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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.

VeloNews sits down with Team TIBCO's two star Millers: Meredith and Brooke.

After hosting the elite road nationals and cyclocross nationals, Bend, Oregon, will host the masters nats in 2011 and 2012.

American Amber Neben moved into the overall lead at the Tour of New Zealand on Friday, powering through the 11-kilometer fourth stage individual time trial to take the leader’s jersey from U.S. teammate Shelly Evans.

A proposed 2012 Giro d'Italia prologue in Washington D.C. would pass by many of the city's landmarks, including several with symbolic meaning to Italy. Besides showcasing the city and bringing in millions of dollars in economic impact, the build-up would help Mayor Adrian Fenty — an avid cyclist — promote health, wellness and the benefits of bicycle riding.

Cervelo TestTeam is sending squads to this weekend's cobbled races, the men's and women's Omloop Het Nieuwsblad on Saturday and the men's Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne on Sunday.

A look at Team Jelly Belly's new Focus team bikes

Chris Horner remains second at the Giro di Sardegna as Alessandro Petacchi takes the stage win.

A presentation Thursday evening at the Italian Embassy in Washington will attempt to drum up support for a Giro d'Italia start in the nation's capital in 2012.

HTC-Columbia's Michael Rogers scores his first stage race victory since 2003 as he survives an explosive final stage.

Roman Sicard, the reigning U23 world champion, could be the rider the French have been waiting for since Bernhard Hinault last won the Tour de France in 1985.

Irish cycling legend Sean Kelly chats with Andrew Hood about his continental team and academy, the future of Irish cycling and Contador's chances in the Tour.

A three-time podium man at the Tour de France, Beloki’s fortunes took a turn for the worse in a horrendous crash in stage 9 of the 2003 Tour that left him with a broken femur, elbow and wrist. That crash – when Lance Armstrong took his famous “short-cut” across a field – effectively ended Beloki’s career as an elite cyclist.

Shelley Evans of the U.S. National Team is undefeated so far at the 2010 Women's Tour of New Zealand, after winning the second stage in a field sprint ahead of Xin Liu Gia and Yiu Wong Wan, both of China's Giant Pro Cycling Team.

Josh Liberles continues his report on his team's experience at the Dominican Republic's Vuelta Independencia. Day 2: "We flew into the town of La Ramona, dodging potholes, bunny-hopping speed bumps and swerving around parked vehicles and the occasional moped drivers that decided to briefly zip alongside the race."

Another foggy winter day in Girona, and Cervelo TestTeam's Ted King contemplates why so many cyclists migrate to the Spanish town.

Chris Horner (RadioShack) just missed victory with second in Thursday’s “queen stage” at the 28th Giro di Sardegna in Italy. The veteran American finished second to stage-winner and new race leader Roman Kreuziger (Liquigas), with Thomas Voeckler (Bbox Bouygues) coming through third in a challenging, 175km stage finishing atop the Cat. 1 Monte Ortobene.

Alex Rasmussen (Saxo Bank) delivered a huge TT win over some big names in Wednesday’s 10.9km course at the Ruta del Sol in Spain, topping such riders as Bradley Wiggins (Sky) and Tony Martin (HTC-Columbia).

Shelley Evans, racing for the U.S. national team, won the opening stage of the Women's Tour of New Zealand Wednesday and takes the first leader's jersey of the six-stage race.

Joaquín Rodríguez's move to the Russian-backed Katusha squad in 2010 will see him get a chance to race the Tour de France for the first time.

Since 1985, Yeti Cycles has been pushing the envelope for off-road race bikes. Singletrack.com stopped by the Yeti lair to see what makes this little company tick.

Who is behind that flashy team vehicle color scheme? Chances are it's Victory Circle, a Colorado company that specializes in custom vinyl graphics for team cars and trucks. Zack Vestal pays a visit.

The first article in a new training series for riders preparing for Gran Fondos and other challenging events.

Kelly Benefit Strategies expands its international schedule to better prepare for the Amgen Tour of California and an eventual upgrade to Pro Continental status.

Former world champion Amber Neben will lead the USA Cycling Women's National Team at the NZCT Women's Tour of New Zealand, which starts Wednesday.

Lennard attends the Park Tool Summit and returns with tips for garage mechanics.

A women's criterium will be held in Sacramento on May 16, just prior to the arrival of the men's Amgen Tour of California peloton in the city. The Sacramento Grand Prix at the 2010 Amgen Tour of California will begin at 10 a.m. and will circle the Capitol building duplicating part of the finishing circuits that will be used in the men's race.

Oscar Freire (Rabobank) has already won more races this year than he did in all of 2009, and it’s only February. The Spanish “gato” pounced to his second straight victory in Tuesday’s third stage at the Ruta del Sol (AKA the Vuelta a Andalucia), fending off Grega Bole (Lampre) and Simon Gerrans (Sky) to claim his third win in the 2010 season.

2010 Wake Forest collegiate results

The Atlantic Coast Cycling Conference’s two-day, three-event weekend, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina began early by college standards, at 8:30am.

The fi’zi:k Cyrano seatpost offers easy adjustment and excellent support for carbon and oversized saddle rails.

