Race officials neutralized and canceled the fourth stage of the women’s Nature Valley Grand Prix on the final lap after a large crash at the start/finish line took down a number of riders. Overall leader Kristin Armstrong (Peanut Butter & Co.-Twenty12) and defending champion Shelley Olds (Diadora-Pasta Zara) were among the crashed riders heading into the bell lap in the Uptown Minneapolis Criterium.
What's that bike CVV is riding at the Swiss Tour?
The UCI management committee has approved measures that would prevent anyone who has violated cycling’s anti-doping regulations to be employed in the sport.
Giant's new prototype road frame is being used by several Rabobank riders
Terra Forma Evolution hubs are an impressive new design for off road bikes, but have just as much potential for the road.
JJ Haedo (Saxo Bank-Sungard) bounded out of the pack to claim victory in Friday's third stage at the Ster ZLM Toer in Holland.
Father’s Day weekend is busy across the country with the National Racing Calendar and USA CRITS series in action, urban track racing on display in New York City, and the historic Nevada City Classic in California.
SERFAUS, Austria (AFP) - HTC-Highroad is looking for Mark Cavendish to step up and contend the final sprint stage of the Tour of Switzerland after two no-shows in the race so far.
Wayne Lumpkin, founder of Avid Components, scores again with the Kobe Slider dropouts.
Rus Kappius is bent on taking the mountain bike a step forward with his fresh take on bicycle transmissions
TRIESENBERG-MALBUN, Liechtenstein (AFP) - Colombian rider Juan Mauricio Soler was reported to be in a stable condition after suffering head injuries in a crash on the Tour of Switzerland, an official for his Movistar team told AFP Friday.
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Giorgia Bronzini showed her world road champion pedigree Thursday, winning her second stage in a row at the Nature Valley Grand Prix. Bronzini (Colavita-Forno D’Asolo) outkicked Chloe Hosking (HTC-Highroad) on the uphill finish to nab the stage 3 win in the Cannon Falls Road Race. Teresa Cliff-Ryan (Colavita) came through for third.
A day after UnitedHealthcare ran away with the first two stages, Robert Förster left no doubt when he won the Cannon Falls Road Race at the Nature Valley Grand Prix Thursday night.
A look at the Salsa Vaya Ti that Nick Legan used for the 200-mile Dirty Kanza race. UPDATED with Kanza video.
Francisco Mancebo won the queen stage of the Tour de Beauce Thursday atop the 6.8km climb of Mont Mégantic in southeast Québec. Mancebo (Realcyclist.com) beat Bernardo Colex (Amore & Vita) and Sebastian Salas (H&R Block) to the observatory atop the summit finish atop the 7.7-percent climb.
The UCI's press releases urges the media and fans to show Contador respect.
The UCI's management committee on Thursday urged fans and the media to show the "utmost sense of responsibility" toward Alberto Contador at the Tour de France.
Bar tape underlay, sticky numbers, and trainer stress
Time Station 6, Congress, Ariz. (VN) — In August of 1982 four cyclists departed from the pier in Santa Monica, California, in a race to the Empire State Building in New York City, New York. None of them knew that the “Great American Bike Race,” as it was called that first year, would still be going on 30 years later and that it would grow to what it is today.
Devon Balet captures the Tour Divide riders as they pass through Butte, Montana
Pain, suffering, anguish, triumph, defeat and exhilaration: Six days into the Tour Divide and every emotion known to man has surfaced
Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Cervélo) is back in the winner's circle with a win Thursday in the second stage at the Ster ZLM Tour in Holland.
TOBEL-TAGERSCHEN, Switzerland (AFP) - American cycling team HTC-Highroad officials say they still hope to keep top British sprinter Mark Cavendish on board as reports of his move to Team Sky resurfaced Thursday.
TRIESENBERG-MALBUN, Liechtenstein (AFP) - Dutchman Steven Kruijswijk of the Rabobank team won the sixth stage of the Tour of Switzerland Thursday, held over 157.7 km between Tobel-Tagerschen and here.
