Road Culture

"As a team we ended it in second place overall by one second. Who knew second place would be such a hard pill to swallow?"

"I am surrounded by both the very best in the sport and the up and coming “next bests.” Being somewhere in between, I am in a place where I can continue to learn, while I’m also able to share what I have learned. And, I will always be ready to do either."

Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski: Post-Pan-American MTB championship report

Team Singletrack.com/Justin's Nut Butter Thomas Dooley & Mike Hogan are sending Cape Epic updates as time and energy permits.

How does it feel to suffer the Cape Epic? Let Team Jamis' Jason Sager count the ways.

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"After a hard turn on the front Nibali drifted back and took a slow calculated look at me as if to say, “is something the matter?” Yes! This is the sixth day over 100 miles, and you’re killing me!"

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The results of the weekend speak for themselves: three stage wins, 1-2-3 GC and the points jersey. What I most happy about is that three different riders won a stage. We rode like a TEAM, all for one and one for all.

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A few years from now, the team bus will be old news, and I’ll be calling shots in races. For now, allow me to share the new, the exciting, the hard, and behind the scene curiosities of this sport’s top level.

We can chose to take the Eeyore approach and dwell on the negative, or we can roll with the punches, remember why we fell in love with this game and enjoy the beauty of our sport with the knowledge that things are changing and good things are on the horizon.

There is a notable difference between amateur racing and the professional ranks, not just in the race style but also in the riders themselves. There are some riders in the peloton who seem to command respect, the ones who make their hardest efforts appear effortless, never showing the strain that their bodies are surely going through.

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This fall, my neighbor Don Powell and I sat down over a beer, and decided to start a team focused on mentoring young riders and helping them develop into better cyclists and people.

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Wahoooga .... Wahoooga ... Anyone that owns an iPhone knows this noise. That terribly annoying alarm is how I started what could have been a normal Thursday. It wasn't though.

How to get to far-flung races? Judy Freeman's been there done that

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The Team Sky veteran reports from training camp

The first of a new regular column on VeloNews.com, written by Omer Kem, the new head director of the Bissell Pro Cycling team.

First rider diary from Garmin-Cervelo pro Andrew Talansky

Our resident pro Judy Freeeman says a special coffee and 2010 had a certain symmetry for her.

Ted reports in from his team's winter camp in Sardinia

Singletrack.com's Judy Freeman catches up with a familiar voice in U.S. cycling — Dave Towle

Christmas is forbidden until Thanksgiving in the Jones household. But the Jingle Cross weekend warmed his heart.

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Mind-reading in wine country

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Chris takes a new look at Louisville

Judy Freeman says the largest single-day mountain bike race in the U.S isn't only a race but a force for change.

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Food on the road: Chris reports on culinary finds from Morocco to Cincinnati.

It's a torn Ted King that visits home in October. Some time away from the bike would be welcome, but the roads in New Hampshire in October pass through 'a seemingly impossible explosion of colors.'

Chris Jones stays on target and on plan, and finds mud and rain in Southern California

From road to 'cross, from Sin City to Wisconsin to Gloucester, Jeremy Powers checks in on his recent travel and successes on the road and the dirt.

Team Rapha-Focus' Chris Jones' first cyclocross journal for VeloNews.com

A grateful Ted King, winding down his season, gives a final push toward the finish line and the world championships.

Coming back from an injury or a layoff is a very challenging task.

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From the competition, to the course and even registration, Singletrack.com columnist Judy Freeman says what's different about racing a World Cup or the world championships versus a national event is, well, pretty much everything.

Final Approach. Something about flying into a town stirs nostalgia and excitement for pro cyclist Ted King.

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A knot of pro men are vying for the lead in the six-day, lung-busting event known as the Breck Epic in Colorado. Read some of the mental wanderings of Sarah Uhl, someone not vying for the lead but busting butt nonetheless at the Epic.

The gravity of an injury takes a back seat to the importance of the race.

Dave Wiens says he's feeling "pretty good" about his fitness for the Leadville Trail 100 on August 14; at least as fit as he has the last few years at this point leading up to the race.

Here's a taste of a Dave Wiens training ride: Hancock Pass summits at just over 12,000 feet and then plunges down through a minefield of rocks. Now just add a few more high-elevation passes.

Jelly Belly's pro rider helps organize a Grand FUNdo in Massachusetts to support developing riders — and have fun.

Intervals and weight training are just another day's work for Dave Wiens as he prepares for the Leadville Trail 100.

A recovering Amber Neben spends some time on the stationary trainer, watching the Tour and imagining what if...

VeloNews columnist Jennifer Caudill answers some FAQs about the life of a podium girl, and gives her opinion of the Tour de France podium wardrobe.

Whether it's on the mountain bike or road rig, Dave Wiens works in the climbing as he trains for the Leadville Trail 100.

The RadioShack rider checks in with VeloNews following the stage 19 time trial

Summer camp pro-cyclist style involves long days in the saddle, the Tour on TV and ... chocolate bananas?

Looking at stage 15 and ahead with the RadioShack rider

The middle of a grand tour is like 'being halfway in crossing the Sahara Desert ... stranded in the middle of a giant abyss that has already consumed you.'

The RadioShack rider looks back at stage 10 and assesses the strengths of Saxo Bank and Astana

The RadioShack rider gives an inside view of the team's tactics on the Col de Madeleine

"We have our work cut out for us, but there couldn’t be a better inspiration than having your team leader at the top of the standings in the biggest bike race in the world."

The popular RadioShack rider checks in with Neal Rogers on Tuesday

A race like no other

Making the Tour team and dealing with the 'mind tornado' of pre-Tour madness

Junior racer Dean Haas reports on his journey to the national road championships in Bend, Oregon, this week.

Ted returns to the U.S. for some post-Giro R&R and reports on how he found the state of domestic cycling

Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski goes long at Colorado's Bailey 100 in preparation for the Leadville Trail 100 in August.

The first check in with Dean Haas, a junior aiming for a national road race championship this week.

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Neben looks at the coach-athlete relationship

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Jelly Belly's Jeremy Powers tells his Amgen Tour of California stories, from the big breaks to the 'dots.'

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On the Giro's second rest day Cervelo's Ted King takes some time to define some new additions to the Giro d'Italia vocabulary.

The latest journal from writer, photographer and Amgen Tour of California podium girl Jen Caudill, about life as the significant other of a pro cyclist, Garmin-Transitions' Steven Cozza.

Along with her well-chronicled success on a cyclocross bike, Katie Compton is no slouch when it comes to fat tires. What's her mountain bike plan for 2010 and beyond?

If there's a single lesson to be gleaned from the Giro d'Italia, it is to expect the unexpected.

Having the Giro begin in Amsterdam was like mixing opera with Ska.

A rushed European trip and a borrowed race bike leads to predictable results