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Photos from the final stage of the 2010 Tour de Langkawi.

Fly-V Australia's Ben Kersten sprints to victory in the OCBC Cycle Singapore criterium.

Venezuelan Jose Rujano Guillen captured the 15th Tour de Langkawi on Sunday after finishing 44th in the event's seventh and final stage.

Bahati Foundation Pro Cycling and HTC-Columbia crush the Merco Credit Union Cycling Classic Downtown GP.

Maxim Iglinskiy wins the Montepaschi Strade Bianche.

Fly V Australia is aiming to become the first Australian ProTour team — and the first Aussie squad to race the Tour de France.

Robert Wagner (Skil-Shimano) wins Stage 2 of the Three Days of West Flanders.

Maxim Iglinskiy wins a three-up sprint to take the Montepaschi Strade Bianche.

Graham Watson shoots Stage 4 of the 2010 Vuelta a Murcia.

Czech rider Frantisek Rabon (HTC-Columbia) wins the individual time trial at the Vuelta a Murcia.

A photo gallery from Stage 6 of the 2010 Tour de Langkawi.

Venezuelan Jose Rujano Guillen Saturday conquered the cruel slopes of the Genting Highlands to win the sixth stage of the Tour de Langkawi and capture the overall lead.

Bissell wins the TTT at the Merco Credit Union Cycling Classic.

USA Cycling has named its team for the upcoming UCI Track World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, March 24-28.

Belgian rider Jens Keukeleire (Cofidis) won the opening stage of the Three Days of West Flanders on Friday. The 21-year-old neo-pro won a bunch sprint ahead of French rider Rony Martias and German Paul Voss.

The newly-elevated Tour de New York, (a UCI 2.2 event), will open a new chapter in the state’s racing history, bringing high-level competition to the western part of the state, centering a six-day event in the City of Rochester.

José Enrique Gutiérrez – the Spanish rider who finished second to Ivan Basso in the 2006 Giro d’Italia and was later linked to the Operación Puerto doping scandal – says he is retiring because Rock Racing has not been able to secure its future.

Malaysian cyclist Anuar Manan won the fifth stage of the Tour de Langkawi on Friday while German Tobias Erler maintained the overall lead.

Catching up with Triple Crown winner Stephen Roche on the eve of Paris-Nice, a race he won once and finished second four times.

Johnny Bellis, the British rider who nearly died in a motor scooter accident last fall, will be released from a London hospital this weekend and return to his home on the Isle of Man.

The Vuelta Independencia wraps up and Team Ten Speed Drive head out for the post-race festivities, otherwise known as 'the 11th stage.'

The 2010 USA CRITS Championship series has new final races for both men and women. The women’s series will conclude at the Chris Thater Memorial race, after four races. The men’s competition will conclude at the TX Tough Grand Prix, after eight events. The series is now nine events strong, visiting as many states.

It was like déjà-vu all over again Thursday at the Vuelta a Murcia in Spain.

The adventure in the Philippines continues as race organizers swap routes and racers face another hot, hilly course on rough roads, and the GC battle tightens between the American Kelly Benefit Strategies team and the South African EMG squad.

Japanese rider Taiji Nishitani (Aisan Racing) won the fourth stage of the Tour de Langkawi on Thursday, while German Tobias Erler retained the overall lead.

On a day when visitors were stunned by a killer closing climb, a local boy takes the win, while Kelly Benefit Strategies' Reid Mumford takes the overall lead.

Following an emotional victory Saturday at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, a newly confident Juan Antonio Flecha (Team Sky) is still holding out on his dream of winning one of the major cobblestoned classics.

Robbie Hunter delivered Garmin-Transitions its first win on the 2010 season after taking a sprint victory in Wednesday’s opening stage at the Vuelta a Murcia in Spain.

Readers seek advice on storing and reusing tires and getting that gunk off of tubular rims.

It's official — coming into today's stage my teammates and I were almost completely cracked.

Another report from the Dominican Republic's Vuelta Independencia, where correspondent Josh Liberles sprints in rush-hour traffic, has his time trial bike run over by a bus ... and then kicks butt in his eighth race in six days.

As the 2010 race season heats up, the pace of new tech and product introductions is ramping up as well.

Despite KBS clearly being the strongest team in this year’s Tour of Luzon, and having held the race lead since Ryan Anderson's time trial stage victory on day 2, they had yet to make it first across the line on a road stage; until stage 4 that was, when Jesse Anthony crossed the line at the head of a breakaway group to take his first win of the year.

Tyler Farrar was one of the break-out riders in 2009. With 11 victories and a constant threat in the sprints, the 25-year-old vaulted into the elite pro ranks.

Professionals in search of sun and miles mixed it up with elite amateurs on the banks of Nevada’s Lake Mead last week at the Callville Bay Classic.

South African Jay Thomson, representing his national team, won the Tour de Langkawi's second stage in Malaysia Tuesday

2010 Navy collegiate race results

It was out to Lubbock this weekend for many collegiate cyclists in Texas and Oklahoma looking to compete in the first mass start events of the 2010 South Central Collegiate Cycling Conference season. Teams from as far away as Houston joined in the action, each looking to strike first in what is to be a long road season.

