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See The Man With No Name out there anywhere?

Liberty went to the front and charged up the final climb

Valverde attacked despite his painful injuries

Heras knows it's a long way to Madrid

Heras looks good for a third Vuelta

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and some bike racer

Two weeks ago, when we arrived at the start of the Vuelta, we sat down as a team, had a meeting and talked about our goals for the race. The team time trial was our first goal — from there, we would aim for stage victories, first in the field sprints with Max and second as individuals trying to win out of breakaways. Max pointed to the third and 11th stages as ones he was looking to win. The third stage ended up being too hard an uphill sprint for him, and he didn’t make it to the 11th — but Dave did, and he took the stage in his grasp and rode away with the victory. Dave has had a lot of

The Shimano “Little 100” is a short-track, 4-team member bicycle relay race for middle school children. It is based on the 50+ year-old “Little 500” event, a premier intramural collegiate cycling event at Indiana University, and is an expansion of the existing “Little 100” junior racing program in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The “Little 100” will be held on a 1/8-mile indoor track at the Denver VeloSwap. Heats for this demonstration event will be held throughout the day. Racers will ride custom single-speed bicycles provided by Indiana University. 2004 Olympic Time Trial Gold Medal winner, Tyler

SOUDERTON, Pa., September 10, 2004—Univest Corporation of Pennsylvania (listed on NASDAQ: UVSP), today announced that Jonathan Vaughters, a former professional rider and a stage winner at the 2001 Tour de France, will lead the Cyclosportif 100K ride at the seventh annual Univest Grand Prix on Saturday, September 18. All proceeds from the ride will benefit the Indian Creek Foundation in Harleysville, Pa. Vaughters, considered one of the greatest mountain racers in U.S. history, was a long-time record holder on the famous Mt. Ventoux (France) climb, a record he set in the 1999 Dauphiné

Friday, September 10, was a day of both good and bad news for the T-Mobile International, now in its fourth year. While Lance Armstrong’s withdrawal due to tendonitis certainly diminished the number of spectators and media attention the race had expected, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s surprising enthusiasm for the event — a lingering question mark following the departure of former Mayor Willie Brown, a major advocate for the costly race — was underlined by Newsom’s announcement that the race would return in 2005 and beyond. As late as August of 2003, the future of that year’s event was

A spent, salty Zabriskie crosses the line after 160km off the front alone

Valverde crashed shortly after Zabriskie took off

And the peloton waited just a little too long to get serious about chasing . . .

Time trial champ Zabriskie pushed all the way to the line

Race leader Landis, trailing teammate Barry, stayed in the bunch

A weary Zabriskie salutes from the podium

Jimenez takes his second career victory on this mountain

Two-time world champ Friere was in the sprinters' break on this mountain stage

. . . including Heras, who slipped away with Valverde and Piepoli on the final grind

Mancebo was back in the bunch with the challengers for the overall . . .

Thirsty work for Valverde

Menchov took a skidder some 10km in, and got back up to finish seventh

Jackson attacks

Is Blatchford fast?

Fast enough to beat Olympian Massie

Mercy Cycling didn't show any . . .

. . . Mercy beat the TIAA-CREF-5280 duo

Quinn took the scratch race . . .

Piepoli pips Heras in the finale

. . . while Goodwin claimed the keirin

Heras was in the driver's seat on the final climb

Cooke solos to victory yet again

Absalon heads to the end of the rainbow.

The Brit just nicked Mayolo-Pic for the win

Frischknecht made the podium once again.

Dionne repeats in San Francisco

Landis fights his way back to hold onto the overall lead

McCartney went long again . . . but this time, it didn't pay off

Heras charges toward the finish with Piepoli in tow

Postal got busy . . .

Cardenas and Lastras kept going after Phonak pulled Valjavec back

. . . but so did Horner and Dionne

Barry drives the Postal train

And there you have it

Hamilton shows the strain of a hard day in the hills

Barry climbs

Cardena, Lastras and Valjavec

Bessette won the QOM

Finally...

Carter on the way to the final.

Chausson two days before her crash.

This wasn't your ordinary bike race.

Tyler takes the TT

The French love their bike racing.

Chausson is taken off the course.

Horakova introduces herself.

Barel brought the title home.

Llanes made the podium once again.

Peat was left to wonder what went wrong.

Quin grabbed gold.

Saladini

Hagen

Hermida says he has a naturally high hematocrit

Hamilton was playing hurt again

Nozal bumped Grabsch out of the lead until Hamilton came along

Landis's third was good as gold . . .

. . . it put him back on top of the general classification

But Sastre had a good ride Saturday, too – and he can climb as well

The seven-man break nearly made it . . .

Colby Pearce and Jme Carney, the two best points riders in the US, go 1-2 in the nationals

. . . but Rabobank and Fassa Bortolo finally shut it down

Nick Chenowith, at age 51, racing for Doing Hard Time cycling

Members of the American junior men's cross-country team are all smiles after a difficult race in Les Gets

Crowded on those roads . . .

Killeen made it a race to the end...

...but Fumic was the last to lead.

Celebration time.

Schurter heads to the win.

Beltran and Landis remain tied going into Saturday's time trial

Another day in gold for Beltran ... but a shakeup's coming on Saturday