the palmarés of Mavic riders, Jérôme Clementz finished second in the men’s event.

Farrar scores first Tour stage win

A Mavic team wins again, and stays in yellow

Cam Zink wins in Chatel

Gilbert takes first yellow jersey of 2011

Mavic riders win National Championships across Europe

Mavic riders on form in Tour tune-up

Sprint success in Switzerland

Breakthrough victory for van den Broeck

Olivier Marceau wins Extreme-man 226

Julien Absalon wins his fifth Offenburg World Cup

Both Absalon and the riders from Team Cannondale are instrumental to Mavic in validating world class MTB wheels. The demands of World Cup racing are extreme and Mavic relies on these riders for input on product development and feedback. For more detail on ride testing sessions between Absalon and Mavic engineers, watch the video here:

 

 

Garmin-Cervélo TT Specialists Take Two

Zabriskie takes win in Tour of California TT

R-Sys SLR awarded Editor’s Choice in UK magazine

Awards like this acknowledge the hard work of Mavic engineers to create not just outstanding wheels, but complete integrated systems that elevate the performance to a sum that’s greater than the individual parts.

Mavic athletes shine in spring classics

With an emphatic victory in Liege-Bastogne-Liege, Belgian powerhouse Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto) completed a rare sweep of the hilly Ardennes classics. Gilbert is only the second rider in history to achieve this feat. His success completes a string of April wins by Mavic athletes that began with Johan Van Summeren’s (Garmin-Cervélo) triumph in Paris-Roubaix.

“It is the most beautiful day of my sporting life,” Gilbert said after Liege-Bastogne-Liege, also known as La Doyenne, the oldest of the spring classics. “I shall appreciate every moment of this day.”

Gilbert’s historic run began one week earlier in the Netherlands. Starting in Maastricht, the Amstel Gold race is famous for short, sharp climbs and twisting, technical roads. Gilbert and his team rode a smart race, and he delivered an overpowering attack on the Cauberg climb to take victory at the top.

Just days later, Gilbert charged up the super-steep ramps of the Mur de Huy to win La Fleche Wallonne. The 28-year old Belgian hails from this region of the Ardennes and enjoyed the support of many fans. He surged from the front of the peloton with 400m to go and never looked back.

Victory in Liege-Bastogne-Liege completed Gilbert’s remarkable streak. After his Omega Pharma-Lotto team monitored the peloton for the first half of the race, he escaped with 20km remaining, tailed only by the brothers Frank and Andy Schleck. Yet Gilbert easily overpowered them in the finale.

For each of these impressive wins, Philippe Gilbert chose Mavic Cosmic Carbone Ultimate wheels. “For me, they are the best combination of light weight, stiffness, and aerodynamics,” he said. The CCU model is often the most popular with Mavic-sponsored road racers. It particularly suits the all-around demands of the Ardennes classics.

Earlier in April, winning Paris-Roubaix required a completely different formula. Johan Van Summeren’s victory with the Garmin-Cervelo team validated their smart tactics and team strength. It also affirmed the effort of Mavic engineers to create an entirely new wheel for the special demands of this rugged course. The M40 prototype developed in close collaboration between Mavic and the pro riders featured a wide tire bed, medium profile carbon rim, and extreme strength to combat the cobblestones.

From start to finish, April 2011 is truly one to remember for Mavic athletes.

Johan Van Summeren wins Paris-Roubaix

After a risky decision and ambitious team tactics, Johan Van Summeren of the Mavic-sponsored Garmin-Cervélo team won the 104th edition of Paris-Roubaix, finishing alone at the front of the race on the famous Roubaix Velodrome. Van Summeren’s triumph is rightly regarded as the biggest victory in the history of the Garmin-Cervelo organization, and it marks a hard-earned return on years of investment in team work, technology, and sport science.

“This is a great win for me and it’s thanks to my team that I was able to win,” Van Summeren said after hoisting the trademark cobblestone trophy over his head. “Thor (Hushovd) was the leader today for our team. He’s the world champion and I was working for him. When the tactics played out, I was in position to make an attack. I could tell early on that I had good legs.”

Also known as “the Hell of the North” and “Queen of the Classics,” Paris-Roubaix is the hardest event in the annual series of one-day races known as the cobbled spring classics. Measuring a full 258km in length, the course includes over 25 sectors of brutally rough cobblestone tracks. These cobbled sections define the race and demand the most ruggedly durable riders and equipment. Victory in Roubaix requires strength, skill, smart decisions, perfect teamwork, careful preparation, and a dose of good luck.

The Garmin-Cervelo team and their 30-year old workhorse Van Summeren enjoyed all of these advantages on the unusually hot, sunny Sunday of April 10th, 2011. Known more as a domestique or team worker than as a team leader, Van Summeren benefitted from the strength of his team’s tactics. He was encouraged to join an early breakaway and thus lift pressure from Garmin-Cervelo’s race favorite, world champion Thor Hushovd. Hushovd was free to follow the moves of the other race favorites and neutralized their effort.

