Road Racing

South Africans filled the podium at the Cape Argus cycle tour in South Africa Sunday, as RadioShack's Lance Armstrong assisted his South African teammate Daryl Impey, who wound up third.

Alberto Contador contains some attacks to win his second Paris-Nice.

Paris-Nice stage 6

Jonathan Chodroff (Jelly Belly-Kenda) and Susannah Gordon (ColoradoBikeLaw.com) scored stage 1 time trial wins Friday at the Tucson Bicycle Classic.

UnitedHealthcare's Rory Sutherland and Specialized Designs for Women's Ruth Clemence win the opening time trial at the Tour de Murrieta in California.

Liquigas-Doimo scored a double in Europe Friday as the team's Daniele Bennati won the third stage of Tirreno-Adriactico the same afternoon as Peter Sagan won the fifth stage of Paris-Nice.

Liquigas's Peter Sagan scored a second stage victory in this year's Paris-Nice with a bold solo attack in the final two kilometers on Friday. Sagan, who also won stage 3, emerged from a group of about 40 survivors on what turned out to be a tougher-than-expected stage 5, a relatively short 157-km run from Pernes-les-Fontaines to Aix-en-Provence.

In the second installment of Singletrack.com's visit to Yeti Cycles' headquarters, Zack Vestal takes a look at what's keeping Yeti at the forefront of competitive mountain biking.

Quick Step's Tom Boonen won Thursday's second stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico, outsprinting Paul Martens (Rabobank) and Daniele Bennati (Liquigas) at the end of the 165-kilometer stage.

Tour de France champion Alberto Contador put his mark on the 2010 Paris-Nice Thursday, dominating the final climb of the critical fourth stage, a 173.5-kilometer run from Maurs to a mountain-top finish in Mende.

What's XXtra cool about SRAM's new group is that it works well not just on anorexic cross-country race hardtails, but on 5-inch, full-suspension trail bikes.

Tech editor Zack Vestal tries a saddle made specifically for time trialing and is pleasantly surprised by its comfort.

Gerdemann curtails a field sprint by taking off with three others in the final kilometer.

German fan-favorite Jens Voigt takes the overall lead from Bos, as 20-year-old Peter Sagan scores a stage win.

Jet lag is a word that obviously isn’t part of Lance Armstrong’s vocabulary. While Europe has been gripped by its worst winter in decades, Armstrong’s road to the Tour de France this year has been full of sunny climes that would turn any jet-setting royal blue with envy.

The Rocky Mountain Collegiate Cycling Conference opened its nine-week season with Denver University’s City Park Criterium on Saturday and Metro State’s Roadrunner Time Trial on Sunday. Serving as the first races of the year for many collegiate cyclists, the weekend offered up exciting and unpredictable racing in every category.

2010 DU criterium and Metro TT results

The top of the overall standings were largely unchanged as race leader Lars Boom (Rabobank) finished in the front group.

A reader asks if it's worth the trouble of patching those pricey tubular tires.

2010 Rutgers race results

2010 NMSU race results

2010 UC Santa Barbara race results

Sky's Greg Henderson takes the sprint at the end of a crash-filled stage 1. Among the crash victims: Leipheimer, Horner and Contador.

Ben Jacques-Maynes (Bissell) wins the Merced Foothills Road Race.

2010 Lindsey Wilson collegiate race results

Jens Keukeleire (Cofidis) closes out the Three Days of West Flanders with the overall title.

’Crosser-turned-roadie Lars Boom wins a cold, windy prologue at Paris-Nice.

Frantisek Rabon (HTC-Columbia) clinches overall victory in the Vuelta a Murcia.

Kelly Benefit Strategies pulls out all the stops to put David Veilleux into the final leader's jersey, but the South African EMG team had other plans.

Fly-V Australia's Ben Kersten sprints to victory in the OCBC Cycle Singapore criterium.

Venezuelan Jose Rujano Guillen captured the 15th Tour de Langkawi on Sunday after finishing 44th in the event's seventh and final stage.

Bahati Foundation Pro Cycling and HTC-Columbia crush the Merco Credit Union Cycling Classic Downtown GP.

Robert Wagner (Skil-Shimano) wins Stage 2 of the Three Days of West Flanders.

Maxim Iglinskiy wins a three-up sprint to take the Montepaschi Strade Bianche.

Czech rider Frantisek Rabon (HTC-Columbia) wins the individual time trial at the Vuelta a Murcia.

Venezuelan Jose Rujano Guillen Saturday conquered the cruel slopes of the Genting Highlands to win the sixth stage of the Tour de Langkawi and capture the overall lead.

Bissell wins the TTT at the Merco Credit Union Cycling Classic.

USA Cycling has named its team for the upcoming UCI Track World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, March 24-28.

Belgian rider Jens Keukeleire (Cofidis) won the opening stage of the Three Days of West Flanders on Friday. The 21-year-old neo-pro won a bunch sprint ahead of French rider Rony Martias and German Paul Voss.

Malaysian cyclist Anuar Manan won the fifth stage of the Tour de Langkawi on Friday while German Tobias Erler maintained the overall lead.

The Vuelta Independencia wraps up and Team Ten Speed Drive head out for the post-race festivities, otherwise known as 'the 11th stage.'

It was like déjà-vu all over again Thursday at the Vuelta a Murcia in Spain.

The adventure in the Philippines continues as race organizers swap routes and racers face another hot, hilly course on rough roads, and the GC battle tightens between the American Kelly Benefit Strategies team and the South African EMG squad.

Japanese rider Taiji Nishitani (Aisan Racing) won the fourth stage of the Tour de Langkawi on Thursday, while German Tobias Erler retained the overall lead.

On a day when visitors were stunned by a killer closing climb, a local boy takes the win, while Kelly Benefit Strategies' Reid Mumford takes the overall lead.

Robbie Hunter delivered Garmin-Transitions its first win on the 2010 season after taking a sprint victory in Wednesday’s opening stage at the Vuelta a Murcia in Spain.

Readers seek advice on storing and reusing tires and getting that gunk off of tubular rims.

It's official — coming into today's stage my teammates and I were almost completely cracked.

Another report from the Dominican Republic's Vuelta Independencia, where correspondent Josh Liberles sprints in rush-hour traffic, has his time trial bike run over by a bus ... and then kicks butt in his eighth race in six days.

As the 2010 race season heats up, the pace of new tech and product introductions is ramping up as well.

Despite KBS clearly being the strongest team in this year’s Tour of Luzon, and having held the race lead since Ryan Anderson's time trial stage victory on day 2, they had yet to make it first across the line on a road stage; until stage 4 that was, when Jesse Anthony crossed the line at the head of a breakaway group to take his first win of the year.

Professionals in search of sun and miles mixed it up with elite amateurs on the banks of Nevada’s Lake Mead last week at the Callville Bay Classic.

South African Jay Thomson, representing his national team, won the Tour de Langkawi's second stage in Malaysia Tuesday

2010 Navy collegiate race results

Stage racing returns to the Philippines, and the Kelly Benefit Strategies team holds the lead at the revitalized Tour of Luzon.

2010 Lobo Classic collegiate results

Classic styling and veteran builders rose to the top at the 2010 North American Handmade Bicycle Show in Richmond, Virginia.

Yes, there is such a thing as a rad (and functional) recumbent. If you have the time, we have the photos from the North American Handmade Bicycle Show.

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.

2010 Georgia Southern University Battle in the Boro results

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

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

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

Theo Bos sprints to victory in the Clásica de Almería.

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.

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