Road Racing

HTC-Columbia breaks its own rules to let the 22-year-old American start a grand tour. 'I'm not going to be a tourist,' the first-year pro promises.

The Saxo rider says he's fully recovered from his Tour de France crash and ready to challenge for the win, with the help of brother Andy

Lennard Zinn fields questions about the need for headset top caps and why shortened seatposts don't creak, and shares another long list of potential sources for bicycle mystery noises.

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The third and final grand tour of the season gets underway in Spain on Saturday, with several leading riders eyeing their chances amid the absence of the world's top road racer Alberto Contador.

Garmin's new Edge 800 cycling GPS unit offers more features — including a color touchscreen — than the minimalist Edge 500. But it's not much bigger.

Javier Guillén says the race features a 'colossus' climb and a stellar field, including the Schlecks, Menchov, Sastre, Cavendish, Freire and others

Two-time Vuelta winner Denis Menchov goes into this year's race as a five-star favorite.

The Luxembourg cycling federation announced Tuesday that Tour de France runner-up Andy Schleck will not race the world road championships

HTC-Columbia's Tony Martin wraps up his Eneco Tour by winning the final time trial. Now he's looking toward the world time trial championships in Australia.

Vincenzo Nibali and Roman Kreuziger will lead the team in Spain

Zack Vestal takes Exustars Look-style carbon and titanium road pedals and deems them solid, light and inexpensive.

Tony Martin holds the overall lead going into Tuesday's time trial.

The Spanish veteran, who has finished on the podium three times, will be starting his third grand tour of the year.

With Alejandro Valverde on suspension, Caisse d'Epargne packs the one-two punch of Giro d’Italia runner-up David Arroyo and Luis León Sánchez.

David Moncoutié will be looking to match history as he makes a run for a third consecutive climber’s jersey at the Vuelta a España.

Jai Crawford (Fly V Australia) crowned the queen stage of the Tour of Utah Sunday, taking the mountaintop win at Snowbird Ski Resort. Levi Leipheimer (Mellow Johnny's) rode away from his rivals to finish second and seal overall victory.

Forty-two year old Nico Toutenhoofd outpaces a Garmin-Transitions attack to win in New Hampshire. Marti Shea, 47, overcomes a vet-packed women's field.

The HTC-Columbia rider out-speeds Garmin's Tyler Farrar to win the ProTour race.

The Garmin-Transitions rider spends the day in a break and then attacks it just short of the finish for the victory.

American Tom Danielson scores a top-10 finish in the 19th edition of the race.

Emma Pooley solos to a second consecutive victory in the GP Plouay as Marianne Vos claims her third World Cup crown.

Sunday brings a mountain stage that borrows part of its route from the Amstel Gold Race.

Taylor Phinney (Trek-Livestrong) notched another stripe in his time trial belt Friday night as flew to the stage 3 win in the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah as Levi Leipheimer puts time into GC rivals.

In his latest Clothesline review, Zack Vestal takes a look at new road helmets from Catlike and Lazer

Thomas Löfkvist and Simon Gerrans lead a strong Sky squad into the Vuelta a España.

Nicholas Roche, hot off a solid 15th in the Tour de France, is aiming for a top-10 overall at the Vuelta

UPDATED: Levi Leipheimer left no doubt Thursday when he rode away from an elite selection of six riders to take the stage and the overall lead at the Tour of Utah.

André Greipel (HTC-Columbia) won the second stage of the Eneco Tour of Benelux on Thursday, out-kicking Katusha's Robbie McEwen in a field sprint into the Belgian town of Ardooie.

Katusha's Robbie McEwen won a field sprint into Rhenen in the Netherlands to win the first stage of the sixth of the Eneco Tour of Benelux on Wednesday. Canadian Svein Tuft remains in the lead.

Chalk up another time trial win for Trek-Livestrong in 2010, as Taylor Phinney blitzed the 2.8-mile Capitol Prologue at the Tour of Utah Tuesday night

Tour of Poland winner Daniel Martin continued his rich vein of form, winning the 199km one-day Italian race Tre Valli Varesine in Varese on Tuesday.

The Canadian delivered a big win to open the Eneco Tour in Holland

SLIDESHOW: Trek pulls back the curtain on 2011 updates to the mountain bike line, including the offerings in the "Gary Fisher Collection."

The 2008 yellow jersey wearer plans to come back with the Italian squad at the end of the month, when his suspension ends.

A visit to Trek's massive dealer show reveals a few new items, including a super-light shoe, new helmets, a budget-priced Madone line and a 12-pound carbon fixie.