Out in front, Van Summeren proved to be the strongest of the leading group, dropping the remaining riders in the critical Carrefour de l’Arbre cobblestone sector with 17km remaining in the race. He powered alone on the dusty course to the finish with a final gap of 19 seconds over the surging pre-race favorite Fabian Cancellara.

“This, by far, is our biggest win as a team,” said Garmin-Cervelo sport director Jonathan Vaughters. “And we’re especially pleased the way we won it. People have to remember that cycling is a team sport and we rode our team tactics today to perfection.”

Under Vaughters’s leadership since it was created nearly 10 years ago, the team is known for technical innovation and a progressive approach to the usually traditional sport of pro cycling. Garmin-Cervelo has a commitment to clean, ethical sport, plus careful development of both riders and technology.

Victory at Paris-Roubaix also rewards Mavic’s big R&D efforts with sponsored teams. Mavic made a special effort for the Spring Classic races, in partnership with team riders and staff. Team riders had requested rugged carbon wheels, especially suited for the wide tires necessary to survive the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix. Mavic’s development team delivered on time, discovering in the end that their medium-profile rim, 40mm deep and with 24 spokes, was rigid for powerful sprinting, durable enough to withstand the harsh pave sectors, and yet compliant enough to offer a comfortable ride.

Final ride testing of the prototype wheels finished just weeks before the race. Both Hushovd and Van Summeren participated to provide critical validation, and the team’s success in Roubaix marked the ultimate proof for the new prototype.

The film below, made one month before the race, shows this process of close interaction between pro athletes and Mavic engineers.

13 World Champions on track with Mavic

Samuel Dumoulin, repeats winning sprints

Samuel Dumoulin (Cofidis) scores a series of wins: the first stage of Tour du Haut Var in February, and now two times in March in Spain during the Volta a Cataluña with two stages (5 and 7).

Tirreno Adriatico, 2 victories on Mavic

Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto) won the 5th stage of Tirreno-Adriatico by dominating the leading group with his sprint speed.

Earlier in the week, Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Cervélo) won the 2nd stage with great confidence.

Fabien Barel is back on track

After a year off from racing due to injury, Fabian Barel rejoins the Mondraker Factory Team. Early March in Barcelona (Spain), he started the new season, and his return to the front of the international scene, by winning the San Andreu de la Barça round of the Spanish Open in front of 2000 people.

Yannick Granieri wins the FISE Winter

Yannick declared: “I spent my last weekend (March 5-6) in Peyrgude in the French Pyrenees for the first stop of the Fise MTB tour. (…) The last run was my best one: a barspin on the first step down into a flip up the step up, truckdriver down the drop to finish on a backflip tailwhip on the last one! I was so stoked about my truckdriver on the drop ‘cause I’ve never pulled that before! So this last run got me on the highest step of the podium. Super stoked about that result!"

Philippe Gilbert, the puncher

Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto) won the Strade Bianche (Eroica), one of the most epic road races of Italy. Portions of the race traverse white gravel roads, a feature that brings a unique challenge to this out of time event. Gilbert’s victory follows a previous success in February during the Tour of Algarve (PT).

First of the season

Liquigas-Cannondale team rider Ivan Basso won the Grand Prix of Lugano in Switzerland. The Italian racer beat the two other contenders after a strong sprint.

Peter Sagan, three stage wins and the overall

Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Cannondale) won 3 stages during the Giro di Sardegna in February. Peter succeeded on stage 1, 3 and 4 and took the final victory and the overall.

Urge Cabo Verde and Yellow riders

Fabien Barel and Jérôme Clementz participated in the Urge Cabo Verde race last week, a pure freeride enduro race on open spaces such as the local volcano. The objective was to race and also to bring help to the children of Cabo Verde (Cape Verde). Fabien and Jérôme finished 3rd and 4th respectively. Jérôme did 3 runs out of 4 with a partial rupture of the ligaments in one finger.

Track World Cup round IV, Manchester (GBR)

Heinrich Haussler, two times on the podium

Garmin-Cervelo continued its winning ways with Heinrich Haussler winning stage 3 of the Tour of Qatar which moves him into the overall lead and second overall after racing 6 days. This is Haussler’s second stage victory in-a-row and really shows some impressive early-season form using Wheel-Tyre System.

Striking 2 stages in Mallorca

Garmin-Cervelo continues its winning ways and brings its good early season form from the Tour Down under to the 2011 Mallorca Challenge. Tyler Farrar won back-to-back stages yesterday and today to claim his first 2 victories of the season.

New World Record set

Australian rider Jack Bobridge, Garmin-Cervelo's 21-year old rising star, surprised himself and the cycling world by setting a new world record in the 4km pursuit. He rode a pair of Comete Disc wheels on Sydney's Dunc Grey Velodrome during the Australian elite track championships, stopping the clock at 4:10.534. Bobridge's time is over 0.5 seconds faster than Chris Boardman's previous world record set in 1996, a record once thought unbreakable. 'To come around and see that on the board, I was honestly quite shocked,' said Bobridge. Clearly on a roll this year, Bobridge was also recently crowned Australia's elite road race champion.

