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The Milram chase

Murcia

The winner

Everyone's smiling because tomorrow the Milram train gets the day off

Leipheimer is happy to let his teammate take the top spot on the podium.

Matti Helminen turns in a strong third-place ride

Contador: The Tour winner comes in for 10th.

Will Frischkorn had a good ride, and sits 2nd overall now.

The state of Missouri knows how to protect the riders, with some serious barriers.

O'Neill finishes a strong second

A long stage and a long break and the Tour of Missouri is changed for good. Our man Casey Gibson was there to see it all.

Hincapie at the start, perhaps predicting the outcome.

The peloton on another perfect fall day.

The break in its early stage, only 30 seconds up on the peloton.

Hincapie checks on the field as the break takes off.

The Drury Volleyball team was out to cheer on the riders.

Yellow jersey Ivan Dominguez had bike problems early.

Frank Pipp gets some advice from DS Jeff Corbett.

The TV cameraman gets creative in the break. Don't try this at home.

Mike Friedman was a strong part of the break.

Behind, the peloton is lead by Disco riders who are clearly taking it easy.

Hincapie takes a feed.

George takes the win...

... and the yellow jersey

A weary Will Frischkorn accepts the Most Aggressive Jersey.

Alessandro Petacchi (Milram) made yet another comeback after sprinting to victory in Wednesday’s otherwise routine 11th stage at the Vuelta a España. It was his first major victory since the Italian ace tested non-negative for Salbutamol at the Giro d’Italia and his career teetered on the edge of disaster. The Italian cycling federation eventually cleared Petacchi of what could have been a two-year racing ban, but the proud Petacchi was forced to sit on the sidelines during the Tour de France.

Barring a repeat of the bad luck that has periodically plagued George Hincapie the last couple years, the American is in solid position to win the overall title at the inaugural Tour of Missouri. On Wednesday, the Discovery Channel rider was part of a 12-rider break that rolled off the front of the field early in the rolling 125.6-mile stage 2 run from Clinton to Springfield and never looked back. At the finish, when Hincapie darted out of the small pack to take the stage win, the trailing field was more than 14 minutes behind.

Cycling fans with an eye for style can earn bragging rights and a Slipstream-Chipotle team bike if they design the squad’s 2008 kit in a contest designed to drum up both ideas and interest in the team. Team manager Jonathan Vaughters announced the "Get in the Slipstream" contest, which is open to the public, on August 31 at the national championships in Greenville, South Carolina. The team has since received more than 250 submissions via its Web site, where interested designers can download a template and upload their ideas. The only rules, Vaughters said, are that Slipstream’s trademark

Petacchi wins

Hincapie looks to have already locked up the inaugural Tour of Missouri

It was a routine day in the saddle for race leader Menchov

The peloton motors along

Another day, another pair of podium girls

Hincapie nips Rollin at the first sprint

Hincapie and Pipp rolling along

Schmatz fell victim to an armadillo

Hincapie takes the win . . .

. . . . and the leader's jersey

When the Dura-Ace 7800 group was introduced for the 2004 season, it didn’t feature a hint of carbon fiber despite the fact that Campagnolo was offering ample amounts of the material throughout its flagship Record group. At the time Shimano relied on its ability to forge high quality aluminum at its Osaka factories. Four years later, carbon fiber is quite evident in Shimano's 2008 line. Four of Dura-Ace’s five wheel models feature carbon fiber rims, while a fifth uses scandium. The just released XTR Shadow rear derailleur sports a true carbon fiber pulley cage. And to put the icing on

Photo Gallery Below On a day when I pause every year to reflect on what the future may holdfor all of us, I think about the things that give me a little hope forthat future. One of those things is seeing kids on bikes. The future seems a lotbrighter to me if lots of kids are riding bikes, ensuring a healthier nextgeneration of adults treading more lightly on the earth with another toolto combat global warming and oil dependence. There are a number of great programs around the country that are successfulin creating passionate young bike riders, and I think all of them shouldbe encouraged. I

How ironic is it that on the rest day we wake up two hours earlier than on any other day during the entire race? Okay, okay, I know getting up at 7:30 is not that early at all. Shoot, a majority of the working people out there have already been to the gym and commuted to work by this time. But it is really early for us right now and keep in mind that this is Spain. Let's put it this way, one of our neighbors yelled at Leah yesterday for walking our dog before 9 in the morning! That's because when their dog hears our over-grown Weimaraner, he freaks out, starts barking and wakes

It seems like just yesterday that the Slipstream squad was hanging out in Julien, California, banging out some early season miles and planning the loooong year ahead. Somehow, it’s already September and I’m now at the Tour of Missouri and just about to wrap up another season; amazing how fast the year goes by. Not that I’m done quite yet. For one thing, I still have six days of racing here and then another six in October in Mexico, but with fall in the air the mood circulating the dining room is certainly that of eager anticipation of the coming off-season. Plans of vacations to come,

