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MOORESVILLE, N.C. (VN) — Chris Boardman is a relaxed man. Maybe his six children make him that way (or maybe it’s only a relaxed man who could enjoy six children as much as he does).

Killeen and Neethling join Giant Factory Off-Road, AC back to Rabobank-Giant

USA Cycling will announce Wednesday the hiring of former Cervélo Test Team director Marcello Albasini’s Alba Radsport firm to manage the national U23 development program.

Leopard-Trek gets geared up for the 2011 season.

In advance of next week's Tour Down Under, the RadioShack team has unveiled a new jersey for the 2011 season.

UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling has boosted its European pedigree with the signing of former Milram director sportif Vittorio Algeri to head the program’s operations on the continent. Thierry Attias, president of Momentum Sports Group, which owns the team, confirmed the hiring to VeloNews Tuesday night.

The Vuelta a España returns to the Basque Country for the first time in more than three decades in a 21-stage route that favors the climbers.

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Jakob Fuglsang is latest young rider to be billed as a “future Tour de France winner,” a burden the ex-mountain biker is not especially keen to bear.

Readers and companies offer feedback on Zinn's recent New Year's resolutions for the bike industry.

A reader asks Lennard Zinn about running Shimano chains on SRAM cassettes.

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Team Liquigas-Cannondale's new clothing supplier, Sugoi, released pictures Monday of the team training in the 2011 kit in Sardinia recently. This marks the first time that Sugoi — like Cannondale a division of Dorel Industries — has supplied a pro race team. The company said full replica editions of the team kit will be available to consumers in April.

Former Spanish mountain bike rider Alberto Leon, one of six people accused last month as part of a probe into sports doping, was found dead in an apparent suicide, reports said Monday. More soon on this developing story.

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Former Spanish mountain bike rider Alberto León Herranz found dead in an apparent suicide

Pancreatic cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths and one U.S.-based Continental team is pitching in this month to build awareness and further research of the disease. The Wonderful Pistachios Pro Cycling Team has announced that a portion of the sales of their team clothing will go to a UCLA Medical Center program.

Perhaps Mauro Gianetti should paraphrase Mark Twain, who famously said, “the report of my death was an exaggeration.”

Nick Legan, at the team camp in Mallorca, takes a quick look at the new team's Bontrager helmets.

Switzerland’s top court has reject an appeal by Alejandro Valverde, who had sought to overturn an earlier a Court of Arbitration for Sport ruling suspending him until 2012.

It didn’t take long for Danilo Di Luca to find a ride. Back from his ban for CERA, shortened by nine months after he cooperated with Italian officials about his doping practices,

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HTC-Highroad's Hayden Roulston launched a solid attack and soloed in to victory in New Zealand's national road championships on Sunday.

Niels Albert (BKCP) won one of cyclocross' most coveted titles on Sunday, earning the first Belgian national championship title of his career.

The Spanish cycling federation has passed the hot potato that is the Alberto Contador doping case back to the UCI and the World Anti-Doping Agenc

Ted King and Tim Duggan might not be the center of attention during Monday’s Liquigas team rollout in Milan, but the American pair should be getting plenty of chances to show their stuff when it counts most during the upcoming racing season.

Mike Creed has found his fire again. If he can keep the coals hot – and his head out of the way – in his first season with Kelly Benefit Strategies, that could mean trouble for the peloton from Redlands to Asia.

Bontrager to unveil new wheels under Team Leopard Trek and Team RadioShack

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A quick look at the bikes used by the new team

2011 Tour Down Under start list

After an unusual team camp at Specialized’s California headquarters, HTC-HighRoad will open the 2011 ProTour season later this month at the Tour Down Under. Aussies Mark Renshaw and Matt Goss are particularly fired up for racing.

USA Cycling is set late Friday morning to announce the members of the 2011 cyclocross world championship team. Communications director Andrea Smith confirmed to VeloNews that the team should be named before 12:00 p.m. Mountain Time. Jeremy Powers (Cannondale-Cyclocrossworld.com) and Katie Compton (Planet Bike) are expected to lead the automatic selections, while a number of discretionary picks should build out the team’s roster, which may total as many as five riders in each category.

A reader wants to know about his options when a private land owner shut off access to a long-used trail.

The Rallon's 150mm targets enduro and all-mountain shredders

I have a question about supplements. I'm a Category 4 racer in my local area and do fairly well, most of the time. But as I consider the move up to Cat. 3, I am thinking about supplementation in my diet — things like Optygen or similar have been suggested. Are there supplements out there that are safe, legal, and effective? If so, can you run through a list of these for us readers to help us make sense out of a lot of advertising jargon about things that are supposed to make us go faster?

The 2011 Orbea Rallon R3

Questions on wheel-change technique, pumps for lightweight riders, and steel in the pro peloton

At least Fabian Cancellara can now laugh about one of the most preposterous “scandals” of the 2010 season.

Organizers of Minnesota's Nature Valley Bicycle Festival have announced details of the stages of the festival's stage race, the Nature Valley Grand Prix, June 15 to 19. The organizers also announced that the festival's track event, the Minnesota Fixed Gear Classic, will be held once again. The track races are being held June 10-12 at the National Sports Center Velodrome in Blaine, Minnesota.

Guessing game taken out of helmet cams by using mobile phone

New book "Racing Weight Quick Start Guide" can get you lighter fast

New book "Racing Weight Quick Start Guide" can get you lighter fast

A reader wants to know about his options when a private land owner shut off access to a long-used trail.

The name of the new Leopard-Trek team came about almost by accident, but its goals are nothing short of domination in the classics and the Tour de France during the 2011 season.

Teva's Links mountain bike shoe available this fall

Carlos Sastre (Geox-TMC) will make his season debut at the Vuelta a Murcia in March.

Unless the UCI backtracks at a meeting with team directors on Friday in Switzerland, race radio communication between riders and their team cars will be banned this season in every road race except the 27 events of the new UCI WorldTour.

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The team's future is uncertain, but Pegasus Sports' 2011 race bikes are still interesting. Nick Legan takes a look.

First rider diary from Garmin-Cervelo pro Andrew Talansky

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The U.S. peloton got a boost of good health Wednesday when Kelly Benefit Strategies announced the signing of a new co-title sponsor. Circuit Global Sports Management, the firm behind Continental-registered program, named OptumHealth as a new title sponsor on the opening day of the team’s first training camp of 2011. The team will be titled Kelly Benefit Strategies-OptumHealth Pro Cycling.