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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.

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