TRIESENBERG-MALBUN, Liechtenstein, (AFP) - Former race leader Mauricio Soler was left with head injuries and a broken ankle following a crash in the Tour of Switzerland sixth stage on Thursday.
There has been a lot of Internet chatter about last weekend’s Tyler Hamilton/Lance Armstrong meet-up in Colorado. What’s the big deal?
Niner says its Constantly Varying Arc suspension design is engineered just for 29ers.
Lionel Marie, sport director at Garmin-Cervélo, says Alberto Contador will have an ace up his sleeve this July in his showdown against Andy Schleck. Why? Because Marie says that Bjarne Riis knows his former pupil, Andy Schleck, better than anyone, and the Dane will be able to pick up the tell-tale signs when the younger of the Schleck brothers is pushing into the red.
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Mavic has vastly improved XC, trail and all-mountain sets in their venerable Crossmax line.
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The young American Tejay Van Garderen will get his first taste of the Tour de France next month. The HTC-Highroad rider will be at the Grand Départ on the Vendée July 2, sources tell VeloNews.
UnitedHealthcare showed its muscle Wednesday night, controlling the entire Saint Paul Downtown Criterium and sweeping the stage 2 podium at the Nature Valley Grand Prix. After defending overall leader Rory Sutherland’s leader’s jersey, Jake Keough, Hilton Clarke and Robert Förster went one-two-three at the end of the 75-minute race.
World road champion Giorgia Bronzini rode her Colavita-Forno D'Asolo train to the stage 2 win at the Nature Valley Grand Prix Wednesday night. After her team wrestled control from the Tibco-To the Top squad in the final lap, Bronzini came out of the final corner in second wheel behind teammate Teresa Cliff-Ryan. She couldn't be matched when she kicked in downtown Saint Paul and Bronzini rode away with the second stage of the five-day, six-stage race.
Pro riders would be able to switch teams in the first half of August under certain conditions under a rule change approved by the UCI's Professional Cycling Council Wednesday in Maastricht, Netherlands.
Martijn Verschoor turned the tide of Team Type 1 podium places Wednesday with the stage 2 win at the Tour de Beauce at Thetford Mines, Québec. Verschoor hung tight in an aggressive, three-lap finale on the short finish circuit and took the team’s first single-day win of 2011 out of a bunch sprint.
Rory Sutherland won the stage 1 Saint Paul Riverfront Time Trial Wednesday morning at the Nature Valley Grand Prix. The three-time defending champion at Nature Valley, Sutherland (UnitedHealthcare Children’s Foundation) had never won the TT stage before and will for the first time take the leader’s jersey into stage 2 Wednesday evening at the Saint Paul Criterium.
Kristin Armstrong waited until the rain let up to lay down the fastest time in the opening stage of the Nature Valley Grand Prix Wednesday morning. Armstrong (Peanut Butter & Co.-Twenty12) took control of the five-day race with a time of 14:30 in the 6.1-mile stage 1 Saint Paul Riverfront Time Trial.
VIDEO: While other bikes may come and go the two-niner Spot Rocker SS is one of those classic rigs that is sure to stand the test of time.
TOBEL-TAGERSCHEN, Switzerland (AFP) — Slovenian Borut Bozic, of the Vacansoleil team, won the fifth stage of the Tour de Suisse, a 204.2 km ride between Huttwil and Tobel-Tagerschen on Wednesday.
TOBEL-TAGERSCHEN, Switzerland (AFP) - Yellow jersey contender Andy Schleck of Luxembourg believes he will have more than Spain's Alberto Contador to worry about in this year's Tour de France.
Make sure you can stop when you need to. Singletrack.com's Lennard Zinn demonstrates how to replace an Avid brake pad.
The NUE Series of 100-mile races moves to Michigan this weekend after heat in Ohio.