Road Racing

Taylor Phinney finishes fifth in the sprint to keep his yellow jersey.

The race leaders pad their advantages in different styles, Peter Stetina in a sprint and Jeannie Longo in a solo break.

Rabobank's pre-race favorite admits he's not on great form at the Vuelta, but says he's hoping stage 11 will bring him back into the race

Smarting from missed TT start, David Veilleux makes the Green Mountain Stage Race's queen stage his own. Jeremy Powers keeps the leader's jersey in the (VeloNews.com) family and Ireland's Olivia Dillon soloes to the women's stage win.

UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis' Chris Baldwin and Vital Plus' Jeannie Longo take circuit race wins at the Steamboat Springs Stage Race in Colorado

Vuelta officials release a few details about their plans for 2011.

But Van Garderen, Danielson and Frank Schleck are still in the hunt.

American Taylor Phinney won the 7.8-kilometer prologue at the 2010 Tour de l'Avenir Sunday, taking the first leader's jersey at the prestigious U23 stage race.

• 1. David López, Caisse D'Epargne, 187.7km in 5:20:51
• 2. Roman Kreuziger, Liquigas-Doimo, at 0:06
• 3. Giampaolo Caruso, Team Katusha, at 0:13
• 4. David Moncoutie, Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne, at 0:21
• 5. Biel Kadri, Ag2r La Mondiale, at 0:27

Joaquin Rodriguez remains tied on time with the race leader.

Component manufacturers lay out their wares in the cavernous halls of Eurobike.

New road bikes from Wilier, De Rosa, Storck and Time

Ageless French racer Jeannie Longo crushes the competition.

VeloNews.com diarist Ted King sets a course record in the individual time trial.

David Moncoutie (Cofidis) wins the Vuelta a España's first mountain stage on Saturday, as Euskaltel's Igor Anton takes over the lead

• 1. David Moncoutie, Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne , at
• 2. Serafín MartÍnez, Xacobeo Galicia, at 54
• 3. Johann Tschopp, BBox Bouygues Telecom, at 54
• 4. José Luis Arrieta, Ag2r La Mondiale, at 54
• 5. Joaquin Rodriguez, Team Katusha, at 1:29

Team Sky pulled out Saturday of the 2010 Vuelta a España following a death of a staff member who died of a bacterial infection.

• 1. Alessandro PETACCHI, (ITA) Lampre-Farnese Vini, at 4:36:12
• 2. Mark CAVENDISH, (GBR) HTC-Columbia, at 0
• 3. Juan José HAEDO, (ARG) Team Saxo Bank, at 0
• 4. Andreas STAUFF, (GER) Quick Step, at 0
• 5. Tyler FARRAR, (USA) Garmin-Transitions, at 0

Alessandro Petacchi took full advantage of a perfect lead out from his Lampre team to win the seventh stage of the Vuelta a España on Friday

Look shows a pedal-based power meter built around its Keo platform and designed to communicate with Polar cycling computers.

More spokes than you can shake a stick at. New 'sets from Zipp, Reynolds, Hed and Lightweight and others

Eddy goes aero, Colnago plays hide-n-seek with Di2 and Lapierre offers custom web options.

Ridley's lower priced Noah and its Flandrien collection: Belgium classics bikes for the masses. Canyon's basalt-enriched new aero bike with adjustable dropouts.

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Even more solutions for cyclists plagued by mystery noises on their rides.

Giro marketers chose Livigno, Italy as the venue to introduce to the world their new line of seven shoe models

• 1. Thor Hushovd, Cervélo TestTeam, in 3h 36' 20''
• 2. Daniele Bennati, Liquigas-Doimo, at 0
• 3. Grega Bole, Lampre-Farnese Vini, at 0
• 4. Allan Davis, Astana, at 0
• 5. Filippo Pozzato, Team Katusha, at 0

UPDATED: Thor Hushovd won the sixth stage of the Vuelta a España, easily taking a sprint into Murcia on Thursday.

A load of hot European 'cross bikes at Germany’s massive Eurobike trade show in Friedrichshafen

Garmin-Slipstream's Tyler Farrar won the fifth stage of the Vuelta a España on Wednesday, outsprinting some of the best in the business

• 1. Tyler Farrar, Garmin-Transitions, in 5h 03' 36''
• 2. Larrea Koldo FernÁndez De, Euskaltel-Euskadi, at 00:00
• 3. Mark Cavendish, HTC-Columbia, at 00:00
• 4. Matteo Tosatto, Quick Step, at 00:00
• 5. Alessandro Petacchi, Lampre-Farnese Vini, at 00:00

UPDATED The Euskaltel-Euskadi rider pips Nibali, as Gilbert retains the lead.

• 1. Igor ANTON HERNANDEZ, (ESP) Euskaltel-Euskadi, in 5:00:29
• 2. Vincenzo NIBALI, (ITA) Liquigas-Doimo, at 0
• 3. Peter VELITS, (SVK) HTC-Columbia, at 1
• 4. Joaquin RODRIGUEZ OLIVER, (ESP) Team Katusha, at 1
• 5. Philippe GILBERT, (BEL) Omega Pharma-Lotto, at 5

Singletrack.com's tech editor Zack Vestal tested Northwave's Razer MTB shoe. Does the shoe fit?

Team Sky loses two riders to illness on stage 3, and other riders and staff are struggling with similar symptoms.

Christian Vande Velde has a minor crash on the Vuelta's third stage, outside an olive oil factory. The American vet is looking to finish off his 2010 season with a strong Vuelta.

• 1. Philippe Gilbert, Omega Pharma-Lotto, 157.3km in 4:06:12
• 2. Joaquin Rodriguez, Team Katusha, at 0:13
• 3. Igor Anton, Euskaltel-Euskadi, at 0:13
• 4. Vincenzo Nibali, Liquigas-Doimo, at 0:15
• 5. Grega Bole, Lampre-Farnese Vini, at 0:15

The Omega Pharma-Lotto strongman attacks for the win in the final kilometer as a daylong break comes to naught.

Ah, the pain and joy of testing time trial gear. Zack Vestal installs and rides Zipp's Vuka R2C shifters and VukaShift aero extensions.

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HTC-Columbia says there's no pressure on the rising young star, who is in Spain to learn.

• 1. Yauheni Hutarovich, Française des Jeux, 4:35:41
• 2. Mark Cavendish, HTC-Columbia, s.t.
• 3. Tyler Farrar, Garmin-Transitions, s.t.
• 4. Alessandro Petacchi, Lampre-Farnese Vini, s.t.
• 5. Antonio Lea Cardoso Manuel, Footon-Servetto-Fuji, s.t.

Yauheni Hutarovich — the lanterne rouge of the 2009 Tour de France — claims his first grand-tour victory ahead of race leader Mark Cavendish and Tyler Farrar.

USA Crits series action continues Sunday with the men's event.

• 1. Mark Cavendish, HTC-Columbia, 13km in 14:06
• 2. Peter Velits, HTC-Columbia, at 0:01
• 3. Martin Velits, HTC-Columbia, at 0:01
• 4. Lars Ytting Bak, HTC-Columbia, at 0:01
• 5. Hayden Roulston, HTC-Columbia, at 0:01

Graham Watson captures the unusual nighttime team time trial that kicked off the 2010 Vuelta a España

HTC-Columbia set the early top time in the nighttime stage and it withstood challenges from Liquigas-Doimo and Saxo Bank.

Vuelta a España organizers must have known what was in store when they decided to schedule a night-time team time trial to kick start the 65th edition of the Spanish grand tour.

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.