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President Chen opens the show. Hey, what's a little sovereignty dispute with China when you can ride bikes instead?

The one-piece seat tube/seat mast for the T-Mobile bikes cuts weight, but won't make it into Giant's general production bikes this year.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch...

Argon 18's bike fit system uses a full-size bike with articulated joints

Millennium 4Ever is a comfortable aluminum bar with a stylish white carbon stem clamp

The new X.0 features a carbon-reinforced cage.

The Aero RPT bonds an aluminum front end to a carbon rear

ITM's Nivola is a bare-bones, full-racing carbon aerobar

X.0 trigger shifters have carbon covers and adjustable bar clamps

Bear Bone cassettes from Ken Bikes are lightweight wonders.

Millennium 4Ever is a comfortable aluminum bar with a stylish white carbon stem clamp

Markus Storck with his new creation for Tange. (Please hold the Millennium Falcon toilet seat jokes.)

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.Post column was a cheap shotVeloIt really is unfortunate that an ultra-conservative tabloid like theNew York Post has attacked Lance Armstrong's personal life whilecriticizing his tepid endorsement of Paris for the 2012 Olympics.As a New Yorker I also endorse any other country besides

A couple of hours before hearing that Bobby Julich had won this year’s Paris Nice, I happened to be sifting through my unorganized collection of VeloNews back issues. I stumbled on a rare find: the 1999 official Tour de France guide –a handy reader for the American cycling fan. The 82-page glossy mag’ came complete the usual guide guts –stage maps, tons of photos of now-dated bikes and gear, a ton of photos of Marco Pantani, and mini-profiles of the Americans who would ride the Tour, including now-retired big guns Frankie Andreu, Kevin Livingston, and Jonathan Vaughters (note, Vaughters was

An arbitration decision in the blood-doping case of U.S. Olympic gold medal-winning cyclist Tyler Hamilton is still on hold, according to the cyclist himself. Hamilton wrote on his website that while the hearing itself has ended, arbitrators are still considering the evidence given at the proceedings in Colorado, where the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency argued its case and Hamilton offered his defense. "Normally a case closes when the hearing ends," Hamilton wrote. "However, my case was fairly complicated, given the amount of testimony provided. So, for a number of reasons, it is still

Julich had a close call, but Paris-Nice turned out to be a great ride for the American.

CSC was dominant again this year, taking the overall, the points and the team titles.

Valverde was aggressive all day.

Gustov and Moncoutié

Voigt gets to work...

Contador and Vinokourov were swept up at the finish.

Finally, a real race to the sun

Posthuma time trials to the finish

Julich retains the overall lead going into Sunday's finale

Posthuma crosses with plenty of time to celebrate

Dessel leads the break

Voight muscles up the Tanneron in defense of Julich's jersey

On the run

Danielson and Rodriguez

Julich hopes to stand here one more time - on Sunday

CSC en garde

Julich in yellow

Simoni celebrates the stage win

The $525 Pro Elite version features Kevlar sailcloth reinforcement along the upper for increased support while sprinting or climbing

The $475 Best Fit option features these hand-molded carbon soles

Jalabert leads the escape

Verbrugghe caught up in a spot of bother

Fassa at the front

On Mont Faron

It was a showery day in much of western Europe on September 5, 1965. It was particularly wet in Spain’s Basque Country, where the men’s pro road race was being held at the UCI world championships on a 19km circuit at Lasarte, in the hills south of San Sebastian. A few hundred miles to the north, in another maritime region, Brittany, France, I was racing in a two-day stage race. That humid Sunday, our schedule was a time trial followed by the concluding circuit road race. The two protagonists in that amateur race were future French ace Cyrille Guimard and an English colleague on my French

Matt DeCanio’s admission that he used testosterone and recombinant human erythropoietin (r-EPO) in 2003 brought him a two-year suspension, but thanks to a seven-month deferment he could return to racing in November of this year, the United States Anti-Doping Agency announced Friday in Colorado Springs, Colorado. “In accordance with UCI rules, DeCanio’s two-year suspension began on June 12, 2004, the date of his admission,” the agency said in a press release. “He received a deferment of seven months of the two-year suspension, as permitted by the UCI rules in effect at the time, and is

