Road Racing

Lennard Zinn rode the Giro's Monte Zoncolan and reports he used every bit of his 34X26 low gear.

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Cervelo's new California facility designed the new r5ca frame in part to showcase its expertise in carbon development and manufacturing.

Angelo Zomegnan promises a spectacular show if efforts to bring the Giro d’Italia to Washington, D.C. come to fruition for the 2012 edition.

Giro d’Italia race director Angelo Zomegnan must be a very happy man. With a week to go, no one knows who will win the 2010 Giro, and that’s just the way he wants it.

The Italian climber — who served a two-year ban for admitting his role in the Operación Puerto blood doping scandal — won Sunday’s stage up Monte Zoncolan in dramatic fashion that reminded many of the Basso of old.

2010 Giro d'Italia stage 15 photos

Ivan Basso (Liquigas-Doimo) triumphed in stage 15 of the 2010 Giro d’Italia, shedding world champion Cadel Evans (BMC Racing) in the final 3km of a hellishly mountainous race after a five-man break came to grief on the steeps of the Monte Zoncolan.

Lennard Zinn visited teams to check out the gearing and wheels that will be used on the bikes for the Giro stage finishing atop Monte Zoncolan.

Michael Rogers holds Amgen Tour of California lead after Los Angeles time trial

Taylor Phinney (Trek-Livestrong) wins the Olympias Tour .

Specialized debuted its new Shiv 3 time trial bike last week at the Giro d'Italia. It got its U.S. debut Saturday at the Tour of California.

2010 Giro d'Italia stage 14 photos

Arroyo takes maglia rosa as Giro's standings get another reshuffle and Vincenzo NIbali wins stage 14 in solo break.

Peter Sagan (LIquigas) won Friday's Queen Stage of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California, his second consecutive win, moving him past Levi Leipheimer (RadioShack) and into third overall, behind Michael Rogers (HTC-Columbia) and Dave Zabriskie (Garmin-Transitions).

Emma Pooley (Cérvelo TestTeam) leads the Tour de l’Aude Cycliste Féminin by a healthy margin of 2:03 after six of nine stages.

Craig Lewis (HTC-Columbia) came oh-so-close to victory in Friday’s 13th stage at the Giro d’Italia.

Manuel Belletti (Colnago-CSF) wins stage 13 as Richie Porte earns another day in pink.

Michael Barry (Team Sky) strongly denied allegations leveled against him by Floyd Landis that he took performance-enhancing products and discussed doping practices prior to the 2003 Vuelta a España.

Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Doimo) won stage 5 of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California in a spectacular sprint among the GC hopefuls

2010 Giro d'Italia stage 12 photos

The Floyd Landis story went viral Thursday, but riders competing in the Giro d’Italia didn’t know the full extent of the blockbuster accusations until well after the final sprint.

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 12 results

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 12 report

Tech gallery: Francesco Chicchi's race-winning Cannondale

Francesco Chicchi (Liquigas-Doimo) proves fastest of an elite crop of sprinters, winning stage 4 of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California.

2010 Giro d'Italia stage 11 photos

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 11 results

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 11 report

With each passing stage, lexander Vinokourov is quietly gaining confidence that he can win the Giro.

Dave Zabriskie (Garmin-Transitions) scored a dramatic stage win ahead of Levi Leipheimer and Mick Rogers on Tuesday's stage 3 of the Amgen Tour of California, the 113.3-mile leg from San Francisco to Santa Cruz.

Most racers have their own names on their bikes. The RadioShack team is running the names of people battling with cancer on their machines.

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 10 results

Tyler Farrar’s tightening grip on the red points jersey could keep him in the Giro d’Italia longer than expected, maybe even through the race's challenging final week.

Replay: Live coverage of stage 10 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia

2010 Giro d'Italia stage 10 photos

Farrar takes his second win of the 2010 Giro d'Italia with a blistering sprint into Bitonto.

