Lennard Zinn fields questions about the need for headset top caps and why shortened seatposts don't creak, and shares another long list of potential sources for bicycle mystery noises.
Cervélo TestTeam will not ride into the 2011 season, but team officials confirmed that Cervélo will become the new bike sponsor for Garmin-Transitions. The women’s team will continue next season
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The third and final grand tour of the season gets underway in Spain on Saturday, with several leading riders eyeing their chances amid the absence of the world's top road racer Alberto Contador.
The bike manufacturer announced Thursday that it would stop sponsoring the Cervelo TestTeam after this season, but would remain involved with cycling 'at the highest levels of the sport."
A reader asks about the most effective way to stretch for improved cycling performance
Garmin's new Edge 800 cycling GPS unit offers more features — including a color touchscreen — than the minimalist Edge 500. But it's not much bigger.
A knot of pro men are vying for the lead in the six-day, lung-busting event known as the Breck Epic in Colorado. Read some of the mental wanderings of Sarah Uhl, someone not vying for the lead but busting butt nonetheless at the Epic.
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Next month Canada will host the first ProTour events to be held in North America, the GP Montreal and GP Quebec. Horner, Leipheimer, Boasson Hagen, Sanchez, Hesjedal and Basso highlight the start lists released Wednesday.
Start lists for the two Canadian ProTour races
Javier Guillén says the race features a 'colossus' climb and a stellar field, including the Schlecks, Menchov, Sastre, Cavendish, Freire and others
Two-time Vuelta winner Denis Menchov goes into this year's race as a five-star favorite.
Photos from the final stage.
The Luxembourg cycling federation announced Tuesday that Tour de France runner-up Andy Schleck will not race the world road championships
Haussler had hoped to race for Australia this year, but a lingering knee injury will keep him at home.
HTC-Columbia's Tony Martin wraps up his Eneco Tour by winning the final time trial. Now he's looking toward the world time trial championships in Australia.
Defending champion Cadel Evans will lead the home team at the world road championships next month.
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Retired road and cyclocross star Lyne Bessette has found a new interest — para-cycling. The Canadian and her partner won a world championship this weekend.
The American from Kelly Benefit Strategies takes the overall at the cat. 2.2 Festningsrittet three-day event.
Vincenzo Nibali and Roman Kreuziger will lead the team in Spain
Zack Vestal takes Exustars Look-style carbon and titanium road pedals and deems them solid, light and inexpensive.
Tony Martin holds the overall lead going into Tuesday's time trial.
The Spanish veteran, who has finished on the podium three times, will be starting his third grand tour of the year.
With Alejandro Valverde on suspension, Caisse d'Epargne packs the one-two punch of Giro d’Italia runner-up David Arroyo and Luis León Sánchez.
David Moncoutié will be looking to match history as he makes a run for a third consecutive climber’s jersey at the Vuelta a España.
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Third placed overall at Utah and best young rider, Bissell's 19-year-old Oregonian is headed for a new team
Jai Crawford (Fly V Australia) crowned the queen stage of the Tour of Utah Sunday, taking the mountaintop win at Snowbird Ski Resort. Levi Leipheimer (Mellow Johnny's) rode away from his rivals to finish second and seal overall victory.
Photographer Casey B. Gibson brought back the action from all five stages of the Tour of Utah.
'I'm absolutely gutted,' the Aussie speedster says after learning he will not be on the team for the worlds in his home country.
The Dutch champ will move from Milram to Quick Step for 2011
Forty-two year old Nico Toutenhoofd outpaces a Garmin-Transitions attack to win in New Hampshire. Marti Shea, 47, overcomes a vet-packed women's field.
The gravity of an injury takes a back seat to the importance of the race.
The HTC-Columbia rider out-speeds Garmin's Tyler Farrar to win the ProTour race.
The Garmin-Transitions rider spends the day in a break and then attacks it just short of the finish for the victory.
American Tom Danielson scores a top-10 finish in the 19th edition of the race.
Emma Pooley solos to a second consecutive victory in the GP Plouay as Marianne Vos claims her third World Cup crown.
Sunday brings a mountain stage that borrows part of its route from the Amstel Gold Race.
Taylor Phinney (Trek-Livestrong) notched another stripe in his time trial belt Friday night as flew to the stage 3 win in the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah as Levi Leipheimer puts time into GC rivals.
The U23 squad fields favorites for Utah TT, signs Craddock, Eastman, Jones for next season
In his latest Clothesline review, Zack Vestal takes a look at new road helmets from Catlike and Lazer
Thomas Löfkvist and Simon Gerrans lead a strong Sky squad into the Vuelta a España.
Ever been injured, sick or unable to train, race or just ride? Singletrack.com's Judy Freeman looks into various ways being out of action can throw athletes into a funk and what to do to get out of the weeds and back on the trail.
Nicholas Roche, hot off a solid 15th in the Tour de France, is aiming for a top-10 overall at the Vuelta
UPDATED: Levi Leipheimer left no doubt Thursday when he rode away from an elite selection of six riders to take the stage and the overall lead at the Tour of Utah.
A crash in Thursday second stage of the Tour of Utah has BMC's George Hincapie worried he won't be able to defend his pro road title in his hometown next month.
Lance Armstrong will give the commencement address at High Point University in North Carolina next May.
André Greipel (HTC-Columbia) won the second stage of the Eneco Tour of Benelux on Thursday, out-kicking Katusha's Robbie McEwen in a field sprint into the Belgian town of Ardooie.
Some of the GC favorites might have held their punches in Wednesday's stage, but fireworks are expected for Thursday's stage, said to be the hardest in Tour of Utah history
A time trial specialist who can power the short climbs and who is tired of coming in second
Burke Swindlehurst may be winding down his pro road racing career, but the 37-year-old is still a favorite to win Thursday's Mount Nemo stage.
Fly V Australia's David Tanner won Wednesday's stage 1 of the 2010 Tour of Utah. Tanner outsprinted Trek-Livestrong's Alex Dowsett for the win. Dowsett takes over the race lead from prologue winner Taylor Phinney.
Denis Menchov will headline Rabobank's team at the Vuelta a Espana, but it will likely be his last grand tour in Rabo colors
Katusha's Robbie McEwen won a field sprint into Rhenen in the Netherlands to win the first stage of the sixth of the Eneco Tour of Benelux on Wednesday. Canadian Svein Tuft remains in the lead.
Chalk up another time trial win for Trek-Livestrong in 2010, as Taylor Phinney blitzed the 2.8-mile Capitol Prologue at the Tour of Utah Tuesday night
Leadville 100 winner says he's after stage wins in the Beehive State
The UCI says it has not closed the files on five riders whose Biological Passport values were deemed suspicious last winter.
Tour of Poland winner Daniel Martin continued his rich vein of form, winning the 199km one-day Italian race Tre Valli Varesine in Varese on Tuesday.