Ace photographer Casey B. Gibson recently spent some time with Team Bissell's Pinarello Dogma 60.1 bikes and sent us this photo gallery. He was impressed, and we expect you will be, too.

Former European-based pro Pat McCarty, who had announced last fall that he would join Rock Racing for the 2010 season, has signed on with Yahoo Cycling Team on a provisional basis.

Collegiates try the gamut at Florida State this weekend: TT, TTT, road race in crit.

FSU Collegiate Race, Feb. 20-21, 2010 results

Oscar Freire (Rabobank) wins Stage 2 of the Vuelta a Andalucia Ruta Ciclista del Sol.

Graham Watson shoots the final stage of the 2010 Volta ao Algarve.

University of Arizona wins the conference criterium title in rainy Phoenix.

Results from the ASU Sundevil Criterium, February 20, 2010

The 2010 Tour won't be a two-man race between Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador, says José Azevedo.

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Casey B. Gibson, with camera in hand, pays a call on the Bissell team camp in California.

The Bissell Pro Cycling Team is smaller but swifter for 2010, hoping to contend in crits as well as time trials and stage races.

J.J. Haedo wins the Tour de Mumbai.

Sergio Pardilla wins Stage 1 at the Vuelta a Andalucia Ruta Ciclista del Sol.

Christophe Le Mevel (Française des Jeux) wins the 42nd Tour du Haut Var.

Sergio Pardilla (Carmiooro) wins the first stage of the Vuelta a Andalucia Ruta Ciclista del Sol.

Alberto Contador (Astana) finishes second in the final time trial to take the overall title at the Volta ao Algarve.

Rinaldo Nocentini wins Stage 1 of the Tour du Haut Var.

Rinaldo Nocentini (Ag2r-La Mondiale) wins the first stage of the Tour du Haut Var.

Saxo Bank's Jose Juan Haedo on Sunday won the inaugural Tour de Mumbai, India's first UCI-sanctioned pro race.

Alberto Contador isn’t happy about the UCI’s decision to ban his Specialized Shiv time trial bike on the eve of Sunday’s decisive final TT in the Volta ao Algarve.

With the star-studded RadioShack roster, Sébastien Rosseler never expected it would be him to score the new squad’s first victory. The stocky Belgian rider pulled it off in Saturday’s hilly fourth stage at the Volta ao Algarve, powering away from a breakaway with nearly 30km still to go.

Heading into its 11th season, Jelly Belly presented by Kenda set up camp once again at the golfing community of Lake San Marcos in Southern California.

Riders from war-ravaged Afghanistan are bound to be the center of attraction in next month's Tour de Pakistan, particularly since Indian cyclists were left out in the cold by organizers, an official said on Saturday.

Fabian Cancellara added another victory to his palmarès Friday with the overall win at the inaugural Tour of Oman. He did so on his Specialized Tarmac SL3.

Quick-draw Contador wins stage 3 Alberto Contador (Astana) picked up where he left off last July and won Friday’s “queen stage” to surge into the overall lead at the Volta ao Algarve in Portugal.

Saxo Bank's Fabian Cancellara won the final overall title at the Tour of Oman Friday after finishing second to Team Sky's Edvald Boasson Hagen in the race's concluding 18.5 km individual time trial.

Levi Leipheimer isn’t used to racing in Europe so early in the season, at least not since the inception of the Tour of California in 2006.

Mark Cavendish (HTC-Columbia) is slated to begin his 2010 campaign on Sunday at the Ruta del Sol after an abscessed tooth postponed a planned start at the Tour of Qatar.

Australia's Tour Down Under last month attracted record crowds, visitor numbers and income, the South Australian state government said Friday.

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Early in Thursday’s infernally cold and rainy stage at the Volta ao Algarve, André Greipel called off his HTC-Columbia troops and told them not to chase down a five-man breakaway that had opened up a six-minute gap. ... Well, he won anyway.

Endurance champ Rebecca Rusch gives the blow-by-blow of her South American race adventure with teammate Heidi Volpe.

Ted King is ready to apply the lessons he’s learned in 2009 to have an even better sophomore season in the pro ranks.

Belgian champion Tom Boonen (Quick Step) won the fifth stage of the Tour of Oman, Thursday, already his third win of the season.

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If the name Leigh Howard — Wednesday’s 20-year-old field-sprint winner at the Tour of Oman — sounds familiar to VeloNews.com readers, there are several reasons why.

Benoit Vaugrenard (FDJeux) surprised the sprinters with a well-timed late-stage attack to win Wednesday’s hilly opening stage at the 36th Volta a Algarve.

VeloNews' Robbie Stout takes a look at Kelly Benefit Strategies' 2010 team gear, from its new bikes to its new washing machine.

HTC-Columbia’s Leigh Howard won the fourth stage of the Tour of Oman Wednesday, outsprinting Daniele Bennati (Liquigas) who took the overall lead from Sky’s Edvald Boasson Hagen.

Reigning Olympic champion, Samuel Sanchez, showed up at this week's Volta ao Algarve with a special edition Orbea Orca.

SRAM has announced plans to release a new entry level road group, intended to compete against Shimano’s 105 group, in the spring of 2010.