Carlos Sastre (Cervélo TestTeam) would like to hit the repeat button and do the entire first week of the 2010 Giro d’Italia all over again.

The Cervelo TestTeam rider takes the sprint from a select group that formed in the hills outside Santa Rosa.

A look at Garmin-Transitions' Ryder Hesjedal's Felt DA TT machine for the Amgen Tour of California

2010 Giro d'Italia stage 9 photos

The young Australian ride the HTC-Columbia leadout train to victory, as the sprinters' teams end the streak of breakaways

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 9 results

Replay: Live coverage of stage 9 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia

Singletrack.com Bike Test: With a one-inch difference, are there four-inch XC bikes that can hang on the trail or five-inch trail rigs that can go out and race? We tested a bunch of bikes in search of a few cross-over rigs.

Ben Swift (Team Sky) did not contest the final sprint of the Tour de Picardie in France, because he didn’t have to.

Cervélo TestTeam's dominance at the Tour de l’Aude continued Sunday as the squad ran away with the team time trial in the second stage, but lost the leader’s jersey with an ill-timed puncture.

2010 Giro d'Italia stage 8 photos

A look at the Manx Missile's Scott Addict

Replay: Live coverage of stage 8 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 8 results

Saxo Bank's Chris Sorensen rides away from a 17-man breakaway on the final climb to win the first real mountain stage of the 2010 Giro d'Italia.

Elisabeth Armistead scores the second victory in a row for Cervélo TestTeam in the Tour de l'Aude’s first road stage.

Replay: Live coverage of stage 7 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia

Team Sky's Ben Swift leads the Tour de Picardie after winning stage 2.

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 7 results

Rewind to one of the most epic Giro stages ever when the 2010 edition tackled the grime and mud of the white roads of Tuscany, and heralded a new generation of GC kings.

Regina Bruins (Cervélo TestTeam) darted to victory in the opening prologue Friday at the 10-day Tour de l’Aude in France.

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 6 results

Breakaway again: Australian Matthew Lloyd wins Giro d'Italia stage 6 solo after attacking his breakmate on the final climb. Nibali retains overall lead.

2010 Giro d'Italia stage 6 photos

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 5 results

Jérôme Pineau (Quick Step) won Thursday's fifth stage of the 2010 Giro d'Italia after working a nearly day-long four-man breakaway and outlasting the chase pack by seconds.

2010 Giro d'Italia stage 5 photos

Replay: Live coverage of stage 5 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia

Replay: Live coverage of stage 4 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 4 results

2010 Giro d'Italia stage 4 photos

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 4 team time trial

The Giro d'Italia offers some competitions and prizes that vary a bit from what many Americans have learned about through the Tour de France and domestic races. Here's a look at the competitions.

Hammer sets new world mark in pursuit

A reader asks about possible fork damage after a close encounter of the low clearance kind.

American riders won five, including three golds. at the 2010 Pan American Road and Track Championships this weekend in Aguascalientes, Mexico. Ben King (Trek-Livestrong) won both the U23 men’s time trial and road race while Shelley Evans (Peanut Butter & Co. Twenty12) won the elite women’s road race.

Replay: Live coverage of stage 3 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia

Luis Amaran (Jamis-Sutter Home) and Alison Powers (Vera Bradley Foundation) have taken over the top of the National Racing Calendar standings following strong performance by both at the SRAM Tour of the Gila and Joe Martin Stage Race.

Two days of Dutch carnage has ripped a hole into the GC at the 2010 Giro d’Italia and struck fear into any rider looking ahead to these same roads across Holland this summer for the Tour de France.

Just a day after nearly everything went right for Garmin-Transitions, capped by Tyler Farrar’s stage victory Sunday, nearly everything went wrong less than 24 hours later.

Wouter Weylandt (Quick Step) wins stage 3; Alexander Vinokourov (Astana) leads the Giro.

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 3 results

Replay: Live coverage of stage 2 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia