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The Bahati Foundation Professional Cycling Team visits the wind tunnel, and our Brian Holcombe goes with them.

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.

Results from the 2010 Tour de Langkawi.

In Europe this week, the Vuelta a Murcia and the Monte Paschi Eroica are the big races, while mid-week races in Italy and Belgium keep things rolling. Andrew Hood takes a look.

Healthy at last, Andy Schleck will make his season debut on Wednesday at the Giro del Friuli in Italy.

Southeast Collegiate Cycling Conference racing continued in Statesboro, Georgia, this weekend as Georgia Southern University hosted its second annual “Battle in the Boro.” Intensity in the Southeast ratcheted up dramatically as the top teams and riders made their debut in conference competition. Powerhouses Lees McRae and Cumberland University made their collegiate season debut, as did recent BMC Racing Team recruit Chris Butler of Furman

2010 Georgia Southern University Battle in the Boro results

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

Judy Freeman, pro XC racer and Singletrack.com columnist, put on her teacher hat for Women's Weekend 2010 at Ray's Indoor MTB Park in Cleveland.

The organizers of Spain’s Vuelta a Murcia, which begins Wednesday, have refused to admit Italian teams, an action in solidarity with Alejandro Valverde who has been banned from competing in Italy.

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

Roberto Ferrari wins the GP di Lugano after a crash takes down two riders and most of the rest abandon.

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

Tom Zirbel is joining millions of his fellow Americans in tuning up the résumé and hunting work.

Theo Bos sprints to victory in the Clásica de Almería.

Theo Bos wins the Clasica de Almeria.

Bobbie Traksel wins Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne.

Bobbie Traksel (Vacansoleil) wins Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne.

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.

Nick Nuyens (Rabobank) has won some important races in his career, including tomorrow’s Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, but he’s not quite broken through to the big-time in the major spring classics.

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

VeloNews sits down with Team TIBCO's two star Millers: Meredith and Brooke.

After hosting the elite road nationals and cyclocross nationals, Bend, Oregon, will host the masters nats in 2011 and 2012.

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.

Cervelo TestTeam is sending squads to this weekend's cobbled races, the men's and women's Omloop Het Nieuwsblad on Saturday and the men's Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne on Sunday.

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.

Roman Sicard, the reigning U23 world champion, could be the rider the French have been waiting for since Bernhard Hinault last won the Tour de France in 1985.

Irish cycling legend Sean Kelly chats with Andrew Hood about his continental team and academy, the future of Irish cycling and Contador's chances in the Tour.

A three-time podium man at the Tour de France, Beloki’s fortunes took a turn for the worse in a horrendous crash in stage 9 of the 2003 Tour that left him with a broken femur, elbow and wrist. That crash – when Lance Armstrong took his famous “short-cut” across a field – effectively ended Beloki’s career as an elite cyclist.

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."

Another foggy winter day in Girona, and Cervelo TestTeam's Ted King contemplates why so many cyclists migrate to the Spanish town.

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.

Joaquín Rodríguez's move to the Russian-backed Katusha squad in 2010 will see him get a chance to race the Tour de France for the first time.

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.

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.

The first article in a new training series for riders preparing for Gran Fondos and other challenging events.

Kelly Benefit Strategies expands its international schedule to better prepare for the Amgen Tour of California and an eventual upgrade to Pro Continental status.

Former world champion Amber Neben will lead the USA Cycling Women's National Team at the NZCT Women's Tour of New Zealand, which starts Wednesday.

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

A women's criterium will be held in Sacramento on May 16, just prior to the arrival of the men's Amgen Tour of California peloton in the city. The Sacramento Grand Prix at the 2010 Amgen Tour of California will begin at 10 a.m. and will circle the Capitol building duplicating part of the finishing circuits that will be used in the men's race.

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

The Atlantic Coast Cycling Conference’s two-day, three-event weekend, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina began early by college standards, at 8:30am.

The fi’zi:k Cyrano seatpost offers easy adjustment and excellent support for carbon and oversized saddle rails.

Ace photographer Casey B. Gibson recently spent some time with Team Bissell's Pinarello Dogma 60.1 bikes and sent us this photo gallery. He was impressed, and we expect you will be, too.

Former European-based pro Pat McCarty, who had announced last fall that he would join Rock Racing for the 2010 season, has signed on with Yahoo Cycling Team on a provisional basis.

Collegiates try the gamut at Florida State this weekend: TT, TTT, road race in crit.

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

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

Graham Watson shoots the final stage of the 2010 Volta ao Algarve.

University of Arizona wins the conference criterium title in rainy Phoenix.

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.

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Casey B. Gibson, with camera in hand, pays a call on the Bissell team camp in California.

The Bissell Pro Cycling Team is smaller but swifter for 2010, hoping to contend in crits as well as time trials and stage races.

J.J. Haedo wins the Tour de Mumbai.

Sergio Pardilla wins Stage 1 at the Vuelta a Andalucia Ruta Ciclista del Sol.

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 wins Stage 1 of the Tour du Haut Var.