Tour Magazine Test Winner March, 2012
Germany's Tour Magazine - the world leader in thorough, quantitative bicycle analysis - tested over 2,000 frames in their quest to find the world'd best bike. This March, they found it.
The Cannondale Supersix Evo Ultimate was voted "Best Bike in the World".
Cycling News got a chance to review Peter Sagan's SuperSix EVO after winning Stage 1, 2 and 3 of the Tour of California.
Team Liquigas-Cannondale's Elia Viviani took his second victory of this short 2012 racing season by successfully defending last year's win in the GP Costa deli Etruschi. After putting the likes of Tom Boonen and JJ Haedo behind him in the scorching heat of Argentina last week, Viviani sprinted his SuperSix Evo to the win in the frigid temperatures of Tuscany.
Race organizers were forced to cut the inland climbs of the course due to heavy snow that has covered Italy this week.
"Today's win was a test of maturity for me and my teammates," confirmed Viviani. "I started with the pressure of repeating last year's win and, despite the hard day due to the weather and the fast pace, I was able to repeat. Compliments to my teammate, who trusted in me from the start and took over the chase to bring the break back so I could go for the sprint. The finale was frantic and chaotic, but the experience gained last year helped me through. I thought that Petacchi was the man to beat, so I held his wheel from three kilometers to go until three hundred meters. I saw that he wasn't going, so I went to [Sacha] Modolo who had launched his sprint. At seventy meters, I got around him. I'm obviously happy for this victory. After Argentina I wanted a sign of continuity and having found it on a difficult day, makes it even more satisfying. I would like to dedicate it to Alexander, a friend of mine who died recently after being hit by a car. He will be forever in our hearts."
Congratulations, Elia!
