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It looks like Taylor street will be a little less crowded on September 10, 2006

Tents and Bikes at Mt. Everest

Wells takes the sprint; Wicks takes the series

Johnson put in a good fight

Horner improves in his second outing

Nice jersey. Will he get to keep it?

Simms breaks the streak.

Bessette finally showed she was human.

Wicks wants the whole enchilada.

This is `cross season, isn't it?

Wells in pursuit

Horner tries something different.

Bessette's streak hits 12

Simms made it a real race on Saturday.

Why we love `cross: TIAA-CREF-Clif Bar's Troy Wells grimaces while a competitor gets a face full of dust.

The Mailbag is a regular feature on VeloNews.com. If you have a comment, an opinion or observation regarding anything you have seen in cycling, in VeloNews magazine or on VeloNews.com, write to WebLetters@InsideInc.com. Please include your full name and home town. Letters may be edited for length and clarity.Clay Mankin: Passionate, generous and gentleEditor:Last Sunday, cyclists and decent human beings everywhere lost a wonderful friend, advocate, instigator, visionary and an all-purpose do-gooder in Clay Mankin, loving father and husband, proprietor and icon of the San Francisco institution

Greg LeMond had a surprise visitor at L’Alpe d’Huez during the 1984 Tour de France. He was relaxing in his hotel room after placing sixth on the stage up the fabled alpine climb when there was a knock on the door. He recognized the female visitor as a motorcycle driver on the race. She said to the young American, then 23, "Greg, do you know who Bernard Tapie is? He’d like to see you in private." Yes, LeMond did know that Tapie was the mysterious, ambitious French businessman who that year had started a new pro cycling team, La Vie Claire, which had hired four-time Tour winner Bernard

Ullrich doesn't want to finish behind Leipheimer in the 2006 Tour of Germany

LeMond in La Vie Claire kit

The suberb Michelin Mud 2. This tire is being run tubeless with sealent on a Shimano 7801-SL wheel set

Geax's Mezcal semi-slick

Some days just beg for clinchers ...

... while others demand fancy tubulars.

Vittoria's EVO XG

Vittoria's EVO XN is designed for dry conditions and comes in both tubular and clincher (this one is a tubular)

The Dugast `cross Typhoon

The original Michelin Mud has taller knobs with no siping perfect for those really mucky days

Tufo's Elite LPS Tubular is a very popular tire

The Mailbag is a regular feature on VeloNews.com. If you have a comment, an opinion or observation regarding anything you have seen in cycling, in VeloNews magazine or on VeloNews.com, write to WebLetters@InsideInc.com. Please include your full name and home town. Letters may be edited for length and clarity.Small change for big eventEditor,This is disheartening. If San Francisco fails to continuewith its support of this imrpressive race I have lost hope in thiscountry ever truly caring for, or even respecting, cycling.Sad, sad, sad!I know that we need to run our cities efficiently, but

Clay Mankin died Sunday November 13 of natural causes doing what he loved:riding his bike. He was just a week shy of his 50th birthday and to celebrate,Clay was treating himself to a solo ride from the San Francisco Bay Areato Santa Barbara when he died.Clay was a gift to cycling and as I pause to remember him – I feel honoredto have ridden with him. As the owner of CityCycle bike shop in San Francisco, he was legendary for his abilityto pull people into cycling.The last time I saw Clay he was also shoving off for a big ride. Hewas riding from our Bike Camp hotel in Tuscany to meet a former

Clay Mankin

Giro `06: That last day can include a time trial or the usual parade into Milan, but not both

Clay doing what Clay loved to do.

The whole Barry-Demet family stopped by VeloNews international headquarters to discuss a new book deal.

Pay to the order of.....

Is this guy a DOPER?

After considering your opinions* regarding the magazine's top honor, international cyclist of the year, the North American male cyclist of the year and North American female cyclist of the year awe now move on to the category of Best men's road team of the year. After a full season of covering bicycle racing, the VeloNews crew hunkers down in a secret location and takes stock of the events and standout performances of the year. The 18th annual VeloNews awards will appear in the December 5 issue. Sometimes brilliant, sometimes not, our picks often trigger a flood of reader responses.

November 12, 2005 (Minneapolis) - Women and their supporters gatheredin Las Vegas at the Interbike trade show in September for the sixth YoplaitNouriche Women’s Cycling Summit. The fall 2005 Yoplait Nouriche Summitfocused on a highly successful entry-level racing program and on how teamscan give more value to their sponsors.   The full proceedingscan be found at WomenCyclists.comCycling Made Real – a grassroots program that worksPast Yoplait Nouriche Summits have identified Cycling Made Real asthe country’s most successful program for recruiting novice women to bicycleracing. 

