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Stronglight incorporates a titanium BB in its carbon crank

The Hutchinson Barracuda

Time's RXR TT: Michael Rogers' secret weapon unveiled.

Hutchinson kept the rubber side down for Mr. Armstrong

The Ghisallo hits new lows: A titanium frame at (gulp!) 770 grams

Heras grabbed some bonus seconds to extend his overall lead

The 6/4 Vortex gets new and stiffer shapes

Trofimov takes the win

Look's 496 TT bike

The Cricket jumps

Look's HSD stem: More carbon in more places

Farrar wins his second career stage at Tour de l'Avenir

Pearl Izumi's carbon shoe...

The win puts Farrar in the green jersey and fourth overall

... shows it's got a titanium soul... er... sole.

The Cuesta escape

Triple whammy: Dura-Ace offers a little extra for the steep ones

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood

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.Dynamic duo for cyclist(s) of the yearEditor:My vote for cyclist of the year: A tie between two of the coolest, cleanest bike racers on the planet: The Pate and E Rock Saunders. Job well done for watering the grass roots of cycling all across the country. When I was young, I wasn't

The D.A. triple drivetrain

Heras and Beloki: The first, bedeviled by lackluster Tours; the latter, happy to be feeling like a bike racer again

BMC's Pro Machine sits naked for all to see

The Shimano crew is checking out ...

Verbrugghe and the gang at work

Cyclists can still race the Tour de France on the illegal drug EPO without testing positive, a top Australian doping scientist has revealed. Dr. Mike Ashenden, project manager of the international consortium Science and Industry Against Blood Doping, told The Saturday Daily Telegraph that an unreleased study shows how riders can still get away with EPO use four years after testing was introduced for the endurance-boosting protein hormone. "There have been persistent rumours over the past years that athletes have learned to manipulate their EPO injections to escape the urine test," Ashenden

Heras in a familiar color

Hurikova gets an off-road rainbow to shine alongside her time-trial title

Forsman bettered her previous best to finish ninth

Gehbauer shot away from the gun

Cares found the course shockingly steep

Heras knows it's just the beginning

Menchov missed out by 13 seconds

Danielson slipped into a chase group and limited his losses

Going up: The start in Cuenca

Piil continued his aggressive racing . . .

. . . even going it alone until the bunch gobbled him up

But then Heras got busy

Vuelta Notebook: Landis done; Casero happy; Mayo ponders future; what's next

McGee is enjoying his tenure as race leader

Heras and Sastres punched it on the climb

McGee stayed out of trouble and in the lead

Finot and Piepoli in a spot of bother

Leblacher and Piil on the move

Ardila at the head of affairs in the finale

Française des Jeux working for McGee

Crawford (left) has worked with Danielson dating back to his college days.

Crawford was very optimistic about Danielson's chances as the Vuelta neared the end of the first week.

Wherry moved to Durango to be closer to his coach.

Wherry shows off his stars-and-stripes cruiser outside his new home in Durango.

Get ready ... get set ...

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.Tuna Canyon: Cycling or psych-ling?Editor:Scheduling a race on road bikes down Tuna Canyon/Las Flores Canyon can only mean that insurance rates for promoters must have really dropped. Whereas its sister road on the north side of the coastal range (Stunt Road) does indeed have stretches

Hermida and company are delighted

He doesn’t have a huge client base or a high-tech, on-line coaching Web site, but you can’t argue with the success cycling coach Rick Crawford has achieved. The Durango, Colorado resident started out working with the likes of Lance Armstrong and Chann McRae in the 1980s, and today boasts a clientele that includes mountain-bike standout Shonny Vanlandingham, reigning USPRO champ Chris Wherry and 2005 Tour de Georgia winner Tom Danielson, who is currently riding the Vuelta a España, hoping to make it to the finish of his first grand tour. Recently VeloNews sat down with Crawford to find out

McConneloug awaiting her turn at the course

Hushovd overpowers a swift bunch

Crawford is also director of the successful Fort Lewis College cycling team.

Barry, shown leading Wednesday's break, hopes for a world's berth

Vuelta Notebook: Ballerini confident; Barry eyes world's; Gerdemann impressive; what's next

Leading the way through the Spanish sunshine

And then they were three

Joachim and Pasamontes tried a late dash, to no avail

All together now

McGee pays a visit to the doc on an otherwise uneventful, if hot, day in the saddle

Does this place scream mountain-bike racing or what?

The village within a village

The cross-country profile

My friends, I want you to take a quick gander at this map of Tuna Canyon, a steep, narrow rut just north of balmy Malibu, California. See that squiggly dark line labeled “Tuna Canyon Road” that spins out of the park entrance? Looks a little twisty, eh? Well, that one-lane patch of asphalt drops more than 2000 feet in two miles to the ocean. Shooting down that thing on a road bike would be akin to bombing a giant-slalom ski course on a toboggan. Here’s a little write up I found online about what driving Tuna Canyon Road is like. “Owing to its narrowness and difficult sharp turns, Tuna Canyon

Going down . . .

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The longest world's four-cross yet

Petacchi does it the hard way after his silver train stopped a little short of the station

Take me to the bridge

Express elevator to Hell, going down!

Vuelta Notebook: Danielson keeping cool; Petacchi looks toward Madrid; but not Valverde

Kabush wants a top-10 at world's

So far, so good: Danielson is comfortable with the Vuelta

How hot was it?

Hot enough to keep slathering on the sunscreen

It was a hot time in the old town of Montoro