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EuroBike: My dinner with Jan

EuroBike: My dinner with Jan

McCormack, Jeanson take Green Mountain opener

McCormack, Jeanson take Green Mountain opener

Jonas Carney in the Madison

EuroBike: Trade show season kicks off in Friedrichshafen

EuroBike: Trade show season kicks off in Friedrichshafen

EuroBike: Trade show season kicks off in Friedrichshafen

EuroBike: Trade show season kicks off in Friedrichshafen

Jonas Carney takes the points win

Nothstein was held to just 10 points

Massie

Think you’ve got it tough at work? Well, how would you like to head into September just about every year not knowing for sure whether you’re going to have a job next year? Yes, the job of professional cyclist seems like a dream occupation to most racers, and to a large extent it is. But when you can pretty much be at the pinnacle of your sport in the U.S. and still be uncertain about your job status, well, that’s rough. It’s also the reality for a couple of recently crowned U.S. champions. Kevin Monahan may have repeated as USPRO criterium champion in Downers Grove, Illinois, but at least

EuroBike: Trade show season kicks off in Friedrichshafen

EuroBike: Trade show season kicks off in Friedrichshafen

EuroBike: Trade show season kicks off in Friedrichshafen

EuroBike: Trade show season kicks off in Friedrichshafen

EuroBike: Trade show season kicks off in Friedrichshafen

Bobby Lea, upset winner in the kilo.

Nothstein in the kilo'

Jonas Carney in the kilo.

Jelly Belly team pursuit in qualifying.

Jelly Belly sets the standard

Lindenmuth in the morning rounds

Jenny Reed wins 3-4 final.

Chris Witty surprises Tanya Lindenmuth.

Okay, Tom Danielson he ain't

Dear Bob;Is it true that in Illinois, an injured cyclist cannot sue anyone fordamages? Isn’t that just a back door way of banning bicycling?FLIllinoisDear FL;No, it is not true—mostly. The case you are referring to is Boubv. Township of Wayne, from 1998. Jon Boub was riding his bike on aquiet rural road in Illinois. He started across a one-lane covered bridge.The bridge was originally built with two parallel sets of planks for thewheels of carriages to run on. Under these planks were the floor joistsof the bridge, running perpendicular to the roadway. Over the years, thegap between these

Adding to the evidence that new technology isn’t always a great leap forward, one of the new Segway human transporters struggled its way to the top of New Hampshire’s Mount Washington, but well off the pace of the machine it may eventually seek to replace. It took six sets of batteries and three drivers, but the Segway eventually made it to the top of New England's tallest peak. The scooter climbed Mount Washington's auto road – site of the annual bicycle race -- in about two and a half hours Wednesday, well off of Tom Danielson’s 49:24. The standup scooter, invented by Manchester New

So after signing a two-year contract, Tom Danielson is headed to Italy to with Fassa Bortolo, alongside 2002 Vuelta winner Aitor Gonzalez and this year's top grand tour sprinter, Alessandro Petacchi. In less than 18 months, the friendly 24-year-old from East Lyme, Connecticut, has grown from Fort Lewis college student/struggling NORBA pack fodder to emerging Euro’ pro. Along the way he’s won some big races — the Tour de Langkawi being the biggest — and learned what he could about European road racing from former Euro pros like Henk Vogels, Chris Horner, Jonathan Vaughters and Nathan

Tough enough - Danielson at Sea Otter

Mayo may stay

Nothstein checks the competition

Uhl tops in pursuit

Sarah Hammer

Adam Sbeih

Bobby Lea

Lindenmuth

Don't buy this jersey

Maybe Carlos will have a reason to pull out the pacifier at the Vuelta, too.

Dinner Club. Bread bowl chili made with the finest Belgian beer by Cycling Center riders, for Cycling Center riders.

