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The 95th Tour: Polemics still simmering as challenging route unveiled

Dear Readers;It’s been a beautiful autumn here lately; blue skies, sunny days, the leaves turning beautiful hues of yellow, orange, and red before falling. The leaves haven’t been alone in falling this autumn. In the past few weeks, we’ve lost too many cyclists to collisions with motorists. For example, there was Linda Cleapor, who collided with the rear of a truck on September 12 while on her morning commute. No charges were filed. A week later,

There was almost unanimous support for the proposed biological passport at the well-attended International Meeting Against Doping in Cycling held in Paris Monday and Tuesday. The meeting resulted in an agreement being signed by the World Anti-Doping Agency, the Union Cycliste Internationale and the conference’s host, the French Ministry of Health, Youth and Sports, with the goal being the passport program being introduced by the start of the 2008 road cycling season. So what is a biological passport? And what will it represent in the continuing fight against doping? To find out, VeloNews

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VeloSwap Denver to feature Lennard Zinn bike maintenance clinicVeloSwap attendees can upgrade components and learn maintenance and installation techniques from a master bike technician Boulder, CO, October 24, 2007 - Master bicycle framebuilder and VeloNews magazine Senior Technical Writer Lennard Zinn will present a workshop on bike maintenance at the Denver VeloSwap Special Events Stage on Saturday, October 27, at 12:00 noon. VeloSwap attendees can upgrade their bikes with new components available at VeloSwap, the world's largest consumer bike swap, and then learn installation,

Anne Gripper seen with David Howman, general director of WADA and Chairman of the French Agency for the fight against doping (AFLD) Pierre Bordry (R) in Paris.

VeloSwap Denver to feature Lennard Zinn bike maintenance clinic

All the heavy hitters were out for the kid's race in Ohio.

Now, that's one way to get over the barriers.

Everyone was checking out Molly Cameron's new handmade Vanilla.

Barry Wicks was already halfway through his post-race massage as I crossed the finish line.

All of this and more goes in there?

Leipheimer has formalized his jump to Astana

Veteran New Mexico racer Jennifer Buntz rides to a top-five finish in the slow race

Stybar's girlfriend, Ine, was excited to get some flowers

Okay, it's not exactly the North Shore, but it's still fun

Stybar's other ride. The Czech gets to race on home turf this coming weekend.

The second Bike-A-GoGo, a women's bicycle demo day and expo, attracted some 500 attendees this past weekend at the Genoveva Chavez Community Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. More than 35 companies, among them Giant, Trek, Scott, Specialized, Cannondale and Moots, displayed their wares during Saturday’s event, conducted by the Pedal Queens cycling club and sponsored by Women's Health Services. "We had people driving four hours," said spokeswoman and club member Jill Janov. "They showed up at 9 a.m. ready to demo bikes." Included in the festivities were seminars on a variety of

Mike Elmer said the Bike-a-GoGo was a great way to promote his touring company, Gran Fondo

McQuaid said the new 'passport' will bring new rigor to testing.

A brighter, cleaner future for cycling emerged Tuesday from a two-day summit in Paris formally called “An international meeting against doping in cycling,” The two-day conference ended with UCI president Pat McQuaid, World Anti-Doping Agency president Dick Pound and French minister for sport Roselyne Bachelot jointly signing a two-page document that sets out the parameters for the new “biological passport” that will be introduced in January 2008 and is designed to eliminate the kind of doping problems experienced at this year’s Tour de France. The outlook is brighter because after months of

A future Pedal Queen tackles the bicycle rodeo

Pound says cycling is heading in the right direction.

SRAM suspension product manager, Sander Rigney outlines the spec's of the new SID.

The Lions of Flanders are a fixture at a 'cross race, no matter where it's held.

The Subaru-Gary Fisher mountain bike team participated in the race, ‘Just for Fun’ and listened intently while Rigney gave the low down on the new SID. Sam Schultz and Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski were involved in the development of the new fork.

You have to pay to watch the pro's play.

Chris Eatough got his hands on SID for the first time too.

The snack shack features...

His number plate has a little extra inspiration for those night laps taped to its back in the form of photos of his daughter.

...Belgium’s deep-fried delicacy

‘Pilot Production’ means that all of the details are not quite worked out. The stickers on our forks were hand placed; the production forks will have decals under a clear coat.

Pick your allegiance...

Bikes wait for the LeMans start of Granny Gear’s 24-hours of Moab.

...but be tolerant of other views.

...and they're off!

It was a packed house.

What would a SRAM event be without HB? Here Greg Herbold gets a word of advice from Avid product manager, Paul Kantor, who served as HB’s team manager in Moab, before his night lap.

The world champ and the rest of the Fidea powerhouse

Contador hopes to defend his Tour title with Astana come 2008

An early exit from the women's race.

Welcome to Bike-a-GoGo!

The big race.

Your hostesses, the Pedal Queens

Vervecken alone off the back.

Rodeo queen Patricia Peck, a local pediatric dentist, organized the kid's bike rodeo and won the costume contest, scoring a pair of Shimano heat-molding shoes

Wellens and Nys battle it out in the sand.

Julich has his eye on another Olympic medal

Fall Mountain Ride

Our latest reader-submitted Photo Gallery is now ready for your viewing pleasure. Of course, a new gallery also means the naming of the winner of our most recent contest. It’s fall and after a long season of racing, it’s time to go out on a quite ride through a beautiful corner of the world. Geln Johannesson’s “Fall Mountain Ride” has us wanting to step away from the keyboard and hit the hills for that peaceful trip through the woods. Please drop us a note at Rosters@InsideInc.comto work out the details and we’ll send you a copy of our new Coors Classic DVD. Meanwhile, go ahead and

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Simms celebrates her return to the Canadian championship.

Eddy's piece of the rock

Jerseys then and now

A map of Flanders chaos

The museum sits along the race route

It takes a lot of pasta to win the Ronde

A relic of the past

The Flanders wall of fame

It’s no secret that cycling is near and dear to the heart of Belgium. No other nation equals this tiny European country’s passion for two-wheeled pursuits, and no other race taps into that love affair like the Tour of Flanders. The annual spring-classic romp around the rolling hills and cobbled roads of northwest Belgium is one of the hardest and most prestigious one-day races on the ProTour calendar. The race is so revered there’s even a museum dedicated to the people and events that have helped shape its 91-year history. The two-story, multi-room display resides in a nondescript,

What it's really all about

Johnson takes his first Granouge 'cross victory

Stybar rippin' it through the sand

Wilson wins the overall

Page got caught in traffic

Kemps collects the final stage

Stybar on the run

That's Johan Bruyneel crawling out of a ditch

The women's podium

A caravan car of yesteryear

Stybar takes the win

The café display

They occasionally fell down back then, too

De Koppenberg's stats

The Page clan-Jonathan, Cori, Milo and Emma

The new team

Evans takes the ProTour title to cap off an impressive season

October at Lake Como. Can you top that?

Fränk Schleck ran into trouble in the run to the finish.