Extreme speed-Track World Cup, Beijing (CHN)

Meyer clinches Tour Down Under (AUS)

23-year old Garmin- Cervélo rider Cameron Meyer and his teammates successfully defended the leader's jersey to win the 2011 Santos Tour Down Under. Meyer is now the UCI's top ranked rider, and the win signals a great start to the new season by the Mavic-sponsored Garmin- Cervélo team successfully riding the new Mavic Wheel-Tyre System.

18 medals -Track World Cup, Cali (COL)

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23 medals-Track World Cup, Melbourne (AUS)

Megavalanche – La Reunion

24 h on track – Aigle (CH)

In November and for the fifth year running, Mavic’s internal cycling club members and friends gathered to enter a yearly 24 hours on the track challenge in Switzerland. This fun race is called “Around the world in 24h” and takes place on the velodrome at Centre Mondial du Cyclisme in Switzerland. This year, among the three Mavic teams racing, one finished first. Jean-Eude Demaret (Cofidis), Jean-Lou Paiani, Amaël Donnet (BikeKulture), Fabrice Gaydon and Jean-Pierre Mercat raced on the squad named Mavic-Comète and travelled a total distance of 1'085 km at a 45.21 km/h average speed to win the event overall.

More info on www.letourdumonde.ch

David Millar won the Chrono des Nations

Repeat Victory for Gilbert at Lombardia

Giro di Lombardia (ITA) - Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto) defeated a difficult field and even more difficult weather conditions to take his second consecutive victory at the Giro Di Lombardia. Gilbert dropped Michele Scarponi in the last few kilometers aboard his Cosmic Carbon Ultimate’s to take the win and prove he is THE man to beat in the most difficult classics.

Gilbert makes it two in a row at Gran Piemonte

Gran Piemonte (ITA) - While the season is winding down Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto) is still going strong as he repeated last year’s victory again today by winning Gran Piemonte aboard his Cosmic Carbone Ultimate wheels. Gilbert attacked hard and escaped in the last kilometer to take the win. Philippe’s strong late season form will make him one of the favorites at the Tour of Lombardia where we wish him the best of luck!

Triple win for Zink

Nibali winner of the 2010 Vuelta

Following the Giro d’Italia win with Ivan Basso (Liquigas-Doimo) in May, Vicenzo Nibali (Liquigas-Doimo) has now raced perfectly to take the general classification of the 2010 Vuelta a España. He is not the only Mavic equipped professional cyclist to win during this Pro Tour race. Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma Lotto) won two stages, as did Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Transitions). These four stages and final overall classification win secures Mavic’s place as one of the best placed brands in the 2010’Vuelta and big tours!

Huez, Eurobike Gold Award 2010

Nibali winner

Trofeo Melinda (ITA)

Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas Doimo) wins the Trofeo Melinda in Val di Non in Italy on the 21st of August.

Product raced: Cosmic Carbone Ultimate

Sylvain Sudrie ITU World Champ

Immenstadt (DE)

On the 31st of July, Sylvain Sudrie become the new ITU World Champion Long Distance (3 km swim, 80km bike, 20km run) in Germany in Immenstadt. He finished in front of last’s year World Champ’ Tim O’Donnell (Mavic too), with a 4 minute gap.
Product raced: Cosmic Carbone Ultimate

Shoes raced: Tri Helium

Tuft wins in The Netherlands, Martin wins in Italy.

Eneco Tour (NL) / Tre Valli Varesine (ITA)

It was another day of double success for Team Garmin Transitions.

Svein won the prologue time trial of the Eneco Tour in The Netherlands on a wet and technical course to win the first ProTour race of his career.

Meanwhile in Italy, Dan Martin continued where he left off at the Tour of Poland winning the Tre Valli Varesine one day race in Italy.

Product raced: Cosmic Carbone 80 / Cosmic Carbone Ultimate

Tuft wins TT stage

Tour of Denmark (DK)

Svein Tuft did a perfect race and won the TT stage of the Tour of Denmark.

Product raced: Cosmic Carbone 80 / Comete

Winner Galland

Tour du Limousin (FR)

First stage of the Tour du Limousin, raced along 193.1 km between Limoges and Boussac, was won by Frenchman Jérémie Galland (Saur-Sojasun).

Tyler Farrar winning in Germany

Vattenfall Cyclassics-Hamburg (GER)

Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Transitions) wins Vattenfall Cyclassics for the second year running.

Continuing Team Garmin-Transitions great run of form in recent weeks, Tyler Farrar timed his sprint to perfection to win the Vattenfall Cyclassics in Hamburg, Germany for the second year in a row, thanks to another text book lead out from team mate Julian Dean.

Cam Zink victory

Crankworx Slopestyle -Whistler (CAN)

Cameron Zink (Corsair) wins the most renowned slopestyle of the year. His fast and fluid run was amazing taking into consideration the enormous height of each feature.

