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LES HERBIERS, France (AFP) - American George Hincapie has found himself in familar territory at the Tour de France helping Australian Cadel Evans in his bid for an elusive yellow jersey.

Dan Wuori is one of the funniest Twitter bards in the cycling world (follow him at @dwuori. This month, he will be expanding a bit beyond 140 characters to share periodic journals during the Tour de France. Today's is the first.

Singletrack.com's Lennard Zinn demonstrates how to remove an XT-XTR Spider crank. Don't let it fool you, Lennard Zinn makes it look easy.

Singletrack.com's Lennard Zinn explains the pad replacement process on a Hayes brake.

One of the most important tactics in mountain biking is shifting. Upgrade your machine all by yourself as Singletrack.com's Lennard Zinn demonstrates how to install a rear derailleur.

Is your mountain bike covered in mud? Chances are the part hit hardest by the mud was the bottom bracket. Singletrack.com's Lennard Zinn explains how to remove, clean, and replace a bottom bracket square taper crank.

Hub overhauls can be tricky, but Singletrack.com's Lennard Zinn has the answers for the Shimano hub and freehub.

From winning stages at Tirreno-Adriatico and the Ster ZLM Tour to burying his best friend following a fatal accident at the Giro d’Italia, it would be a terrible understatement to call the first half of 2011 a rollercoaster for Garmin-Cervélo’s Tyler Farrar.

Singletrack.com's Lennard Zinn demonstrates how to install new cleats on your shoes. This is something that you want to get really familiar with because getting them set right can sometimes take many adjustments.

LES HERBIERS, France (AFP) - Quick Step sporting director Wilfried Peeters said Friday his team had nothing to worry about despite their bus being given a thorough search by police on the eve of the Tour de France.

Swiss doctors say Mauricio Soler is healing, but remains unconscious two weeks after his crash at the Tour de Suisee, The Associated Press is reporting.

The HTC sprinter says fans and media don't understand how hard it is to win a stage.

A look at Ivan Basso's Cannondale Super Six Evo, and Basso's adjustable-on-the-fly seatpost

In this video, Singletrack.com's Lennard Zinn explains the process of installing a thread-less headset.

It may seem simple, but installing pedals on any bike can become a tricky task. Singletrack.com's Lennard Zinn explains the tricks that make installing your pedals fun and easy.

After every ride, it is important to clean off the fork. Singletrack.com's Lennard Zinn shows us the best way to do so.

Singletrack.com's Lennard Zinn explains how to make adjustments on Hayes Sole hydraulic brakes.

If you need to make adjustments, this is the place you should be. Singletrack.com's Lennard Zinn explains how to adjust the rear derailleur. (High Normal)

Any hub overhaul can be tricky, so Singletrack.com's Lennard Zinn comes to the rescue. Zinn shows us how to overhaul a Mavic hub.

Singletrack.com's Lennard Zinn shows us how to install a specialty square-taper bottom bracket and crank. Take yet another step at becoming the at home mechanic you have always dreamed of becoming.

LES HERBIERS, France (VN) — Two sprinters in one team might mean trouble, but Garmin-Cervélo promises that there will be no discord between world champion Thor Hushovd and Tyler Farrar when it comes to mass gallops over the next three weeks.

LES HERBIERS, France (VN) — Andy Schleck says he's locked and loaded to take on the challenge of winning the Tour de France.

LES HERBIERS, France (VN) — With everyone talking about Andy Schleck and Alberto Contador, Robert Gesink is just fine hanging on the edges of the limelight.

World champion Thor Hushovd, in his rainbow stripes, may have stolen the show at Thursday’s Tour de France team presentation by donning a wig and brandishing a hammer as the Norse god of thunder; but also sharing the spotlight were the riders in distinctively colored national championship jerseys who won their respective title races last weekend.

Team Garmin-Cervelo at a pre-Tour de France news conference

Riis says Contador has every right to race this Tour

Less pressure on Wiggins should lead to better results

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Race organizers and volunteers are digging out trail in California so the Downieville Classic can roll July 9-10.

Mavic's new aero wheels feature a smooth transition from rim to tire.

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Bjarne Riis and Alberto Contador faced down a sometimes-skeptical media mob Thursday ahead of Saturday's Tour de France where Contador will line up as defending champion with an asterisk.