Lance Armstrong could be forced to skip his first major one-day race of the season following his early departure from Paris-Nice due to a fever, according to his Discovery team boss, Johan Bruyneel. Bruyneel told Belgian newspaper La Derniere Heure that Armstrong's participation in the April 3 Tour of Flanders was at least compromised. "Lance's program is sure to change. We will have to just wait and see when he is ready to compete again. His participation in the Tour of Flanders is compromised, but nothing is certain." Armstrong, 33, pulled out of Paris-Nice, the first race of the

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.Slap at bracelet ‘fashionistas’ was uncharitableEditor:Katie Sanborn's characterization of people who wear the Livestrong bracelets as "fashionistas [who are] all twitterpated about Lance and Sheryl" (see Monday's Mailbag: “Losing OLN would be sad, but losing VN.com . . . “) is

Mr. Tom in the rainbow jersey

Jens Voigt on the attack

Boonen's looses the jersey

As the race moves south, riders can expect an improvement in the weather

Discovery's Tom Danielson

Windy is better than cold for some

A new race leader... for how long?

Landis leads an escape attempt

Jaksche on the run

Is it July yet?

Armstrong on Wednesday

There are two intense competitions going on this week as the ProTour debuts at Paris-Nice. First, there’s the “Race to the Sun” which inaugurated the 27-race ProTour series with much fanfare Sunday in Paris. Then there’s the real dogfight going on behind closed doors, with the UCI and the teams squaring off against the grand tours, leaving the future of the ProTour hanging in the balance. The center of the ProTour conflict is a power struggle over which entities will wield control of cycling into the next decade. Contrary to the PR spin this weekend, it seems everyone had a beef at the

Today (March 9, 2005) the Navigators Insurance Cycling Team could finally race again afterall the bad weather in the last few days. It was only a Belgian Kermesin Wanzele, 177km, 17 laps of 11km, but all the riders were very nervousto race.The field of 200 riders took off at an unbelievable speed of over 40.The Chocolate Jacques team had 16 riders at the start and decided to gofrom the gun.The result of this fast start after the first lap left 50 riders inthe first group (including Navigators' Mark Walters and Hilton Clarke)and 45sec down a second group of 60 riders that included

THIERS, France (AP)Lance Armstrong is picking his country to finish second in the race for the 2012 Olympics. The Texan endorsed Paris instead of New York when asked Wednesday which city should win the highly competitive bid for the Summer Games. "To be fair, I think that Paris deserves the Olympics,'' Armstrong said in an interview with The Associated Press. ``I think they were arguably the best candidate in 2008 but for different reasons Paris didn't win, and they went to Beijing.'' The six-time Tour de France champion acknowledged he was torn over the decision, and

First Score - Reynes gets his first win in the elite ranks

Rodriguez finished third Wednesday

Voigt goes on the attack.

CSC gives chase.

Cycling’s homecoming gameImagine for a minute that you’re headed to the famed Notre Dame Stadium.It’s game day, time for a little flag football and tailgating before youhead inside to watch the Fighting Irish do battle. Now imagine if insteadof football being your passion, you are a cyclist. Where is your NotreDame Stadium? What’s the game of choice at your tailgate party?Well, for anyone who has been involved in cycling for the last 15 years,the answer is simple: Monterey, California, is home to the big game, andthe activity choices are endless — as long as they involve two wheels.The event

Boonen repeats

2005 Sea Otter Guide now on-line

Armstrong

Dekker moved into yellow on Monday

I promise. I won't. Really.

The feedzone.

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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.OLN can blame itself for small cycling audienceEditor:Quote from letters:"OLN is under no obligation to cover cycling at all. None of the other networks cover cycling because it is a money-losing proposition. If more people watched, things would be different." That argument is a load of

The Austin-Bergstron airport is a lonely spot to spend a Sunday night. The place is completely vacant – save for a lone security guard and a guy washing the floors – and any form of caffeinated sustenance is either locked up behind a closed café door or held within the glowing beastly machine that won’t take my #@$%ing dollar bill. Reassuringly, a soothing voice continually reminds me that “any bags left unattended will be subject to search and could be destroyed,” despite the fact that there is nary a soul to either abandon – or destroy – pieces of potentially hazardous luggage. The

Boonen keeps the rubber side down and takes the win

Fabian Cancellara takes second

Dekker finishes third

Vladimir Gusev in fourth