Road Racing

RadioShack’s Andreas Kloden positioned himself for overall victory at Paris-Nice after taking a stage victory in Thursday’s 193km fifth stage ahead Samuel Sanchez.

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A day after just falling short in a breakaway effort, French national champion Thomas Voeckler (Europcar) got in right with victory in Wednesday’s 191km seven-climb fourth stage at Paris-Nice when a four-man breakaway stayed clear of the fast-chasing peloton.

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Denis Menchov's Team Geox Fuji

Lennard takes questions on the safety of breathing carbon fiber dust and premature bottom bracket wear

Matt Goss (HTC-Highroad) snagged the yellow jersey after he sliced his way past a crash to win Tuesday’s third stage at Paris-Nice.

Tejay Van Garderen (HTC-Highroad) will eventually get to the Tour de France, but the question now for the second-year pro is when.

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AMILLY, France (AFP) - New Zealand's Greg Henderson of the Sky team won a sprint finish on Monday to take the second stage of Paris-Nice.

Angelo Zomegnan wants the 2011 Giro d’Italia to be bigger than ever and it will be, at least this year.

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RadioShack sweeps the GC podium as RadioShack's Jesse Sergent wins the Three Days of West Flanders.

Alberto Contador calls the Giro d’Italia his first major goal of the season as he waits to learn whether he'll be able to try for a fourth Tour de France title July 2-24.

Ina-Yoko Teutenberg (HTC-Highroad) wins stage three of the Merco Credit Union Cycling Classic as Alison Starnes (Peanut Butter & Co.) holds the overall lead.

Rocky Mountain Bicycles is recalling about 325 'cross bikes because the steerer tube can fail.

HTC-Highroad's John Degenkolb sprints to victory in stage one of the Three Days of West Flanders as Jesse Sergent and two RadioShack teammates top the overall standings.

PARIS (AFP) — Britain's Mark Cavendish has been given a potential boost by organisers of the Tour de France after they announced changes Friday to the rules concerning the race's points competition.

Amanda Miller is on a hot streak. The new HTC-Highroad rider scored her second win in a week Thursday in stage 1 of the Merco Credit Union Cycling Classic near Merced, California. A half hour later, Robert Britton led a Bissell podium sweep in the men’s race.

The varying roles for race follow cars, pros changing their own tubies, and Nick's favorite workstand, revealed.

New cyclocross and road gear from the component giant

Hutchinson explains why Lance's tires were probably UCI-compliant and Lennard answers more questions about stack-and-reach, Di2 brakes and more

Coach Neal Henderson answers a reader who wonders if, in the age of wattage meters, training by heart rate still makes sense.

No fewer than nine defending champions will line up for Australia at the world track cycling championships later this month in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, Cycling Australia announced Tuesday.

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A look at some of the NAHBS award winners

Sache White and his Vanilla and Speedvagen bicycles are a perennial favorite at NAHBS. This year was no exception.

Cyfac shows a beautiful custom carbon bike while Kent Eriksen brings a ti' cyclocrosser set up with disc brakes.

Roland Della Santa reveals the truth behind his chainstay decorations as Ric Hjertberg expounds on wheels past and future.

Peter Sagan fends off some fierce attacks in the finale to secure the overall victory at the Giro di Sardegna.

Giovanni Visconti (Farnese Vini-Neri Sottoli) sprints to victory in the Grand Prix Regio Insubrica.

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Chris King built a custom Cielo for the NAHBS just to show what you can do with a handmade bike.

Red paint, chrome and curved steel brings back childhood memories for Nick Legan

At the NAHBS, Nick Legan scopes out a slick city bike from Naked and SPDs that jingle, jangle, jingle

The North American Handmade Bicycle Show gets underway in Austin.

What do mechanics do on long, boring stages? Will Boardman's hour record be broken? And more

MADRID (AFP) — RadioShack's Markel Irizar (Radioshack) secured overall victory in the Ruta del Sol Thursday after the fifth and final stage, won by Oscar Freire of Rabobank.

