Tour de France champion Alberto Contador put his mark on the 2010 Paris-Nice Thursday, dominating the final climb of the critical fourth stage, a 173.5-kilometer run from Maurs to a mountain-top finish in Mende.
What's XXtra cool about SRAM's new group is that it works well not just on anorexic cross-country race hardtails, but on 5-inch, full-suspension trail bikes.
Tech editor Zack Vestal tries a saddle made specifically for time trialing and is pleasantly surprised by its comfort.
Joining the Boulder, Colorado-based Mafia team this year is former Under-23 National Champion Sam Jurekovic.
Team Type 1's criterium squad — nicknamed the Money Team — were just under the radar in 2009, but scored podiums in almost every crit in the second half of the year. This year they are aiming higher.
Due to pilot error, there was some confusion over which picture actually won the February Phat Phat-Tire Photo Contest. Allow us to explain…
Gerdemann curtails a field sprint by taking off with three others in the final kilometer.
2010 Tirenno-Adriatico results
Changes in the 2010 racing calendar mean that Jens Voigt will not have a chance to make history at Critérium International title later this month.
Now that SRAM's XX group is available to the masses on 2010 bikes and in aftermarket catalogues, the question is does it deliver? Singletrack.com's Technical Editor Zack Vestal gives you the low-down in a two-part XX review.
German fan-favorite Jens Voigt takes the overall lead from Bos, as 20-year-old Peter Sagan scores a stage win.
The UCI has provisionally suspended Italian pro Massimo Giunti after a laboratory found the blood booster EPO in a urine sample from an out-of-competition test on February 23.
Google will announce its new biking directions feature on Google Maps at the League of American Bicyclists' National Bike Summit
Landis will ride for the team led by former U.S. professional criterium champion Rashaan Bahati.
A reader asks the coaches panel how to overcome a nagging Achilles tendon problem
The Atlantic Collegiate Cycling Conference traveled to Williamsburg, Virginia, for the fifth annual Tidewater Winter Classic hosted by the College of William and Mary.
It may be March, but if you haven't checked out this calendar with world-class cyclists as models, well then, it's better late than never.
Jet lag is a word that obviously isn’t part of Lance Armstrong’s vocabulary. While Europe has been gripped by its worst winter in decades, Armstrong’s road to the Tour de France this year has been full of sunny climes that would turn any jet-setting royal blue with envy.
The Rocky Mountain Collegiate Cycling Conference opened its nine-week season with Denver University’s City Park Criterium on Saturday and Metro State’s Roadrunner Time Trial on Sunday. Serving as the first races of the year for many collegiate cyclists, the weekend offered up exciting and unpredictable racing in every category.
2010 DU criterium and Metro TT results
Moots has teamed up with Dirt, Sweat & Gears to assist with IMBA and the Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association's efforts to provide trail accessibility for mountain bikers in the Southeast.
The top of the overall standings were largely unchanged as race leader Lars Boom (Rabobank) finished in the front group.
Want to convert your geared bike to a more simple singlespeed? Singletrack.com's Lennard Zinn offers a few pointers.
A reader asks if it's worth the trouble of patching those pricey tubular tires.
The Tour of Utah announces a new title sponsor and a tough lineup of stages.
2010 Rutgers race results
2010 NMSU race results
The Eastern conference kicks off with a three-event weekend at Rutgers.
UA Wildcats score wins at the final Southwest conference event, in Las Cruces, NM.
Durango Mountain Park is now officially Overend Mountain Park. MTB pioneer's roll in creating open space dates back to 1994.
An elite crop of European racers lined up Sunday at the second XC race in the XX Maremma Cup, where Marco Aurelio Fontana held off the Swiss duo of Nino Schurter and Florian Vogel.
After a full month without any collegiate races, approximately 120 riders from the Western Collegiate Cycling Conference eagerly saddled up for UC Santa Barbara’s race weekend, which featured a criterium, team time trial and road race.
2010 UC Santa Barbara race results
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France's Paris-Nice and Italy's Terreno-Adriatico dominate this week's Euro' action
Sky's Greg Henderson takes the sprint at the end of a crash-filled stage 1. Among the crash victims: Leipheimer, Horner and Contador.
