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Pinarello looks to Paris

45 grams and still on a diet, the C45 is the Kate Moss of bike saddles

The Gel Flow Sport is a little heavier, but a lot more comfortable

The Selle San Marco is working with magnesium...

...and, as you can see...

... the result is stunning

A bit of padding gives the MG a more traditional look.

Heras holds the lead going into Sunday's time trial

The trio off the front

Danielson rolled past his hometown of Girona today

Fassa and Crédit Agricole put an end to all escapes

Heras spent another uneventual day in the peloton

Barel takes the men's DH

Chausson claims a ninth world title

Cavalier collects the junior men's crown

Atherton romps to a 10-second victory

Vuelta Notebook: TT test for Heras; Petacchi staying, for now; weather worsening; what's next

Sarah Kaufman is racing her first 24-hour event

Eurobike, the bicycle industry’s annual trade show in Friedrichshafen, Germany, opened its doors Thursday for the 14th consecutive year. Although many companies these days are electing to display their new wares earlier in the summer in a race to be the first to capture dealer interest and begin filling their order books, Eurobike is still the first collective look we get at what’s in store for the new year. Unfortunately, 2005 did not treat the European bicycle industry so well. While few companies are willing to disclose hard numbers, the general indication is that bicycle sales have been

Max Van Heeswijk surged to victory in Friday’s seventh stage at the Vuelta a España in his biggest victory of what’s been a bittersweet year for the veteran Dutch sprinter. Van Heeswijk returned to the winner’s circle last month at the Benelux Tour after what was a season beset with personal problems and frustrations. Those are clearly a thing of the past as “Mad Max” charged to his first Vuelta stage win since 1997 in Friday’s chaotic sprint finish. “I knew I was strong today because I flatted but I was able to chase back on quite easily,” said Van Heeswijk, who outlasted Erik Zabel

The Mailbag is a regular feature on VeloNews.com. If you have a comment, an opinion or observation regarding anything you have seen in cycling, in VeloNews magazine or on VeloNews.com, write to WebLetters@InsideInc.com. Please include your full name and home town. Letters may be edited for length and clarity.Dynamic duo for cyclist(s) of the yearEditor:My vote for cyclist of the year: A tie between two of the coolest, cleanest bike racers on the planet: The Pate and E Rock Saunders. Job well done for watering the grass roots of cycling all across the country. When I was young, I wasn't

With Roberto Heras showing such dominance one week into the Vuelta a España, one wonders why he falls so flat in the Tour de France. For the past two Tours, Heras has failed to deliver after making his high-profile departure from U.S. Postal Service at the end of the 2003 season. In the 2004 Tour, Heras abandoned in the Alps. This year he made it to Paris, but he was never a factor in the race. “I am feeling that my body feels 100 percent for this Vuelta,” Heras said. “And during the Tour, it just wasn’t like that, even though this year was better than last year.” The headlines Friday

There’s a name on the international cross-country circuit that race fans will to want to familiarize themselves with. Only 19 years old, Swiss rider Nino Schurter spent 2005 as the reigning world junior world XC champion and was unquestionably the strongest man in the world under-23 cross-country championship Friday in Livingo, Italy. Unfortunately, the best man didn’t win in Livingo. Schurter took off from the start of the 3.5-lap, 43km contest, opening a gap of two minutes and riding comfortably in control of the race. But after losing tire pressure - first in his front tire, and then

Tyler Farrar (U.S. National) won the second stage of the Tour de l’Avenir in France on Friday, vaulting into fourth place overall. The 21-year-old Farrar outkicked Borut Bozic (Perutnina) and Hans Dekkers (Rabobank) in a mass-sprint finale to the 107.5-mile stage from Argentré-du-Plessis to Sainte-Scolasse-sur-Sarthe. Denmark’s Lars Bak (Team CSC) retained the yellow jersey ahead of Ukraine’s Denys Kostuyk (Jartazi Granville) and Spain’s Jesus Del Nero (Orbea). The day’s action kicked off early with a five-man break that went clear just 6km into the race. At 115km, with the gap up to more

I spent the first week of the race hoping for cool weather. Then, today we received a small dose, and I decided that the heat isn't that bad. It rained for 15 minutes and I almost froze. Thoughts of, "Be careful what you wish for," instantly popped into my head. It did dry up and then the brutal headwind appeared. I almost felt bad for the Liberty team, as they slogged their way into the wind, as Jakob and I stayed at the back with our pulses around 50 … well, not really. The tension rose towards the end and everyone completely lost their minds and went as if the Vuelta would be won

Vuelta Stage 7The countryside today’s stage passed through had long somewhat-shallow grade hills with wide-open and windy terrain, much like the foothills of Colorado. Michael said that the stage started at a quick pace and the field immediately splintered. The riders had to climb out of Teruel, which is situated in a valley. They raced over a four Category 3 climbs in the first 100km of the 200km stage, which some of the guys in the bunch said felt like more like Cat. 2’s, with some of the guys telling Michael that they felt like the Vuelta race organization was gypping them with the

BMC's Pro Machine sits naked for all to see

The BMC Team Machine

BMC made sure that this bottom bracket is among the peloton's stiffest

Swiss precision goes off-road

Catlike - long a favorite of Euskaltel - is coming to the U.S.

