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A reader asks whether he should continue his training when he is a bit under the weather.

A reader asks how to determine the optimum handlebar height and reach.

Does the type of protein supplement matter?

Singletrack.com columnist and XC pro Judy Freeman has a new team for 2010. Figuring out the season is now about being pragmatic and pursuing possibilities.

Even though the 67th Tour of Poland will be held during the first week of August, organizers want to make sure that both the international cycling community and the world remember January 27th as the international Memorial Day. The day marks the 65th anniversary of the Red Army’s liberation of Auschwitz, one of the most horrific Nazi concentration camps.

Lance Armstrong will be back in the spring classics this year in a big way. RadioShack sport director Johan Bruyneel told Biciciclismo that Armstrong will race Milan-San Remo, Tour of Flanders, Amstel Gold Race and Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

The BMC Pro Cycling Team may not be on the UCI’s list of ProTour teams, but the revamped Swiss/American squad appears to be more than ready to take on the world’s top races on the 2010 calendar.

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The newly labeled Jamis-Sutter Home team unveiled its new kit at Argentina's Tour de San Luis, where it brought home some results and tuned up for the season.

With a new title sponsor, a 10-rider squad stacked with junior and elite talent, and Olympic gold medalist and world champion Kristin Armstrong as the team's director, the Peanut Butter & Co/TWENTY12 women's cycling team is looking toward a promising 2010 season.

The Kelly Benefit Strategies Pro Cycling team has spent the last two days in Mooresville, North Carolina, for two days of testing at the A2 Wind Tunnel.

Although more pros are learning the secret, Maui, Hawaii, remains an under-discovered gem as a cycling training ground. The rides are spectacular, challenging and shockingly diverse. You might think that training camps are only for sponsored riders or the wealthy, but a winter trip to paradise will jump-start your offseason preparation — and it can be surprisingly affordable.

The team time trial will be back for the 2011 Tour de France along with the infamous submerged causeway at Passage du Gois as details of the opening weekend for next year’s race were revealed Tuesday.

If you're using tires and tubes, there are steps you can take to prevent those dangerous and frightening blow-outs on steep descents.

Stefano Garzelli still believes he can be a factor in the Giro d’Italia.

The UCI grants provisional registration to Lampre, letting the Italian team remain part of the ProTour through March.

André Greipel (Team HTC-Columbia) tops the 2010 UCI world rankings following his victory in the Tour Down Under.

CAS, the world sport's top court, on Monday rejected an appeal by disgraced German cyclist Stefan Schumacher against a two-year ban for doping during the 2008 Olympic Games.

Peanut Butter & Co. is the new sponsor, Kristin Armstrong is the new director, and the team is adding several top new riders as it focuses on development for the 2012 Olympics.

With a 2010 schedule full of challenges ranging from defending his Milan-San Remo win to the green jersey at the Tour de France to even a run at the rainbow jersey in Australia, Mark Cavendish has one big question mark on where he will race in May.

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A photo gallery from Zack Vestal's visit to the Look Cycle factory in Nevers, France.

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2010 Tour de San Luis, Final GC results

• 1. Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas-Doimo in 25:44:47
• 2. at 0:00:28 Jose Serpa (Col) Androni-Giocattoli
• 3. at 0:01:19 Rafael Valls (Spa) Footon-Servetto-Fuji
• 4. at 0:01:37 Ignacio Pereyra (Arg) Argentina
• 5. at 0:02:15 Santiago Botero (Col) Colombia

Daphny Van den Brand collects the women's World Cup crown as countrywoman Marianne Vos leads a Dutch sweep in Hoogerheide.

Lynskey Performance Designs offering ready-to-ride packages for Truvativ Hammerschmidt drive systems.

World champion Niels Albert wins the final round of the cyclocross World Cup as Zdenek Stybar takes the series title.

Olympic champion Samuel Sánchez is the latest big name to announce he will make an all-out push for the podium at the Tour de France this summer.

Picking up where he left off two years ago, HTC-Columbia’s big German sprinter, André Greipel, has claimed his second overall victory in the 2010 Santos Tour Down Under.

Colombian rider and former world time trial champion Santiago Botero says he will retire after this year's Vuelta a Colombia in July. The veteran all-rounder was once considered a threat for overall victory at the Tour de France, but saw his career tumble when he was linked to the Operacian Puerto doping scandal in Spain in 2006.

Quick Step is sticking to what it knows best as it rides into the 2010 season and that is clearly the spring classics for the powerful Belgian outfit.

After one of the most riveting stages in the twelve-year history of Tour Down Under, André Greipel (HTC-Columbia) has managed to defend his leader’s ochre jersey, and is now an assured winner in the 2010 edition of the Australia’s premier stage race.

Here’s the latest sponsorship news we’ve rounded up from across the bike racing world

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Mark Cavendish will postpone his season debut until the Ruta del Sol in mid-February due to a dental problem that’s delayed his training. The HTC-Columbia ace was expecting to make his 2010 season debut at the Tour of Qatar in early February, but team officials said he will open his campaign at the five-day Spanish race instead.

The French bank, Caisse d’Epargne, will end its sponsorship of the Spanish cycling team that bears its name at the end of the 2010 season.

Tour Down Under, Stage 4 - A Graham Watson Gallery

HTC-Columbia’s André Greipel added to his grip on the overall lead at the 2010 Tour Down Under on Friday, winning the fourth stage, his third victory of the week-long tour.