Wheels used: Deetraks

Photo copyright: Ian Hylands

Four Mavic wins

Super Downhill/Canadian Open Enduro/Air DH -Whistler (CAN)

Anne-Caroline Chausson (Sunn) scored big in the two races she entered, for her return to Whistler after five years absence, by winning both Super D, Enduro and Air DH races by 18:52 ;16:64 and 2:05 sec. over her followers.

On his side the Enduro race format specialist, Remy Absalon (Commencal) took the lead over another MTB legend Nicolas Vouilloz in the mass start Canadian Open Enduro race descending 3800 feet from the top of the Garbanzo Express chairlift.

Photos by Steven Bisig Photography. www.stevenbisigphotographer.com

Dan Martin winning in Poland

Tour of Poland 2010 – final result

Dan Martin's (Garmin-Transitions) aggressive attack on the tough finish climb on stage 5 of the Tour of Poland to take the leader's jersey. That was followed by a team effort for the next two days to defend the overall win.

Helium jacket awarded

Mountain Bike Magazin – Germany (08/2010)

In its August issue (08/2010), the German Mountain Bike Magazine, one of the largest selling magazines in Europe, has recognised the Helium jacket as best on test. Among 18 different jackets tested, the Helium model was appreciated for its lightweight (75g), its compact size, its comfort and its “class”. This jacket was awarded "Testsieger" (test winner) with the mention “sehr gut» (very good).

R-Sys SL awarded

Road Bike Magazin – Germany (08/2010)

In its August issue (08/2010), the German RoadBike Magazine, one of the largest selling magazine in Europe, gave its best on test result to the "R-Sys SL" wheelset. Among 8 different aluminum wheels tested, this R-Sys SL wheel model was appreciated for its excellent lateral stiffness vs lightweight ratio for an aluminum rimed wheelset. This advantage was possible to achieve thanks to the carbon tubular spokes (Tracomp concept). The R-Sys SL was awarded "Testsieger" (test winner) with the mention “sehr gut» (very good).

Beaumont on the top of DH

World Cup-Val di Sole (ITA)

Marc Beaumont (UK-GT Bicycles) is back on top of the world downhill scene. In Italy, he won the second World Cup series of his career with a perfect run in front of the World's best riders. That same weekend, Mavic sponsored Elite womens downhill rider Emmeline Ragot (FR-Suspension Center) earned the gold medal. and Anneke Beerten (NL-Suspension Center) and Anita Molcik (AUT) finished first and second in the women's elite four cross. On top of this, in the elite XC, second places on the podium went to Julien Absalon (FR-Orbea) and Catharine Prendel (USA-Luna) in men and women's class, while Thomas Slavik took second place in the men's elite four cross

LL Sanchez accelerates and wins

Clasica San Sebastian

Luis Leon Sanchez (Caisse D'Epargne) wins the Basque classic with his pedal stroke strength. First to attack and ride away, he made the difference during the sprint in the last climb and overpasses the two other breakaway riders. Product raced: Zxellium Ultimate

World Champ win

World Cup #4-Elite women-Champery (CH)

Emmeline Ragot (Suspension Center) set the best time over the World Cup leaders by 5 seconds, despite riding the steep track in very challenging conditions, damaged by the heavy rain and full of sticky mud. The current DH World Champion won her first World Cup series race in Switzerland.

Martin Söderström winner in Bavaria

Big in Bavaria- July, 26th

The flying Swedish man Martin Söderström win the Munich dirt contest ranked Gold in the Freeride World Mountain Bike World Tour (http://fmbworldtour.com). With this performance, he stays in the world top three of the best freestyle mountain bikers on earth.

Best trick-Winner

Marzocchi Airstrike Slopestyle-Saalbach Hinterglemm

Early July saw Germany's first freeride festival, including a slopestyle. Amir Kabbani not only enjoyed riding in front of loads of people but also took the win. Photo by Lars Scharl

Best climber-polka-dot jersey

Tour de France 2010 – final result

Anthony Charteau (BBox) is awarded best climber of the 2010 Tour de France. On his feet, the help came from his shoes, the Zxellium Ultimate.

Overall win and points jersey for Farrar

Delta Tour of Zealand (NL)

Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Transitions) won the overall classification at the three-day Delta Tour of Zeeland in the Netherlands. Tyler took the overall victory for the second year running. Product raced: Cosmic Carbone SLR

Boasson Hagen on top

Dauphiné Libéré – 7st stage

Boasson Hagen (Sky) won the last stage of this week's race. Stronger than ever, the young Norwegian accelerated in the last lap and final climb of 9.2% to cross the line alone. Product raced: Zxellium Ultimate

Daniel Navarro’s turn

Dauphiné Libéré – 5st stage

Daniel Navarro (Astana) showed his climbing abilities winning the 5th stage ending in Grenoble. By accelerating during the climb of Chamrousse he overtook every one and finished alone. The Spaniard, who's usually working for his leader Alberto Contador, finally won his first stage in a prestigious race. Product raced: Zxellium Ultimate

