Road Racing

Who is behind that flashy team vehicle color scheme? Chances are it's Victory Circle, a Colorado company that specializes in custom vinyl graphics for team cars and trucks. Zack Vestal pays a visit.

Lennard attends the Park Tool Summit and returns with tips for garage mechanics.

Oscar Freire (Rabobank) has already won more races this year than he did in all of 2009, and it’s only February. The Spanish “gato” pounced to his second straight victory in Tuesday’s third stage at the Ruta del Sol (AKA the Vuelta a Andalucia), fending off Grega Bole (Lampre) and Simon Gerrans (Sky) to claim his third win in the 2010 season.

2010 Wake Forest collegiate results

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FSU Collegiate Race, Feb. 20-21, 2010 results

Oscar Freire (Rabobank) wins Stage 2 of the Vuelta a Andalucia Ruta Ciclista del Sol.

Results from the ASU Sundevil Criterium, February 20, 2010

The 2010 Tour won't be a two-man race between Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador, says José Azevedo.

Christophe Le Mevel (Française des Jeux) wins the 42nd Tour du Haut Var.

Sergio Pardilla (Carmiooro) wins the first stage of the Vuelta a Andalucia Ruta Ciclista del Sol.

Alberto Contador (Astana) finishes second in the final time trial to take the overall title at the Volta ao Algarve.

Rinaldo Nocentini (Ag2r-La Mondiale) wins the first stage of the Tour du Haut Var.

With the star-studded RadioShack roster, Sébastien Rosseler never expected it would be him to score the new squad’s first victory. The stocky Belgian rider pulled it off in Saturday’s hilly fourth stage at the Volta ao Algarve, powering away from a breakaway with nearly 30km still to go.

Fabian Cancellara added another victory to his palmarès Friday with the overall win at the inaugural Tour of Oman. He did so on his Specialized Tarmac SL3.

Quick-draw Contador wins stage 3 Alberto Contador (Astana) picked up where he left off last July and won Friday’s “queen stage” to surge into the overall lead at the Volta ao Algarve in Portugal.

Saxo Bank's Fabian Cancellara won the final overall title at the Tour of Oman Friday after finishing second to Team Sky's Edvald Boasson Hagen in the race's concluding 18.5 km individual time trial.

Mark Cavendish (HTC-Columbia) is slated to begin his 2010 campaign on Sunday at the Ruta del Sol after an abscessed tooth postponed a planned start at the Tour of Qatar.

Early in Thursday’s infernally cold and rainy stage at the Volta ao Algarve, André Greipel called off his HTC-Columbia troops and told them not to chase down a five-man breakaway that had opened up a six-minute gap. ... Well, he won anyway.

Belgian champion Tom Boonen (Quick Step) won the fifth stage of the Tour of Oman, Thursday, already his third win of the season.

VeloNews' Robbie Stout takes a look at Kelly Benefit Strategies' 2010 team gear, from its new bikes to its new washing machine.

HTC-Columbia’s Leigh Howard won the fourth stage of the Tour of Oman Wednesday, outsprinting Daniele Bennati (Liquigas) who took the overall lead from Sky’s Edvald Boasson Hagen.

Reigning Olympic champion, Samuel Sanchez, showed up at this week's Volta ao Algarve with a special edition Orbea Orca.

SRAM has announced plans to release a new entry level road group, intended to compete against Shimano’s 105 group, in the spring of 2010.

A cracked or broken carbon frame can be fixed. Lennard Zinn checks in with Craig Calfee's repair shop.

Jonathan Chodroff and Carmen Small win the 2010 Valley of the Sun Stage Race in Arizona.

Stewart leads the nearly-day-long break. Daniele Bennati (Liquigas) won the second stage of the Tour of Oman on Monday as Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Sky) takes over the race lead from stage 1 winner Jimmy Casper.

Tech editor Zack Vestal pays a call on the Cyfac factory during a whirlwind tour of France.

The Frenchman took the bunch sprint at the end of the 61km circuit race on the Muscat Corniche ahead of Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Sky) and Kenny De Haes (Omega Pharma-Lotto). He will wear the red leader’s jersey in Monday’s Stage 2, a 148.5km leg from Nizwa to Samail.

Alejandro Valverde wins the Tour Méditerranéen as Francesco Masciarelli takes the final stage.

World champion Zdenek Stybar wins the Superprestige series in a dramatic last-round battle with Niels Albert.

South Central Collegiate Cycling Conference Shreveport, LA Feb 13, 2010

Jonathan Chodroff and Carmen Small lead the Valley of the Sun stage race in Arizona.

Europe’s brutal winter put the brakes on Saturday’s fourth stage at the Tour Méditerranéen along France’s Cote d’Azur.

We take a close look at an affordable Workhorse Racer, the Masi 3VC 105.

Française des Jeux keeps on pouring it on at the Tour Méditerranéen, with the French outfit winning its third stage in a row in the five-day race in southern France. Alejandro Valverde remains poised for overall victory, sitting sixth just 10 seconds back going into Sunday’s climactic stage finish atop Mont Faron.

Francesco Chicchi (Liquigas) scored his second win of the 2010 Tour of Qatar, outsprinting American Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Transitions) on the final stage. Wouter Mol (Vaconsoleil) took the overall title.

Standing 6-foot-5, Wouter Mol is no small man. And he may be standing even taller after winning the 9th annual Tour of Qatar. Here we take a look at Mol's Batavus.

