Road Racing

Brent Bookwalter (BMC) came within a few pedal strokes of the biggest win of his career when he stopped the clock just two seconds shy of the maglia rosa in the opening stage of the 2010 Giro d’Italia.

2010 Giro d'Italia stage 1 photos

Bradley Wiggins wins stage 1 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia

A look at the Giro d'Italia's opening time trial

Sulzberger, Vzesniauskaite fly to uphill wins at Joe Martin; Amaran, Powers lead overall

Garmin aims for pink jersey, stage wins at Giro d'Italia

We take a close look at Pearl Izumi's newest road shoe.

2010 Giro d'Italia: Wide open, with some strong contenders

Webcor's Kathryn Curi Mattis and California Giant's Andrew Talansky win the opening stage of Arkansas' Joe Martin Stage Race

David Millar is set to ride a new bike from Felt in the Giro d’Italia prologue on Saturday.

No clear favorite for Giro d'Italia

Illness forces Freire out of Giro

Lennard Zinn offers a look at retro and modern tech at Sea Otter.

Lewis poised for Giro debut

Giro promises tougher controls in 2010

Giro issues preliminary start list

Racing this Week: Giro, Dunkirk and China

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Lampre will start the Giro d’Italia with two former champions, Italians Gilberto Simoni and Damiano Cunego.

Spaniard Oscar Freire, winner of the 2010 Milan-San Remo, will lead Rabobank in the Giro d’Italia.

Belgium's Quick Step will field a largely Italian team for the Giro d'Italia

Christian Vande Velde is hoping to see a repeat of his highly successful 2008 Giro d'Italia, but not last year’s hard-knock Giro, when he crashed out with several broken bones in the first week.

Darren Lill (Fly V Australia) attacked his breakaway companions 16 miles from the end of the SRAM Tour of the Gila's final stage Sunday and solo'd to one of the biggest wins of his career.

Americans Michael Friedman (Jelly Belly-Kenda) and Jesse Anthony (Kelly Benefit Strategies) go one-two on general classification at the Tour de Korea.

Constantino Zaballa (Loule-Louletano) makes a daring solo attack in the final stage of the Vuelta a Asturias and rides away with the stage victory and overall title.

Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d'Epargne) wins the final stage and takes the overall victory in the Tour de Romandie.

Taylor Phinney made it two in a row for his Trek-Livestrong squad on Saturday by winning the SRAM Tour of the Gila criterium, outsprinting Ivan Dominguez (Jamis-Sutter Home).

Things went smooth for Peanut Butter & Co. on Saturday, as the team ably protected Mara Abbott's race lead and took a stage win to boot.

Saxo's Rasmusen wins GP Herning

Duarte assumes lead at Asturias

Spilak takes stage at Romandie, Rogers keeps lead

2010 Giro d'Italia stage details

Fabian Wegmann (Milram) comes back from a broken collarbone to win the Rund um den Finanzplatz Eschborn-Frankfurt.

Jacob Keough (UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis) and Theresa Cliff-Ryan (Colavita-Baci) take the Spartanburg Downtown Criterium in South Carolina.

Porte wins Romandie TT, Rogers takes over lead

Michael Barry and Bradley Wiggins headline Team Sky as the British team makes its grand tour debut at the Giro d’Italia.

The proliferation of helmet, or "wearable," cameras has never been greater, and there is one to fit just about every budget. Singletrack.com takes a look at the GoPro Hero, Epic Wide, the V.I.O. 1.5 and the ContourHD.

Olympic champion Samuel Sánchez turns his attention to the Tour de France.

On Thursday the wind turned SRAM Tour of the Gila into a survival test for many women. Colavita-Baci's Carmen Small won in a two-woman breakaway with teammate Andrea Dvorak, and the team's Cath Cheatley won the sprint for third. Mara Abbott of Peanut Butter & Co. Twenty12 used her powerful team to maximum effect, retaining her overall lead.

Levi Leipheimer doesn't often challenge for sprint finishes, but on a blustery day in New Mexico Thursday, the SRAM Tour of the Gila race leader saw an opportunity and jumped on it, and almost came away with a second consecutive stage win.

Sastre sees strong Giro support

Vicioso takes over at Vuelta a Asturias

Cavendish takes stage at Romandie, Sagan keeps jersey

Levi Leipheimer opened up his defense of his SRAM Tour of the Gila title the same way he took his first red jersey in the race a year - with a solo win on the mountain-top finish Mogollon stage.

