Women's stage 1
Amanda Miller is on a hot streak. The new HTC-Highroad rider scored her second win in a week Thursday in stage 1 of the Merco Credit Union Cycling Classic near Merced, California. A half hour later, Robert Britton led a Bissell podium sweep in the men’s race.
March 6, stage 1 Houdan - Houdan 154.5 km March 7, stage 2 Montfort-l'Amaury - Amilly 198.5 km March 8, stage 3 Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire - Nuits-Saint-Georges 202.5 km March 9, stage 4 Crêches-sur-Saône - Belleville 191.0 km March 10, stage 5 Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise - Vernoux-en-Vivarais 194.0 km March 11, stage 6 Rognes - Aix-en-Provence 27.0 km (ITT) March 12, stage 7 Brignoles - Biot 215.5 km March 13, stage 8 Nice - Nice 124.0 km
Team RadioShack on Thursday announced its teams for the Three Days of West Flanders (March 4-6) and Paris-Nice (March 6-13).
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Brent Bookwalter will enter Paris-Nice Sunday as a potential leader for his BMC Racing squad. American teammate Taylor Phinney will miss his planned start after crashing in training a week ago.
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Press Release: UCI President meets with AIGCP delegation
UCI president Pat McQuaid met with a delegation from the cycling teams association (AIGCP) on Thursday in Switzerland to discuss the race radio ban.
With his first road race for almost two decades behind him, Alexi Grewal can truthfully say that life begins at 50 — well, life as a racing cyclist aiming to return to the top.
The varying roles for race follow cars, pros changing their own tubies, and Nick's favorite workstand, revealed.
MURCIA, Spain (VN) – Alberto Contador headlines the field at the three-day Vuelta a Murcia in what will be his second race since he was cleared by the Spanish cycling federation to return to racing.
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Team RadioShack on Wednesday announced its teams for the Three Days of West Flanders (March 4-6) and Paris-Nice (March 6-13)
The organizer of the Quebec and Montreal one-day ProTour races is considering a stage race for the Boston area in 2012, AFP has learned.
Kenda-Geargrinder is set to become Kenda-5-hour Energy presented by Geargrinder with the announcement of the energy drink as a co-title sponsor Wednesday. General manager Chad Thompson said that the non-industry backing is a boon to his squad and its existing sponsors and that, yes, riders will be drinking from those tiny bottles on the road.
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Hesjedal racing ‘white roads,’ then catching flight to start Paris-Nice next day
MADRID, Spain (AFP) - Tour de France winner Alberto Contador in an interview published Wednesday vowed to fight any attempt to re-impose doping sanctions.
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Cadel Evans and George Hincapie get their seasons started this week in Italy. The BMC Racing veterans each delayed the starts to their 2011 campaigns to take advantage of warm weather training and remain fresh for midseason objectives.
UCI president Pat McQuaid will meet with representatives from the professional teams association Thursday to discuss the race radio ban, the association announced Tuesday.
Though Mark Cavendish has been relatively quiet so far this season, HTC-Highroad brass is confident that their ace sprinter is poised for a brilliant season.
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Hutchinson explains why Lance's tires were probably UCI-compliant and Lennard answers more questions about stack-and-reach, Di2 brakes and more
Arriagada tested positive during the Tour of Chile, a race he has won three times, in February. According to press reports the 35-year-old's sample tested positive for anabolic steroids. "The federation told me the news and now I have to discuss it with my lawyers," Arriagada told the website of Chilean daily El Mercurio from the Dominican Republic. He will be returning immediately "to undergo the necessary tests and prove my innocence," he added. Arriagada won three of the 10 stages on the last edition of the Tour of Chile and is a four-time national time trial champion.
Coach Neal Henderson answers a reader who wonders if, in the age of wattage meters, training by heart rate still makes sense.
No fewer than nine defending champions will line up for Australia at the world track cycling championships later this month in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, Cycling Australia announced Tuesday.
Engin's green 29er features gorgeous paint, a pressfit BB30 with a Specialized crank, chainstay mounted rear caliper and matching seat post and stem.
Alberto Contador has reconfirmed he will make a run at the Giro d'Italia and is leaving the Tour de France in a wait-and-see posture for the time being.
Test pilot Zach White was chuckling while on a muddy ride? Were his tires that funny?
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A look at some of the NAHBS award winners
Bronto brought a bunch of 29ers singlespeeds and geared bikes to Austin
After the recent birth of her child, Olympic champion Kristin Armstrong is back on the bike and getting ready to race. She spent some time in San Diego's low-speed wind tunnel with Peanut Butter & Co.-Twenty12 and sponsors dialing in her fit and new equipment.
The manner in which Slovak-sensation Peter Sagan scored four victories in Sardinia this past week points to a career that’s headed to the sport’s very highest levels. Maybe he’ll even go as far as the sport’s biggest ever winner, Eddy Merckx.
The Women’s Prestige Cycling Series is back for an eighth season in 2011. The four-event series is the top women-only competition in the United States and will include the Redlands Classic, Tour of the Gila, Nature Valley Grand Prix and Cascade Cycling Classic.
George Hincapie feels better than ever. That’s saying a lot as the BMC veteran is on the eve of his 2011 debut – his 18th as a professional – at Montepaschi Strade Bianchi Saturday.
Sache White and his Vanilla and Speedvagen bicycles are a perennial favorite at NAHBS. This year was no exception.
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Jens Voigt (Leopard Trek) admits that his chances of claiming a record sixth victory at Critérium International are slim, but at least he’ll be at the start line this year to have a shot.
Alberto Contador is already a pretty good time trialist, but his new boss at Saxo Bank-Sungard said changes in his TT position could take the Tour de France winner up another notch.
Matteo Pelucchi delivers a morale-boosting win to Geox-TMC with a photo-finish victory in the Clásica de Almería.
Ivan Basso (Liquigas-Cannondale) opens his account early this season with a rare, one-day race victory at the GP di Lugano.
Cyfac shows a beautiful custom carbon bike while Kent Eriksen brings a ti' cyclocrosser set up with disc brakes.
Roland Della Santa reveals the truth behind his chainstay decorations as Ric Hjertberg expounds on wheels past and future.
Peter Sagan fends off some fierce attacks in the finale to secure the overall victory at the Giro di Sardegna.
Giovanni Visconti (Farnese Vini-Neri Sottoli) sprints to victory in the Grand Prix Regio Insubrica.
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Dutchman Sebastian Langeveld (Rabobank) won the 66th edition of the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (formerly Het Volk) as he outsprinted defending champion Juan Antonio Flecha (Sky) in a tightly contested photo-finish.
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Chris King built a custom Cielo for the NAHBS just to show what you can do with a handmade bike.
Taylor Phinney (BMC) is recovering at home in Lucca, Italy, after a training crash that left him with a mild concussion, his team announced Friday.