Eddy Merckx bicycles returned to the top echelon of cycling again with the sponsorship of the Belgian ProTour team of Belgian national champion Tom Boonen.

Tom Boonen sprinted into a headwind to take stage 5 of the Tour of Qatar after a 14-man echelon was swept up in the closing kilometers. Katusha’s Danilo Napolitano took second ahead of Team Sky’s Edvald Boasson Hagen.

The XG999 uses the same manufacturing techniques that produced SRAM's XX MTB cassette as well as the PowerDome road cassette and weighs in at 175 grams.

Just like he did in 2009, Belarussian Yauheni Hutarovich (FDJeux) won the opening stage of the Tour Méditerranéen in France on Wednesday. Pushed along by frigid winds, the 26-year-old won ahead of William Bonnet (Bbox Telecom) and Maxim Iglinskiy (Astana) in the 92.4km stage in Sauvian.

Promising Portuguese talent Rui Costa (Caisse d’Epargne) delivered a big win in Wednesday’s fourth day of the Mallorca Challenge in the 143km stage starting and finishing in Deià.

Francesco Chicchi won the fourth stage of the Tour of Qatar in a field sprint ahead of Heinrich Haussler (Cervélo) and JJ Haedo (Saxo Bank).

A look at Martijn Maaskant's Felt F1 at the Tour of Qatar.

Quick Step’s Tom Boonen sprinted to victory in the third stage of the Tour of Qatar on Tuesday, powering in ahead of Heinrich Haussler (Cervélo TestTeam) and Saxo Bank’s Baden Cooke

American sprinter Tyler Farrar came to the Tour of Qatar with a prototype Mavic wheelset.

Lennard Zinn takes a close look at four sets of carbon wheels.

A new national track series aims to rally the best of the best – tracks and racers – for a chance to be named ATRA’s National Champion. The American Track Racing Association (ATRA) National Championship Series includes 11 events across the country.

Southeast Collegiate Cycling Conference Gainesville, Florida, Feb 6-7, 2010

Ben Delaney takes a look at Edvald Boasson Hagen's Pinarello Dogma 60.1 bike.

Geert Steurs (Topsport) wins Stage 2 of the Tour of Qatar.

Robbie McEwen's back in the winner's circle after taking Sunday's Trofeo Palma, the kickoff to the five-day Mallorca Challenge in Spain.

Samuel Dumoulin overcomes relegation in Stage 4 to take the overall at the Etoile de Bessèges.

German sprinter Gerald Ciolek and his Milram squad are riding Focus bikes this season.

Sven Nys wins the seventh round of the Superprestige cyclocross series in Zonhoven.

Team Sky's eight-man squad flew to victory in the opening team trial at the Tour of Qatar. Sky posted a time of 9:41 on the windswept 8.2km course.

French rider Arnaud Molmy pulled the double Saturday, winning the fourth stage at the l’Etoile de Bessèges and moving into the overall lead in what proved to be a controversial finale.

Samuel Dumoulin (Cofidis) notched a victory in Friday’s third stage at the l’Etoile de Bessèges. Dumoulin out-kicked Borut Bozic (Vacansoleil) to end his two-day winning streak at the five-day French race. Bozic, winner of the opening two stages, came through second and retained the overall lead.

After her teammates spent much of the day chasing down breaks and keeping her in position, Cervélo TestTeam’s Kirsten Wild won the stage 3 sprint finish and thereby the overall title at the second Ladies Tour of Qatar.

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Italy's Giorgia Bronzini improved on her second place in stage 1 by winning the second stage and taking the overall lead of the Ladies Tour of Qatar on Thursday.

Jason Sumner visits the Vermarc clothing factory in Belgium - where Tom Boonen's clothing is made.

Lithuania’s Raissa Lelivyte won the opening stage of the second annual Ladies Tour of Qatar on Wednesday. The 20-year-old with the Italian Safi-Pasta Zara Manhattan team out sprinted a 30-woman pack at the end of the 104km stage from the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha to Al Khor Corniche.

Tasmanian Belinda Goss added to an impressive list of victories when she collected her fourth straight points race gold medal at the Australian Track Cycling Championships at Adelaide's Super-Drome on Wednesday.

After a long history with Shimano, Armstrong is joining the rest of his RadioShack team on Look Keo Blade pedals for 2010.

Garmin-Transitions' Jack Bobridge claimed his second individual pursuit title in emphatic style Tuesday, setting the third fastest time ever for the four-kilometer event, Cycling Australia announced.

Readers offer feedback on the subject of latex tubes and high-speed blow-outs.

Can world road champ Cadel Evans (BMC) win the Giro d’Italia or Tour de France before it’s too late? He thinks so.

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Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre-Farnese Vini) wins Stage 2 of the Giro della Provincia Reggio Calabria.

Jonathan Hivert (Saur Sojasun) wins the French season kickoff, the GP La Marseillaise.

World Cup champion Zdenek Stybar delights the home-country crowd with a commanding victory in the UCI Cyclocross World Championships in Tabor, Czech Republic.

Marianne Vos leads wire to wire to add a third world cyclocross crown to her already bulging palmares.

Results from the Southwestern Collegiate Cycling Conference

It was brotherly love, or at least appeared to be, on the podium Saturday as Pawel and Kacper Szczepaniak went one-two in the U-23 cyclocross world championships in Tabor.

Czech rider Tomaš Paprstka held off Julian Alaphilippe of France to win the world junior cyclocross title in Tabor, the Czech Republic, on Saturday. Dutchman Emiel Dolfs rounded out the top three.

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