Singletrack.com's Zach White says Giant's 5-inch trail machine is one of the most precise and solid-feeling mountain bike frames he has ridden — period.
French cyclist Guy Lapebie, a double Olympic champion from the 1936 Berlin Olympics, died on Monday at theage of 93, his family confirmed.
Ben Jacques-Maynes (Bissell) wins the Merced Foothills Road Race.
Sinead Miller of Marian University swept the women’s A field races in the Midwest Conference race at Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia, Kentucky, over the weekend. Will Nowak of Northwestern, Kip Spaude of Lindsey Wilson College, and Rob Bush of Marian University split the wins in the men’s A races throughout the weekend.
2010 Lindsey Wilson collegiate race results
2010 GP d la Ville de Lillers results
Jens Keukeleire (Cofidis) closes out the Three Days of West Flanders with the overall title.
Graham Watson captures the prologue at the 2010 Paris-Nice.
2010 Trofeo Zssdi results
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’Crosser-turned-roadie Lars Boom wins a cold, windy prologue at Paris-Nice.
Frantisek Rabon (HTC-Columbia) clinches overall victory in the Vuelta a Murcia.
Kelly Benefit Strategies pulls out all the stops to put David Veilleux into the final leader's jersey, but the South African EMG team had other plans.
Photos from the final stage of the 2010 Tour de Langkawi.
Fly-V Australia's Ben Kersten sprints to victory in the OCBC Cycle Singapore criterium.
Venezuelan Jose Rujano Guillen captured the 15th Tour de Langkawi on Sunday after finishing 44th in the event's seventh and final stage.
2010 Paris-Nice galleries
Start List - 2010 Paris-Nice
Bahati Foundation Pro Cycling and HTC-Columbia crush the Merco Credit Union Cycling Classic Downtown GP.
Maxim Iglinskiy wins the Montepaschi Strade Bianche.
Fly V Australia is aiming to become the first Australian ProTour team — and the first Aussie squad to race the Tour de France.
Robert Wagner (Skil-Shimano) wins Stage 2 of the Three Days of West Flanders.
Maxim Iglinskiy wins a three-up sprint to take the Montepaschi Strade Bianche.
Graham Watson shoots Stage 4 of the 2010 Vuelta a Murcia.
Czech rider Frantisek Rabon (HTC-Columbia) wins the individual time trial at the Vuelta a Murcia.
A photo gallery from Stage 6 of the 2010 Tour de Langkawi.
Venezuelan Jose Rujano Guillen Saturday conquered the cruel slopes of the Genting Highlands to win the sixth stage of the Tour de Langkawi and capture the overall lead.
Bissell wins the TTT at the Merco Credit Union Cycling Classic.
USA Cycling has named its team for the upcoming UCI Track World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, March 24-28.
Belgian rider Jens Keukeleire (Cofidis) won the opening stage of the Three Days of West Flanders on Friday. The 21-year-old neo-pro won a bunch sprint ahead of French rider Rony Martias and German Paul Voss.
The newly-elevated Tour de New York, (a UCI 2.2 event), will open a new chapter in the state’s racing history, bringing high-level competition to the western part of the state, centering a six-day event in the City of Rochester.
The NorCal High School Mountain Bike Racing Series has more than 500 racers lining up for the 2010 season; Colorado league is next.
Ready gallery for March 5, 2010
Double stage winner, Robbie Hunter, has pulled out of the Tour of Murcia on Friday after learning that his wife has gone into labor.
José Enrique Gutiérrez – the Spanish rider who finished second to Ivan Basso in the 2006 Giro d’Italia and was later linked to the Operación Puerto doping scandal – says he is retiring because Rock Racing has not been able to secure its future.
2010 Paris-Nice results
Fifty racers are taking on the Iditarod Trail Invitational, 28 of them are cyclists. The first- and second-place finishers were on Greg Matyas' Fatback snow bike.
Malaysian cyclist Anuar Manan won the fifth stage of the Tour de Langkawi on Friday while German Tobias Erler maintained the overall lead.