Sagan takes over at Romandie

Basque sprinter Pablo Urtasun delivered victory his for Euskaltel-Euskadi team in Wednesday’s opener at the five-day Vuelta a Asturias in northern Spain.

Aaron Kemps (Fly V Australia) put his Australian national champion’s skinsuit on display Tuesday night, winning the third stop of USA Crits SpeedWeek in Beaufort, South Carolina.

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HTC-Columbia's Marco Pinotti won the prologue of the Tour de Romandie in Porrentruy, Switzerland, on Tuesday.

There was so much new equipment introduced at Sea Otter that it will take a few columns here to do it justice.

In a week that’s seen some ghosts of doping past step up and win big races after serving bans, yet another rider with a notorious past was back on the winner’s podium.

A word of warning: Don’t test ride Zipp’s 303 tubular wheels. If you do, you’ll be compelled to buy them.

"The sniper," Katusha's Alexandr Kolobnev, is taking aim at the Tour — and the worlds.

Team Type 1 Ken Hanson and Theresa Clif-Ryan (Colavita-Baci) rock the ninth annual Historic Roswell Criterium.

Carmen Small (Colavita-Baci) and Luis Amaran (Jamis-Sutter Home) showed New Mexico cycling fans that olive oil and wine go hand in hand as they won the omnium competitions Saturday at the Roadrunner Classic in Albuquerque.

Fly V's Tanner wins the final stage and the team wraps up a win for Darren Lill at Arizona's stage race

Alexander Vinokourov (Astana) wins Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

In torrential rains, UnitedHealthcare's Karl Menzies and Colavita's Theresa Cliff-Ryan stay clear of the problems in Georgia.

Fly V's Darren Lill extends his GC lead, as UnitedHealthcare's Rory Sutherland wins the time trial.

VeloNews European correspondent Andrew Hood snaps some pix of Alexander Vinokourov's flashy new Specialized.

Darren Lill (Fly V Australia) wins the Sulphur Springs Road Race and takes the lead in La Vuelta de Bisbee.

Angel Vicioso Arcos (Andalucia Cajasur) wins the 61st Grand Prix Llodio.

Tech editor Zack Vestal unearths some road goodies from the recently concluded Sea Otter.

UnitedHealthcare's Rory Sutherland takes the prologue at La Vuelta de Bisbee.

Alberto Contador might not be racing much between Sunday’s conclusion of Liège-Bastogne-Liège and July’s Tour de France, but that doesn’t mean he won’t be busy.

Vinokourov takes overall at Trentino

Singletrack.com's Zack Vestal brings you a few last bits of choice tech from this year's Sea Otter Classic.

Bertolini surprises sprinters at Trentino

Cervelo TestTeam's Emma Pooley won the Fléche Wallonne Féminine in Belgium Wednesday, finishing with an eight-second gap ahead of three-time winner Nicole Cooke (Great Britain) and Emma Johansson (Redsun Cycling Team).

Ricco wins stage at Trentino

BMC's Cadel Evans wins 2010 Flèche Wallonne

Astana's Alexander Vinokourov won the first stage of the Giro del Trentino in northern Italy on Tuesday.

Lennard Zinn tries out the new budget-friendly SRAM Apex group on the roads of Laguna Seca.

Francois Parisien (Spidertech-Planet Energy) powered away from a four-man breakaway in the final 300 meters of stage 2 at the Vuelta Mexico Telmex Monday to take his first UCI win of 2010. Parisien dropped his break companions, who included new overall leader Francisco Mancebo (Rock Racing) and Valeriy Kobzarenko (Team Type 1), on the upper reaches of the steep finish ramp in the town of Xalapa.

2010 Air Force Academy weekend results

About 15 miles past the halfway point of the 124-mile Tour of the Battenkill in Upstate New York, Caleb Fairly peered down at his mud-splattered Holowesko Partners kit and thought to himself how cool it looked.

Italy's Giovanni Visconti won the Presidential Tour of Turkey Sunday, triumphing in an eight-stage, 1,232-kilometer race from Istanbul to the Mediterranean resort of Alanya.

Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto) shoots away from an elite group to win the Amstel Gold Race.

Astana's Alberto Contador kept his pre-Tour de France preparations on track by winning the Tour of Castilla y Leon for the third time in his career Sunday.

Fly V Australia’s Ben Kersten and Roosters' Nichole Wangsgard prevail in the hard-fought Sunny King NRC race in Alabama.