Road Racing

Gerdemann curtails a field sprint by taking off with three others in the final kilometer.

German fan-favorite Jens Voigt takes the overall lead from Bos, as 20-year-old Peter Sagan scores a stage win.

Jet lag is a word that obviously isn’t part of Lance Armstrong’s vocabulary. While Europe has been gripped by its worst winter in decades, Armstrong’s road to the Tour de France this year has been full of sunny climes that would turn any jet-setting royal blue with envy.

The Rocky Mountain Collegiate Cycling Conference opened its nine-week season with Denver University’s City Park Criterium on Saturday and Metro State’s Roadrunner Time Trial on Sunday. Serving as the first races of the year for many collegiate cyclists, the weekend offered up exciting and unpredictable racing in every category.

2010 DU criterium and Metro TT results

The top of the overall standings were largely unchanged as race leader Lars Boom (Rabobank) finished in the front group.

A reader asks if it's worth the trouble of patching those pricey tubular tires.

2010 Rutgers race results

2010 NMSU race results

2010 UC Santa Barbara race results

Sky's Greg Henderson takes the sprint at the end of a crash-filled stage 1. Among the crash victims: Leipheimer, Horner and Contador.

Ben Jacques-Maynes (Bissell) wins the Merced Foothills Road Race.

2010 Lindsey Wilson collegiate race results

Jens Keukeleire (Cofidis) closes out the Three Days of West Flanders with the overall title.

’Crosser-turned-roadie Lars Boom wins a cold, windy prologue at Paris-Nice.

Frantisek Rabon (HTC-Columbia) clinches overall victory in the Vuelta a Murcia.

Kelly Benefit Strategies pulls out all the stops to put David Veilleux into the final leader's jersey, but the South African EMG team had other plans.

Fly-V Australia's Ben Kersten sprints to victory in the OCBC Cycle Singapore criterium.

Venezuelan Jose Rujano Guillen captured the 15th Tour de Langkawi on Sunday after finishing 44th in the event's seventh and final stage.

Bahati Foundation Pro Cycling and HTC-Columbia crush the Merco Credit Union Cycling Classic Downtown GP.

Robert Wagner (Skil-Shimano) wins Stage 2 of the Three Days of West Flanders.

Maxim Iglinskiy wins a three-up sprint to take the Montepaschi Strade Bianche.

Czech rider Frantisek Rabon (HTC-Columbia) wins the individual time trial at the Vuelta a Murcia.

Venezuelan Jose Rujano Guillen Saturday conquered the cruel slopes of the Genting Highlands to win the sixth stage of the Tour de Langkawi and capture the overall lead.

Bissell wins the TTT at the Merco Credit Union Cycling Classic.

USA Cycling has named its team for the upcoming UCI Track World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, March 24-28.

Belgian rider Jens Keukeleire (Cofidis) won the opening stage of the Three Days of West Flanders on Friday. The 21-year-old neo-pro won a bunch sprint ahead of French rider Rony Martias and German Paul Voss.

Malaysian cyclist Anuar Manan won the fifth stage of the Tour de Langkawi on Friday while German Tobias Erler maintained the overall lead.

The Vuelta Independencia wraps up and Team Ten Speed Drive head out for the post-race festivities, otherwise known as 'the 11th stage.'

It was like déjà-vu all over again Thursday at the Vuelta a Murcia in Spain.

The adventure in the Philippines continues as race organizers swap routes and racers face another hot, hilly course on rough roads, and the GC battle tightens between the American Kelly Benefit Strategies team and the South African EMG squad.

Japanese rider Taiji Nishitani (Aisan Racing) won the fourth stage of the Tour de Langkawi on Thursday, while German Tobias Erler retained the overall lead.

On a day when visitors were stunned by a killer closing climb, a local boy takes the win, while Kelly Benefit Strategies' Reid Mumford takes the overall lead.

Robbie Hunter delivered Garmin-Transitions its first win on the 2010 season after taking a sprint victory in Wednesday’s opening stage at the Vuelta a Murcia in Spain.

Readers seek advice on storing and reusing tires and getting that gunk off of tubular rims.

It's official — coming into today's stage my teammates and I were almost completely cracked.

Another report from the Dominican Republic's Vuelta Independencia, where correspondent Josh Liberles sprints in rush-hour traffic, has his time trial bike run over by a bus ... and then kicks butt in his eighth race in six days.

As the 2010 race season heats up, the pace of new tech and product introductions is ramping up as well.

Despite KBS clearly being the strongest team in this year’s Tour of Luzon, and having held the race lead since Ryan Anderson's time trial stage victory on day 2, they had yet to make it first across the line on a road stage; until stage 4 that was, when Jesse Anthony crossed the line at the head of a breakaway group to take his first win of the year.

Professionals in search of sun and miles mixed it up with elite amateurs on the banks of Nevada’s Lake Mead last week at the Callville Bay Classic.

South African Jay Thomson, representing his national team, won the Tour de Langkawi's second stage in Malaysia Tuesday

2010 Navy collegiate race results

Stage racing returns to the Philippines, and the Kelly Benefit Strategies team holds the lead at the revitalized Tour of Luzon.

