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Lennard Zinn rode the Giro's Monte Zoncolan and reports he used every bit of his 34X26 low gear.

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UnitedHealthcare was outnumbered at Baltimore's Kelly Cup, but Jake Keough managed to deliver a win for the time. In the women's race Van Gilder shows she's on great form as the crit season heats up.

Cervelo's new California facility designed the new r5ca frame in part to showcase its expertise in carbon development and manufacturing.

2010 Amgen Tour of California stage 8 photos

On the Giro's second rest day Cervelo's Ted King takes some time to define some new additions to the Giro d'Italia vocabulary.

Angelo Zomegnan promises a spectacular show if efforts to bring the Giro d’Italia to Washington, D.C. come to fruition for the 2012 edition.

Giro d’Italia race director Angelo Zomegnan must be a very happy man. With a week to go, no one knows who will win the 2010 Giro, and that’s just the way he wants it.

Replay: Live coverage of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California stage 8

2010 Amgen Tour of California FINAL results

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Garmin's Ryder Hesjedal wins final stage as Michael Rogers wins the overall.

Round 3 of the World Cup cross-country sees Catharine Pendrel and Georgia Gould dominate the women's race in Offenburg Germany while Julien Absalon takes his first win of the season.

No one was injured in the two-car crash Saturday evening, but Cervelo TestTeam says the German rider was over the legal alcohol limit.

The Italian climber — who served a two-year ban for admitting his role in the Operación Puerto blood doping scandal — won Sunday’s stage up Monte Zoncolan in dramatic fashion that reminded many of the Basso of old.

2010 Giro d'Italia stage 15 photos

Ivan Basso (Liquigas-Doimo) triumphed in stage 15 of the 2010 Giro d’Italia, shedding world champion Cadel Evans (BMC Racing) in the final 3km of a hellishly mountainous race after a five-man break came to grief on the steeps of the Monte Zoncolan.

When Amgen Tour of California organizers designed this year’s route, they specifically wanted a final stage difficult enough to upend the general classification. AEG Sports president Andrew Messick had a hand in utilizing his local ride just north of Los Angeles, the Rock Store Loop, while also incorporating the corporate headquarters of title sponsor Amgen, based in Thousand Oaks.

HTC-Columbia will have to withstand a barrage of attacks from RadioShack and Garmin-Transitions to keep Michael Rogers in the lead. Rogers says his team is more than up to the task.

Lennard Zinn visited teams to check out the gearing and wheels that will be used on the bikes for the Giro stage finishing atop Monte Zoncolan.

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Two days after shocking the bike world by admitting that he doped and accusing a long list of star cyclists of doing the same, Floyd Landis appeared at the Amgen Tour of California time trial in Los Angeles Saturday. And ESPN.com reports Landis called Greg LeMond Friday to apologize for an incident at his 2007 doping hearing.

Michael Rogers holds Amgen Tour of California lead after Los Angeles time trial

Replay: Live coverage of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California stage 7

2010 Amgen Tour of California stage 7 results

Taylor Phinney (Trek-Livestrong) wins the Olympias Tour .

Results from the 2010 Olympias Tour.

2010 Amgen Tour of California stage 7 photos

Specialized debuted its new Shiv 3 time trial bike last week at the Giro d'Italia. It got its U.S. debut Saturday at the Tour of California.

2010 Giro d'Italia stage 14 photos

Arroyo takes maglia rosa as Giro's standings get another reshuffle and Vincenzo NIbali wins stage 14 in solo break.

Australian Scott Sunderland has left his post as senior sports director with Team Sky for family reasons, Sunderland announced Saturday.

Crucial Innovation, Inc., makers of Retul 3D bike fit technology, has announced a strategic partnership with the RadioShack professional cycling team to supply bike fit technology and bike fitting services.

With the all-important 20.9-mile individual time trial only hours away, there’s still great uncertainty on who can win the fifth Amgen Tour of California. With riders starting in reverse of their GC positions, current leader Michael Rogers (HTC-Columbia) has the advantage knowing the split times of his rivals riding in front of him. They start at two-minute intervals.

The stage is set for a battle royale among the heavy hitters of this year’s Amgen Tour of California on the streets of Los Angeles Saturday. And just as it has been for the past four years, the TT stage is predicted to decide the overall winner. The race’s top three GC favorites — race leader Michael Rogers (HTC-Columbia), stage 3 winner Dave Zabriskie (Garmin-Transitions) and three-time champion Levi Leipheimer (RadioShack) — are all within 14 seconds of each other.

Thomas Rabou (Team Type 1) lived out a dream Friday on the Angeles Crest Highway. The neo-pro found his way into the day’s long breakaway at the Tour of California with stars of the sport, like Andy Schleck and George Hincapie.

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Amgen Tour of California stage 7 time trial start times

2010 Amgen Tour of California stage 6 results

After winning a stage and finishing this week's Tour of California, Mark Cavendish will appear at Helen's Cycles in Santa Monica on Monday, May 24th at 6 p.m. to meet cycling fans and autograph copies of his new book, Boy Racer: My Journey to Tour de France Record-Breaker.

