Road Racing

Lars Boom (Rabobank) claims victory in the prologue of the Tour of Qatar.

Italian Elia Viviani (Liquigas-Cannondale) kicks to victory in Saturday’s GP Costa degli Etruschi.

Speed wobble, shoe covers and single-ringing it

Anthony Ravard (Ag2r-La Mondiale) retakes the lead in the l'Etoile de Bessèges as

Kevin Pauwels (Telenet-Fidea) won a thrilling photo-finish sprint with teammate and world champion Zdenek Stybar to take the GVA Trofee stop at Lille.

Ellen Van Dijk won the Ladies Tour of Qatar on Friday as HTC-Highroad put four riders into the top 10 overall, two of them on the podium.

Samuel Dumoulin (Cofidis) sprinted to victory in Friday’s third stage at the Étoile de Bessèges in southern France.

Ellen Van Dijk takes the sprint from a small breakaway group and moves into the overall lead in Qatar.

The Xar worked when it was needed most as Zach White found out the hard way

Perhaps it’s hard to believe for an Italian rider, but former world champion Alessandro Ballan has never raced the Giro d’Italia.

A look at the Selle Italia SLR Monolink saddle. Smart design, at a price

Readers and industry types offer some follow-up tips regarding recent columns.

Yauheni Hutarovich (FDJ) won the opening stage of the five-day Étoile de Bessèges in Tuesday’s 150km run from Beaucaire to Bellegarde in southern France.

SYDNEY (AFP) — Up and coming Australian cyclist Jack Bobridge claimed one of track cycling's biggest prizes Wednesday when he beat Chris Boardman's 15-year-old world record for the 4km pursuit.

Nick Legan puts a pair of Mercury carbon clinchers to the test.

After six days of trying, the breakaway specialists in Le Tour de Langkawi finally had their say Monday, going clear during a shortened stage to Nilai and fighting it out for the win.

Building on the magazine’s award-winning aero wheel test, VeloNews creates a new, intensive method of bicycle evaluation

Daniele Pietropolli (Lampre-ISD) wins the Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria as Manuel Belletti (Colnago-CSF Inox) takes the finale.

Jéremy Roy (FDJ) rode away with the GP La Marseillaise on Sunday in France to win the first one-day race of the 2011 European racing calendar.

After taking a frustrated second on Saturday's stage to Tampin, UnitedHealthcare's Robert Forster went one better to blaze home first into Jasin on the eighth leg of the Tour de Langkawi.

Zdenek Stybar overcomes a battalion of Belgians to defend his world cyclocross crown.

Andrea Guardini (Farnese Vini-Neri Sottoli) won his fourth bunch sprint in the Tour de Langkawi on Saturday.

The Netherlands' Lars Van der Haar took the worlds Under-23 men's title, charging to the line as teammate Mike Teunissen outsprinted the Czech Republic's Karel Hnik to take second on a muddy and slippery course in St. Wendel, Germany on Saturday.

France's Clément Venturini led a three-up French sweep of the juniors' men's event at the 2011 world cyclocross championships in St. Wendel, Germany, on Saturday.

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Quack! Nick answers questions about Q-factor, tire choices for epic rides and more

Andy Schleck does not consider himself a Tour winner, he told the Dutch paper Wielerland. "For me Alberto is the winner of the 2010 Tour. I would love to win the Tour on my own." Schleck has said previously that he did not want to win the Tour via Contador's suspension.

USA Cycling has released the selection procedures that will be used to determine the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team across all four Olympic disciplines — road, mountain bike, track and BMX.

Chainring flex, mid-foot cleats, bottom bracket drilling and more

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Movistar's Vendoso scores the first big win on Campy's electric shifters

Italian rider Andrea Guardini showed that his Stage 1 victory was well deserved when he took another impressive sprint victory in the Tour de Langkawi.

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Marco Arriagada (Chile) secured the overall title at the Tour de San Luís after finishing safely in the bunch in Sunday’s seventh and final stage.

Katie Compton wins the finale as Sanne Van Paassen claims the 2010-11 World Cup.

Niels Albert wins the finale in Hoogerheide and clinches the World Cup title.

Equaling the closest-winning margin 10 years ago, Cameron Meyer and his Garmin-Cervélo team held off all and sundry in Sunday’s final stage to win the 2011 Santos Tour Down Under.

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VeloNews editor in chief Ben Delaney takes a look at HTC-HighRoad's time trial bike.

American Jonathan Page finishes fifth as Rob Peeters wins the Kasteelcross Zonnebeke.

The Tour’s loss could be the Giro’s gain. Denis Menchov — just a day after he found his Geox-TMC team was not invited to participate in the 2011 Tour de France – has confirmed he will “race the Giro to win.”

A change in political winds in Washington, D.C., could sink plans to bring the Giro d’Italia to North America.

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Anthony Tan touches bases with all the players to look at how Saxo Bank is surviving a mass exodus and uncertainty about its star recruit, Alberto Contador

Andy Schleck says he doesn’t want to win the Tour de France by default if Alberto Contador is disqualified from the 2010 edition. He wants to beat him straight up on the roads of France.

Doctors have successfully removed a metal plate and six screws from Frank Schleck’s collarbone in the last step of recovery from his crash in last year’s Tour de France.

Not UCI compliant, and the better for it

Cavendish and others are using the new Shimano Di2 shift option at the Tour Down Under

Carlos Sastre said missing the 2011 Tour de France is a “blow” but promises to race with his head held high in other events this season.

The pros and cons of two-step chain lubing, getting team vehicles Down Under, and Bontrager discography

Race director Christian Prudhomme defended his decision to leave Geox-TMC on the sidelines for the 2011 Tour de France.

Former winner Carlos Sastre and last year’s podium man Denis Menchov will miss this year’s Tour de France after their Geox-TMC squad was overlooked in Tour de France invitations revealed Thursday.

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A look at Scott Zwizanski's prototype Boardman time trial bike

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Bont Vaypor: Heat-moldable road shoes from a master of the ice

Superlight and flashy — a solid choice IF they fit your foot

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A quick look at the Smart ebike, a futuristic mount shown at the Paris Motor Show

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Kevin Pauwels outduels World Cup leader Niels Albert in Pont-Château, France.

Sanne Van Paassen takes over the lead of the UCI women's World Cup as Marianne Vos wins round seven and Katie Compton sits it out.

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Team Type 1’s knows it has a tough battle to try to secure an invitation to the 2011 Giro d’Italia, but Giro race director Angelo Zomegnan told VeloNews the U.S.-based team fits the profile of the kind of team he’s looking for

Questions of epic tire failures, the real wheel behind the team label and possible refinements in electronic shifting.

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Leopard-Trek gets geared up for the 2011 season.

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Readers and companies offer feedback on Zinn's recent New Year's resolutions for the bike industry.

Nick Legan, at the team camp in Mallorca, takes a quick look at the new team's Bontrager helmets.