2010 Lobo Classic collegiate results

Classic styling and veteran builders rose to the top at the 2010 North American Handmade Bicycle Show in Richmond, Virginia.

Yes, there is such a thing as a rad (and functional) recumbent. If you have the time, we have the photos from the North American Handmade Bicycle Show.

The Bahati Foundation Professional Cycling Team hopes to be just that little bit faster after testing equipment and clothing in a Colorado wind tunnel.

Murray State Road Race and Criterium results

Kelly Benefit Strategies' Ryan Anderson holds the lead at the Tour of Luzon, but the team can't prevent a wily local veteran from grabbing the stage 3 win.

2010 Georgia Southern University Battle in the Boro results

Australian Michael Matthews (Team Jayco Skins) wins the first stage of the Tour de Langkawi.

Shelley Evans (Team USA) takes the final stage and the overall title as the Women's Tour of New Zealand concludes.

Roberto Ferrari (De Rosa) wins a greatly reduced edition of the GP di Lugano.

Theo Bos sprints to victory in the Clásica de Almería.

A crafty Bobbie Traksel (Vacansoleil) takes a three-up sprint to win a soggy Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne.

Visiting the Bissell team camp in Santa Rosa, California, we had a chance to take a look at the team's new fleet of race bikes.

Liquigas’ Roman Kreuziger won the overall title at the Tour de Sardaigne Saturday, four seconds ahead of RadioShack’s Chris Horner.

Sky’s Juan Antonio Flecha kicked off the spring classics season in style, soloing to the finish line to become the first Spanish winner of the Belgian semi-classic, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad.

It's amazing that the whole Ten Speed Drive team has managed to stay crash-free thus far in the Vuelta Independencia. The body count continued to mount on the course today, as did the trashed equipment tally. I just shredded my second tire — luckily I brought extras. The Metro VW team, out of Dallas, Texas, is out of front wheels, having gone through several tubulars and run out of glue. They've resorted to using neutral wheels for the rest of the race.

American Shelley Evans retook the overall lead at the Tour of New Zealand, winning the tour’s fifth stage in a field sprint ahead of Australian champion Ruth Corset and China's Xin Liu and gaining enough bonus time to move ahead of teammate Amber Neben.

Lampre’s Danilo Hondo won the fourth stage of the Giro di Sardegna on Friday after his team leader Alessandro Petacchi crashed in the final meters of the race.

Not going to the North American Handmade Bicycle Show? Singletrack.com has an advance look at a hybrid bamboo-carbon bike built by Boo Bicycles.

We got an early look at Boo Bikes' bamboo creations before the upcoming North American Handmade Bicycle Show.

American Amber Neben moved into the overall lead at the Tour of New Zealand on Friday, powering through the 11-kilometer fourth stage individual time trial to take the leader’s jersey from U.S. teammate Shelly Evans.

A proposed 2012 Giro d'Italia prologue in Washington D.C. would pass by many of the city's landmarks, including several with symbolic meaning to Italy. Besides showcasing the city and bringing in millions of dollars in economic impact, the build-up would help Mayor Adrian Fenty — an avid cyclist — promote health, wellness and the benefits of bicycle riding.

A look at Team Jelly Belly's new Focus team bikes

Chris Horner remains second at the Giro di Sardegna as Alessandro Petacchi takes the stage win.

A presentation Thursday evening at the Italian Embassy in Washington will attempt to drum up support for a Giro d'Italia start in the nation's capital in 2012.

HTC-Columbia's Michael Rogers scores his first stage race victory since 2003 as he survives an explosive final stage.

Shelley Evans of the U.S. National Team is undefeated so far at the 2010 Women's Tour of New Zealand, after winning the second stage in a field sprint ahead of Xin Liu Gia and Yiu Wong Wan, both of China's Giant Pro Cycling Team.

Josh Liberles continues his report on his team's experience at the Dominican Republic's Vuelta Independencia. Day 2: "We flew into the town of La Ramona, dodging potholes, bunny-hopping speed bumps and swerving around parked vehicles and the occasional moped drivers that decided to briefly zip alongside the race."

Chris Horner (RadioShack) just missed victory with second in Thursday’s “queen stage” at the 28th Giro di Sardegna in Italy. The veteran American finished second to stage-winner and new race leader Roman Kreuziger (Liquigas), with Thomas Voeckler (Bbox Bouygues) coming through third in a challenging, 175km stage finishing atop the Cat. 1 Monte Ortobene.

Alex Rasmussen (Saxo Bank) delivered a huge TT win over some big names in Wednesday’s 10.9km course at the Ruta del Sol in Spain, topping such riders as Bradley Wiggins (Sky) and Tony Martin (HTC-Columbia).

Shelley Evans, racing for the U.S. national team, won the opening stage of the Women's Tour of New Zealand Wednesday and takes the first leader's jersey of the six-stage race.

Since 1985, Yeti Cycles has been pushing the envelope for off-road race bikes. Singletrack.com stopped by the Yeti lair to see what makes this little company tick.