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New Shimano XTR levers

Entertainment in the start village

The trick paint job on Premont's bike extended to the fork. Note the new lightweight XTR discs

Danilo di Luca

Hoffman the espresso schlepper

Savoldelli may have been the day's big winner

Got room for another in there?

Sergei Honchar quietly accepts his second maglia rosa of this Giro.

Spring time in Italy

Riding into shape: Riding the Giro appears to be good Tour prep' for the Kaiser

The Boss is still big in Italy

Nicer than Belgium at this time of year, eh?

Bradley McGee

A day at the office for the Disco' boys

A bit of morning reading

Osa, Cunego and Basso rode smart

Pollack's one day in the jersey

Aaron Olson

Gilberto has style.

Axel Merckx fuels up

Strike up the band!

Big crowds on weekends

Is the espresso a littlle stronger than usual today?

Problems with the caravan

Robbie at the start

Watching the men's race finish

Another celeb' sighting: Francesco Moser is still stylin' after all these years

Honoring Verdi

Despite our first guess, this is not Michael Rasmussen

The Mailbag is a regular feature on VeloNews.com. If you have a comment, an opinion or observation regarding anything you have seen in cycling, in VeloNews magazine or on VeloNews.com, write to WebLetters@InsideInc.com. Please include your full name and home town. Letters may be edited for length and clarity. Dane Kuta’s letter regarding Lance Armstrong’s entry in the New York City Marathon (see Wednesday’s Mailbag: "Did Lance get a golden ticket?") drew quite a response — our virtual mailman has a digital hernia from lugging all that venom-soaked e-mail around. Your decision was virtually

Giro history is always present

Commerce Bank, "America’s Most Convenient Bank," has announced that it is stepping in as the title sponsor to help continue America’s biggest and richest cycling week and a long-standing Philadelphia region tradition held each June. The Commerce Bank Triple Crown of Cycling, Benefiting Fox Chase Cancer Center, will include three international professional cycling races: the Tom Bamford Lancaster Classic, the Reading Classic and the Philadelphia International Championship The 156-mile Philadelphia race, held annually since 1985, is ranked as one of the top ten bicycle races in the world. The

Smile, Mr. Perez!

The Aussie 'Pocket Rocket' lights it up again

Perez's ride

'I wanted to win today, but the pink jersey is also good,' says Pollack

Getting the word out

Americans are a common sight at grand tours these days

And so are the Aussies

The Whitman women line up for their start

Quiet and low-key as he is, Basso is rock-star huge in Italy

Fort Lewis en route to victory

Paolo Bettini got a special visit from his daughter today

Fraser charges ahead of Stevic for the win

Mario Cipollini, reportedly out recruiting for a new team he'll direct next year.

Toyota DS Frankie Andreu lectures the troops before the start

Today's Gazetta

This stage starts at a company that got its start in the neighborhood

The medium is the message

Stevic gives it a go

Riding into shape: Jan Ullrich works his way to the line.

Allan Peiper, pro turned director, says the team is back on track

Best of Show: Mud Pack Facial

Best MTB: -Rita dominates Sea Otter

Best Road: Sea Otter Pro NRC Circuit Men

The judging is over and our sponsors have picked the best of the submissions offered by our readers for the First Annual Sea Otter Photo Contest. Take the time to wander through and see if you agree with the choices made and then take the time to take a look at our newest gallery from the First Annual Tour de Georgia Photo Contest . We’ll have those winners named next week, when we resume our regular weekly – non-event-specific - contests. Meanwhile, we’d like to extend our hearty congratulations to Rob Odea for his submission of “Gunn-Rita dominates Sea Otter,” the winner in the

In pink for now, but no thoughts of the overall

Good, but not great: Discovery rode well, but not up to its usual standards...

Not used to this role: Armstrong probably wanted to be up front

CSC shows the rest of the field how it's done

T-Mobile just missed the win in the final meters

Gerolsteiner could manage only sixth

Liquigas achieved its goals

The Mailbag is a regular feature on VeloNews.com. If you have a comment, an opinion or observation regarding anything you have seen in cycling, in VeloNews magazine or on VeloNews.com, write to WebLetters@InsideInc.com. Please include your full name and home town. Letters may be edited for length and clarity.Don't overlook PaoloDear VeloNews,I thoroughly enjoy John Wilcockson's articles on the history of cycling,and look forward to his periodic features. However, I must say thatI believe Mr. Wilcockson erred inhis May 6th Giro d'Italia preview. His strategy for the variousstages

Don't forget this guy in July

Can Savoldelli and his mates top last year's record-setting Tour TTT?

McEwen wins, Vogels celebrates

Van de Walle leads the break

Armstrong visits with the Discovery squad Tuesday morning.

A lawsuit alleging a former coach of the U.S. junior national cycling team injected steroids into two cyclists without their knowledge will move forward in federal court, a judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge John Kane rejected a motion by the coach, Rene Wenzel, and USA Cycling to dismiss lawsuits filed by Gregory Strock and Erich Kaiter, who allege they were given steroid injections while on the team in 1990 but were told they were receiving vitamins and cortisone. The ruling, issued late Monday, said a jury should decide whether Strock and Kaiter waited too long to file their lawsuits,

McEwen wins No.2

Forza Schumi! Hitting the F1 circuit at Spa

Hitting the F1 circuit at Spa