Tyler Farrar of Team Garmin-Slipstream celebrates his victory at the Vattenfall Cyclassics on August 16, 2009 in Hamburg, Germany.

Sharing the podium with Tyler Farrar are German Gerald Ciolek (Milram) in 3rd place and Dane Matti Breschel (Saxo Bank) in 2nd.

More:

• Slipstream Sports: Tyler Farrar wins Vattenfall.
• Daily Peloton: 14th Vattenfall Cyclassics – ProTour Photos.
• Velonews: Tyler flies.
• Bicycling: A long time coming.

Photos by Krafft Angerer/Bongarts/Getty Images.

Did you know that Google lists well over 40,000 web pages with the words “adorable Zooey Deschanel?

Zooey Deschanel has posed with a bicycle before, and now she’s spotted in Vanity Fair looking adorable next to a European style omafiets promoting cotton fabrics.

In this cotton promotion video, the adorable Zooey Deschanel walks a bike while singing about “The Fabric of Our Lives.”

Via.

Vélocouture picked my photo from San Jose as one of their favorites from July.

Empire Grade Road closed at Felton-Empire / Ice Cream Grade Roads.

A portion of Empire Grade Road in the Santa Cruz Mountains is closed due to the Lockheed Fire burning in Santa Cruz County. This road is a favorite among local cyclists, including me.

Theoretically, I can still do my Felton / Empire Grade / Santa Cruz ride — Empire Grade is open from Felton Empire / Ice Cream all the way down into the UCSC Campus. The smoke, however, is amazingly thick along Empire Grade, and it’s not healthy to breath this stuff.

The mountain bike trails from Big Basin to Wilder Ranch to Henry Cowell are also covered in smoke. I don’t know about the trails further south, but I hear the smoke is bad all the way down to Watsonville.

I hate to write this, but stay inside and save your lungs for a better day.

Photos by Richard Masoner.

Like Tyler @ Bike Rumor writes, “I just can’t figure out why this never caught on.”

From The Bike Show.