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2010 Redlands Bicycle Classic preliminary start list

While U.S. pros have shown up in big numbers to regional races over the last two weeks, the U.S. domestic season gets underway in earnest this week as the San Dimas Stage Race runs Friday – Sunday in San Dimas, California. The three-stage race is the final tuneup ahead of the NRC opener in Redlands, California, a week later.

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2010 San Dimas stage race start lists

BMC will be led by Italian Alessandro Ballan, who preceded Evans as world champion in 2008, with American George Hincapie, Dutchman Karsten Kroon and German Marcus Burghardt expected to play key roles. Americans Jeff Louder and Brent Bookwalter also will start.

Jens Keukeleire, 21, has already won Three Days of West Flanders and Le Samyn this year.

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Thanks to good results at the Tour Down Under and Paris-Nice, Caisse d'Epargne's Luis-Leon Sanchez leads the UCI points series.

How men and women experience the same stretch of technical singletrack is different. Hopefully, understanding this could help some gals progress further on the bike. And if it saves a relationship or two, well, that'd also be sweet.

Pacific plunges in February, SEALS training and DJ AM. It's all good.

In a report from a grueling Paris-Nice, Ted says he's proving Albert Einstein's theory about repetition and insanity.

Following a tough win at Paris-Nice, defending Tour de France champion Alberto Contador has reconfigured his racing schedule for the next two months.

Italy's Stefano Garzelli won the Tirreno-Adriatico overall on Tuesday after Norwegian Edvald Boasson Hagen prevailed in the seventh and final stage.

Defending NRC team champion opens title defense at Redlands.

Lennard Zinn suggests you avoid removing 11-speed chains for maintenance. Clean and re-lube on the bike.

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2010 UC Davis results

Snow forces the cancellation of Saturday's events at Boise State, but Sunday's crit went off without a hitch

2010 Boise State criterium results

2010 Stevens Institute results

Zack takes a quick look at some new products from Campagnolo, Rotor, Ritchey and more.

Russia's Mikhail Ignatiev won the 134 kilometer sixth stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico, between Montecosaro and Macerata on Monday. The Katusha rider was followed across the line by Italian Stefano Garzelli (Acqua & Sapone) with Australian Cadel Evans (BMC) in third. Italy's Michele Scarponi, riding for the Androni team, retained his lead in the overall standings.

Lance Armstrong confirms he will race at Milan-San Remo

Organizers of the Amstel Gold classic have announced the last of six wildcard teams invited to the April 18 event. Twenty four teams will participate. The new wildcard teams announced Monday by race director Leo van Vliet are Cervelo TestTeam, BMC Racing Team, Topsport Vlaanderen and Landbouwkrediet. Earlier, the Dutch pro continental teams Skil-Shimano and Vacansoleil received a wildcard.

Fly V Australia scored a second stage win at the Tour of Murrieta Sunday as Alessandro Bazzana took the victory in the 60-mile Rabobank Circuit Race ahead of teammate Jonathan Cantwell. Karl Menzies (UnitedHealthcare p/b Maxxis) finished third on the day to secure the overall win in the three-day omnium. In the women's race Kathryn Donovan of host club INCYCLE/SC Velo won the stage while Lauren Tamayo and Shelley Evans finished with the same number of omnium points.

2010 DePauw results

Lindsey Wilson College and Marian University continued a heated rivalry in the Midwest Collegiate Cycling Conference, exchanging victories throughout DePauw’s road race, team time trial and criterium. Despite the dominance of these teams, Michigan State University, University of Wisconsin-Platteville, and Indiana University also demonstrated commendable performances, nabbing several top positions across categories.

Two crash-marred criteriums hosted by the University of Colorado and the University of Northern Colorado made up the second Rocky Mountain Collegiate Cycling Conference race weekend. Despite dry weather and relatively tame courses, a number of categories saw their results dictated by late tumbles; only the men’s A and women’s B field made it through the final laps of each race unscathed.

Working all day in a breakaway paid off for Fly V Australia's Phil Zajicek when he won the Tucson Bicycle Classic by one second

2010 Grant's Tomb criterium collegiate results

2010 Trofeo Franco Balestra results

Rapha wool jerseys mixed with pinstripes and Gucci handbags at Club Nokia in Los Angeles Friday night as the club hosted the launch of the Bahati Foundation and the Bahati Foundation Professional Cycling Team. As the near-sellout crowd gathered, inspirational quotes from the likes of Jesse Owens and Martin Luther King Jr. rotated on flat panel televisions and the Crenshaw High School choir warmed up on stage.

Milram's Fabian Wegmann recovering from shoulder injury suffered in Friday's Tirreno-Adriatico stage.

Astana's Enrico Gasparotto wins the fifth stage of Tirreno-Adriatico as Michele Scarpone retains his overall lead.

After Jelly Belly's Jonathan Chodroff won the opening time trial Friday at the Tucson Bicycle Classic, GC results were not altered at all following Saturday's road race after a crash in a preceding event neutralized the pro men's field.

Jonathan Cantwell continued Fly V Australia's early season fortune with a bunch sprint win at the Jax Bicycle Center Grand Prix at the Tour de Murrieta.

South Africans filled the podium at the Cape Argus cycle tour in South Africa Sunday, as RadioShack's Lance Armstrong assisted his South African teammate Daryl Impey, who wound up third.

