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Fighting desert heat and a big afternoon windstorm, bike manufacturers did their darndest to keep Interbike tradeshow attendees happy for the second day of Outdoor Demo Tuesday, a task made easier by offering up a ton of new and interesting equipment. Giant Bicycles has big news for 2006, two new mountain bikes based on the company’s Maestro suspension technology. Our old colleague, Andrew Juskaitis, now Giant’s communications manager, said the two new bikes are the “bookends” of the Maestro series, offering the suspension design on both cross-country and downhill models. Billed as

Ibis is back and doing its thing... but this time in carbon.Tuesday marked the official return of both Ibis and its founder, ScotNicol, to the bike industry after a three-year absence. The brand thathad a devoted following in the 1990s and floundered on hard times sinceNicol sold the company in 2000.While Ibis fans have suffered the absence of a favorite, Nicol has spent the last few years most constructively: "retired and riding my bike." Not bad work if you can get it. Still Nicol has felt the itch and finally found his way back into bike biz' as a "partner" (read unpaid employee) in a

Aitor González, the flamboyant Spanish rider who won the Tour de Suisse in June, could be the latest star rider caught up in the anti-doping web. The online edition of the French sports daily L’Equipe is reporting that González failed a control for unnamed banned substance during the Vuelta a España. González, who won the 2002 edition of the Vuelta, abandoned this year’s race with three stages to go. Officials from the Spanish cycling federation would not comment on the case while officials from Euskaltel-Euskadi, where González raced this season after two sub-par years with Fassa Bortolo,

Interbike’s International Expo opened Tuesday, with more than 10,000 attendees swarming in among next season’s bikes on the red carpets of the Sands Convention Center in Las Vegas. After two dusty days of testing product at the Outdoor Demo in nearby Bootleg Canyon, the show moved indoors to get down to business. More than 10,000 buyers for about 3500 bike shops have registered to check out the 2006 wares that some 750 companies — representing more than 1000 brands— have on display. The business they do here determines what will be cropping up in your local shop in the coming months. That

Zajicek is looking for continental opportunities

Interbike '05: Bucking Bull at Bootleg

Interbike '05: Bucking Bull at Bootleg

Cannondale's new Rush

Interbike '05: Bucking Bull at Bootleg

Interbike '05: Bucking Bull at Bootleg

The 65cm Draonfly with an unidentified tall guy

Interbike '05: Bucking Bull at Bootleg

Interbike '05: Bucking Bull at Bootleg

Outdoor Demo - Day 2; Sun, wind and gears

Outdoor Demo - Day 2; Sun, wind and gears

Outdoor Demo - Day 2; Sun, wind and gears

Outdoor Demo - Day 2; Sun, wind and gears

Outdoor Demo - Day 2; Sun, wind and gears

Outdoor Demo - Day 2; Sun, wind and gears

Outdoor Demo - Day 2; Sun, wind and gears

Tanned, rested and ready to sell. Nicol is back

The Silk Road... is now in carbon

The Mojo Carbon features dw-link suspension...

... exquisite carbon work

Interbike '05-Tanned, rested and ready: Ibis is back

Interbike '05-Tanned, rested and ready: Ibis is back

Interbike '05-Tanned, rested and ready: Ibis is back

The Mojo's fine lines are highlighted

Bianchi’s single speed cyclo-cross bike, the San Jose only costs $580 but promises to make cyclo-cross a 1000 times harder.

Co-developed with Cane Creek, Bianchi's new Pista Concept will run you about $1500 for a complete bike.

Diamond Back Racing is back, offering a full Ultegra-equipped carbon road bike for $2500

Interbike '05: Inside the hall, a Day 1 photo gallery

Raleigh's new P.U.B. bike offers a comfy ride...

... and features a built in opener. Just be wary; BUI’s go on your permanent record, too.

Raleigh's fixed gear Rush Hour is designed with street time in mind and comes with a set of brakes (not mounted) for a sweet $600 complete.

Tim Johnson will be riding Louis Garneau's new 'cross rig when he comes back to the discipline this season

Louis Garneau’s Equipe makes your kid feel like part of the Jittery Joe’s – Kalahari pro team

The gang at SpeedPlay wants to let you see how far pedal technology has advanced

Finally done with what was a great season, Levi Leipheimer comes to 'Vegas.

Magnus Backstedt is always a big draw at Interbike.

