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Making a strong move into the power meter market, Quarq is similar to SRM in that it uses strain gauges in the crank spider.

The wireless system only requires replacing the spider on most any crank, then placing a magnet on the frame for cadence sensing and the computer head on the handlebar.

Although the Quarq head unit is robust, Quarq also is compatible with Garmin’s upcoming Edge 705 GPS unit, which features power output among other cycling features.

Rocky Mountain’s ETSX is what Lesley Tomlinson rode to three Trans Alp victories. The rear suspension takes its cues from Formula 1 designs, with its straight up and down rear-wheel vertical travel.

For 2008, the design went from adjustable 3.5/4/4.5 inches of travel, which changes on the fly with the flick of the quick release, to a 4/4.5/5-inch design. Nonetheless, it still weighs in at 28 pounds.

For next year, the Element Team shaved some weight with a hollowed-out yoke. This, combined with carbon seatstays and oversized suspension hardware, saved more than 60 grams.

For next year, the Element Team shaved some weight with a hollowed-out yoke. This, combined with carbon seatstays and oversized suspension hardware, saved more than 60 grams.

The Sola 69’er runs a 26-inch wheel in the rear and a 29-inch hoop up front.

Built for Mike Broderick, this one features an FRM crank, Shimano XTR and SRAM X.O parts and a rigid carbon fork.

Seven doesn’t just built custom bikes for its customers. Product manager Matt O’Keefe built this internally geared commuter for his 18-mile trek to work.

He made this rack with scrap titanium, and added Full Wood fenders from River City Bicycles’ Dave Guettler.

Even the hub-driven light gets some custom love with internal wire routing.

For 2008, Sidi’s high-end mountain shoes have full-carbon soles. The SRS replaceable tread system extends the life of the shoes.

What do you mean you’re hesitant to buy white mountain shoes?

The Dragon 2 (and Ergo 2 Carbon road models) feature the new adjustable heel cup system that secures the rear fit.

An attachable toe plate protects the investment.

How do you say “bling” in Italian? Genius 6.6 Carbon, in Liquigas colors.

Even the heel cup is ventilated.

All that glitters is not gold. The price tag, however, rivals gold. Try $450 on for size.

And for the women, the Genius 5.5 Luxury...Which also glitters.

This $3300 ’cross frameset is so fast it blurs the background standing still.

Bastianelli was surprised... and moved to tears.

Bastianelli scoots ahead for the win

Slovakia's Peter Velis (center) and Australia's Wesley Sulzberger (left) sprint

The crash...

... the tumble...

... the win.

Armstrong stayed in the mix all day.

Thorburn suffered a mechanical and finished a minute off the pace.

Neben goes for it

Security was tight at the event

Van Rensburg and Frisch give it their best.

Boom on the attack.

Not an easy course

Off they go...

American Craig Lewis at the start.

Stetina leads the chase.

Danish fans out in force.

Italy has its supporters, too.

Regardless of wheel size, you can count on Seven frames for clean welds and sharp CNC work.

Introduced two years ago as a concept bike, the Diamas is now available in Seven’s custom size program. The $4995 frameset is Seven’s first all-carbon custom bike.

The top and down tubes of the Diamas wrap completely around the head tube for a firm connection — and a striking look.

Dear Readers,

Welcome to this week's edition of The Prologue, a regular summary of the news from the world of competitive cycling by your friends at VeloNews.com.

As you know the world's championships are now underway in Stuttgart, Germany, and as of Thursday, the time trial events are done and attention now turns to this weekend's road races. Be sure to check in on Sunday for Live Updates from the elite men's event on VeloNews.com

During Wednesday evening’s CrossVegas event Kona’s Ryan Trebon won on a brand new pair of wheels from FSA, providing a good excuse to look at a few new deeper section carbon rims that debuted at this year’s show. Besides FSA, both Easton and Reynolds have new or refined wheels for 2008. Titanium has also been a prominent product at this year’s show, could it be that some, more traditionally minded riders are suffering from too much carbon fiber in their diet? We wouldn’t go quite that far yet as it seems most of the industry is still gaga over string and glue construction for all types of