We’ve been getting quite a few inquiries here at velonews.com about thefuture of the USPRO road championship. Just last week USA Cycling announcedthe time and location of all of next year's events except for USPRO.And as reported earlier this year, big changes are in store for the eventas the event will no longer be open to foreign racers. Over the years, the national championship, organized by Pennsylvania-basedrace promoter Threshold Sports, has been held as an open internationalevent in Philadelphia that has grown into the most important one-day eventin North American racing. But all

See anyone you know?

You remember this guy, don't you?

The victors.

Not your typical Sunday ride, eh?

Our latest reader-submitted Photo Gallery is now up for your viewing pleasure. Of course, a new gallery also means the naming of the winner of ourmost recent contest. We could wax academic about the superior compositional elements of Ed Subias’s “SoCalCyclo-cross 2000,” but mostly we like it because we can taste metallic lactic acid just looking at it. Congratulations Ed! Drop us a note at Rosters@InsideInc.com to work out the details and we’ll send you a copy of Graham Watson's "Landscapes of Cycling."Go ahead and take a look at our latest gallery,decide what you like and let us

The Mailbag is a regular feature on VeloNews.com. If you have a comment, an opinion or observation regarding anything you have seen in cycling, in VeloNews magazine or on VeloNews.com, write to WebLetters@InsideInc.com. Please include your full name and home town. Letters may be edited for length and clarity.Lack cycling heroes? Look for heroes who cycleEditor:A couple of letters in Friday's mailbag lamented the lack of cycling heroes. This reader long ago gave up on the "athlete hero." They're mostly overpaid, egotistic, pampered rich people. I do admire their athletic prowess -

VeloNews Photo Contest: Last week's winner and a new gallery

Ullrich - seen here in Austria during the Tour of Germany - is trying to decide whether the Giro will help or hinder his Tour chances.

Nijs strikes a familiar pose.

Groenendaal set an early pace...

... and helped establish the winning break...

... but always had that teammate of his right on his wheel.

In 11th place on Sunday, Wellens has not had the season he'd hoped for.

The Gavia was the scene of an epic showdown in the 2000 Giro...

... a battle won by none other than Lampre's Gilberto Simoni

The sprint king may take a pass on the Giro

Sunday's EuroFile: A climbers' Giro; Reactions mixed

Millar hopes to ride the 2006 Tour

The route of the 2006 Giro d'Italia

Two-time Giro winner Gilberto Simoni points to what he hopes will be another route to victory

Campos moves into the lead

Bishop was one of many who flatted on Saturday

Jaikel had a unique mechanical problem

2006 Giro route unveiled

Thanks, Elke! Trent Lowe’s tan lines get a rubdown from team soigneur Elke Brutsaert.

After losing the USPRO crit nationals by a hair, all Dave McCook could do was ponder what could have been.

Trek/VW’s Sue Haywood and Jeremiah Bishop workin the autograph table

Brian Lopes shows Jared Graves how to take a victory slug of victory champagne.

Jill Kintner enjoyed a moment to herself before the 4X in Angle Fire, New Mexico.

Can Frischknecht compete on the Costa Ricans' turf Uh huh

Guess who! Mary McConneloug sneaks up on Sue Haywood at the Sea Otter classic.

Bishop still managed fifth despite the atomic bonk

A soggy night at the Athens Twilight Criterium

Not your average mountain-bike race

Oswaldo Olmos took school pride to the next level at collegiate road nationals.

Jared Graves shows some bling and keeps the tags on.

At the end of the 2005 race season, I found myself with a hard drive chock-full of strange images from the year’s racing scene. Most (if not all) are on their way to an eternity in the digital afterlife, having been erased to make way for next year’s crop. But before I 86ed all of the images, I felt compelled to share a few with you. For whatever reason, none of these shots made it into a velonews.com race report this year. That said, more than a couple are worth looking at. Enjoy.

The NORBA XC crowd.

The Mailbag is a regular feature on VeloNews.com. If you have a comment, an opinion or observation regarding anything you have seen in cycling, in VeloNews magazine or on VeloNews.com, write to WebLetters@InsideInc.com. Please include your full name and home town. Letters may be edited for length and clarity.Regarding Heras: Wait for the ‘B’ testEditor:Hey, guys, before you start poking Roberto Heras with sharp pointy sticks, maybe you ought to wait and see what the result of the "B" test is. I've worked in molecular-biology labs for over 30 years and there is no such thing as a test with

Now married, Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski and Heather Irmiger after both winning the XC in Brian Head, Utah.