South African Darren Lill was third in the fourth stage of his country's home tour on Wednesday.

A reader asks if a product long used by pros is only now coming to the market, how can it be 'legal' under UCI rules?

A look at some new gear from DT Swiss and FSA at the Frostbike show

SRAM adds new color option for its Red groupset

JAEN, Spain (VN) – A day after losing in a photo-finish, Fran Ventoso (Movistar) got it right to claim victory in Tuesday’s stage 3 at the 57th Ruta del Sol.

El Pistolero’s Shiv

Caley Fretz takes a look at Hutchinson's Pro Tour tires — just like Lance used —  and examines the benefits of aging tires.

Sarah Hammer of the United States wins the women’s omnium at the UCI World Cup track cycling meet in Manchester, England.

Jimmy Engoulvent wins the opening time trial by a fraction of a second as the 57th Vuelta a Andalucia Ruta Ciclista del Sol gets under way.

Thomas Voeckler wins the Tour du Haut Var after finishing second in the final stage.

Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet) clinched the overall victory in the GvA Trofee series on Sunday as Belgian champion Niels Albert (BKCP-Powerplus) won the finale in Oostmalle.

Sir Chris Hoy escapes a spectacular crash to win the World Cup keirin in Manchester. Azizulhasni Awang takes the overall title and collects a seven-inch splinter in one leg to go with it.

Samuel Dumoulin snatches the Haut Var opener from Rinaldo Nocentini.

André Greipel wins stage 4 of Algarve while Stephen Cummings leads the overall.

Daniele Pietropolli proves fastest of a 10-man break at the Trofeo Laigueglia.

Bart Wellens takes a commanding solo victory at the Cauberg Cyclocross.

Kevin Sireau, the French sprinter, proved Friday at the World Cup meet in Manchester he will be one of the favorites at the London Olympics

Even with a flashing red butt, Caley Fretz says the Castelli tights will let you ride on days you'd probably rather not.

What's a light-weight helmet worth to you? Tech-man Nick Legan has a suggestion

John Degenkolb (HTC-Columbia) nipped Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Cervélo) to win the second stage at the Volta ao Algarve in Portugal in Thursday’s 186.5km run from Lagao to Lagos.

Armstrong's second comeback did not spur as many new bike tech ideas as the first, Lennard Zinn says.

Australian Matthew Goss (HTC-HighRoad) won the second stage of the Tour of Oman on Wednesday taking the leader's red jersey from Dutchman Theo Boss of Rabobank.

The merits of tubular tape, more on the stack-and-reach concept, Mavic freehubs and more

Mounting up the new accessory shifters.

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American Jonathan Page falls just short of the podium as Kevin Pauwels wins the GP Heuts.

Brakes, flats and Superman

Officials in Barcelona are hoping to convince ASO that the Catalan city would be an ideal place to start the 2014 Tour de France.

Maurice Garin was the first Tour de France champion to be stripped of his title for cheating.

George Hincapie already holds the record for the most Tour appearances by an American. He'd like to best Joop Zoetemelk's mark of 16 completed Tours.

The Leopard-Trek rider adds, "If Contador is there he also undoubtedly would be a favorite.”

If you really want to ride when it's 10 degrees out, we've your gear

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For the second consecutive day, Tyler Farrar kicks to victory at the Mallorca Challenge in Spain.

Test pilot Zach White shreds snow in Pearl Izumi tights and shoe covers, Dakine gloves and Shimano shoes

Anthony Ravard (AG2R-La Mondiale) claimed overall victory in the Etoile de Bessèges on Sunday.

Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Cervélo) won Sunday’s Trofeo Palma, the first round in the five-day 2011 Mallorca Challenge, but it appears that the UCI may refuse to recognize the legitimacy of the event after riders refused to compete without radio earpieces as per the governing body’s edict.

On a day when seemingly everyone hit the deck once — and some more than once — the Landbouwkrediet rider kept the rubber side down, riding as though he were on rails.