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Aussie Richie Porte will not be among the nine riders backing Alberto Contador as he tackles the 2011 Giro d'Italia, Saxo Bank-Sungard announces.

Jonathan Castroviejo wins the prologue to the Tour de Romandie ahead of American Taylor Phinney and Leigh Howard.

“I don’t think I have ever seen stages so long, so hard and so spectacular in all my many years as a pro,” said Carlos Sastre after scouting some key sectors of the 2011 Giro d'Italia.

Geox-TMC has been doing some wind-tunnel work and scouted the decisive climbs in the Dolomites ahead of this year's Giro d'Italia.

Manuel Belletti wins the third stage at the Presidential Tour of Turkey and takes the race leader’s jersey.

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The Speed Dream Tonazzo carbon clinchers: light, stiff wheels from an artisan.

Quick look: If you ride white handlebar tape, white shoes and white shorts, then check out the new white Apex.

Special shorts for Roubaix, team vehicle parking spots, painted roads and more questions, answered

ROME (AFP) - Giro d'Italia champion Ivan Basso will not be defending his title when the Giro begins on May 7 in Turin, he said Thursday.

2011 Giro d'Italia startlist

Geox-TMC has named its "long list" for the upcoming Giro d'Italia, putting 12 riders on a list that will be whittled down to nine for the season's first grand tour.

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Quick look: Campagnolo has new shifters, brake levers, brakes and big chainrings for time trial machines

From $40 to $230, we've rounded up a eight models of shades sure to keep you covered.

Nick Legan reviews the new Giro Aeon: Lighter than the Ionas, better ventilated than the Prolight. But it could use more sizes.

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Mark Zalewski looked over the gear at the 2011 Little 500 race in Bloomington, Indiana.

OK, we have another bottom bracket standard to consider. Lennard Zinn explains why it might make sense.

Fighting back from a lap down, seniors Eric Young and Zach Lusk take turns pulling, un-lapping themselves in enough time to allow Young to sprint for the Cutter's 11th win in Little 500 history.

TRP brings the benefits of hydraulic disc brakes to road-style brake/shift levers via a satellite master cylinder under the stem.

Alberto Contador wins the fourth stage of the Vuelta Castilla y Leon and Xavier Tondo takes the leader's jersey.

The Teter squad attacked at lap 15 and nearly lapped the field twice during the Little 500 women's race.

Fran Ventoso (Movistar) won for the second day in a row at the Vuelta a Castilla y León in another bunch sprint in northern Spain.

Caravan order, water bottle practices and Roubaix flats. All your questions, answered.

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VeloNews just put nearly 1,000 bikes at your fingertips.

A reader has a new set of wheels with tubeless tires, but the darn things leak. Lennard goes through the steps that you - or your bike shop - need to follow to keep air where it belongs.

Back home after Roubaix, it’s time to look through photos from the weekend.

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Supporting a team at Paris-Roubaix is a tough hustle. VeloNews hitched a ride in a Garmin team car to find out just how tough.

What a difference a year makes: A DNF at Paris-Roubaix in 2010, Johan Van Summeren wins the race in 2011 with a well-timed solo break.

The Hell of the North lived up to its name for Quick Step as three-time winner Tom Boonen crashed out and Tour of Flanders runner-up Sylvain Chavanel could only muster 38th.

Former Paris-Roubaix winner Stuart O'Grady was among a handful of riders who survived the cobbles to cross the line in the velodrome only to have their results erased because they were beyond the time limit.

Johan Van Summeren salvaged Garmin-Cervélo's classics season with a brilliant victory at Paris-Roubaix on Sunday.

Jonathan Cantwell wins the 60-lap men’s race at Saturday’s Sunny King Criterium in Anniston, Alabama.

Colavita-Forno d’Asolo dominated the women’s race at Saturday’s Sunny King Criterium in Anniston, Alabama.

Why white tape? Why no gloves? How do I become a team doctor?

Yes, even tech meister Lennard Zinn has fouled up disc brake bleeds. He tells how not to…

Paris-Roubaix demands more of the machine. Every part of the bike needs to be up to the challenge. Frames, forks, wheels, tires, handlebars, cables, even pedals are all optimized.

Vermarc, down an old Belgian farm road

This week Lennard is devoting his column to a profile of Rich Sawiris and a look at his wheelbuilding techniques.

Chris Sutton's Team Sky Pinarello and Johnny Clarke's UHC Boardman

Daniele Bennati (Leopard-Trek) claimed his first win on the 2011 season after kicking to victory in the opening stage at the Circuit Cyclist Sarthe in France

Complete results, Colorado State University race weekend

With nearly all the major Tour de France hopefuls lining up this week at the Tour of the Basque Country, Alberto Contador has gone to the mountains.

Chris Horner (RadioShack) kept alive his GC hopes in a wild opener at the Vuelta a País Vasco (the Tour of the Basque Country), where the veteran American lined up Monday with the No. 1 start bib as defending champion.

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Cole House scores a rookie win at Redlands while his Realcyclist.com teammate Francisco Mancebo squeaked out of town with the final leader's jersey.

Team Type 1 keeps edging ever closer to a breakthrough European victory with Jure Kocjan dashing to second in the Fleche d'Emeraude

Cath Cheatley makes it three stage wins in four tries as Amber Neben wins her third overall Redlands title.

Most of this year's Flanders peloton opted to ride straightforward race bikes, mostly using 25mm tubulars.

Nick Nuyens wins a hard-fought Tour of Flanders as Fabian Cancellara (Leopard-Trek) finally proves himself mortal on the steeps of the Muur.

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Roman Van Uden wins the stage-two downtown criterium at the Redlands Bicycle Classic.

The American U-23 squad is showing strength at the Triptyque Mont et Chateaux in Belgium.

The VeloNews crew eyeballs Leopard-Trek's prototype Bontrager wheels before Tour of Flanders.

Fabian Cancellara prefers a bit more rake in his fork and is using a mechanical group instead of Shimano's Di2 Dura-Ace group.

Tech editor Nick Legan checks out Fabian Cancellara's Flanders bike.

Ted King's Cannondale

Rapha North America has issued a recall notice on 200 cans of its chamois cream.

Readers ask about treating tires, both inside and out, and protecting your knees in cold weather.

A keen eye may have noticed a slight change in the bib shorts and jerseys of Garmin-Cervèlo’s Tyler Farrar, Johan VanSummeren, Heinrich Haussler, and Matt Wilson at Milan-San Remo this year. That’s because they weren’t wearing bib shorts and jerseys anymore – at least not as we know them.

For the June issue of VeloNews, we’re testing four endurance bikes in the lab and out on the paved, dirt and cobblestone roads.

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Readers ask about getting the correct shoe and putting that cool crank set on a bike not designed to take it.

Mavic has been testing prototypes of a new 40mm carbon tubular under a few of their high-profile riders this spring.

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Sarah Hammer is the first American woman to earn three medals in a single cycling world championship after finishing second in the women’s omnium at the UCI track world championships.

Casey B. Gibson shoots the final day of the 2011 track world championships.

Emma Pooley (Garmin-Cervélo) rode alone for 69km to win the kickoff to the 2011 UCI women's World Cup on Sunday.

Fränk Schleck clinches the Critérium International in Porto-Vecchio after the final stage, a 7.8km time trial through the streets of the Corsican town.

Tom Boonen (Quick Step) wins Ghent-Wevelgem.