A hall brimming with almost 20,000 people eager and optimistic about bikesis a rarified atmosphere for a bike enthusiast to hang out in. and allof those people buying bikes makes it possible for a number of bike-relatedphilanthropic organizations to thrive as well.Interbike began with a talk by six organizations doing work in third-worldcountries to make a difference with bikes. Left to right, F.K. Day of www.WorldBicycleRelief.org,Steve Madden of BikeTown from www.bicycling.com,Hans Rey of www.Wheels4Life.org,Bradley Schroeder of www.CaliforniaBike.org,Ben Capron of www.TrueOverdrive.com,and

Cuban sprinter Ivan Dominguez (Toyota-United) caught and passed a surging Martin Gilbert (Kelly Benefit Strategies) on the last of 55 laps to win the inaugural Vegas World Criterium championships on Thursday. The race, held in the parking lot of the Mandalay Bay hotel/casino in Las Vegas, marked the final event of the 2007 USA Crits series. “I only had one bullet to fire today and I waited until the end,” said Dominguez, who admitted his legs lacked their normal kick after the Tour of Missouri. Dominguez won two stages and the point’s jersey in that race. The Las Vegas race marked the

A German court has cleared Italy's Paolo Bettini to defend his title in Sunday's elite men's title at the cycling world championships in Stuttgart. The reigning champion's participation was in doubt after German cyclist Patrik Sinkewitz claimed Bettini had supplied him with doping products. The organizers insisted that Bettini sign the full UCI anti-doping agreement which makes it compulsory for every rider to provide a blood sample before Sunday's race. Bettini says demanding a sample is a breach of his human rights and has also refused to sign any agreement because of

Jeanson says her father and her coach both encouraged her to take EPO.

The head of France’s Anti-Doping Agency said Friday that Danish rider Michael Rasmussen submitted a sample that showed signs of the presence of Erythropoietin at this year’s Tour de France. AFLD President Pierre Bordry cautioned, however, that the sample does not qualify as a positive, because the substance in question is a new version of the drug EPO that is much closer to human erythropoietin than the established version of the drug, Epogen. "Traces of Dynepo, a biosimilar EPO, were found in Rasmussen's urine," AFLD President Pierre Bordry told the Reuters news service on Friday.

What a year Cadel Evans has had. His second place at the Tour de France made history as he became the first Australian to stand on the podium of cycling’s marquee race and he’s consistently been with the best from February all the way in to this weekend’s world championships, where he’ll line up as an outsider for gold on the Australian team in Stuttgart. But as good as Evans’ season has been, it could have been even better – a lot better. The Predictor-Lotto rider’s consistency was borderline great. Just consider the following: Evans missed winning the Tour by 23 seconds and fell short

Although the clouds overhead were heavy and gray in Stuttgart Friday, there was a hint of optimism surrounding the three U.S. national teams that hasn’t been felt at a world championships in recent years. Perhaps that is because in addition to perhaps the best women’s team USA Cycling has ever sent, for the first time since 2003 Discovery Channel rider George Hincapie is spearheading the men’s elite team heading into Sunday’s road race. Hincapie’s 2007 season took saw him take an unceremonious and unplanned break after fracturing his wrist at the Amgen Tour of California, but he has

George Hincapie sat in a U.S. national team jersey Friday afternoon for lunch in Stuttgart with another dozen pros, but only two compatriots shared the meal. Joining him at the table were Brits, an Italian, a German sport director and one team manager with a Cheshire cat’s grin in the form of Bob Stapleton. Hincapie won’t officially don a T-Mobile jersey until later this season, but the 34-year-old American was the marquee name among 10 new riders unveiled for the German team for the 2008 season. For Hincapie, the move marks a clear departure from his past as he’s set to ride on only his

