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Italian marketing relies on a tried and true method for a targeted audience

Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski’s Superfly

The Green City Bikes

JHK’s 45mm Dugast XL 29-inch/700c mountain bike tubulars mounted to prototype Bontrager carbon rims

You don't see this too often at trade shows

Pacocha gets a chance to beat up a pricey set of wheels

The Milan Four-day featured some wild racing

Pippo Pozzato gave track racing a shot in Milan

One of the strangest marketing efforts we saw.

San Patrignano's bamboo bike

The Bianchi 9-2-8 Carbon SL monocoque

The new Selle Italia Monolink seatpost/saddle combo

Cipo' is still a big draw

The Cinelli Neo Morphe

The Deda Phazer

Retro in the modern world: the Deda Campione

After going into the Sydney round of the track World Cup with high hopes, a chest infection has forced Magnus Backstedt to withdraw from the second round in Beijing. "I was flying right up until the morning of the pursuit. When I woke up I just didn't feel 100 percent,” he said. “During my ride as soon as my heart rate hit anything close to my max I started coughing, which at full speed in a pursuit is not ideal. I was disappointed with my ride, but then I jumped straight up and rode the points race qualification and my legs just had nothing!" The big Swede spent the majority of the

Campagnolo’s professional issue red shifters.

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Bruno Roy rides to a weekend sweep and the verge MAC title

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Gould does the double

Trebon gets his jersey back

Johnson saw the overall vanish again, but conceded that Trebon was a worthy winner

Trebon working the barriers in a driving rain

The national champ, suffering from a cold she brought back from Europe, abandoned

Gould leads Compton

Bos earns bronze in the Keirin

Glöss hit the deck after her bike came apart

Glöss survived the crash.

Compton had a mechanical and an off day

Portland's fans turned out in droves

Germany's Dana Glöss is comforted by teammates after her fork broke (below) in competiton

A big score for the Commonwealth in the Team Pursuit.

Glöss's bike

Hoy tops the keirin podium

'08 Giro route announced

Johnson, the mudder, emerges triumphant

Gould shows the national champion her wheel

Trebon was short a little horsepower

Johnson scored himself a jersey

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Bessette, Gould and Compton, still clean at the start of last year's muddy Portland USGP

Carl Decker and Barry Wicks after the 2004 Portland USGP race

Trebon went to New Jersey wearing the stars and stripes, but left wearing the white USGP leader's jersey.

Psyching up

... and he's off.

Grrrrrrrrrrr!

Yehaw! That's Tim Johnson in there someplace

The outlook is ... muddy

The course: Now imagine it brown and splattered with mud and possibly snow

Dear Readers,In my lastcolumn, I promised a report on the “WeAre All Traffic” rally in Portland. To recap a bit, in Bicycling& the Law, I wrote that "gaining the right to the road was thecycling cause of the late nineteenth century; securing that right willbe the cause of the early twenty-first century." To that end, I arguedthat "the time has come for a second civil rights movement for cyclists."Following a recent spate of collisions between drivers and cyclists inPortland (see “AFatal Bias?”), Joe “MetalCowboy” Kurmaskie called for a cyclist’s civil rights movement, andthe “WeAre All

Barry says he's remains confident going into '08.

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The Tour of Germany will go ahead as planned in 2008 despite the decision by Deutsche Telekom to end its sponsorship of the T-Mobile team after a succession of doping scandals. "The Tour of Germany will take place no matter what happens," said Kai Rapp, head of the organizing committee. "The most important thing for us is that television does not take cycling off air. The rest is secondary." The Tour of Germany is the biggest stage-based race organized in Germany, and is one of two that figure in the ProTour calendar. T-Mobile, the mobile phone division of German telecommunications giant

Andre Kashechkin’s suit challenging the authority of the UCI and WADA to conduct doping tests hit a hurdle Wednesday when the court in which he filed the case declared it had no jurisdiction in the matter. Kashechkin tested positive for homologous blood doping in August after submitting a sample in an out-of-competition test while on vacation with his family in the resort community of Belek, Turkey. His Astana team fired him later that month. Kashechkin has insisted on his innocence and filed suit seeking to bar the result on the grounds that the UCI, as a private organization, did not have

Glory days: With Riis and Ullrich, Telekom dominated the Tour in 1996 and '97.

Zabel and Ullrich in happier times.

Both Kashechkin and teammate Alexander Vinokourov tested positive for blood doping this summer, leading to a complete shake-up of the Astana team.

From the drivetrain to the brakes, all parts of your bike will be ready for some serious repairs

The muck sticks to everything on your bike, especially the rubber.

Everybody walks at La Ruta. The question is how much walking will you do?

Sastre's bike could be yours... for the right price.

Following a review of this summer’s firing of Tour de France leader Michael Rasmussen, the financial services firm that sponsors the Rabobank cycling team has announced a series of management changes and established new medical requirements for riders. In response to the "Vogelzang report," the executive board of the Netherlands’ Rabobank Group has appointed one of the bank’s senior executives to oversee operations on the cycling team that bears its name. Harold Knebel, currently Rabobank’s director of private banking, is slated to take the position of general managing director of the

Stapleton, along with 'well-intentioned and patient investors' will carry the team through 2008.

With the holiday spending frenzy approaching, it may be worth considering holding back a few bucks so you can help out a good cause… and score a bit of cycling history while you’re at it. Starting November 26 until Thursday, Dec. 6, three authentic, one-of-a-kindTeam CSC items will be up for bid on eBay, benefiting the VeloKhaya program,part of the Life Cycling Academy (LCA) of South Africa that has helpeddevelop cycling into a recreational and competitive sport in once-disadvantagedcommunities. The items up for bid are the CervéloR3 carbon bike that Carlos Sastre rode during the 2007 Tour

Ever since Bob Stapleton took over the reins at T-Mobile late last season, the German team’s nefarious doping past hung over the squad like a toxic cloud. The scandalous legacies of Operación Puerto, Bjarne Riis, Jan Ullrich and Patrik Sinkewitz dogged Stapleton as the American impresario tried to reshape the team under his mission of “clean and fair sport.” Those ghosts were finally exorcized Tuesday as the German telecom giant pulled the plug on its long-running cycling sponsorship. Despite the blow of losing T-Mobile’s estimated $12 million annual sponsorship, Stapleton vows to field a

Terrific meals... and a prime opportunity for thieves?

Stapleton actively recruited Hincapie earlier this year

Akhavan said it was a difficult decision

Stapleton vows to keep the teams operational.

At 46, Juarez is still strong enough for a top-five finish

Lycra? I don't need no stinkin' Lycra.

Even after Day 1, La Ruta has obviously taken its toll on the author.

Costa Rica's roads, both paved and dirt, pack in some serious vertical

Make no mistake, La Ruta is no walk in the park

Synchronized Dismounts

Justin Robinson at BASP, Golden Gate Park 11/25/07

Belgian Bar End