The tradeshow season culminates with the start of the Interbike tradeshow in Las Vegas. Although the majority of the show takes place at the Sands Expo and Convention Center - in Sin City itself - the show actually starts a couple of days early, with bike demos in Bootleg Canyon roughly 20 miles outside the city limits. The area is renowned for exceptional mountain bike trails (a few have even earned IMBA’s renowned “Epic Rides” label to prove it). The Interbike folks have been coming to Bootleg canyon for the past few years, because the area offers demo’ riders the opportunity to try out

Do you ever feel like the clock has slowed down? The last few days have all but crept to a halt for me, with the exception of last Friday, however, when, I slept all day. After the Vuelta I was looking at my schedule, thinking positively about how the last month would go by fast and that it wouldn't be too painful to stay focused. And I still believe that and am trying to go through with it. However, when the schedule is thrown off, no matter how small a change it might be, it can be hard to recover. For me, Friday morning melted into Saturday. I woke up, went straight to the bathroom

The 2005 Interbike show kicked off with a warm, cloudless day over the rocky, serpentine singletrack trails of Bootleg Canyon above Lake Mead. The venue has a short section of closed, divided paved road for road-bike testing and a vast area riddled with interesting singletrack for testing mountain bikes. The trail system offers so much mileage that, despite the large crowds at this well-attended Outdoor Demo, many of the nicest trails I had almost completely to myself all afternoon. Ah, the freedomA revelation for me was riding the Santa Cruz VP Free, the company’s all-out freeride bike.

The executive committee of the World Anti-Doping Agency has approved organization'supdated prohibitedsubstances list for 2006.That list is now available on-line for review and will go into effecton January 1, 2006.

Following an excellent neo-pro season, which includes the best climber’s jersey at the Tour de l’Avenir and ninth overall at the Tour of Germany, Saul Raisin has decided to stay where he feels most comfortable. The 22-year-old Georgian signed a two-year extension with Crédit Agricole that will keep him on the French team through the 2008 season. “I had a lot of offers from other teams after the Tour of Germany, I decided I just wanted to stay focused and not have to worry about changing teams,” Raisin told VeloNews after his impressive world’s debut when he was part of the day’s early

We were intimidated

Interbike kicks off with Outdoor Demo'

Interbike kicks off with Outdoor Demo'

Interbike kicks off with Outdoor Demo'

Interbike kicks off with Outdoor Demo'

Interbike kicks off with Outdoor Demo'

The Santa Cruz VP Free

The 7.5

Interbike '05: A fine day in the desert with speedy mechanics and a 40-pound bike

Cannondale's Dalton flies through repairs

Raisin on Sunday

Britain's David Millar, currently serving a ban for drug use, will make his professional cycling comeback at next year's Tour de France after signing for the Spanish team Saunier Duval, the Italian news agency ANSA reported Monday. Millar was banned for two years after admitting using the banned hormone EPO (Erythropoietin) but his two-year sanction ends in June 2006. Millar has now signed to race the Tour with the Spanish team that is run by Italian brothers Pietro and Vittorio Algeri. Millar said last week he has been studying a number of offers from teams, reportedly

Before the fall: Millar had the rainbow jersey of the world TT champ... before it was taken away.

Tom Boonen was among the top-line favorites for the 2005 world road cycling championships, but with less than three kilometers to go in Sunday’s 272km race, it didn’t look like he, Alessandro Petacchi or Robbie McEwen had a chance. A six-man break had slipped away from the sprinters in a chaotic, attack-filled final lap, but Boonen’s Belgian bodyguards saved the day, hurling him onto the finishing straight to catch the attacking Alexandre Vinokourov with 600 meters to go. Boonen finished off the job with a long, 300-meter sprint and roared across the line to claim the coveted rainbow

It was a big day in Madrid on Sunday. Casey Gibson was there to capture some of the day's best moments on film.

At the CD&P Bermuda Grand Prix racers come with two priorities: racing hard and having a bit of fun in the process. This is, after all, Bermuda. The four-day stage race is the final stop of the Women’s Prestige Cycling Series. The top ten teams after the International Tour de Toona are provided free airfare and accommodations to come race on the remote tropical island. The relatively short stages allow plenty of time for the competitors to experience the island, but the demanding courses provide exciting racing action. In Thursday’s first stage, a criterium through the streets of downtown

Boonen shows why he's one of the best one-day racers in the world

Italy worked for Petacchi... much to the frustration of Bettini

Raisin and Muravyev joined the two escapees at the front...

... and then went off on their own, building a lead of nearly 10 minutes

Bettini and Vinokourov: Now there's a dangerous combination

Gilbert and Devolder joined in to ensure a Belgian presence

A long day ahead.

Spain gambled big on this break

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Lieswyn's last race

Krasimir Vasilev tries his hand..

Bettini in the peloton racing through the park.

Boonen celebrates on the podium.

The Boonen Fan Club was a very happy group, and he was smiling again.