Georgia Gould takes the win

MTB Elite Women XC - Luna Pro Team

The Luna women took 1st and 3rd position on the podium of this race held in very hot conditions in Dripping Springs, Texas. Georgia is now wearing the leader jersey of the US Pro XCT after 3 round. Product raced: Fury

Engoulvent won the prologue

Tour of Luxembourg – prologue

Jimmy Engoulvent(Saur-Sojasun) ahead of Lance Armstrong, won the race in Luxembourg city. He is wearing the Zxellium Ultimate road shoes. Products raced: Zxellium Ultimate

Liquigas-Doimo win the Giro with Mavic

Giro D’Italia – summary

Mavic wheels are on the top podium steps: General Classification win with Ivan Basso, Best Climber classification win with Matthew Lloyd and a total of 6 stage victories. Stage 2 - Tyler Farrar - Cosmic Carbon Ultimate
Stage 4 - Team TT - CC80
Stage 6 - Matthew LLoyd - Cosmic Carbon Ultimate
Stage 10 - Tyler Farrar - CC80
Stage 14 - Vincenzo Nibali - Cosmic Carbon Ultimate
Stage 15 - Ivan Basso - Cosmic Carbon Ultimate
Overall Win - Ivan Basso - Liquigas Doimo
Best Climber - Matthew Lloyd - Omega Pharma-Lotto
Best Team - Liquigas-Doimo

Mavic Shines in the California Sun

Tour of California – summary

Mavic wheels dominated the top step of the podium at the Tour of California as Garmin-Transitions and Liguigas-Doimo team riders rolled to victory in 5 of the 8 stages. This incredible performance by these two teams showed the true depth of their talent by winning from the break, a pack sprint, over the mountains and even the Team GC. A special congrats to David Zabriskie for spending 2 days in the yellow jersey and finishing 2nd overall in GC just 9 seconds behind Michael Rogers. Additionally, Peter Sagan not only won back-to-back stages but also won the Best Young Rider Jersey and Sprint Jersey.
Stage 3 - David Zabriskie - Cosmic Carbon Ultimate
Stage 4 - Francesco Chicchi - Cosmic Carbon SLR
Stage 5 - Peter Sagan - Cosmic Carbon Ultimate
Stage 6 - Peter Sagan - Cosmic Carbon Ultimate
Stage 8 - Ryder Hesjedal - Cosmic Carbon Ultimate
Overall Team General Classification - Garmin-Transitions

Philippe Gilbert starts by winning

Tour of Belgium – Stage 1

Philippe Gilbert (Omega-Pharma Lotto) took the first win of the Belgian Tour, finishing his 66km winning breakaway with a sprint for victory, defeating the two other escapees. Products used: Cosmic Carbone Ultimate

Ryder Hesjedal wins final stage

Tour of California – 8th stage

Following on from Dave Zabriskie's success in Santa Cruz, Ryder Hesjedal took the final stage of the Tour of California in Thousand Oaks. Zabriskie also retained his second place overall after a series of brave attacks to distance race leader Michael Rogers on the final climb. To cap a successful week, the team also took the overall team prize on General Classification. Raced on: Cosmic Carbone Ultimate

Sagan stroke two wins back to back

Tour of California – 5th and 6th stage

Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Doimo) won both the 5th and 6th stages reaching a total of 3 stages for his team. He was racing with Cosmic Carbone Ultimate's. Products raced: Cosmic Carbone Ultimate

Mavic at the top in Offenburg

XC World Cup #3, Germany

Julien Absalon (Orbea Racing Team) strikes a fourth victory in the latest edition of the World Cup at Offenburg. He takes back the leader jersey of the series. Earlier in the week-end, two Luna Chix racers climbed on the first two steps of the Women XC World Cup.

Product raced: Crossmax SLR Disc and Crossmax Ultimate prototype

Liquigas-Doimo won two stages in a row

Giro D’Italia–Stage 14 & 15

After the team time trial win at stage 4th by the Liquigas-Doimo squad, now the individual riders shows their strength too. Vincenzo Nibali won the 14th stage and Ivan Basso the next one finishing at the Zoncolan summit. Products raced: Cosmic Carbone Ultimate

Omega-Pharma Lotto won the 6th stage

Giro D’Italia–Stage 6

Matthew Lloyd (Omega-Pharma Lotto), 26 years-old Australian, won his first Grand Tour stage victory in addition with his National Champion title back in 2008, and crossed the finish line alone after a long breakaway of 127km. Products raced: Cosmic Carbone Ultimate

Liquigas-Doimo fly to TTT victory and Nibali takes the pink jersey.