Before the fall: Leipheimer had high hopes for the Tour

Danielson on Mt. Washington

Girona—With a little extra time on my hands these days I thought I would take the opportunity to fill you in on what’s going on here. First off, I was off the bike for a few days after my crash at the Tour of Holland. I went down hard last Wednesday during the finishing circuits of stage 2. Ironically, we were on the straightest part of the course when the accident happened. A couple guys went down directly in front of me. And being that we were in a crowded field of riders going at a pretty good clip, there was nowhere to go but straight into them. I have no idea what happened really, and

Who turned off the heater? The heat wave is over, finally. Temperatures reached 104 degrees in places. Now it is back to normal summer weather in Belgium. What does that mean? Thermal long sleeve jerseys, leg warmers, earbands, and wind vests. At least things are back to normal. But now you can see how so many elderly people died of the heat with no air conditioning and normal temperatures in the 60s. I think the Belgians are happy to return to the pre-race heat cream on the legs. At least this summer we had a summer, unlike last year when it rained every day for two months. Ah, but late

Levi Leipheimer will be starting next month’s Vuelta a España, but he was never planning on it. The 29-year-old designed his entire season at arriving at the 2003 Tour de France in top form with eyes of making a run for the top 5 overall. But Leipheimer’s season was turned upside down when he went crashing down in the finish-line pile-up coming into Meaux in the Tour’s first road stage. The highly-criticized finish – with a sharp downhill funneling into a narrow twisting run to the finish line – spelled doom for Leipheimer and Rabobank teammate Mark Lotz. CSC’s Tyler Hamilton also crashed,

Second-guessing strategy is half the fun of any spectator sport, and there were a couple of good examples to come out of this past weekend’s USPRO Criterium Championship in Downers Grove, Illinois. Just minutes after the race, in which Kevin Monahan (7UP-Maxxis) beat Saturn’s Chris Horner and Mark McCormack for the race win and the stars-and-stripes jersey, McCormack readily admitted that he might have done things differently if he were presented with the same scenario again. Here’s how it played out. Heading toward the final turn, Horner and McCormack are one-two. McCormack decides to open

Single-day tickets to the 2003 world road cycling championships in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, will go on sale Wednesday, August 27. Tickets will be sold for each day of the October 7-12 event. Upwards of 250,000 spectators are expected to watch 800 athletes from more than 50 different countries competing in 10 different races, according to the Hamilton 2003 World's Organizing Committee. Weekly passes have been on sale since April. Tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster. Spectators can order by phone, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, by calling 905-527-7666 (Hamilton); 416-870-8000

Missy

Grigson

MTB News and Notes: Moving on and breaking out

MTB News and Notes: Moving on and breaking out

MTB News and Notes: Moving on and breaking out

O’Neill in front of the Natural History Museum in Manhattan, his last day in the “halo” neck brace.

 “There are no bad dogs, only bad owners” -Barbara WoodhouseDear Bob;I was riding past my neighbor’s home and their dog ran out and knockedme over. My neighbors have made complaints about this dog in the past,but the family sometimes isn’t careful and the dog gets out.Is there any way to recover?Not a chew toyNew YorkDear Not;In the State of New York, the licensing, identification and controlof dogs is contained in Article 7 of the “Agriculture and Markets Law”section of New York Statute. (Please note that these laws were revisedin 2002, so if you look them up, be sure you are using the

Saturn star Nathan O’Neill was set to undergo surgery Thursday afternoon to repair a vertebra cracked after a high-speed, face-first crash suffered at The International on July 31. During a pre-surgery phone call to VeloNews Thursday, the 28-year-old Aussie explained the circumstances that led to the operation, which will involve a titanium screw inserted into his C-2 vertebra, and the removal of the “halo” neck brace he has worn for the past three weeks. “I had an appointment with a surgeon yesterday,” O’Neill explained, “to have another look with an X-ray and CAT scan. As it turns out,

NRS Air

XTC1

Just back from the final round of the NORBA NCS Series, held in Durango, Colorado, and I think I can speak for my fellow VeloNews associates Miguel Santana and Jason Sumner that the weekend was a complete jam. The three of us managed to sandwich the race coverage with a few fun mountain-bike rides and the occasional visit to a few of the local taverns. The racing was exciting, particularly in the spectator-friendly men’s short track and mountain cross. RLX Ralph Lauren rider Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski’s suicidal move between Geoff Kabush (Kona-Clark’s) and the barriers in the final 10 meters

Horgan-Kobelski left it all on the STXC course

A bike is born: Brown's funky ride

Sydor gives Haywood the thumbs-up

The Durango fans were really into the racing

Lusby atop Mount Evans

Magen Long, at the Cascade Classic

Petacchi picks up right where he left off.

Nardello outlasts a late charge from Ullrich

Bettini was content to let others make the race