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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.That long arm of the lawDear Velo,At the risk of stirring up a hornet’s nest of opinions on the matterI interject my own. How far reaching is the grasp UCI that it can strong-arm other professional cyclist for merely riding with a suspended rider? (See "Hamiltonquits Boulder race series

Mark Cavendish

Mactier makes Australia proud

The court says Hondo can race. Will teams agree?

The Luna Chix 2006

Awright, listen up!

Turn, turn, turn

Coach Dunlap watches an Ambassador clear an obstacle

Marla Streb's belly gets a pat

Gould

Streb

Vanlandingham

Hanusova

Florit

Dunlap

After photos of Tyler Hamilton in a local criterium showed up on the Internet, USA Cycling got a call from the UCI, wondering why a suspended rider was racing. Two weekends ago, Hamilton joined a handful of other pros and a few hundred amateur racers in a non-sanctioned series race in his hometown of Boulder, Colorado. Hamilton is currently serving a two-year suspension from a 2004 blood doping charge. "They contacted us and asked, ‘What is Tyler Hamilton doing riding in a bike race with other UCI pros?’" said USA Cycling CEO Gerard Bisceglia. "We said it wasn’t sanctioned. They said,

The escape

He said it was the best day of his life

Auger and Contrini in the early break

Extebarria and Scheirlinkcx

Pozzato surprises the peloton

Boonen on the Cipressa

Garzelli on the Cipressa

Milram chases

The peloton

Moorenhout and Schleck attack

Pozzato escapes

The podium

Rabobank on the Poggio

Petacchi hopes to be in the mix after the Poggio

Boonen comes into M-SR in fine, fine, form

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.More video, pleaseEditor:Hey, great job on the Paris-Nice video summary. The editing and quality pics were great. How about doing it live for the Giro? I'd even pay real money to see it. Phil StruveAvon, Colorado More video for Macs, pleaseEditor:Kudos for posting the Paris-Nice

Belgium's former world champion cyclist Johan Museeuw and 10 others implicated in a doping scandal are to face trial, prosecutors said Friday. Museeuw, the 1996 world road race champion, stands accused of possessing the banned blood booster EPO (erythropoeitin) and two other illegal performance-enhancers. He was suspected of being part of a ring of drug traffickers including a veterinary surgeon, three-time world cyclo-cross champion Mario De Clerqc and eight other riders and go-betweens. They are suspected of supplying human growth hormones, stimulants, steroids and testosterone to

Dear Bob,I love your column, even if it does point out I am often wrong in my mistaken beliefs. What is the legality of when a cyclist swerves to avoid a car door opening and is hit from behind by a car? It has not happened yet, but oh so many close calls!D. D. Dear D.D.Wow, talk about being between a rock and a hard place! Okay, so theoretically speaking, you swerve to avoid getting doored, and you get nailed instead from behind. Who’s at fault here? Well, there are about 50 answers to that question, depending on the state you live in, but we can narrow that down to four different auto

Monterey, CA - Crowds at this year's Sea Otter Classic, the world's largest cycling festival, will have twice as many reasons to cheer (or gasp in amazement) since SRAM's Invitational Dirt Jump Contest has been extended to all four days of the event. And, after weeks of online ogling, consumers will get their first chance to get their hands on SRAM's much-buzzed about Force road group. This year the multi-sport, four-day "Celebration of Cycling' begins on April 6 at Laguna Seca Recreation Area in Monterey, California. The invite list for the Dirt Jump Contest reads like a

Floyd Landis won more than Paris-Nice on Sunday. He secured the trust and confidence of his Phonak teammates as they look confidently toward this summer's Tour de France. His teammates rallied around Landis to preserve his slender nine-second margin in Sunday's nervous, four-climb finale to win his second major stage race inside a month. And in the process, the team and Landis promoted themselves as one of the favorites for July. CLICK HERE to play the 2006 Paris-Nice Video highlight.

Hincapie needs some down time

Well-timed: Andreï Tchmil made his big move in the final kilometer in 1999

The very presence of defending champion Alessandro Petacchi may have defined this year's route.

Legally Speaking - with Bob Mionske: Doored v. Nailed

2006 Paris-Nice Video Highlight

Horner's had a fine early season and aims for the big one in July.

Bettini has doubts about repeating his 2003 win in San Remo, but he'll be there, he says.

The Jet

Some people take Hed's aero' advice quite seriously

The final podium

Petacchi wins as Zabel exults

Landis at the start of the final stage of Paris-Nice. He expects a lighter schedule in coming weeks.

Bettini was in great form before the crash.

Steve Hed, last year at the InterBike trade show in Las Vegas

Drilling spoke holes with a CNC router

The Mother Lode

The new Bastogne

Our latest reader-submitted Photo Gallery is now up for your viewing pleasure. Of course, a new gallery also means the naming of the winner of ourmost recent contest. Take the time to wander through that gallery and see if you agree or disagree with our choice of winner. We especially liked by Robert Inserni’s “Pure Austin Road Race - Out of Gas.” Come on, how many of us haven’t felt like the fella in the back at one time or another? Congratulations Robert! Drop us a note at Rosters@InsideInc.com to work out the details and we’ll send you a copy of Graham Watson's "Landscapes of

Pure Austin Road Race - Out of Gas

Bertagnolli celebrates

Landis took extra care not to fall after slipping at one point

Moncoutie solo

Petrov solo

Moncoutie and Osa chase

The final podium

Cancellara takes the ITT

Landis takes Paris-Nice and the ProTour lead

Zberg wins the final stage

Overall rivals Vila, Sanchez and Landis

Arrieta and Ventoso have a dig

Contador and Rodriguez

The Col de Porte

Petrov solo

Kashechkin in the break

Kashechkin and Chavanal chase

Moncouti, Chavanal and Kashechkin

Phonak and Jalabert

Landis and the gang

Landis and Vila

Boonen descends

And Landis ascends once more onto the podium for another yellow jersey

Hushovd proves fastest in the mass dash for the line

Former world champion Zinaida Stahurskaya of Belarus has been banned for two years by the national cycling federation, it was revealed on Saturday. The 34-year-old tested positive for anabolic steroid stanozolol after the GP European Carnival race in Italy on July 16 last year before testing positive for testosterone on July 31 at the Tour of San Marino and at the August 7 Tour of Bochum in Germany. Stahurskaya won the world road race title in 2000 and also claimed the women's Tour de France in 2002.