Organizers of the Tour of the Battenkill cycling race announce that amateur registration has exceeded 1800 registrants for the Pro/Am event scheduled for April 10 in Cambridge, NY. Registration for the event is expected to exceed 2200 by the April date, continuing its tradition as the largest single day road cycling race in North America.
Seeing a void in the development of well-rounded female athletes in Southern California, a pair of veteran cyclists, Dotsie Bausch and Pam Schuster, have formed the InCycle/Time To Track presented by Empower Coaching Systems cycling team.
The Rocky Mountain Bicycle Festival is set for August 7th & 8th, 2010 in Denver, CO at the National Western Complex. This third-year event, formerly known as the Rocky Mountain Bicycle Show, has grown steadily and significantly since it’s inception prompting the name change.
Along with her U-23 national cross-country victory, Emily Batty won the elite Sea Otter Classic short-track and posted a top-ten at the Offenburg World Cup in 2009.
The UCI grants provisional registration to Lampre, letting the Italian team remain part of the ProTour through March.
Track racer Sarah Hammer and biathlete Tim Burke were named Athletes of the Month by the U.S Olympic Committee for December.
2010 American Mountain Bike Challenge announced. Series features 21 events in 16 states and serves as qualifying races for USA Cycling Mountain Bike National Championships in Granby, Colorado.
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André Greipel (Team HTC-Columbia) tops the 2010 UCI world rankings following his victory in the Tour Down Under.
CAS, the world sport's top court, on Monday rejected an appeal by disgraced German cyclist Stefan Schumacher against a two-year ban for doping during the 2008 Olympic Games.
Peanut Butter & Co. is the new sponsor, Kristin Armstrong is the new director, and the team is adding several top new riders as it focuses on development for the 2012 Olympics.
With a 2010 schedule full of challenges ranging from defending his Milan-San Remo win to the green jersey at the Tour de France to even a run at the rainbow jersey in Australia, Mark Cavendish has one big question mark on where he will race in May.
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A photo gallery from Zack Vestal's visit to the Look Cycle factory in Nevers, France.
The fate of the much-talked-about Louisville, Kentucky, cyclocross world championships bid will be decided Friday by a vote when the UCI management board comes together in Tabor, Czech Republic. And while UCI ’cross coordinator Peter Van Den Abelee has made it clear he supports bringing worlds across the Atlantic in 2013, he says nothing is assured.
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Jason Sumner's photos from the final round of the cyclocross UCI World Cup in Hoogerheide, the Netherlands.
Jason Sumner's photos from the final round of the cyclocross UCI World Cup in Hoogerheide, the Netherlands.
2010 Tour de San Luis, Final GC results
Daphny Van den Brand collects the women's World Cup crown as countrywoman Marianne Vos leads a Dutch sweep in Hoogerheide.
Results from Sunday's World Cup cyclocross race
Lynskey Performance Designs offering ready-to-ride packages for Truvativ Hammerschmidt drive systems.
World champion Niels Albert wins the final round of the cyclocross World Cup as Zdenek Stybar takes the series title.
Olympic champion Samuel Sánchez is the latest big name to announce he will make an all-out push for the podium at the Tour de France this summer.
Picking up where he left off two years ago, HTC-Columbia’s big German sprinter, André Greipel, has claimed his second overall victory in the 2010 Santos Tour Down Under.
Colombian rider and former world time trial champion Santiago Botero says he will retire after this year's Vuelta a Colombia in July. The veteran all-rounder was once considered a threat for overall victory at the Tour de France, but saw his career tumble when he was linked to the Operacian Puerto doping scandal in Spain in 2006.
Quick Step is sticking to what it knows best as it rides into the 2010 season and that is clearly the spring classics for the powerful Belgian outfit.
After one of the most riveting stages in the twelve-year history of Tour Down Under, André Greipel (HTC-Columbia) has managed to defend his leader’s ochre jersey, and is now an assured winner in the 2010 edition of the Australia’s premier stage race.
Press Release: Let’s do something to help the people of Haiti. Elite, the leading Italian company in the cycling sector has decided to hit the field immediately to help the people of Haiti, the Caribbean island that was recently devastated by a terrible earthquake.
Don't have connections to get into Interbike? $150 bucks and time to get to Moab, Utah in September will get you all the 2011 hardware you can ride at new consumer event.
Rebecca Rusch and Jenny Smith are teaming up to take on the Trans Andes Challenge. But the early season race over the mountain range has the veteran racers tempering their expectations.
Here’s the latest sponsorship news we’ve rounded up from across the bike racing world
Louisville, Kentucky, could host the cyclocross world championships in 2013. The team behind the U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclocross events hosted in that city confirmed to VeloNews that a bid was submitted to the UCI.
Katie Compton’s run at the cyclocross World Cup overall title is officially over, as yet another bout of leg cramps will keep her off the start line at Sunday’s series finale in Hoogerheide, Holland.
While the UCI blessed 29-inch wheels for mountain bike racing in 2004, the German Cycling Federation is only now allowing racers to choose between 26ers and 29ers.
Officials revealed details of 68th Paris-Nice on Thursday and “Race to the Sun” follows a familiar pattern, with an individual time trial on the outskirts of Paris on March 7 to open what’s arguably France’s most important stage race behind the Tour de France.