Alberto Contador contains some attacks to win his second Paris-Nice.

Paris-Nice stage 6

The Aussie neo-pro chasing rainbow to add to green and gold

Jonathan Chodroff (Jelly Belly-Kenda) and Susannah Gordon (ColoradoBikeLaw.com) scored stage 1 time trial wins Friday at the Tucson Bicycle Classic.

2010 TUCSON CLASSIC

UnitedHealthcare's Rory Sutherland and Specialized Designs for Women's Ruth Clemence win the opening time trial at the Tour de Murrieta in California.

Pepsi is the new presenting sponsor for one of the fastest growing road races in the U.S., the Tour of the Battenkill in Cambridge, New York. The soft drink company plans to provide riders and spectators at the April 18 pro race with a variety of its beverages, including Gatorade and Aquafina.

The Colavita/Baci Women’s Cycling Team presented by Cooking Light opens training camp Friday in Borrego Springs, California, ahead of the team's 2010 debut at the San Dimas Stage Race March 19-21.

Liquigas-Doimo scored a double in Europe Friday as the team's Daniele Bennati won the third stage of Tirreno-Adriactico the same afternoon as Peter Sagan won the fifth stage of Paris-Nice.

Liquigas's Peter Sagan scored a second stage victory in this year's Paris-Nice with a bold solo attack in the final two kilometers on Friday. Sagan, who also won stage 3, emerged from a group of about 40 survivors on what turned out to be a tougher-than-expected stage 5, a relatively short 157-km run from Pernes-les-Fontaines to Aix-en-Provence.

Amber reflects on her team's recent win at the Tour of New Zealand and the relationship between success and opportunity.

In the second installment of Singletrack.com's visit to Yeti Cycles' headquarters, Zack Vestal takes a look at what's keeping Yeti at the forefront of competitive mountain biking.

Quick Step's Tom Boonen won Thursday's second stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico, outsprinting Paul Martens (Rabobank) and Daniele Bennati (Liquigas) at the end of the 165-kilometer stage.

Tour de France champion Alberto Contador put his mark on the 2010 Paris-Nice Thursday, dominating the final climb of the critical fourth stage, a 173.5-kilometer run from Maurs to a mountain-top finish in Mende.

What's XXtra cool about SRAM's new group is that it works well not just on anorexic cross-country race hardtails, but on 5-inch, full-suspension trail bikes.

Tech editor Zack Vestal tries a saddle made specifically for time trialing and is pleasantly surprised by its comfort.

Team Type 1's criterium squad — nicknamed the Money Team — were just under the radar in 2009, but scored podiums in almost every crit in the second half of the year. This year they are aiming higher.

Gerdemann curtails a field sprint by taking off with three others in the final kilometer.

Changes in the 2010 racing calendar mean that Jens Voigt will not have a chance to make history at Critérium International title later this month.

German fan-favorite Jens Voigt takes the overall lead from Bos, as 20-year-old Peter Sagan scores a stage win.

Landis will ride for the team led by former U.S. professional criterium champion Rashaan Bahati.

A reader asks the coaches panel how to overcome a nagging Achilles tendon problem

The Atlantic Collegiate Cycling Conference traveled to Williamsburg, Virginia, for the fifth annual Tidewater Winter Classic hosted by the College of William and Mary.

Jet lag is a word that obviously isn’t part of Lance Armstrong’s vocabulary. While Europe has been gripped by its worst winter in decades, Armstrong’s road to the Tour de France this year has been full of sunny climes that would turn any jet-setting royal blue with envy.

The Rocky Mountain Collegiate Cycling Conference opened its nine-week season with Denver University’s City Park Criterium on Saturday and Metro State’s Roadrunner Time Trial on Sunday. Serving as the first races of the year for many collegiate cyclists, the weekend offered up exciting and unpredictable racing in every category.

2010 DU criterium and Metro TT results

The top of the overall standings were largely unchanged as race leader Lars Boom (Rabobank) finished in the front group.

A reader asks if it's worth the trouble of patching those pricey tubular tires.

The Tour of Utah announces a new title sponsor and a tough lineup of stages.

2010 Rutgers race results

2010 NMSU race results

After a full month without any collegiate races, approximately 120 riders from the Western Collegiate Cycling Conference eagerly saddled up for UC Santa Barbara’s race weekend, which featured a criterium, team time trial and road race.

2010 UC Santa Barbara race results

France's Paris-Nice and Italy's Terreno-Adriatico dominate this week's Euro' action

Sky's Greg Henderson takes the sprint at the end of a crash-filled stage 1. Among the crash victims: Leipheimer, Horner and Contador.

Ben Jacques-Maynes (Bissell) wins the Merced Foothills Road Race.

2010 Lindsey Wilson collegiate race results

Jens Keukeleire (Cofidis) closes out the Three Days of West Flanders with the overall title.

Graham Watson captures the prologue at the 2010 Paris-Nice.

’Crosser-turned-roadie Lars Boom wins a cold, windy prologue at Paris-Nice.

Frantisek Rabon (HTC-Columbia) clinches overall victory in the Vuelta a Murcia.

Kelly Benefit Strategies pulls out all the stops to put David Veilleux into the final leader's jersey, but the South African EMG team had other plans.