2010 Amgen Tour of California stage 6 photos

Replay: Live coverage of 2010 Amgen Tour of California stage 6

Peter Sagan (LIquigas) won Friday's Queen Stage of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California, his second consecutive win, moving him past Levi Leipheimer (RadioShack) and into third overall, behind Michael Rogers (HTC-Columbia) and Dave Zabriskie (Garmin-Transitions).

In an attempt to disprove Floyd Landis’ credibility, Lance Armstrong has released a month’s worth of emails between Landis, longtime Landis supporter Dr. Brent Kay and AEG Sports president Andrew Messick, the man in charge of the Amgen Tour of California.

Greg Lemond, the first American to win the Tour de France, says he believes "most of Floyd Landis's statements" charging systematic doping in cycling.

Emma Pooley (Cérvelo TestTeam) leads the Tour de l’Aude Cycliste Féminin by a healthy margin of 2:03 after six of nine stages.

The latest journal from writer, photographer and Amgen Tour of California podium girl Jen Caudill, about life as the significant other of a pro cyclist, Garmin-Transitions' Steven Cozza.

Floyd Landis did not put his best foot forward in his presentation of assertions that many high-level riders and team staff doped or assisted riders to dope in the years 2002-2006. But does that automatically mean his claims are false?

A directory of all the VeloNews.com articles related to Floyd Landis' doping allegations.

Craig Lewis (HTC-Columbia) came oh-so-close to victory in Friday’s 13th stage at the Giro d’Italia.

Stage 6 of the 2010 Amgen Tour isn't a true summit finish, but it's a handful nonetheless.

Willow Koerber, Georgia Gould, Heather Irmiger, Catharine Pendrel and other North American women all have a legitimate chance of finishing on the podium at World Cup 3 in Germany on Sunday.

Canada's Geoff Kabush and Catharine Pendrel have World Cup victories under their belts. With the Mountain Bike World Championships set for their country this fall, they are extra motivated.

Manuel Belletti (Colnago-CSF) wins stage 13 as Richie Porte earns another day in pink.

Michael Barry (Team Sky) strongly denied allegations leveled against him by Floyd Landis that he took performance-enhancing products and discussed doping practices prior to the 2003 Vuelta a España.

At 10:54 Thursday morning, the peloton was rolling full tilt through orange groves on the way out of Visalia for the fifth stage of the Amgen Tour of California. Two minutes later, two dozen riders were on the ground, race leader Dave Zabriskie was caught behind the resulting split in the field. And Lance Armstrong’s left check was covered in blood.

There may be serious consequences from Floyd Landis' remarks, but his accusations were largely being downplayed at the Tour of California.

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Police in Maryland are looking for the person who threw tacks on a criterium course, causing flats, crashes and injuries.

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Australian Mark Renshaw of HTC-Columbia, was fiercely proud of a performance that helped propel team leader Michael Rogers into the race lead. “I think today I can announce that I’m 100 percent back after Epstein-Barr virus,” Renshaw told VeloNews

Replay: Live coverage of 2010 Amgen Tour of California stage 5

2010 Amgen Tour of California, stage 5 results

Casey B. Gibson's photos from stage 5 of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California.

Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Doimo) won stage 5 of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California in a spectacular sprint among the GC hopefuls

2010 Giro d'Italia stage 12 photos

Along with her well-chronicled success on a cyclocross bike, Katie Compton is no slouch when it comes to fat tires. What's her mountain bike plan for 2010 and beyond?

Readers grill The Explainer on the Floyd Landis allegations.

RadioShack's Lance Armstrong abandoned the Amgen Tour of California after a crash early on in the fifth stage.

The Floyd Landis story went viral Thursday, but riders competing in the Giro d’Italia didn’t know the full extent of the blockbuster accusations until well after the final sprint.

Lance Armstrong on Thursday dismissed accusations by Floyd Landis that Armstrong had schooled him in doping methods.

Garmin-Transitions team manager Jonathan Vaughters told VeloNews Thursday morning that his team will focus on winning the Amgen Tour of California in light of sweeping doping allegations announced by Floyd Landis Wednesday that include Garmin’s overall race leader Dave Zabriskie.

The Amgen Tour of California will continue, business as usual, despite doping allegations leveled by Floyd Landis, says AEG Sports president Andrew Messick.

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 12 results

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 12 report

The cycling world reacts to Floyd Landis’ public admission of doping and his allegations regarding former employers and teammates, among them Lance Armstrong.

For almost eight years now, two-time Olympian Mary McConneloug and teammate Michael Broderick have found a home on wheels from which to race their bikes, and they like how it feels — goin' mobile.

Nearly four years after he was disqualified as the winner of the 2006 Tour de France for a doping postive, Floyd Landis told ESPN.com Wednesday night that he doped during much of his career. He told ESPN.com of his "extensive, consistent use of the red blood cell booster erythropoietin (commonly known as EPO), testosterone, human growth hormone and frequent blood transfusions, along with female hormones and a one-time experiment with insulin, during the years that he rode for the U.S. Postal Service and Switzerland-based Phonak teams," the ESPN.com story reads.

Shelley Evans (Peanut Butter & Co/2012) is known for her prowess on the track, racking up three World Cup podium finishes and her second scratch race National Championship in 2009 alone, but is having a break through season on the road this year.