The 35 year old from the Palmeiras Resort-Prio-Tavira team won two stages and was second in the critical time trial.

The American out-speeds Edvald Boasson Hagen and Andre Greipel to win for the second consecutive year.

Canadian champ David Veilleux wins the USA Cycling National Professional Criterium Championships, while Holloway collects the U.S. crit crown as the first American across the line.

The 2006 Tour champ has tried ultra-sound but may have to undergo surgery.

The Cervélo TestTeam will bring star riders Carlos Sastre and Thor Hushovd to the Vuelta a España later this month.

A reader makes a minor change to his drivetrain and experiences a whole new set of problems. Is there a simple solution? Lennard Zinn thinks so.

Canadian Guillaume Boivin wins the opening stage of the six-day Mi-Août en Bretagne.

Sastre, Kashechkin, Schlecks – sí; Riccò, Rasmussen, Shack – no

Zubeldia scores in the 3km starter. HTC-Columbia's Tejay Van Garderen leads the Americans at eighth.

Team Sky will bring a solid team to the Vuelta a España, with Thomas Löfkvist and Simon Gerrans leading the way for the British-backed squad.

The Cronus CX, part of Trek's Gary Fisher Collection, is a high-end carbon cyclocross bike, with features borrowed from the Madone road line.

The Peanut Butter & Co.-Twenty12 sprinter scores her first worlds medal in Italy.

Felt refines its road line with a new carbon bladder process that led to lighter and stiffer frames.

Garmin's Svein Tuft finishes second overall as RadioShack's Matthew Busche rounds out the podium in third.

Erica Allar and Clayton Barrows maintain their overall leads in the USA CRITS series.

Jakob Fuglsang takes the overall lead with one stage remaining.

Matti Breschel and Jakob Fuglsang remain in first and second overall going into the final time trial.

Mavic managed to keep a few surprises under wraps until just this week when company reps rolled into town behind the wheel of a brand new, bright yellow service course Sprinter van bristling with wheels, tires, and tools.

Garmin-Transition's Daniel Martin kept the leader's jersey in the Tour of Poland after Friday's sixth and penultimate stage, a 228.5km ride from Oswiecim to Bukowina Tatrzanska.

Michael van Stayen (Topsport Vlaandern) won the Tour of Denmark's stage 2 on Thursday and took over the race lead. Saxo Bank's Matti Breschel is second and Saxo's defending champ Jakob Fuglsang almost scores with a late-race attack.

Cervélo's Xavier Tondo hopes to start the Vuelta a España despite breaking his collarbone in the fourth stage at the Tour of Poland.

The Vuelta a España will return to the Basque Country for the first time in more than 30 years for its 2011 edition.

Astana's Allan Davis loses 30 seconds and falls out the lead

HTC-Columbia's Matt Goss scored a win in the opening stage of the Tour of Denmark on Wednesday.

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One rider quietly lining up at the start of last weekend’s Clásica San Sebastián was Andrey Kashechkin.

Newly converted to the tubey lifestyle, at least for special occasion rides, Zack Vestal gives the Schwalbe Ultremo HT tires a workout

Zack Vestal samples Campagnolo's clothing lines: Items from the posh 11 Speed collection, the high-functional Raytech line and the race ready Racing line.

HTC-Columbia's big German powered across the finish line in Dabrowa Gornicza well clear of Australian Allan Davis (Astana) and the remainder of the pack in the bunch sprint that decided the 240km stage.

The Fly V Australia sprinter bumps overnight leader Karl Menzies (UHC) into third overall.

Team Type 1 is frustrated but shows its strength at the Tour do Rio, scoring two stage wins and second overall in the team’s first South American race

A look at Team Sky's Pinarello Graal time trial bikes.

The Open de Suède Vagarda featured a team time trial, won by Cervélo TestTeam, and a road race.

Karl Menzies finishes third on the day to take the lead in the men's race.

Jorge Espinoza and Gwen Inglis take stage 2 of the Salida Omnium.

Carlos Sastre says there’s a “very high possibility” that he will start his third grand tour of the 2010 season

Luis Leon Sanchez takes the Clásica San Sebastián ahead of Alexander Vinokourov and Carlos Sastre.

Peter Latham wins the time trial and takes the leader's jersey as four Bissell riders crowd into the top 10.

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Luna's new Sport clothing line was inspired by the women on the Luna Pro Team, which consists of mountain and road riders and triathletes.

Pearl Izumi reveals a few details on Garmin-Transitions' unusual skin suit.

A look at the time trial bikes used by Contador, Evans and Basso.