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The Pace RC40

The RC31 keeps things light and is a perfect choice for some race situations.

The Scott Ransom...

.. and a closer look at same.

The Scott Plasma is all about aerodynamics...

... down to the smallest detail.

Seven's Diamas...

A.. and a close look.

Fans of our Live Coverage know about Spiuk's helmets...

... but the Spanish manufacturer also takes an interesting approach to saddles, like this road model...

... and the new Freeride.

Danielson's feeling strong, but knows he's still learning

Wegmann celebrates

Wegmann saved a little something for that last climb

Up Taylor they go

Rodriguez chasing, first on his bike . . .

. . . and then on a spare after a dustup with a moto

Lieswyn thought McCartney was the strongest guy in the break

Leipheimer and Hincapie missed out this time around

Vuelta Notebook: Menchov rises to the challenge; Heras penalized

The women's podium

The men's podium

In 2002, Mario Cipollini won Milan-San Remo, dominated the sprints at the Giro d’Italia, skipped the Tour de France (his team wasn’t invited), returned to the Vuelta a España to win three stages in the first week to abandon by stage eight, then stormed into Zolder and walked away with the rainbow jersey. In 2005, Alessandro Petacchi is close to repeating that script. After winning Milan-San Remo, Petacchi ruled at the mountainous Giro and then skipped the Tour (his team was invited) to arrive fresh for the world title. In Saturday’s 189km eighth stage the Fassa Bortolo speedster put the

French downhill racers Fabian Barel and Anne Caroline Chausson won their respective world elite downhill championships in Livigno, Italy, on Saturday. Both contests were decided by less than one second, with Barel getting the best of Aussie Sam Hill by only 0.77, and Chausson beating compatriot Sabrina Jonnier by less than four-tenths of a second. It was the second consecutive rainbow jersey for Barel, the 2004 champion. “Last year I rode well but I made mistakes,” Barel said. “I won because Steve Peat [Great Britain] crashed in the end. Of course, that’s the sport, you have to ride from

The Eurobike trade show in Friedrichshafen, Germany, is a wonderful place to gather information. It turns out it also is a good place to generate misinformation, as we inadvertently did yesterday. After seeing the Sram road group prototypes, we speculated about the shifting system, noticing that there was one shift lever behind the brake lever on each side, but no apparent way for the brake lever to swing or rotate to provide the other half of the shifting equation. Well, that’s because the one lever does it all. Today, we talked with two people who have used the system -- neither one of

Vuelta race leader Roberto Heras (Liberty Seguros) faces a major test in Sunday’s 48km time trial in Lloret de Mar. The undulating course zips up down along the entire route with four climbs along the way, including the Cat. 3 Alto de Tossa at 21.4km. The hilly profile should help Heras limit the damage against the time-trial specialists, who will find the technical course provides few opportunities to truly open up the throttle. Heras will have another advantage in that he knows the course well - he lives in nearby Girona. “It’s a hard course and it’s not tailored for the specialists

The United States jumped up to second place in the medal count at the world mountain-bike championships Saturday night on the successes of Americans Brian Lopes and Jill Kintner, both of whom swept every round of their respective four-cross heats on the way to a pair of gold medals. The rainbow jerseys awarded in Livigno, Italy, were the first and second for the U.S. over the past four days of racing, with Tara Llanes’s bronze in the four-cross the nation’s only other medal thus far. With elite cross-country racing remaining on Sunday, France leads the nation rankings with seven

Though its relationship with the city of San Francisco has occasionally shown signs of strain since its 2001 debut, the annual late-summer race here has gotten nothing but love from the tens of thousands of spectators who come out to watch each year. With a charming Golden Gate city backdrop and ladder-steep climbs, the race that took on the name of its new sponsor a few weeks ago to become the Barclays Global Investors Grand Prix has quickly earned a distinguished place on the American cycling calendar. Or, in the words of the Jittery Joe’s-Kalahari rider Tim Johnson, a veteran of all four

We have finally arrived in Catalonia and are close to Girona tonight. Dede and Liam were at the finish today and I will get to spend the evening with them as well as tomorrow as we’ll be in Lloret de Mar for two days. Lloret is a strange town that reminds me of Niagara Falls. It is overpopulated with tourists and tourist attractions and it not one of the more attractive towns on the Costa Brava. Next to our hotel there are haunted houses, wax museums, and water parks. Tonight we’ll enjoy a buffet dinner with hundreds of sunburned tourists. Today’s stage looked flat on the profile but any

Say what you will about the kind of lunatics who ride their bikes nearly non-stop from noon to noon. And gripe all you want about the 24 Hours of Adrenaline Solo World Championships lacking an official rainbow-striped blessing from the UCI. For the 150-plus riders vying for glory in Whistler, British Columbia, this is their world and their world’s. Most racers awakened to the sound of rain on Saturday. Fingers crossed in hope when the rain subsided by 8 a.m., but that hope was short-lived. By the noon start all riders had at least donned rain jackets, and many had mounted fenders. After the

That's No. 3 for Petacchi

Campagnolo's Eurus clincher....

... comes in silver, too, and...

... tubular versions.