The first in a series of columns by Jennifer Caudill: writer, fashion model, photographer and girlfriend of Garmin-Transitions pro Steven Cozza. First column: dealing with Steven's broken collar bone.

Stage racing returns to the Philippines, and the Kelly Benefit Strategies team holds the lead at the revitalized Tour of Luzon.

Over the weekend, Southwest Collegiate Cycling Conference teams raced in the Lobo Classic, a two-day omnium at the University of New Mexico. An individual time trial and a 35-minute criterium atop Mesa del Sol in Albuquerque allowed riders to employ their strengths and activate practiced strategies.

2010 Lobo Classic collegiate results

Classic styling and veteran builders rose to the top at the 2010 North American Handmade Bicycle Show in Richmond, Virginia.

Yes, there is such a thing as a rad (and functional) recumbent. If you have the time, we have the photos from the North American Handmade Bicycle Show.

The Bahati Foundation Professional Cycling Team visits the wind tunnel, and our Brian Holcombe goes with them.

The Bahati Foundation Professional Cycling Team hopes to be just that little bit faster after testing equipment and clothing in a Colorado wind tunnel.

Murray State Road Race and Criterium results

Kelly Benefit Strategies' Ryan Anderson holds the lead at the Tour of Luzon, but the team can't prevent a wily local veteran from grabbing the stage 3 win.

Results from the 2010 Tour de Langkawi.

In Europe this week, the Vuelta a Murcia and the Monte Paschi Eroica are the big races, while mid-week races in Italy and Belgium keep things rolling. Andrew Hood takes a look.

Healthy at last, Andy Schleck will make his season debut on Wednesday at the Giro del Friuli in Italy.

Southeast Collegiate Cycling Conference racing continued in Statesboro, Georgia, this weekend as Georgia Southern University hosted its second annual “Battle in the Boro.” Intensity in the Southeast ratcheted up dramatically as the top teams and riders made their debut in conference competition. Powerhouses Lees McRae and Cumberland University made their collegiate season debut, as did recent BMC Racing Team recruit Chris Butler of Furman

2010 Georgia Southern University Battle in the Boro results

Australian Michael Matthews (Team Jayco Skins) wins the first stage of the Tour de Langkawi.

Judy Freeman, pro XC racer and Singletrack.com columnist, put on her teacher hat for Women's Weekend 2010 at Ray's Indoor MTB Park in Cleveland.

The organizers of Spain’s Vuelta a Murcia, which begins Wednesday, have refused to admit Italian teams, an action in solidarity with Alejandro Valverde who has been banned from competing in Italy.

Shelley Evans (Team USA) takes the final stage and the overall title as the Women's Tour of New Zealand concludes.

Roberto Ferrari wins the GP di Lugano after a crash takes down two riders and most of the rest abandon.

Roberto Ferrari (De Rosa) wins a greatly reduced edition of the GP di Lugano.

Tom Zirbel is joining millions of his fellow Americans in tuning up the résumé and hunting work.

Theo Bos sprints to victory in the Clásica de Almería.

Theo Bos wins the Clasica de Almeria.

Bobbie Traksel wins Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne.

Bobbie Traksel (Vacansoleil) wins Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne.

A crafty Bobbie Traksel (Vacansoleil) takes a three-up sprint to win a soggy Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne.

Visiting the Bissell team camp in Santa Rosa, California, we had a chance to take a look at the team's new fleet of race bikes.

Liquigas’ Roman Kreuziger won the overall title at the Tour de Sardaigne Saturday, four seconds ahead of RadioShack’s Chris Horner.

Sky’s Juan Antonio Flecha kicked off the spring classics season in style, soloing to the finish line to become the first Spanish winner of the Belgian semi-classic, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad.

It's amazing that the whole Ten Speed Drive team has managed to stay crash-free thus far in the Vuelta Independencia. The body count continued to mount on the course today, as did the trashed equipment tally. I just shredded my second tire — luckily I brought extras. The Metro VW team, out of Dallas, Texas, is out of front wheels, having gone through several tubulars and run out of glue. They've resorted to using neutral wheels for the rest of the race.

American Shelley Evans retook the overall lead at the Tour of New Zealand, winning the tour’s fifth stage in a field sprint ahead of Australian champion Ruth Corset and China's Xin Liu and gaining enough bonus time to move ahead of teammate Amber Neben.

Lampre’s Danilo Hondo won the fourth stage of the Giro di Sardegna on Friday after his team leader Alessandro Petacchi crashed in the final meters of the race.

Not going to the North American Handmade Bicycle Show? Singletrack.com has an advance look at a hybrid bamboo-carbon bike built by Boo Bicycles.

Nick Nuyens (Rabobank) has won some important races in his career, including tomorrow’s Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, but he’s not quite broken through to the big-time in the major spring classics.

We got an early look at Boo Bikes' bamboo creations before the upcoming North American Handmade Bicycle Show.