Team Type 1’s knows it has a tough battle to try to secure an invitation to the 2011 Giro d’Italia, but Giro race director Angelo Zomegnan told VeloNews the U.S.-based team fits the profile of the kind of team he’s looking for
Questions of epic tire failures, the real wheel behind the team label and possible refinements in electronic shifting.
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Leopard-Trek gets geared up for the 2011 season.
UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling has boosted its European pedigree with the signing of former Milram director sportif Vittorio Algeri to head the program’s operations on the continent. Thierry Attias, president of Momentum Sports Group, which owns the team, confirmed the hiring to VeloNews Tuesday night.
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Readers and companies offer feedback on Zinn's recent New Year's resolutions for the bike industry.
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Team Liquigas-Cannondale's new clothing supplier, Sugoi, released pictures Monday of the team training in the 2011 kit in Sardinia recently. This marks the first time that Sugoi — like Cannondale a division of Dorel Industries — has supplied a pro race team. The company said full replica editions of the team kit will be available to consumers in April.
Nick Legan, at the team camp in Mallorca, takes a quick look at the new team's Bontrager helmets.
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HTC-Highroad's Hayden Roulston launched a solid attack and soloed in to victory in New Zealand's national road championships on Sunday.
The Spanish cycling federation has passed the hot potato that is the Alberto Contador doping case back to the UCI and the World Anti-Doping Agenc
Bontrager to unveil new wheels under Team Leopard Trek and Team RadioShack
A quick look at the bikes used by the new team
After an unusual team camp at Specialized’s California headquarters, HTC-HighRoad will open the 2011 ProTour season later this month at the Tour Down Under. Aussies Mark Renshaw and Matt Goss are particularly fired up for racing.
I have a question about supplements. I'm a Category 4 racer in my local area and do fairly well, most of the time. But as I consider the move up to Cat. 3, I am thinking about supplementation in my diet — things like Optygen or similar have been suggested. Are there supplements out there that are safe, legal, and effective? If so, can you run through a list of these for us readers to help us make sense out of a lot of advertising jargon about things that are supposed to make us go faster?
Questions on wheel-change technique, pumps for lightweight riders, and steel in the pro peloton
New book "Racing Weight Quick Start Guide" can get you lighter fast
Teva's Links mountain bike shoe available this fall
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The team's future is uncertain, but Pegasus Sports' 2011 race bikes are still interesting. Nick Legan takes a look.
First rider diary from Garmin-Cervelo pro Andrew Talansky
The U.S. peloton got a boost of good health Wednesday when Kelly Benefit Strategies announced the signing of a new co-title sponsor. Circuit Global Sports Management, the firm behind Continental-registered program, named OptumHealth as a new title sponsor on the opening day of the team’s first training camp of 2011. The team will be titled Kelly Benefit Strategies-OptumHealth Pro Cycling.
LZ has some humble suggestions for improvements to the way bikes are made.
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The official route of the 2011 Vuelta a España will be revealed next week on January 12, but there’s been plenty of speculation in the Spanish media about details of the year’s third grand tour.
Tyler Farrar, Christian Meier, Svein Tuft and Zach Bell are among the top roadies using the Burnaby four-day track race for a pre-season tune-up. Colby Pearce and Daniel Holloway win the overall title at the Canadian event.
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An electric-shifting, hydraulic disc-braking road bike is in your future. It's just a matter of when.
Nick Legan takes us through Zipp's factory in Indianapolis.
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Taylor Phinney plans to tackle the spring classics and the Tour of California in his pro debut, but BMC promises no pressure, saying it's all about gaining experience.
Bjarne Riis says he's confident about Saxo Bank-Sungard's "new beginning."
Engaged in Spain, training in Maui, rocking in France — Ryder Hesjedal had a top-notch 2010 and hopes for even better things in the new year.
Those special yellow bikes, the best bike cleaner, and how teams chose components.
VeloNews' Neal Rogers picks his favorite bike-related products of this past year
Our resident pro Judy Freeeman says a special coffee and 2010 had a certain symmetry for her.
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Follow these 10 tips to reduce your chances of injury
Readers ask how to center those Shorties and suggest how to pull that Campagnolo crank.
Cycling-affiliated healthcare providers offer tips for dealing with head injuries, as Julie Emmerman explains
Katie Compton crashed a lot in Zolder — but then, so did everyone else.
Wishful thinking or inside scoop? Alberto Contador is registered to start the Vuelta a Murcia in early March.
Handlebar tilt, resting your cables, and don't touch my tools!
Frank Overton gives guidelines for developing your own annual training program
Electric shifting comes to Shimano's Ultegra group
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Australian sports stars Mat Rogers and Robbie McEwen kept their wits when they inhaled poisonous gas on a motor yacht, jumping into the sea to rescue a fellow passenger, reports said Thursday
It looks like it will be another climbers’ delight for the 2011 Vuelta a España as new details of the likely route for next year’s Spanish tour are being revealed by local media.
Team Movistar will be rolling with Campagnolo's prototype electric drivetrain in 2011. Lennard Zinn takes a look.
For the first time since the team’s early days in the early 1980s, before Reynolds evolved into super-teams under the Banesto, Illes Balears and Caisse d’Epargne banners, Eusebio Unzue won’t have a major GC captain to carry the squad into the grand tours.
A world renowned procrastinator, Lennard Zinn offers up some cool ideas for last-minute gifts for the bike geeks on your list.
Most riders who have won the U.S. road race championship did so after racing on European-based pro teams. At age 21, Ben King hasn’t yet started that part of his career officially, but he’s looking forward to suiting up for races in his red, white and blue RadioShack jersey in Mallorca next year. VeloNews caught up with King at his parents’ house in Virginia.
Ted reports in from his team's winter camp in Sardinia
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Tom Meeusen takes his first World Cup win, slipping past Sven Nys at the line in Kalmthout.