Giro d'Italia - Stage 3

Liquigas-Doimo won the Giro d'Italia's stage four team time trial today, covering 33 kilometres from Savigliano to Cuneo in 36:37. The team chose the option to use a combination of CC80 in the front and Comete in the rear. Products used: CC80

Garmin-Transitions takes the lead

Tour of California – 3rd stage

David Zabriskie (Garmin-Transitions) not only won the 3rd stage finishing in Santa Cruz but also took the yellow leaders jersey. He was racing with Cosmic Carbone Ultimate's. Products raced: Cosmic Carbone Ultimate

Three Mavic athletes on the Giro’s podium

Giro D’Italia 2010 – 10th stage

Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Transitions), already wearing the red points jersey for best climber, won his second stage of the current Giro d'Italia, finishing in front of Fabio Sabatini (Liquigas-Doimo) and Julian Dean, one of his teammates. Tyler was once again riding the victorious CC80 prototypes, with his two followers sporting Cosmic Carbone Ultimate's.

Tyler Farrar won stage 2

Giro D’Italia 2010

Tyler Farrar took his biggest win of the year so far sprinting to victory on Stage 2 of the Giro D'Italia in Utrecht. On a difficult day marred by many crashes, Tyler recovered from a crash early in the stage, and thanks to a superb leadout from the Garmin-Transitions Armada took the sprint victory. Products raced: Cosmic Carbone SLR

One more for Liquigas-Doimo

Victory at Tour de Romandie (CH)

Victory on the 28th of April in Switzerland at the Tour de Romandie for Peter Sagan from the Liquigas-Doimo Cycling Team. Using Cosmic Carbone Ultimate wheels, he won the second stage of 175,6 km.

One more for Liquigas-Doimo

Victory at Giro Dell’Appennino

Victory on the 25th of April in Italia at the Giro dell'Appennino of Robert Kiserlovski from the Liquigas-Doimo Cycling Team using a Cosmic Carbone Ultimate wheelset.

Full Mavic podium

Avalanche Cup in Lyon, France

Fabien Barel and Aurélien Giordanengo, both from the Mondraker Factory Team, won the first two places of the Men's scratch ranking, finishing in the same second. On her side Anne-Caroline Chausson (Sunn Montgenèvre) climb to the top of the podium with a time gap of 17.9 seconds over her nearest rival!

3 contests, 3 podiums

Martin Soderström

Martin Soderström's season couldn't have started in a better way: three times on the podium in less than 20 days - second place at the first stop of the FMB World Tour - the Vienna Air King - and victories at the Rocketair Slopestyle as well as the T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds. Lots of training during the winter paid off, including a long trip to California to escape from this year's extra cold German winter!

Amir first win of the season

Slopestyle come back

Amir Kabbani wins the team title with friend Andi Wittmann at the T-mobile Local Support Challenge slopestyle. He is back to compete following a broken foot and fighting to reach the high level seen before the accident.

Mavic double at the Amstel Gold Race

Philippe Gilbert won the classic Dutch race, followed by Ryder Hesjedal

Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto) came first at the top of the Cauberg, ahead of Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin-Slipstream). The Belgian rider added a major new event to his CV, less than six months after his two successive victories in Paris-Tour and the Tour of Lombardy. Furthermore, another Mavic equipped finished in fifth place in the ranking: Roman Kreuziger (Liquigas-Doimo).

1st World Cup, 1st victory

Bevan Docherty won in Sydney

The Kiwi rider, bronze medalist at Beijing, started the season the same way he did last year, by winning the first World Championships ITU Series race. Set in Sydney harbor and finishing in front of the world famous Opera House, Bevan cut the tape in a time of 1:51:21. Product raced: Cosmic Carbone Ultimate; Tri Helium

Mondraker Factory Team warming up

Podium 100% Mavic

Fabien Barel and team mate Aurelien Giordanengo won the enduro series warm pp race event of 10 stages, taking top and second places in front of a third Mavic rider, Remy Absalon (Commençal Super Team). Product raced: Crossmax SLR Disc; Fury

Absalon won in Switzerland

Swiss Cup #2, Lugano

Julien Absalon (Orbea Racing Team) brings home a new victory from Swiss soil in preparation for the upcoming World Cup in Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire, UK. Product raced: Crossmax SLR Disc

Chris Horner on the podium

Vuelta Ciclista al País Vasco

Chris Horner (USA, Team RadioShack) won the last of six stages of the race with a tough 22km time trial. Beating the second place rider by only 8 seconds snatched Chris the overall win too. Product raced: Zxellium Ultimate

Circuit de la Sarthe, FR

Dumoulin Samuel sprint for victory

Samuel Dumoulin (Cofidis) won the 3rd stage of the Circuit of Sarthe in France (his 5th this season) and another Zxellium equipped professional is still leading the overall ranking, the actual UCI world leader, Luis Leon Sanchez (Caisse D'Epargne). Product raced: Zxellium Ultimate

Another win for Garmin Transitions

Tyler Farrar becomes the first American to win Scheldeprijs.