Cinelli's Neo Carbo

De Rosa's Dual HF refelcts the company's design philosphy

Deda's Supernatural works beautifully with Shimano shifters

Deda's TT stem, a beautiful combination of carbon and aluminum

Fi’zi:k gets Freeky

Fulcrum's Racing Speed...

... and Racing Light

Italmanubri’s K-Sword now offers an Integral version

ITM goes off-road

The Pinarello Dogma

The Pinarello F413

Pinarello looks to Paris

45 grams and still on a diet, the C45 is the Kate Moss of bike saddles

The Gel Flow Sport is a little heavier, but a lot more comfortable

The Selle San Marco is working with magnesium...

...and, as you can see...

... the result is stunning

A bit of padding gives the MG a more traditional look.

Heras holds the lead going into Sunday's time trial

The trio off the front

Danielson rolled past his hometown of Girona today

Fassa and Crédit Agricole put an end to all escapes

Heras spent another uneventual day in the peloton

Barel takes the men's DH

Chausson claims a ninth world title

Cavalier collects the junior men's crown

Atherton romps to a 10-second victory

Vuelta Notebook: TT test for Heras; Petacchi staying, for now; weather worsening; what's next

Sarah Kaufman is racing her first 24-hour event

Eurobike, the bicycle industry’s annual trade show in Friedrichshafen, Germany, opened its doors Thursday for the 14th consecutive year. Although many companies these days are electing to display their new wares earlier in the summer in a race to be the first to capture dealer interest and begin filling their order books, Eurobike is still the first collective look we get at what’s in store for the new year. Unfortunately, 2005 did not treat the European bicycle industry so well. While few companies are willing to disclose hard numbers, the general indication is that bicycle sales have been

Max Van Heeswijk surged to victory in Friday’s seventh stage at the Vuelta a España in his biggest victory of what’s been a bittersweet year for the veteran Dutch sprinter. Van Heeswijk returned to the winner’s circle last month at the Benelux Tour after what was a season beset with personal problems and frustrations. Those are clearly a thing of the past as “Mad Max” charged to his first Vuelta stage win since 1997 in Friday’s chaotic sprint finish. “I knew I was strong today because I flatted but I was able to chase back on quite easily,” said Van Heeswijk, who outlasted Erik Zabel

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With Roberto Heras showing such dominance one week into the Vuelta a España, one wonders why he falls so flat in the Tour de France. For the past two Tours, Heras has failed to deliver after making his high-profile departure from U.S. Postal Service at the end of the 2003 season. In the 2004 Tour, Heras abandoned in the Alps. This year he made it to Paris, but he was never a factor in the race. “I am feeling that my body feels 100 percent for this Vuelta,” Heras said. “And during the Tour, it just wasn’t like that, even though this year was better than last year.” The headlines Friday

There’s a name on the international cross-country circuit that race fans will to want to familiarize themselves with. Only 19 years old, Swiss rider Nino Schurter spent 2005 as the reigning world junior world XC champion and was unquestionably the strongest man in the world under-23 cross-country championship Friday in Livingo, Italy. Unfortunately, the best man didn’t win in Livingo. Schurter took off from the start of the 3.5-lap, 43km contest, opening a gap of two minutes and riding comfortably in control of the race. But after losing tire pressure - first in his front tire, and then

Tyler Farrar (U.S. National) won the second stage of the Tour de l’Avenir in France on Friday, vaulting into fourth place overall. The 21-year-old Farrar outkicked Borut Bozic (Perutnina) and Hans Dekkers (Rabobank) in a mass-sprint finale to the 107.5-mile stage from Argentré-du-Plessis to Sainte-Scolasse-sur-Sarthe. Denmark’s Lars Bak (Team CSC) retained the yellow jersey ahead of Ukraine’s Denys Kostuyk (Jartazi Granville) and Spain’s Jesus Del Nero (Orbea). The day’s action kicked off early with a five-man break that went clear just 6km into the race. At 115km, with the gap up to more

I spent the first week of the race hoping for cool weather. Then, today we received a small dose, and I decided that the heat isn't that bad. It rained for 15 minutes and I almost froze. Thoughts of, "Be careful what you wish for," instantly popped into my head. It did dry up and then the brutal headwind appeared. I almost felt bad for the Liberty team, as they slogged their way into the wind, as Jakob and I stayed at the back with our pulses around 50 … well, not really. The tension rose towards the end and everyone completely lost their minds and went as if the Vuelta would be won

Vuelta Stage 7The countryside today’s stage passed through had long somewhat-shallow grade hills with wide-open and windy terrain, much like the foothills of Colorado. Michael said that the stage started at a quick pace and the field immediately splintered. The riders had to climb out of Teruel, which is situated in a valley. They raced over a four Category 3 climbs in the first 100km of the 200km stage, which some of the guys in the bunch said felt like more like Cat. 2’s, with some of the guys telling Michael that they felt like the Vuelta race organization was gypping them with the

BMC's Pro Machine sits naked for all to see

The BMC Team Machine

BMC made sure that this bottom bracket is among the peloton's stiffest

Swiss precision goes off-road

Catlike - long a favorite of Euskaltel - is coming to the U.S.

Catlike looks more jet-like from the back side

The Hutchinson Barracuda

Hutchinson kept the rubber side down for Mr. Armstrong

The Ghisallo hits new lows: A titanium frame at (gulp!) 770 grams