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In part 2 of Jason Sumner's interview with world cyclocross champion Niels Albert, the Belgian superstar talks about the burden of wearing the rainbow jersey and his future — on the road and the dirt.
Dr. James Wilson has been racing bikes for a decade, and studying cystic fibrosis for 20 years. This year, he’s putting the two together to improve the lives of those living with the genetic disease. Wilson created Team CF to raise awareness of the disease and to aggressively promote exercise in children and young adults with CF as a way to improve their condition.
Mark Cavendish will postpone his season debut until the Ruta del Sol in mid-February due to a dental problem that’s delayed his training. The HTC-Columbia ace was expecting to make his 2010 season debut at the Tour of Qatar in early February, but team officials said he will open his campaign at the five-day Spanish race instead.
The French bank, Caisse d’Epargne, will end its sponsorship of the Spanish cycling team that bears its name at the end of the 2010 season.
Tour Down Under, Stage 4 - A Graham Watson Gallery
HTC-Columbia’s André Greipel added to his grip on the overall lead at the 2010 Tour Down Under on Friday, winning the fourth stage, his third victory of the week-long tour.
During six full-time European cyclocross racing seasons, spent primarily in Belgium where he and his wife Cori own a small home, Page has endured a litany of pitfalls and heartbreaks. Among the lengthy laundry list are multiple broken bones, a major falling out with his now former team manager, and charges of an anti-doping violation, which he was subsequently cleared of.
To see Lance Armstrong registered for the 2010 Miles of DisComfort Mountain Bike Marathon in Comfort, Texas on Jan. 30 could mean a couple of things.
German rider Charlotte Becker is joining Cervélo TestTeam for the 2010 season. Becker is experienced on both track and road. The 26-year-old is a former German national time trial champion and European points champion on the track. Last season, she picked up four wins and finished third overall in the Giro della Toscana while riding as a member of the now-defunct Equipe Nürnberger.
As part of our ongoing Buyer’s Guide look at new bikes and gear for 2010, we uncovered a good bargain in the Superleggera road bike from Tommaso Bicycles.
All of Graham Watson's 2010 Tour Down Under stage galleries
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Jason McCartney is consistent if nothing else. An appointed domestique since he was 15 years old, the native Iowan has a developed a sick passion for burying himself into the ground in the service of others.
HTC-Columbia is putting the finishing touches on its pre-season training camp at Mallorca.
Astana and RadioShack are both expected to start the Vuelta a Castilla y León in northern Spain in mid-April
Alberto Contador is quietly growing confident that the re-fitted Astana team will be up to the task of defending his Tour de France title come July.
Manuel Cardoso (Footon-Servetto-Fuji) takes Stage 3 at the 2010 Tour Down Under. Andre Greipel (HTC-Columbia) holds the lead.
Chris Carmichael recently returned from Hawaii where Lance Armstrong had been training in the lead-in to the Tour Down Under. Armstrong’s current power output, according to his longtime coach, is where it used to be in April during the years he was winning the Tour de France.
The Whole Athlete Junior Development Team out of California is grooming the future of MTB racing in North America.
Singletrack.com's resident wrench says tire sealants fall into two categories. Find out what might work best for you. Also, check out the video on how to install a tubeless system.
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From DH and freeride to cross-country, Easton wheelsets will get put through their paces.
San Diego-based company's chief operating officer assumes broader role.
A gallery of Graham Watson photos from the 2010 Santos Tour Down Under second stage.
Mark Cavendish wants to be more than the world’s fastest sprinter and is planning to widen his net to include a run for glory over the pavé of the northern classics.
HTC-Columbia's Andre Greipel extended his dominance of the Tour Down Under on Wednesday, winning his second stage in as many days.
Kevin Flock became a statistic when he was struck and killed by a van while cycling. But he was so much more than that.
Skil-Shimano is hoping to repeat its Tour de France sweepstakes this season as it prepares for an important season to confirm itself among the top ranks of the peloton. Strong performances in the 2008 and 2009 Paris-Nice helped earn Skil-Shimano one of the three wild-card invitations to the 2009 Tour. The team lived up to its end of the bargain in animating the race, putting riders into breakaways, capped by a third-place in stage 3 with Cyril Lemoine.
Cervelo's Ted King rejoins his second family at a team training camp in Portugal.
With racing underway in Australia and South America, it’s only a matter of days before the 2010 calendar clicks into gear in Europe. The first official races on the European continent will be the Giro di Regio Calabria in Italy on Jan. 30 and the GP de Ouverture La Marsellaise on Jan. 31 in France.
Citing costs and the loss of sponsorship, organizers of the Bump ‘N Grind in Birmingham, Alabama will drop out of USA Cycling's national Pro Cross-Country Tour.
So far people from 98 countries have applied for the LT100 lottery, which ends on Jan. 31. Guess who doesn't need to ask for an entry...
Graham Watson photos from the first stage of the 2010 Santos Tour Down Under
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2010 stage winner/GC leader (Click for full results):
Team Sky drew first blood in Sunday’s Cancer Council Classic. But two days later in the South Australian village of Tanunda, 2008 champion Andre Greipel of HTC-Columbia fired the first real warning shot of the opening event of this year’s ProTour when he claimed the first road stage and ochre leader’s jersey at the 2010 Santos Tour Down Under.