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Bettini & Boonen at Solvang ToC Time Trial warming up

Collegiate Racing at Rutgers

Baby it's cold outside!

World Champion flying in TOC '08

Sunset on the Old Pueblo

Damn Camera Bike - it's Zabriskie, honest

A fractured peleton - Sierra Rd - ToC 2008

Tour of CA- Sacramento. Kevin Lacombe

TOC Sacramento 300 To Go

Tour of California Stage 5 - Solvang Time Trial

Top of Perkin's Memorial, Bear Mountain, NY - Ullrich lackner, Herb Jimenez and Rami Parissi of the Aspen East Cycling Team in Upper Montclair, NJ

Ladies love Lucca, Tuscany, home of Mario 'The Lion King' Cipollini

George Attacks!

PAIN IN THE RAIN IN PASADENA

2007 Tdf Podium Stage 17

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Tom Zirbel, Stage 7, AMGEN TOC

TT Reflections

Welcome to Croatia-2006

Mario Cipollini Stage 6 Tour of California

The Cowbell Lady at the ToC

Greg Beauton descends in Joshua Tree National Park

Mike Creed at stage one of 2008 TOC---he was sick as a dog that day and not happy about having to ride over 100 miles

Amgen Tour of CA Stage Winner and Best Young Rider, Robert Gesink

David Miller not looking happy with weather on final day of 08 Tour of California

Hammering the scenic road, Tristate Seacoast Century 2005

Tour of California Final Stage Break Away Group

Tom Boonen Tour of Qatar

Astana Riding Tour of California Stage 6 thru Casitas Pass, Ojai, CA

New Colors for Cipo

Sutherland and Hincapie Stage 7 Tour of California 08

Bettini Boonen Cancellara sprint Hincapie goes down S1 ATOC

Levi contemplating Stage 5 ITT Tour of CA start house

Boulder, Colorado —Nationally known cycling attorney Bob Mionske will discuss bias against cyclists and cyclists' rights at events across the U.S. this spring. These events are part of Mionske's national tour in support of his new book Bicycling & the Law: Your Rights as a Cyclist. Bicycling & the Law is a complete legal reference for cyclists confronted with questions about traffic law, harassment, theft, and other common issues.

The Canadian Cycling Association is pleased to unveil the 2008 National Mountain Bike Calendar. Seven sites will welcome the best mountain bikers of Canada and elsewhere. On the schedule are nine Olympic cross-country events, six downhill events and two four-cross events. The season will start in Baie-St-Paul on May 11 where precious UCI points will be offered early in the season to help athletes who wish to enter a World Cup event. Since 2007, riders need a minimum of 20 UCI points in order to enter a World Cup event.

Defending world champion Brian Lopes will ride for Ibis this year.

The NorCal High School Mountain Bike League (the League), which recently released a new rulebook for its 2008 racing season, is banning the consumption of caffeine at their competitions. This progressive stance is motivated by concerns for high school athletes’ health, as well as in response to a tremendous surge of new caffeinated energy products and related marketing seen thus far in the 2000’s.

Think Pink by the Rhone in Geneva, Switzerland

SALT LAKE CITY – Bikes for Kids Utah, a non-profit 501(C)3 organization, today announced its bike giveaway and fundraising bike rides will take place May 31. Previously, the Bikes for Kids Utah dinner/silent auction, 5K, 50K and 100K fundraising bicycle rides, bike giveaway and the Dave Zabriskie Yield to Life Time Trial were held all in one weekend. The May 31 date was chosen to give the bike recipients time to ride their new bikes during the summer months following the giveaway, as well to guarantee as warmer weather for the fundraising bike rides.

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