Tyler Farrar continued the teams winning streak by sprinting to victory after 205,4 km in the Belgian semi-classic GP of Escaut in Anverpen region. Product raced: Cosmic Carbone Ultimate

Luis Leon Sanchez, 3rd victory of the year

Early sprint for the win in the end

Luis Leon Sanchez from Caisse D'Epargne Team won the first stage of the Circuit de la Sarthe - Pays de Loire in France by starting his sprint earlier than anyone. The current UCI ranking leader finished alone on the front as he had already done twice this year in Australia and Portugal. Product raced: Zxellium Ultimate

Prototype 2nd win

David Millar wins Three Days De Panne

David (Garmin Transitions) demonstrate once again his mastership of the hard exercise of the Time Trial where power and aerodynamic are key elements to succeed. He also took the overall. His teammate Tyler Farrar also won the third stage the same day in the morning. Sébastien Turgot (BBox) won the second stage one day earlier on the three days stage race in Belgium.
Wheels raced: CC80 prototype, Comète route, Cosmic Carbone SLR
Shoes raced: Zxellium Ultimate
CC80 development and tests on line on www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YQYtM_3y9I

12 World Champions on track with Mavic

Grégory Baugé and Victoria Pendleton, Sprint World champions for the second year running.

At Copenhagen, DK, the athletes using Mavic track wheels “robbed “ almost every gold medal, taking 12 World Championship titles out of 19 and making a total count of 31 medals ( 54 %). Chris Hoy, Olympic Champion, is back and won the Keirin. Cameron Meyer keeps his Point's race title for the second year running. The Australian Team is back on top andtook the most "Golds" as the UK Team dominated the total medal ranking table. UK Team kept its high level ranking as did the French one.
 

Name code: CC80, winning the Time Trial

First victory thanks to David Millar

David took all the benefits from the latest development done in collaboration with Mavic by fully using the aerodynamic effects of the CC80 wheel prototype. He won the time trial of the Criterium International in Corsica, France by 2 seconds over his follower Alberto Contador. Development and tests on line on www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YQYtM_3y9I

Volta a Cataluña

2 victories

Peter Voss (Milram) and Samuel Dumoulin (Cofidis) both took stage wins wearing Zxellium Ultimate shoes. (Stage 1 and 6 respectively)

Eneco Ronde van het Groene Hart

Victory of Jens Mouris

The rider from Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team made a late tactical attack, beating the second place finisher by eleven seconds. Product raced: Zxellium Ultimate

The racers Chicchi and Santaromita and the whole Team win

Liquigas-Doimo dominating

First, Francesco Chicchi won the first stage of the Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali, then Team Liquigas-Doimo dominate the Team Time Trial, and to conclude the week Ivan Santaromita from the same team takes the overall win: what a week for the green and blue squad!
Product raced: Cosmic Carbone Ultimate, Comete, Cosmic Carbone SLR, CC80, Cosmic Carbone SL

French Cup, St Raphael

Podiums

Julien Absalon (Orbea Racing Team) and Jean-Christophe Peraud (Omega-Pharma Lotto) both climbed onto the podium, finishing first and second of the first XC race of the French Cup. Products raced: Crossmax SLR Disc

Urge Nepal

Victory and human adventure

The race started at 4350 meters altitude facing the famous Nepalese peak of Dhaulagiri. The weather conditions and snow level forced the organization to shorten the route, which was previously planned to set off at 5100 m altitude. Fabien Barel clocked a time of 29'25" to descend from 4350 m to 2600 m altitude, reaching an unreal average speed on this 100% single track route.
Product raced: Crossmax SX

Winners: Boasson Hagen and Daniele Bennati

Tirreno-Adriatico, ITA

In the third stage, Daniele (Liquigas-Doimo-wheels) won the sprint after several attempts earlier in the week. He dedicated the victory to his former Italian team manager Franco Ballerini who died recently in a car crash. Four days later, another Mavic equipped cyclist won a stage, the talented Norwegian Edvald Boasson Hagen (Sky-shoes) adding one more victory to count four since the beginning of the season.

Luis Leon Sanchez, UCI leader

Officially the world’s best cyclist

The Spaniard of Caisse D'Epargne team now ranks number 1 in the UCI classification after the Paris-Nice stage race. Luis Leon Sanchez is wearing yellow Zxellium Ultimate shoes.

Julien Absalon wins on Crossmax

Spanish Cup win in Banuyles, first mtb victory of the year.

In his second Cross Country race of the year, Julien Absalon shows his mastership, winning at the Catalan Cup in Northern Spain, mid-March. Julien returns to Mavic wheels for the 2012 season, and felt confident with the very high power transfer and low inertia of his wheels. In fact, it proved to be the Orbea Racing Team's day, as they took the top three podium places.

Peter Sagan wins 2 stages of Paris-Nice

More wins for Liquigas-Doimo team

Revelation of the first days of Paris-Nice (taking fifth place inthe prologue and second place in the 2nd stage), the 20 years old Slovak Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Doimo) won the 3rd stage entering Aurillac. The distance was shortened to 155 km (from 208km) due to the long winter and the presence of snow on the road. And two days later, he also won the 5th stage!