German rider Charlotte Becker is joining Cervélo TestTeam for the 2010 season. Becker is experienced on both track and road. The 26-year-old is a former German national time trial champion and European points champion on the track. Last season, she picked up four wins and finished third overall in the Giro della Toscana while riding as a member of the now-defunct Equipe Nürnberger.

As part of our ongoing Buyer’s Guide look at new bikes and gear for 2010, we uncovered a good bargain in the Superleggera road bike from Tommaso Bicycles.

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Jason McCartney is consistent if nothing else. An appointed domestique since he was 15 years old, the native Iowan has a developed a sick passion for burying himself into the ground in the service of others.

Astana and RadioShack are both expected to start the Vuelta a Castilla y León in northern Spain in mid-April

Manuel Cardoso (Footon-Servetto-Fuji) takes Stage 3 at the 2010 Tour Down Under. Andre Greipel (HTC-Columbia) holds the lead.

Chris Carmichael recently returned from Hawaii where Lance Armstrong had been training in the lead-in to the Tour Down Under. Armstrong’s current power output, according to his longtime coach, is where it used to be in April during the years he was winning the Tour de France.

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From DH and freeride to cross-country, Easton wheelsets will get put through their paces.

A gallery of Graham Watson photos from the 2010 Santos Tour Down Under second stage.

Mark Cavendish wants to be more than the world’s fastest sprinter and is planning to widen his net to include a run for glory over the pavé of the northern classics.

HTC-Columbia's Andre Greipel extended his dominance of the Tour Down Under on Wednesday, winning his second stage in as many days.

Skil-Shimano is hoping to repeat its Tour de France sweepstakes this season as it prepares for an important season to confirm itself among the top ranks of the peloton. Strong performances in the 2008 and 2009 Paris-Nice helped earn Skil-Shimano one of the three wild-card invitations to the 2009 Tour. The team lived up to its end of the bargain in animating the race, putting riders into breakaways, capped by a third-place in stage 3 with Cyril Lemoine.

Cervelo's Ted King rejoins his second family at a team training camp in Portugal.

Graham Watson photos from the first stage of the 2010 Santos Tour Down Under

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Team Sky drew first blood in Sunday’s Cancer Council Classic. But two days later in the South Australian village of Tanunda, 2008 champion Andre Greipel of HTC-Columbia fired the first real warning shot of the opening event of this year’s ProTour when he claimed the first road stage and ochre leader’s jersey at the 2010 Santos Tour Down Under.

With redesigned ErgoPower levers, a reader wonders about keeping the small brass cable stop in its place. LZ also touches on why Campagnolo isn't as big in cyclocross as you might expect.

A selection of photos by Andrew Hood from the Cervelo TestTeam and HTC-Columbia training camps in Spain this week.

RadioShack pro Chris Horner takes five Little 500 riders on a tour of Southern California.

Óscar Pereiro was close to retirement just months ago, but says he’s finding new wings with his move to Astana for the 2010 season.

If the highest point near your home is a freeway overpass, that long-planned mountain biking vacation in the high country this season could end up being a tour of misery. Here's how to avoid altitudinal agony — at least a little bit of it.

It’s rare for a Tour de France champion to think about anything but winning another maillot jaune. But Carlos Sastre is not your typical rider, so it shouldn’t come as a complete surprise that the 2008 Tour champion remains ambivalent about his plans come July.

Michael Rasmussen — the Danish climbing specialist who was forced out of the 2007 Tour de France after being tripped up on whereabouts questions — makes a subdued debut to racing this week in Argentina’s Tour de San Luís with the modest Italian Miche Silver Cross team.

The death of Christian Meier's brother gives the Garmin-Transitions rider a fresh perspective on life.

Team Sky manager Sean Yates applauds his squad's performance in the Tour Down Under prelude.

Sidelined by surgery after a wicked crash, HTC-Columbia's André Greipel is ready to race.

World champion Cadel Evans seems content to let Lance Armstrong have the spotlight at the Tour Down Under.

Zdenek Stybar (Telenet-Fidea) and Katerina Nash (Luna) take the wins in round eight of the cyclocross World Cup.

Team Sky's Gregory Henderson and Christopher Sutton go one-two in the 2010 Cancer Council Helpline Classic.

Cervélo TestTeam promises more of the same as it prepares for the 2010 season.

Britain's all-new Team Sky stormed to a one-two win in the Cancer Council Helpline Classic on Sunday, their debut race and a prelude to next week's season-opening Tour Down Under.

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Around 5,000 amateur cyclists joined Lance Armstrong on Saturday for an impromptu ride announced on Twitter, causing chaotic scenes.

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Saying they are now redundant, Lance Armstrong said on Saturday that he has dispensed with the additional personal doping tests he adopted to silence critics who suspect him of using drugs.

Team Astana’s Alexander Vinokourov said Friday that winning the Tour de France was a dream for him, but it’s not any longer.

Munich's Six-Day track event is facing permanent cancellation due to the lack of crowds despite the event's 46-year history, organizers admitted Friday.

VeloNews' Kurt Hoy tagged along on an Astana team training ride near Calpe, Spain, Friday morning, and hustled back to send in some shots of the Tour champ Alberto Contador's first ride with his new teammate Alexander Vinokourov.