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Metal is used for the attachment points; the pedal threads and non-drive pinch clamp is alloy while the bottom bracket spindle is steel.

Alex Burgess, team manager of Team Velo Bella in his Vegas best.

Abbott likes the course

Easton focused special attention to the bearings in the bottom bracket to cut down on seal drag. The outside of the high quality stainless steel bearing has a fairly standard seal but the inside has just a low contact dust cover.

Lew’s new limited-edition special wheels with specific layups for specific rider weights and characteristics come with this red superlight Tune freehub and cost $15,000/set. The rear weighs just 427g!

Lewis hopes the race boils down to a small group

FSA’s new K-Force carbon wheelset uses a new bladder molding process for the 50mm rim that allows for a highly refined finish right out of the mold. The set will feature carbon hubs, Sapim spokes and ceramic bearings for $1700 and should weigh 1340g

The 307-gram mate to the above limited-edition Tune-equipped rear wheel. This pair weighs in at an amazing 734 grams!

Hincapie has been speaking with Stapleton for some time now. The two are seen here, chatting during February's Tour of California

The titanium artisans at Moots have a new design for their new Cinch 27.2mm seatpost (31.6 and 30.9 sized posts are in the works); its clamp has been redesigned for easier installation and adjustment

Lew isn’t the only one making sub-400 gram wheels. Topolino’s Rafe Schlanger’s new project front wheel weighs a mere 363 grams. It uses a Reynolds carbon rim and has a different method of attaching the spokes at the rim than other Topolino wheels.

A familiar face showed up in the Industry Crit. Mario's still Super, eh?

Ritchey has a new 3/2.5 titanium Breakaway folding mountain bike.

American Classic’s Mag 300 wheelset features a 280-gram magnesium clincher rim. The magnesium clincher wheelset weighs 1165 grams and absorbs high-frequency vibration, thus soaking up road buzz and granting more comfort and less fatigue to the rider.

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Jeanson says her father and her coach both encouraged her to take EPO.

The frame breaks down easily via this dual seatpost clamp...

Velocity’s new rim decorations are actually stickers.

The Cheerwine leadout train took Van Gilder to the line

The head of France’s Anti-Doping Agency said Friday that Danish rider Michael Rasmussen submitted a sample that showed signs of the presence of Erythropoietin at this year’s Tour de France. AFLD President Pierre Bordry cautioned, however, that the sample does not qualify as a positive, because the substance in question is a new version of the drug EPO that is much closer to human erythropoietin than the established version of the drug, Epogen. "Traces of Dynepo, a biosimilar EPO, were found in Rasmussen's urine," AFLD President Pierre Bordry told the Reuters news service on Friday.

...and this downtube coupling.

Delta 7’s Arantix frame uses carbon fibers arranged in an “Isotruss.” Delta 7 claims that it is lighter, stiffer, stronger, and more resistant to impact than traditional layered carbon frame constructions because the open structure isolates damage.

In 2018, long after global warming, plague and warfare had scoured the rest of humanity from the Earth, Steve Tilford wins the inaugural Tour of America, which began in 2008

We were somewhere round Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. — Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Okay, it’s 2008 and the inaugural Tour of America has just limped into Chimayo, New Mexico. Everyone has abandoned except for Steve Tilford and a couple of deranged Belgians who just cleaned out the Saints & Sinners liquor store in nearby Española after they tried to order waffles for dinner at El Paragua but got something that looked like rolled-up pancakes full of beans smothered in napalm. Junkies have stolen the wheels off the remaining team

The Breakaway case has also been refined. There is no longer a plastic relief for the rear wheel’s cassette and the zipper has been moved to keep it out of the way.

The Delta 7 Arantix’s down tube. All of these fibers are strung and tied by hand, resulting in a 300-hour frame construction time and hence a $7,000 frame price tag. Lizard Skin makes light, 1mm-thin stretch covers for using this bike in mud.

Reynolds is filling a gap for 2008, admitting that it has not catered to the triathlon and time-trial segments and it’s built some new products to fix that very issue. The new Reynolds DV66 in both tubular and clincher provides noteworthy performance

Lake manufactured this custom color in its CX400 heat moldable shoe for the Jelly Belly team.

Eric Sampson’s new Stratics complete road group includes a carbon crank and svelte front derailleur in addition to these parts. The whole group is quite light; Sampson’s Show Time group has aluminum parts rather than carbon and is far less expensive.

Bettini wants to ride, but won't give blood to do so.

Eisenmann says organizers insist on compliance

The dropout for a belt drive must come apart, else you could not install the belt on the bike. CDS sells dropouts like this with a key that allows it to open up.

Thus a mechanic finds himself with a last-minute fix to make

Pivot models have a direct mount for an E-Type front derailleur and 92.5mm bottom bracket shell that accepts a slip fit Shimano carbon resin integrated bottom bracket like that found on Yeti’s new carbon ASR.

Prosecutors have demanded that former world cycling champion Johan Museeuw be given a "hefty fine" as the doping trial against him and ten others opened in Courtrai, Belgium, on Thursday. Museeuw, along with six riders including Mario De Clercq, Jo Planckaert and Chris Peers and four others including the chief defendant, veterinarian Jose Landuyt, are accused of trafficking and taking banned performance-enhancing drugs. Prosecutors demanded a two year sentence, half of it suspended, for Landuyt, and an 18-month sentence, half of it suspended, against Herman Verseele, the physiotherapist who

The Lenz Sport Milk Money is a shiny, full-suspension single speed 29er with 80mm of rear travel and nary a cable guide to break up its clean lines.

