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Creating clothing for athletes at the highest level of the sport is the most demanding proving ground for Castelli. Ryder Hesledal was not only reaping the benefits of his light weight Cervélo R5ca bike on the first epic Giro mountain stage to Cervinia, the super light weight and quick drying Castelli Inferno shorts and Climbers jersey gave him an extra advantage in the big mountains.

CLIMBERS JERSEY – its almost impossible to see the difference between the Garmin Aero Race jersey and the Climbers jersey on television. Made from our super light weight Strada Light 3D mesh, and an aero Velocity fabric, it’s cut to hug the torso and to eliminate any excess fabric flapping when battling into the wind. It’s 90 grams of next-to-nothing, our quickest drying jersey ever, and it gives up just 3 watts at 40 km/h compared to the Aero Race jersey.

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Tour De France Stage 1

Tour De France 2012 is Underway

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Its started , the biggest annual sporting event in the world. The pinnacle of a stage cyclists ambition, The Tour De France started on saturday with the usual hype and predictions. The talk has all been can Bradley Wiggins  be the first Briton to win the Tour and can Cadel Evans defend against him.

But the day belonged to Cancellara who powered round the course to take the win and the converted yellow jersey. This was after a poor early classics campaign and then injury, the Swiss TT champion was  being somewhat  overlooked despite his win here 8 years ago…

There of course where no major upsets on the day, Bradley Wiggin’s came second on what was more a short TT course and much less the technical Prologue that have become tradition.

July 1, Stage 1: Liège – Seraing 198km

Liquigas rider Peter Sagan took the honours and added another impressive win to his years total. Stage 1 was pretty much to Tour De France script, the traditional break went on the gun, the yellow jersey holders team held the gap, the big hitters came to the front, the only change to the script was this was Belgium and the profile was more a mini classic, with the pure sprinters dropped we saw a battle of the classics riders, with yellow jersey clad Fabian Cancellara breaking away with 1.5km to go, Peter Sagan grabbed his wheel and sat in refusing to help the leader on the road and easily passing him for his first tour stage. The main group of the peleton managed to catch the coat tails of the late break allowing all the GC contenders to record the same time, however the result means some of the pure sprinters are already on the back foot in the fight for green.