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A look at some of the NAHBS award winners
Bronto brought a bunch of 29ers singlespeeds and geared bikes to Austin
After the recent birth of her child, Olympic champion Kristin Armstrong is back on the bike and getting ready to race. She spent some time in San Diego's low-speed wind tunnel with Peanut Butter & Co.-Twenty12 and sponsors dialing in her fit and new equipment.
The manner in which Slovak-sensation Peter Sagan scored four victories in Sardinia this past week points to a career that’s headed to the sport’s very highest levels. Maybe he’ll even go as far as the sport’s biggest ever winner, Eddy Merckx.
The Women’s Prestige Cycling Series is back for an eighth season in 2011. The four-event series is the top women-only competition in the United States and will include the Redlands Classic, Tour of the Gila, Nature Valley Grand Prix and Cascade Cycling Classic.
George Hincapie feels better than ever. That’s saying a lot as the BMC veteran is on the eve of his 2011 debut – his 18th as a professional – at Montepaschi Strade Bianchi Saturday.
Sache White and his Vanilla and Speedvagen bicycles are a perennial favorite at NAHBS. This year was no exception.
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Jens Voigt (Leopard Trek) admits that his chances of claiming a record sixth victory at Critérium International are slim, but at least he’ll be at the start line this year to have a shot.
Alberto Contador is already a pretty good time trialist, but his new boss at Saxo Bank-Sungard said changes in his TT position could take the Tour de France winner up another notch.
Matteo Pelucchi delivers a morale-boosting win to Geox-TMC with a photo-finish victory in the Clásica de Almería.
Ivan Basso (Liquigas-Cannondale) opens his account early this season with a rare, one-day race victory at the GP di Lugano.
Cyfac shows a beautiful custom carbon bike while Kent Eriksen brings a ti' cyclocrosser set up with disc brakes.
Roland Della Santa reveals the truth behind his chainstay decorations as Ric Hjertberg expounds on wheels past and future.
Peter Sagan fends off some fierce attacks in the finale to secure the overall victory at the Giro di Sardegna.
Giovanni Visconti (Farnese Vini-Neri Sottoli) sprints to victory in the Grand Prix Regio Insubrica.
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Dutchman Sebastian Langeveld (Rabobank) won the 66th edition of the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (formerly Het Volk) as he outsprinted defending champion Juan Antonio Flecha (Sky) in a tightly contested photo-finish.
Final Overall:
Chris King built a custom Cielo for the NAHBS just to show what you can do with a handmade bike.
Taylor Phinney (BMC) is recovering at home in Lucca, Italy, after a training crash that left him with a mild concussion, his team announced Friday.
Red paint, chrome and curved steel brings back childhood memories for Nick Legan
At the NAHBS, Nick Legan scopes out a slick city bike from Naked and SPDs that jingle, jangle, jingle
Quick Step's Tom Boonen, Gert Steegmans and Sylvain Chavanel say they are ready for the start of the Belgian cycling season at Saturday's Omloop Het Nieuwsblad.
LEON, Spain (VN) — A protest this weekend appears to have been averted, but riders and teams promise to carry their growing frustration over the race radio ban to other upcoming events.
We can chose to take the Eeyore approach and dwell on the negative, or we can roll with the punches, remember why we fell in love with this game and enjoy the beauty of our sport with the knowledge that things are changing and good things are on the horizon.
The North American Handmade Bicycle Show gets underway in Austin.
Buddha reminds Singletrack.com's Jamie Bate that it's not about the bike
The owners of the Quiznos sandwich chain and the Quiznos Pro Challenge stage race, have invested an additional $10 million in the event, they announced Friday.
Peter Sagan knows no rival – at least at the ongoing Giro di Sardegna.
American squad UnitedHealthcare will continue its European schedule Sunday with the Clasica de Almeria.
At least one team is breaking rank with the peloton this weekend and will sit out any protest of the UCI ban on race radios. BMC Racing general manager Jim Ochowicz said in a release Thursday that his team would not take part in any demonstration planned for the opening weekend of the spring classics in Flanders, Belgium.
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A reader asks about "podium dudes" while another asks about application of doping rules.
Stage 3:
There is a notable difference between amateur racing and the professional ranks, not just in the race style but also in the riders themselves. There are some riders in the peloton who seem to command respect, the ones who make their hardest efforts appear effortless, never showing the strain that their bodies are surely going through.
The bitter taste is subsiding and Henk Vogels will soon be back in the United States with a new-look V Australia team for 2011. Vogels revealed the squad’s roster Thursday and gave his thoughts on returning to race in the U.S. three months after Pegasus Racing collapsed.
Stage 5
What do mechanics do on long, boring stages? Will Boardman's hour record be broken? And more
MADRID (AFP) — RadioShack's Markel Irizar (Radioshack) secured overall victory in the Ruta del Sol Thursday after the fifth and final stage, won by Oscar Freire of Rabobank.
Experienced Australian Luke Roberts returns to Riis Cycling. Saxo Bank-SunGard also signs Polish talent Rafal Majka.
Is the extravagant price of a ballistics-grade wheelset worth it? Singletrack.com looks to find out
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Xavier Tondo is sleeping at 2,300 meters this week in Spain’s high-altitude training facility in the Sierra Nevada mountains, but he probably wishes he could even be further away from the spotlight after a wild week that saw him “outed” as the source in Spain’s latest doping investigation.
In the five months since 1984 Olympic road champion Alexi Grewal announced he was making a comeback to racing at age 50, he has been hard at work. “There’s all the things you’ve got to do if you’re a privateer bike rider,” Grewal told VeloNews ahead of his comeback race this week. “I’ve been busy. Good busy.”
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad preliminary startlist
Past winners of Het Volk/Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
Past winners of Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne
Official start list for Sunday's Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne
South African Darren Lill was third in the fourth stage of his country's home tour on Wednesday.
Stage 4:
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Stage 2:
The European racing calendar gets busier with each passing week and this weekend sees the opening of the Belgian racing season with two important semi-classics that will see the top guns sharpening their form with the northern classics just around the corner.