Fabian Cancellara will be ready to take on the Tour's time trials with a new Trek Speed Concept TT bike.

A look at Andy Schleck's Trek Madone 6 series SSL. Is it a Tour winner?

A part-time soigneur with American squad BMC Racing was arrested Monday in connection with an 18-month investigation into performance enhancing drugs in Belgium. Belgian daily Het Nieuwsblad reported that “Sven S., of Zonnebeke” was taken into custody by a magistrate earlier this week after a search of his home uncovered syringes and other doping equipment.

LES HERBIERS, France — Bradley Wiggins enters the 2011 Tour de France a dramatically different man than the one who showed up last year.

LES HERBIERS, France — Jonathan Vaughters couldn't hold back his smile Thursday as he discussed the Garmin-Cervélo lineup for the 2011 Tour de France.

Cav on VeloNews.com's Tour de France video diarist Eisel: “He’s one of the few people who can tell me to shut up”

LES HERBIERS, France — In a survey of 94 Tour de France team managers and riders conducted by L’Équipe on Tuesday, only three mentioned Levi Leipheimer as a potential podium pick. The two American veterans say they are ready to upset the odds

The company 110% PlayHarder is fusing compression gear with the good old ice pack

A reader wants to know why Roberto Heras' case is being handled in Spanish civil courts.

The chainless DH at the Crested Butte Fat Tire Fest is a decade-old tradition. Why not declare it the world championships?

The 98th edition of the Tour de France begins on Saturday. Although riders from the host country have not won an edition of the Tour since 1985, France continues to hold the record for the number of wins by a two-to-one margin.

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Levi Leipheimer (RadioShack) lines up Saturday as an outsider for overall victory in a Tour de France that most expect to see as a battle between Andy Schleck and Alberto Contador.

Readers chime in on the UCI's technical rules — would the world be better off with no UCI?

Inside the Selle Italia factory

Cervelo will debut its new S5 aero road bikes at the first stage of this year’s Tour de France, on Saturday.

Andy Schleck returns to the Tour de France this week with the weight of being the twice-consecutive runner-up.

Former Silence-Lotto rider Wim Vansevenant has acknowledged that a package seized by customs officials two weeks ago contained doping products destined for him.

PARIS, (AFP) ─ Tour de France chief Christian Prudhomme said he will shake the hand of reigning champion Alberto Contador despite a controversy which has left the race in an unprecedented quandary.

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New for 2012: SRAM's first carbon downhill race crank and DH-specific derailleur.

• Tom Danielson
• Julian Dean
• Tyler Farrar
• Ryder Hesjedal
• Thor Hushovd
• David Millar
•  Ramunas Navardauskas
• Christian Vande Velde
• David Zabriskie

Tour of Utah organizers on Tuesday will announce a new look route for the sixth edition of the race they deem “America’s toughest,” and that slogan has never been more appropriate.

Giant introduces a bevy of new features in its 2012 road bike line. Nick Legan gives his take.

Last year’s Tour de France was headlined by a mountaintop finish on the Col du the Tourmalet (won by Luxembourg’s Andy Schleck over Spain’s Alberto Contador) to mark the centennial of the Tour’s first crossing of the Pyrénées. This year’s race, starting on Saturday, celebrates 100 years of racing through the High Alps, culminating with a stage to the top of the Col du Galibier — which, at 8,678 feet (2,645 meters) elevation, will be the highest stage finish in Tour history.

Brim Brothers has taken another step toward releasing a cleat-based power meter

• Tom Danielson
• Julian Dean
• Tyler Farrar
• Ryder Hesjedal
• Thor Hushovd
• David Millar
• Johan Vansummeren
• Christian Vande Velde
• David Zabriskie

Blue Cycles refines its aero bikes

• Pavel Brutt
• Denis Galimzyanov
• ,Vladimir Gusev
• Mikhail Ignatyev
• Vladimir Isaychev
• Vladimir Karpets
• Alexander Kolobnev
• Egor Silin
• Yuriy Trofimov

Brent Bookwalter is headed this week to his second Tour de France on the Vendée coast in western France. He talked with VeloNews about the pressure of entering the season with the Tour on his schedule, BMC Racing teammate George Hincapie’s record-tying 16th Grande Boucle and his recovery from a broken collarbone suffered in April.

Pause for a moment and ask yourself, how do you feel about Alberto Contador?