Catlike looks more jet-like from the back side

The Hutchinson Barracuda

Hutchinson kept the rubber side down for Mr. Armstrong

The Ghisallo hits new lows: A titanium frame at (gulp!) 770 grams

The 6/4 Vortex gets new and stiffer shapes

Look's 496 TT bike

Look's HSD stem: More carbon in more places

Pearl Izumi's carbon shoe...

... shows it's got a titanium soul... er... sole.

Triple whammy: Dura-Ace offers a little extra for the steep ones

The D.A. triple drivetrain

The Shimano crew is checking out ...

... Sram's entry into the road market...

The U.S. maker will offer a complete road group

Starting in 2007, Sram hits the road

Sram's new road brake

Stronglight incorporates a titanium BB in its carbon crank

Time's RXR TT: Michael Rogers' secret weapon unveiled.

Heras grabbed some bonus seconds to extend his overall lead

Trofimov takes the win

The Cricket jumps

Farrar wins his second career stage at Tour de l'Avenir

The win puts Farrar in the green jersey and fourth overall

The Cuesta escape

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood

Heras and Beloki: The first, bedeviled by lackluster Tours; the latter, happy to be feeling like a bike racer again

Verbrugghe and the gang at work

Schurter saw the victory vanish along with the air in his tires

Teammate Flückiger took the runner-up spot

Schultz was content with his 17th-place finish

Stage 8: Tarragona/Rambla Nova – Lloret de Mar, 189Km

Cyclists can still race the Tour de France on the illegal drug EPO without testing positive, a top Australian doping scientist has revealed. Dr. Mike Ashenden, project manager of the international consortium Science and Industry Against Blood Doping, told The Saturday Daily Telegraph that an unreleased study shows how riders can still get away with EPO use four years after testing was introduced for the endurance-boosting protein hormone. "There have been persistent rumours over the past years that athletes have learned to manipulate their EPO injections to escape the urine test," Ashenden

A small pump of the right fist was all the emotion Roberto Heras was willing to display after crossing the finish line despite taking control of the Vuelta a España in Thursday’s sixth stage. There was nary a smile or celebration to reveal the damage the three-time defending champion delivered in just nine kilometers of Spanish asphalt. For Heras, it’s all business. “This Vuelta is just starting,” Heras said with a shrug. “It’s too early to say it’s all over after one mountain stage.” Heras’s haul included the stage win, the leader’s, mountain and combined jerseys, and Liberty got the team

Only 18 years old, Czech rider Tereza Hurikova has already begun to amass quite an impressive collection of UCI rainbow jerseys. The winner of the world junior time-trial championship in Verona last September, Hurikova added another rainbow jersey to her wardrobe Thursday by winning the world junior women’s cross-country championship in style, leading the race from beginning to end. Considering that Hurikova also led the junior XC race at world’s last year in Les Gets, France, before puncturing on the final descent, it’s clear the cycling world is looking at a rider with a very bright

Floyd Landis rode to the feed zone about halfway through Thursday’s 217km sixth stage and climbed off his bike. He stepped into one of Phonak’s team cars and drove back to the team hotel. For Landis, his 2005 Vuelta ended after less than a week. The Californian was one of the pre-race favorites, but he wasn’t feeling as well as he had hoped after putting everything into the Tour de France. “It wasn’t going well today for Floyd. He got dropped early in the race,” said Phonak sport director Juan Fernández. “Overall he wasn’t feeling like he wanted to. He thought he had recovered from the

Vuelta Stage 6As we head west towards the Mediterranean, the temperatures have droppedbut the wind and the speed at which we are racing has increased drastically.Both yesterday and today we started racing flat out as soon as the startersflag was dropped and never relented until the finish line was crossed.Yesterday's average speed was an impressive 47.5kph- I was in the breakawayfor the majority of the stage and noticed we were rarely dipping under50kph and were often up around 60. The amazing thing is we were going slightlyuphill for most of the stage.This morning I woke up feeling

Heras in a familiar color

Hurikova gets an off-road rainbow to shine alongside her time-trial title

Forsman bettered her previous best to finish ninth

Gehbauer shot away from the gun

Cares found the course shockingly steep

Heras knows it's just the beginning

Menchov missed out by 13 seconds

Danielson slipped into a chase group and limited his losses

Going up: The start in Cuenca

Piil continued his aggressive racing . . .

. . . even going it alone until the bunch gobbled him up

But then Heras got busy