Robert Hunter won again at Vuelta de Murcia

Keeping the leader jersey

For the second stage running, and wearing the leader's yellow jersey Robert Hunter won again at the Vuelta Murcia.

Robert Hunter won opening stage of Vuelta de Murcia

The Garmin-Transitions team member takes the leader's jersey.

Robbie's win comes after a 135km run with a three man breakaway led by teammate Danny Pate. The breakaway was caught with 20km from the finish setting up Robbie's sprint for victory.

Video of a test session with Garmin-Transitions Team

Prototype development with the Garmin-Transitions team

Mavic continues its Research & Development with the Garmin-Transitions team. The engineers from Mavic utilized Garmin's training camp in Calpe, Spain to test a new aero wheel.
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Roman Kreuziger (Cze) won the Giro di Sardegna (ITA)

Winning by 2 sec

With the assistance of the whole Liquigas-Doimo team, Roman kept his leader jersey until the last stage of the 5 day Italian race, followed at only two seconds by Chris Horner (RadioShack).

Samuel Dumoulin (FR) won the GP d’Insubria

A tough sprint win

Samuel Dumoulin (Cofidis) won the second edition of Grand Prix of Insubria (181,5 km) raced on February 27th in the North of Italy. Dumoulin sprinted in front of the Spaniard José Joaquin Rojas and the Irishman Nicolas Roche.

Daniele Bennati won the 2nd stage of Tour D’Oman

Liquigas: sprint for the win

The Italian cyclist sprinted for the win after 148,5 km. The same day, Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) took the leader jersey and secured it the day after by winningthe 3rd stage.

A talent among us

Cycling fan

During the winter Maureen Guichardot, Mavic Service Center assistant in Annecy, France headquarters, races cyclocross. Recently she raced as Member of the French Team in Tabor, Czech Republic the World Championships and finished 19th, only 3 minutes behind the winner.

Wouter Mol (NL) won Tour of Qatar

Winning the 6 day race

Wouter Mol (Vacansoleil) has been wearing the leader's jersey since the end of stage 2. He kept it throughout the week and finished with the overall win after six days. The sixth stage is led by second time winner Francesco Chicchi (Liquigas-Doimo) already winner of stage four. Close behind him on the finish line, another talented rider equipped with Mavic wheels, Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Transitions) stepped on to the podium. To resume: Zxellium shoes at the top of the podium on six days and two sprint victories on Cosmic wheels.

Liquigas victory on Tour of Qatar

Francesco Chicchi won the 4th stage

The Italian sprinted for the 4th stage win of the Qatari race. Francesco finished in front of the top sprinters and earned his second win of the year. On the second podium step, we see Heinrich Haussler (GER) who's wearing the same yellow Mavic Zxellium shoes as the Tour leader Wouter Mol (NL).

Wouter Mol (NL), Tour of Qatar leader

Yellow shoes still in the lead

The rider from Vacansoleil Pro Cycling team wore the leaders jersey for the second day in a row after only 3 days of racing. On day one, another talented rider equipped with yellow shoes, Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor), finished first at the 8.2 km opening Team Time Trial.

Samuel Dumoulin, yellow power (and red!)

Overall win of Etoile de Besseges

After his win in the 3rd stage, Samuel (Cofidis) was in good position in the classification to race for the overall later in the week. During that stage, the Frenchman showed his pedaling power in the finish climb and won the sprint.

Bobridge almost sets a new world record

Only three seconds behind for the current U23 TT World Champ

Jack Bobridge just set a time of 4:14.127 in individual pursuit on track in Manchester. One month before World championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, the Garmin-Transitions athlete approached the time of Chris Boardman's former record. This former record is no longer valid because the "Superman" position used at that time is not approved by the UCI.

Luis Leon Sanchez, first victory of the year

Yellow shoes up front

First stage win of the year for the Spaniard at the Santos Tour Down Under in Australia. Winning the 5th stage almost gave the Caisse D'Epargne team member enough of an advantage to win the general classification, finally finishing second overall the next day, just eleven seconds behind winner Andre Greipel.

Most famous and epic MTB trails

MTB trip USA 2009

Following our visit to the Interbike show in Las Vegas last september, 5 Mavic guys (Product Management team, R&D engineer and Sales rep) decided to go riding on some of the most famous and most epic MTB trails of Utah and Colorado for 5 days. Our trip brought us to Moab, Ut (Slickrock, Procupine rim trail, Gooseberry Mesa), Fruita, Co (18 road, Loma, Kokopelli), Grand Junction, Co (Bangs Canyon, Ribon Trail), Crested Butte (Dead Man's Culch) and Golden, Co (lunch ride with the Yeti Cycle crew). From the desert side (1500m, 40°C) to the heart of the Rockies (3377 m), a total of 200 km, 15 hours of riding and 4500 m D+. Some of the wildest and most beautiful places in the USA. Many thanks to Yeti Cycle for lending us those great 575 and ASR5.