MGM Home Entertainment and VeloNews cordially invite you to a special screeningof THE FLYING SCOTSMAN, the remarkable, true story of cyclist GraemeObree.WHAT: A FREE screening for cycling fans of all ages of the inspirationaland true story of an unlikely cycling champion who battled the odds toreach the pinnacle of his sport in The Flying Scotsman, arriving on DVDSeptember 18 from MGM Home Entertainment. WHEN: Friday, September 14th, 20077:30 PM (Doors open at 7:00 PM)WHERE: Boulder Theater 2032 14th StreetBoulder, CO 80302(303) 786-7030ADMISSION:  Admission is FREE and will be granted on a

Cuban speedster Ivan Dominguez earned the first yellow jersey of the inaugural Tour of Missouri, blasting across the line at the end of stage 1 on a sun-splashed Tuesday in Kansas City. The Toyota United rider’s triumph came at the expense of Canadian Zach Bell (Symmetrics) and American Kyle Wamsley (Navigators) who were second and third respectively on the opening day of this six-stage, 600-mile race that will head west to east across the Show Me State before finishing on Sunday in St. Louis.

Shimano’s new FC-7800C crank, much like the prototypes seen at this year’s Tour.

The new crank relies on a tapered spline, like XTR and a threaded BB bearing adjustment.

A cut away of the crank displaying the hollow splineless arm.

The WH-7850-C50-TU 50mm carbon tubular wheel.

The WH-7850-C24-CL 50mm carbon clincher wheel.

The rear freehub is made from titanium and now nine- and 10-speed compatible.

The WH-7850-C24-TU low profile carbon tubular wheel.

The WH-7850-C50-TU low profile carbon tubular wheel.

A close up of the low-profile clincher.

And the high profile clincher.

The tubeless compatible, scandium rimmed, WH-7850-SL wheel.

When the weather is nice, you can always expect a lot of bike riders.

Some Freikers braving the snow.

Technical Q&A with Lennard Zinn - Something to believe in

The Freiker unit knows all...

Neither rain nor snow nor carrying skis stays this Freiker from her daily ride.

A Freiker of the week with his $10 and Green Gear after riding every day over the past week.

Guts of the Freikometer, including lead strips for shielding

Crest View Elementary bike rack and snow-covered Freikometer in January.

Press Release: Free Boulder screening of 'The Flying Scotsman'

Dominguez shows 'em how it's done.

The newly-crowned U.S. champ meets fans

The peloton takes a moment to remember the anniversary.

Big crowds at the start

Tobacco fields dot the countryside

BMC and Slipstream give chase

Fans you wouldn't usually see at the Tour de France.

How much is Denis Menchov dominating the 2007 Vuelta a España? If the amount of lipstick on his cheeks from receiving kisses from the podium girls is any indication, a lot. The 29-year-old Rabobank captain won the longest and hardest stage of this year’s Vuelta on a sunny and windy Monday high in Andorra to carry a solid lead of more than two minutes to compatriot Vladimir Efimkin (Caisse d’Epargne) into Tuesday’s rest day. Just add up the quality podium time Menchov enjoyed: stage winner, race leader, mountain jersey and the combined jersey. That’s a lot of kisses.

The inaugural six-stage Tour of Missouri, the third and final of America’s three “grand tours,” kicks off Tuesday in Kansas City. The 600-mile course will travel a counter-clockwise route, ending on Sunday, September 16, in St. Louis. In between the state’s largest cities are stops in Clinton, Springfield, Branson, Lebanon, Columbia, Jefferson City, and St. Charles.

Mark Cavendish (T-Mobile) began his bid to win the Tour of Britain in style with a powerful finish to take the first stage on Monday in Southampton. Cavendish, who held the yellow jersey after the prologue, stormed away in the sprint finish after good work by teammates Roger Hammond and Frantisek Rabon had given him an ideal platform. The 22-year-old from the Isle of Man blew away Steven Caethoven and Juan Jose Haedo in the final 200 meters to clinch his 10th stage win of the season. and take a 14-second lead over Russia's Nikolai Trusov. Holland's Piet Rooijakkers, who took the

Monday’s exciting stage at the Vuelta a España saw the return of polemica, a tried and true European journalistic tradition of a battle of words fought out in headlines. The “he said-she said” tug-of-wars used to fill the pages of European sports dailies until the dirty business of doping scandals took all the fun out of being a cycling journalist. Those glory days returned briefly Monday as exhausted and frustrated riders started to point fingers at one another at the finish of the frenetic 214km “queen stage” across the Spanish Pyrenees. The first salvo came from Team CSC’s Carlos

The race leader scores his first stage win this year

Tour of Missouri kicks off Tuesday

Sastre attacked both during and after the stage