We were somewhere round Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. — Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Okay, it’s 2008 and the inaugural Tour of America has just limped into Chimayo, New Mexico. Everyone has abandoned except for Steve Tilford and a couple of deranged Belgians who just cleaned out the Saints & Sinners liquor store in nearby Española after they tried to order waffles for dinner at El Paragua but got something that looked like rolled-up pancakes full of beans smothered in napalm. Junkies have stolen the wheels off the remaining team

Reynolds is filling a gap for 2008, admitting that it has not catered to the triathlon and time-trial segments and it’s built some new products to fix that very issue. The new Reynolds DV66 in both tubular and clincher provides noteworthy performance

Reynolds says that it tests to have the second lowest drag coefficient of all the wheels it has tested. The tubular set weighs 1350 grams and costs $2000; the clincher set weighs 1630 grams and costs $2350.

Element is Reynolds’ new carbon disc wheel built with an aerospace quality foam core. The carbon layers come from the hub and wrap up and over each side of the rim so there is ample overlap, making stronger, more durable wheels. 1100 grams and $1300

Reynolds molds in a valve stem cavity during the construction instead of cutting a whole out after the wheel is finished.

Reynolds’ Black Ops wheels. They weigh just 980 grams per set, and the wheel show to us had 247 g scribbled on it. I’m guessing it’s the weight of the 46mm carbon rim. A price isn’t set, but the wheels should be ready by January 2008.

The TT model has a narrower spacing on the front hub to reduce its frontal area by 50-percent. The wheelsets weigh roughly 1370 grams each. The narrower front TT hub concept is also available in the aluminum rimmed EA90TT wheelset.

The EC90SLX is a 24.9mm tall carbon tubular. Because of the smaller rim this set weighs in at 1170 grams. It was Astana’s front wheel of choice for most of the 2007 season.

Easton debuted a new crank after two years of development work on it. The EC90 crank has a hollow carbon spider and arms. A 175mm crank with its chainrings and bottom bracket weighs a mere 663 grams, and is only set to cost $600.

Metal is used for the attachment points; the pedal threads and non-drive pinch clamp is alloy while the bottom bracket spindle is steel.

Easton focused special attention to the bearings in the bottom bracket to cut down on seal drag. The outside of the high quality stainless steel bearing has a fairly standard seal but the inside has just a low contact dust cover.

FSA’s new K-Force carbon wheelset uses a new bladder molding process for the 50mm rim that allows for a highly refined finish right out of the mold. The set will feature carbon hubs, Sapim spokes and ceramic bearings for $1700 and should weigh 1340g

The titanium artisans at Moots have a new design for their new Cinch 27.2mm seatpost (31.6 and 30.9 sized posts are in the works); its clamp has been redesigned for easier installation and adjustment

Ritchey has a new 3/2.5 titanium Breakaway folding mountain bike.

The frame breaks down easily via this dual seatpost clamp...

...and this downtube coupling.

The Breakaway case has also been refined. There is no longer a plastic relief for the rear wheel’s cassette and the zipper has been moved to keep it out of the way.

Lake manufactured this custom color in its CX400 heat moldable shoe for the Jelly Belly team.

The CX330 has its Boa closure on its heel so that when tightened it locks a rider’s foot into the heel cup.

The 330 will have standard three bolt and direct mount Speedplay cleat attachment options in 2008. It costs $280.

Interbike - The industry gives back

Interbike - The industry gives back

World Bicycle Relief has given away over 25,000 bicycles similar to these in areas ravaged by the tsunami of 2005 and to health care workers in Zambia doing outreach to people’s homes fighting HIV/AIDS.

A typical wooden bike used for hauling goods in Rwanda.

A typical wooden bike used for hauling goods in Rwanda.

Alex Burgess, team manager of Team Velo Bella in his Vegas best.

Lew’s new limited-edition special wheels with specific layups for specific rider weights and characteristics come with this red superlight Tune freehub and cost $15,000/set. The rear weighs just 427g!

The 307-gram mate to the above limited-edition Tune-equipped rear wheel. This pair weighs in at an amazing 734 grams!