Road

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

Team tactics, chain lengths, choosing a new bike and more

Still riding the vapors of its most successful Tour de France ever, Garmin-Cervélo will take on next year's grande boucle with even higher ambitions.

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

The new GreenEdge team is eager to be the first Australian cycling team to compete at the elite level. In addition, GreenEdge is committed to helping put medals around Australian necks in the Olympics. The final two recruits will help the team achieve its goals.

Patrick Lefevere — team manager at newly branded OmegaPharma-Quick Step — says he expects big things from his Belgian squad in 2012.

Ukrainian Volodymir Gustov will stay with Saxo Bank-SunGard through the 2012 season.

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

Inside and out. On the road and on the workstand: Lennard's in-depth look at Campy's electric groups.

Bradley Wiggins says he will only be more confident going into next year's Tour de France after a breakthrough 2011 campaign that saw him win the Criterium du Dauphiné and finish third at the Vuelta a España.

Tainted Italian star Danilo Di Luca is poised to join Acqua e Sapone next season.

Team Type 1 - SANOFI reports that the squad completed required paperwork to qualify for a UCI Pro Continental license for next season in time to meet a UCI deadline.

Veteran sprinter Robbie McEwen is looking at a few early season racing goals before retiring for good to become a stage scout for GreenEdge later next season.

Stefan Rothe riding for Tulsa Tough and partner Wes Jerman of Alchemy Racing took the win at the 28th annual Tour de Gruene two-man time trial.

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

Campy surprises with two electric groups, with one-push cassette sweep.

Matthew Busche, who enjoyed a fine season in his second year in Europe, will be riding with the new-look RadioShack-Nissan-Trek team next season.

Nick shares his favorite handlebars for various shift lever designs.

Check out Brian Holcombe's author page.

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

We’ve seen what the system looks like on the Movistar Pinarellos, but we don’t know many details.

We're just two storms into winter here in Boulder and I’m already a big fan of the Winter IIs.

Emily Batty (Subaru-Trek) and Chris Sheppard (Rocky Mountain-Shimano) grabbed the gold in the elite women and men’s categories at Saturday’s Canadian national cyclocross championships.

Kevin Pauwels (Sunweb-Revor) bested world champion Zdenek Stybar (Quick Step) at the Cyclocross GVA Trofee Ronse on Sunday.

Alberto Contador is on a honeymoon in Rome and the Caribbean after getting married on Saturday, but he's already got his eyes on a big 2012 season.

Ryan Trebon (LTS-Felt) and Katie Compton (Rabobank) rode to victory in day two of the Cincy3 Cyclocross Festival, on a course that was very much different from Friday's opener.

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

Euskaltel-Euskadi, which enjoyed its best-ever season in 2011, is fighting to secure its future. Management is struggling to secure a berth in the 2012 WorldTour, and beyond next season things are looking grim.

Triple Tour de France champion Alberto Contador married fiancée Macarena Pescador Saturday in his home town of Pinto, the cyclist's agent announced.

Katie Compton and Jeremy Powers are becoming synonymous with the Cincy3 Cyclocross Festival, both notching day-one wins on Friday's rain-softened UCI-C2 course in Devou Park.

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

Australian veteran Luke Roberts will stay with Saxo Bank-SunGard through the 2012 season in what will be his fifth year with the team.

American Stephen Cozza will have a front-row seat to some of Europe's most important races next season after NetApp secured a UCI Professional Continental license for the 2012 season.

LEON, Spain (VN) — The route for the 2012 Vuelta a España will likely return to Spain's Basque Country as well as the Pyrénées.

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

Fränk Schleck says a stronger team forged by the merger of Leopard-Trek and RadioShack will only bring good things for next season.

Team income, degreaser tips, wide q-factors and more.

The 2012 Amgen Tour of California will feature a new time trial in Bakersfield, a longer route for the already-grueling Mount Baldy stage, and forays into new parts of the Golden State.

When and if to sign that waiver

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

Young riders will see backing under a new program next season that will ride under the banner of the BMC-Hincapie Sportswear Team for the 2012 season.

Like most of the riders on the ill-fated Geox-TMC squad, David de la Fuente is desperately looking for a ride next season following the late-hour departure of the team's title sponsor.

Alberto Contador says he's "optimistic" he will be cleared later this month when his long-running clenbuterol case finally hits the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

This racing may be more accurately compared to the spring’s Tour of Flanders more than a Belgian cyclocross race

Pedal platforms, Belgian tape & more

Geox-TMC miss key funding deadline for WorldTour status. Search for sponsor continues in the hope for a pro-continental bid.

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

Mark Cavendish says the Tour de France will take priority over the Olympics, but that doesn't mean he's not out to impress in both next season.

There will be a shoot-out among the elite men pros to gain what will be a lone berth for the U.S. men's time trial for next summer's Olympic Games in London.

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

Fabio Duarte, the former U23 world champion, has signed a deal to join the Colombian-backed Coldeportes project for 2012.

Niels Albert (BKCP-Powerplus) and Sanne Van Paassen (Brainwash) won the Superprestige stop in Zonhoven on Sunday.

Italian sprinter Alessandro Petacchi has said he wants to continue racing for two more years, even though he is fast approaching his 38th birthday.

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

Check out CyclingTips's author page.

Cannondale unveils its new SuperX disc prototype frame