Road Racing

With Fabio Aru's fading form, Astana looks to young Basque climber Mikel Landa to take the helm as Contador proves unflappable

Androni-Sidermec team manager clashes with BMC's Ochowicz's over assertion that Pro Continental teams should not be invited to big races

Ryder Hesjedal wants Tinkoff-Saxo to let the breakaway go, says the team's tactics only lead to isolation for its leader, Contador

Giro leader Alberto Contador overcomes flat tire and surprise attack from Astana, Katusha to blast up Mortirolo and extend GC advantage

Landa lands another stage win as the Contador extends GC lead with masterful climbing on the Mortirolo

Mikel Landa notches two stage wins in a row as Alberto Contador proves unflappable on steep Mortirolo climb

Lennard Zinn addresses reader questions pertaining to cog and chain wear, mixing parts, and more

Bookwalter and his BMC Racing teammates ride this Dura-Ace equipped setup

Global Cycling Network compares using a standard crankset vs. a compact one on this demanding climb featured in the Giro

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Matthew Busche rides away from Joe Dombrowski and a small group of chasers to win the 2015 national championship race

Megan Guarnier and Evelyn Stevens deliver an impressive one-two punch to set up Guarnier to win her second national championship title

With Contador sitting pretty in the pink jersey, it seems Astana won't be able to present a real challenge for overall GC supremacy

The Spaniard talks about his chances of winning his second Giro title

The Sky rider entered the race as a favorite to win, but a crash, injuries, and a time penalty squashed his hopes for pink

Cannondale-Garmin's veteran mechanics share their tales of strange, surprising, and humorous happenings from the European circuit

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Alberto Contador looks at his best when the odds are against him, and Sunday in the Dolomites proved no exception

Tim De Waele captures the action in stage 15 of the Giro d'Italia

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Good legs, bad luck: Ryder Hesjedal chases alone to 13th overall after a late crash splits the Giro d’Italia peloton

Astana gets a stage win but fails to dislodge Alberto Contador from the top of the standings in the Giro d'Italia

Andrew Talansky says it will be an honor to wear the U.S. champion's colors at the start of the Tour de France

Astana rode itself inside out for Fabio Aru on Sunday, but Alberto Contador remained unruffled and extended his lead at the Giro d'Italia

Despite lingering aches and pains from a spill on Friday, and sitting well down on the overall, Richie Porte continues in the Giro d'Italia

Paint-stripped bikes, wide gears, and extreme integration for the Giro's long time trial

Scenes from an impactful race against the clock in the Giro's 14th stage

26-year-old Andrew Talansky earned himself a year in the American TT champion's jersey, while his teammate Ben King took runner-up honors

Results from the Giro's 14th stage, a 59.4km individual time trial

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Olympic gold medalist and former world champion Kristin Armstrong takes national time trial title in Chattanooga

Avoiding a challenging final week in the mountains, several sprinters are leaving Italy to recuperate in preparation for later season goals

Richie Porte falters in Giro time trial but teammate Vasil Kiryienka earns stage win, while Alberto Contador retakes pink from Fabio Aru

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Alberto Contador loses overall lead, but it seems likely he'll soon return to the maglia rosa with a long, difficult time trial looming

It is day for the sprinters, albeit a rainy, treacherous one that shook up the GC standings with a crash late in the race

Giro GC gets shaken up by another late crash on a rainy day for the sprinters

The Tinkoff-Saxo rider aims to take back the pink jersey from Fabio Aru before entering the Giro's final, mountainous stretch

Alberto Contador loses 36 seconds and pink jersey to rival Fabio Aru in Giro stage 13 but says he feels okay despite hitting the deck

Thursday's stage 12 at the Giro d'Italia featured a steep finishing climb and lots of cold rain

Rapha invades your eardrums, Strava gets local, Zipp unveils new 404 Firestrike options, and Brooks takes it easy on your sensitive areas

Both riders wet down in Thursday's wet stage, with Kung hospitalized with a compression fracture of his T9 vertebrae

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Riders at the back of the Giro's stage 12 were delayed in the finish as fans crossed the barriers and blocked the roadway

Global Cycling Network teams up with Caley Fretz to see what tiny tech details Giro teams are minding to get an advantage in the race

Rigoberto Uran rode into the Giro as a GC favorite, but now he's clinging on to the front group, hoping the TT is his ticket to the podium

Philippe Gilbert was not to be denied his first win of the season on a punchy finale that perfectly suited the Belgian strongman

Alberto Contador keeps squeezing his GC rivals for seconds on the Giro's tough transition stages, sitting comfortably in race lead

Philippe Gilbert earns first win in seven months, sprinting up steep final climb in the rain. Contador extends GC lead

UCI president Brian Cookson says jury's ruling to dock Porte two minutes in the Giro was a fair decision, that Sky should know the rules

Philippe Gilbert unleashes brilliant sprint in the Giro's stage 12 finale, and Alberto Contador is close behind, extending GC lead

Zipp is late to the game with a disc-brake compatible wheel, but the company is a viable contender with a simple and durable hub design

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It's Ilnur Zakarin's day at the Giro as the young Russian claims his first grand tour stage win in the rain

Alberto Contador is quick to put his GC rival Fabio Aru on the ropes Wednesday in a rainy Giro d'Italia stage

Zakarin claims his first grand tour victory in a rainy, hilly stage as the GC remains unchanged

According to the Movement for Credible Cycling, Bardiani-CSF started the Giro with a rider who violated the voluntary organization's rules

Ilnur Zakarin shows his class with a brave solo move in the rain to win the day as Alberto Contador comfortably holds the race lead

Team Sky boss says he wants the race jury to be more consistent in how it applies rules after his Giro leader is penalized two minutes

The Orica-GreenEdge rider says he was merely helping his friend by giving Richie Porte a wheel late in stage 10

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Take a walk through the Giro d'Italia with BrakeThrough Media and soak in the spectacle's atmosphere, from the fans to the food

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Fellow pro riders, team managers, journalists, and other pundits sound off on the UCI jury's decision to penalize Porte in Giro stage 10

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On what should have been a quiet day for the sprinters, the breakaway succeeds and the GC standings get shaken up by a late-race flat

Richie Porte's bad day at the Giro gets worse as the race jury decides to penalize the GC favorite for receiving aid from an Orica rider

Two Italian riders, Alan Marangoni and Alessandro Malaguti, hatched a plan Monday, keen to be off the front in front of their home crowds

A surprise GC shakeup comes on a flat sprint stage, and an unassuming break stays away to win

GC hopeful Richie Porte suffers setback in what was expected to be a quiet stage after Monday's rest day, but he's ready to keep fighting

Sky's leader Richie Porte suffers a flat in the final 10km and loses time to Contador, while Nicola Boem sprints to win stage 10

Mavic's carbon clinchers aren't as fast as some competitors in the wind tunnel, but we're impressed by their durability and versatility

Handmade builders will offer painted-to-match pumps from the iconic brand

This week, Lennard Zinn addresses questions about attaching tubulars with tape, a cracked bottom bracket shell, and more

With the first week of the Italian grand tour in the books, three riders have emerged as the leading trio chasing the pink jersey

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