Road Racing

Lennard Zinn answers a litany of questions about how to improve braking performance on road bikes

Michal Kwiatkowski came out swinging at the Tour, in spite of his youth and overall GC ambitions

Cancellara: "I have done 59 days of competition this season so far and I have another big goal at the end of this season: the World Championships"

The 2014 Tour de France has been a cruel edition of the race, one that has seen dreams broken, almost daily

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Two crashes in as many days proved too many for American Andrew Talansky to cope with, as he slipped of the back on stage 10

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A brutal day with seven categorized climbs claimed a few victims, most notably Alberto Contador

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Nibali: "I was ready for a big duel with Contador in the mountains. It's a pity the Tour has lost two big protagonists"

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Contador's frame broke on the roof of his team car, not on the road

Rumors are flying about the future of Cannondale Pro Cycling as Sagan struggles to win a Tour stage

"I was just trying to hang on," van Garderen said. "When he (Nibali) went, I knew that if I tried to go, I would probably blow up"

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Results from stage 10 of the 2014 Tour de France

The Tinkoff-Saxo captain goes down hard, but resumes racing, only to abandon a few kilometers further along, leaving the race wide open

The stage is set for an epic showdown between Nibali and Contador, the most experienced, wily, and headstrong riders in the Tour de France

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Ride along with Movistar and Tinkoff-Saxo for a look inside stage 8 of the Tour

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Featured bikes were made by Argonaut Cycles, Independent Fabrication, Lynskey Performance, Mosaic Cycles, Ritte Cycles, and Seven Cycles

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Cycling is the Gallopin family business, and the new leader of the Tour credits his kinfolk for helping him achieve his goals

Talansky's had some rough luck, but says he's relatively unscathed and eager to battle with the best as the Tour rolls skyward

Tony Martin smashed his pursuers on Sunday, and gave an aggressive Omega Pharma-Quick Step team its second win of the 2014 Tour

Photos from stage 9 of the 2014 Tour de France

Giant's redesigned Defy endurance road platform is lighter than ever, even with disc brakes

Results from stage 9 of the 2014 Tour de France

A big break goes in the second of three tough days in the Vosges, with Martin escaping for the stage and Gallopin taking the yellow jersey

Alberto Contador says the real Tour de France has begun, and he promises to continue his attacks on race leader Vincenzo Nibali

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Giant's carbon-framed Defy models will come with disc brakes only, a nod to the future of braking on the road

Cheng Ji started his athletic career as a runner, moved into cycling, and since has become the first Chinese to start all three grand tours

Photos from stage 8 of the 2014 Tour de France

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Richie Porte made his way into third overall Saturday, with a persevering ride in the Vosges. What's up next for the new captain?

Alberto Contador and his Tinkoff-Saxo bank attacked to reshuffle the GC deck in the first of three hard days across the soggy Vosges

Results from stage 8 of the 2014 Tour de France

As Kadri takes the stage and the climber's jersey, Contador and Nibali test each other a bit, with the Spaniard clawing back a few seconds

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Talansky tangled with Simon Gerrans at the finish of stage 7. Who's to blame remains up for debate

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With two grand tour victories to his name and a never-say-die attitude, Nibali has become the latest in a long line of Italian cycling stars

Take a close look at the BMC that started, but didn't finish, Friday's stage

The peloton faced their second longest day of this year's Tour, and several key GC players were caught out in crashes

Race leader Marianne Vos continued her winning streak on stage 7 at the Giro Rosa, ahead of Giorgia Bronzini and Emma Johansson

Usually playing the role of attacking instigator, Nibali will instead assume a defensive posture as the Tour heads to the mountains

Sky rider Chris Froome confirmed Wednesday that he abandoned stage 5 of the Tour de France with fractures to both his left wrist and right hand

Suffering his fourth crash of the Tour on stage 7, it's been a rough and tumble week for young BMC leader Tejay van Garderen

Though he leads the green jersey competition by a wide margin, Sagan needs a stage win to be satisfied with his Tour

Stage 7 a difficult day for American GC contenders, as both van Garderen, Talansky down in separate crashes inside the final 20km

Results from the second longest day of the Tour, stage 7, from Épernay to Nancy

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Stage 6 was a mostly flat 194 kilometers from Arras to Reims, and it was a day for the sprinters

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After blitzing the cobblestones, the Tour's yellow jersey needs to look no further for attacks than the climbing stages looming in the Vosges Mountains

Stage 5 of the 2014 Tour de France delivered rain, cobblestones, crashes, and chaos, and saw defending champion Chris Froome abandon

With rain, rough roads and multiple crashes, organizer ASO risked losing more than it gained Wednesday by including a cobbled stage in the Tour de France

Porte went from domestique to leader in seconds during a disastrous stage 6. Can he carry the hopes of Sky at the Tour?

Results from the 194km stage from Arras to Reims

The German national champion won the sixth stage of the 2014 Tour, out-sprinting Alexander Kristoff (Katusha) and Samuel Dumolin (Ag2r La Mondiale)

Teams are scrambling to pull together deals to secure their futures, with a possible link between the Garmin and Cannondale teams

André Greipel is hoping to revive his sprint in the coming stages, following a dismal start to the 2014 Tour de France

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On a day that felt more like a spring classic than a July Tour stage, Boom and Nibali took control

On a wet and wild day that saw countless riders crash, everyone had an opinion on whether or not cobblestones belong at the Tour de France

Alberto Contador lost considerable time on stage 5 in the battle for the GC at the Tour de France, while Alejandro Valverde fared slightly better

Vincenzo Nibali delivered the promised psychological blow to his rivals on a wet, muddy cobbled stage of the Tour de France, building on his GC lead

Stage 5 was a wet and wild mini Paris-Roubaix that did what most teams cannot: rattle the Team Sky machine

Teams pulled out all the stops to get top riders to the Arenberg finish in one piece

Young Americans keep GC hopes alive after surviving a brutal day of racing across the cobblestones of northern France and Belgium