Cancellara's bars, just before the start

Cervélo’s new RS has a longer head tube and chain stays for a more upright ride. Seat stays have been -shaped to offer more rear-wheel traction. Frame and fork will cost $2200; a Dura-Ace-equipped bike costs $4000

Frank Arokiasamy, the man behind the proposed 27-stage Tour of America in 2008, realizes racers and race fans are skeptical of his plans for the race from New York City to San Francisco. Nonetheless, he has hired a 25-person team to handle logistics, sponsorship, team management and other hurdles — including convincing people that he is serious. “I’ve been working on this for the last five years,” Arokiasamy said. “It started, actually, while I was watching the Tour de France, July 2002. I was watching the American really dominate the race. I got frustrated because … I couldn’t watch the

The concentric pivot of the Lenz Milk Money. As the swingarm pivots on the bottom bracket shell, the length of the chain does not change as the suspension compresses – a critical feature of a single-speed full-suspension bike.

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At CrossVegas Lyne Bessette and Jeremy Powers debuted the cyclocrossworld.com team painted Ridley X-Fire

Specialized founder and president Mike Sinyard, along with trusted colleagues Chris D’Alusio, Don Langley, and Mark Reidy and friends Randy Berggold and Mark Duroy arriving after riding from Morgan Hill, CA to Boulder City, NV

Lenz dropouts are horizontally adjustable to properly tension the chain. Since the seatstay bolts to the dropout, this is one design that could work with the CDS (Spot) belt drive, since you could swing the seatstay out of the way to install the belt

The national champ leads the way under the lights

The bikes sport Mavic wheels; the tubular R-SYS is shown with Dugast Typhoon tires. TRP brakes handle deceleration; Powers uses the new EuroX model

A good champagne dousing awaited the six riders after their 600-mile, 5-day odyssey. Reidy said, “at times, with Chris and Don on the front, this was hard as the (famously hard) Specialized lunch ride, in the middle of a 140-mile day!”

You lube the Milk Money’s pivot with an automotive grease gun through the Zerk fitting under the bottom bracket.

The men's podium

The bikes also use SRAM's new Red group

A well-deserved champagne toast from water bottles was bittersweet “Yesterday we were feeling sad it was almost over,” said Sinyard. “It was a fantastic ride. You can’t imagine riding across Death Valley!”

Cancellara repeats as world time-trial champ

The women's podium

Cannondale-Leer-cyclocrossworld.com’s Tim Johnson’s bike uses a SRAM Red group and TRP’s low-profile carbon brakes

Tire Balls as packaged, 30 per tire, pre-inflated. Currently, they are only made for downhill tires.

Cancellara burns up the soggy course

Lynskey Performance had custom titanium cruiser in its booth, it seems the Ti cruiser is a staple showpiece for custom titanium builders.

Decker’s Giant TCX is a mountain biker’s ’cross bike, with linear pull brakes and a single ring

Thisis why you can’t pinch flat with Tire Balls; the air can’t move out of the way when you your tire hits a sharp edge. Instead of moving, the air must stay right there and increase the pressure, like a progressive spring in an air shock.

Bodrogi takes silver

Lynskey’s line bumps up the performance ladder by adding more radical shaping to its titanium tubes. Lynskey is also offering a performance guarantee, where they build specifically to a customer’s performance attributes, whether it be weight, a ce

Michelin tubular ’cross tires. They feature Michelin’s Mud2 tread mounted on a Dugast casing

Installing the tire with Tire Balls in it is no easy task, as they are already inflated (with a basketball pump) before you put the tire on the rim.

Clement finishes with bronze

While Lynskey still had some wacky ’80s inspired paint jobs in its booth they also had some more retro chic graphics, like this SS paint job on a Level 3 frame.

Frank Arokiasamy discusses the long ride from New York to San Francisco

The inside of a TAG wheel.

Zabriskie had a disappointing ride, finishing 12th

Bob Parlee debuted his all carbon time-trial and triathlon bike this year at Interbike. Like Parlee’s Z1 through Z3 models the bike is fully custom to its buyer. Every tube that sees the wind on this $8500 frame has a true NACA airfoil shape.

Arokiasamy says the plan isn't as nutty as it appears.

TRP (Tektro Racing Products) cyclocross cantilever brakes, in carbon (top) and aluminum in various colors.

The champ redux

The final production bike will have a choice of horizontal dropouts so that the rear wheel can be tucked up into the seat tube. The seat stays are also designed using NACA shapes.

TRP's low-profile carbon cantilevers

Some soggy spectators

The rear brake is tucked up under the bottom bracket.

Outdoor Demo Day 2 - A Zinn's Eye View

Michael Schar gets a Swiss sendoff, complete with bells

One of the coolest items Parlee had at the booth was its carbon fiber braze on front derailleur adaptor. Not only does the adaptor save 30 grams off of an aluminum mount, it protects delicate carbon seat tubes.