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

Eisenmann says organizers insist on compliance

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.

This Spot Brand steel belt-drive single speed 29er is decorated with heat marks and clear powder coated.

'Scuse me, pal, can I squeeze a shot off here?

BH is making a strong push into the U.S. market under the guidance of Chris Cocalis, the founder of Titus Cycles. The Connect has an 890-gram frame and comes in four sizes and with four different gruppo choices.

The Spot beltring won’t leave a rookie mark on your leg like a chainring can.

Cameron Wurf of Australia rolls onto the course

The G4 will be AG2R’s team bike next year. It comes in three sizes and has an integrated seat mast. A medium frame weighs 860 grams and is paired to a 315-gram fork.

The Carbon Drive Systems (CDS) belt has carbon strands in it and is almost unbreakable under tension.

With just minutes to go before his start, Zabriskie learns his TT bars are too long for the UCI's liking

Cocalis will also be back on the dirt with his new mountain bike company Pivot. There are two frame models in the Pivot line, both of which were designed by Cocalis with the help of suspension mastermind Dave Weagle using a version of his DW-Link

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.

Three ... two ... one ...

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

Yeti’s ASR Seven has been in development for three years. It has 7-inches of travel and weighs 7.2 pounds. The rear end has two oversized aluminum seatstays and one large carbon non-drive chainstay, to which the rear wheel mounts concentrically.

Thürig missed the podium this year

Because pivot is at the axle the bike will have active braking characteristics. The absence of a drive-side chainstay leaves weight and noise behind.

Despite the expression, Boom really is happy about his win.

At the opposite end the massive chain and seatstays provide protection to the brake caliper and a stiff rear end that promises to track well.

Ignatiev was favored, but he's satisfied with silver

Maxxis’ mech and factory team cyclocross rider Adam McGrath has one of the only new Litespeed CX bikes built and ready to race.

Coppel rounds out the U23 podium

His teammates, Geoff Kabush and Mat Toulouse’s bikes are still waiting to be built with only 29 hours before the Vegas Cross race.

Despite the expression, Boom really is happy about his win.

Rotor provides the Maxxis team with chainrings as well as ceramic bottom brackets for their Shimano Dura-Ace cranks.

Ignatiev was favored, but he's satisfied with silver

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McGrath’s bike was equipped with Jagwire’s carbon fiber cable ferrules.

Coppel rounds out the U23 podium

Dillon Clapp, from the accessories manufacturer Lezyne, shows the company’s new Pressure Drive mini-pump. It will cost $30-35 and is rated to 120psi. The pump has a stowable hose with Schrader and Presta adaptors at opposite ends.

Instead of bringing a full catalog’s worth of 2008 models to the Dirt Demo, Ironhorse picked three models and gave them special Monster Energy green paint jobs along with consistent Deore XT and SRAM X.9 level components.

Van Garderen caught his minute man... but was also caught by the eventual winner

Clapp illustrates the use of the Pressure Drive’s stowable hose, which makes it 30-percent more compact than other mini-pumps on the market.

After the show the bikes will be split into two groups and spend the next eight months on respective East and West coast demo tours.

Boom is heading to the dirt as soon as he gets a chance.