Flanked by compatriots Lance Armstrong and Dave Zabriskie, RadioShack’s three-time Amgen Tour of California champion Levi Leipheimer sat front and center at a pre-race press conference Friday afternoon in Sacramento, stating that he was prepared to defend his title against a world-class field competing in America’s biggest race.
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The $2,299 Kona One20 Deluxe was a lesson in getting reacquainted with our early riding days, when our bikes were bought off the floor with an eye toward saving as much money as possible.
Is the Hei Hei 100 a four-inch trail bike or an entry-level, full-suspension XC racer? Definitely maybe.
The Amgen Tour of California is two days from its start in Nevada City, Calif. and race organizers have pleaded for cooperation from fans in keeping the roads paint-free. According to technical director Chuck Hodge, the tour risks permit losses going forward if the traditional practice of road painting continues.
Regina Bruins (Cervélo TestTeam) darted to victory in the opening prologue Friday at the 10-day Tour de l’Aude in France.
Inside Cycling with John Wilcockson: The Giro battle has only just begun
2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 6 results
Breakaway again: Australian Matthew Lloyd wins Giro d'Italia stage 6 solo after attacking his breakmate on the final climb. Nibali retains overall lead.
2010 Giro d'Italia stage 6 photos
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Among all of the famous names in mountain biking, the little-known haven of Gooseberry Mesa, Utah goes largely unnoticed. That's about to change.
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The five-inch travel Fuel EX 9.8 is a superb blend of a bike: Light-and-tight handling yet packing supple, bottomless suspension.
It's all California
Amber Neben will race for the Webcor Builders team for the balance of 2010, she confirmed Thursday. The 2008 world time trial champion will be at the start of Sunday’s Sacramento Grand Prix criterium with the team.
Fly V australia releases daily Tour of California power files
On the eve of the fifth Amgen Tour of California, a pair of American overall favorites — three-time winner Levi Leipheimer and two-time runner-up Dave Zabriskie — spoke with VeloNews, assessing the riders most likely to win America’s biggest race, including each other.
Thor Hushovd — the defending Tour de France green jersey champion who broke his collarbone during a training ride in Italy on Sunday — underwent a successful operation Monday.
From climbing to cornering to accelerating, the Top Fuel 9.8 wants to race.
2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 5 results
The third part in our series on training for Grand Fondos and other long rides. This week's subject: climbing.
Jérôme Pineau (Quick Step) won Thursday's fifth stage of the 2010 Giro d'Italia after working a nearly day-long four-man breakaway and outlasting the chase pack by seconds.
2010 Giro d'Italia stage 5 photos
Cyclo-cross queen Compton will hit the World Cup and domestic mountain bike circuits on her new Stevens Scope 26-inch race rig that weighs in at about 17.5 pounds.
Replay: Live coverage of stage 5 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia
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Hunter Allen and Andy Coggan have updated their bestselling book, Training and Racing with a Power Meter. Allen and Coggan have completely revised the book that made power meters understandable for amateur and professional cyclists and triathletes.
Fiber One, a General Mills brand, is the new title sponsor of the Collegiate All-Star Team for the Nature Valley Grand Prix that was selected at the USA Cycling Collegiate Road National Championships.
PRESS RELEASE: Steven Cozza, a professional cyclist with Team Garmin-Transitions, the top American team dedicated to ethical sporting and developing the next generation of cycling champions, is on a mission to help children throughout the world.
PRESS RELEASE: SANTA ROSA, Calif. — This summer, there’ll be another name on the bicycle of 3-time Amgen Tour of California winner Levi Leipheimer. As part of the “I Ride For” effort sponsored by LIVESTRONG and Trek Bicycle, Leipheimer and other Team RadioShack riders will get the chance to ride for someone whose life was forever changed by cancer.
Peanut Butter & Co's Mara Abbott takes the lead of the series after her overall win at the SRAM Tour of the Gila.
Replay: Live coverage of stage 4 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia
WADA poised at globalizing Valverde ban
Having the Giro begin in Amsterdam was like mixing opera with Ska.
2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 4 results
2010 Giro d'Italia stage 4 photos
2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 4 team time trial
The Giro d'Italia offers some competitions and prizes that vary a bit from what many Americans have learned about through the Tour de France and domestic races. Here's a look at the competitions.
Giant's Trance X1 is all about XC.
Keep the Trance's five inches of travel on the trail and you'll be treated to a smooth, stable ride.
Hammer sets new world mark in pursuit
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Round two of the country's newest mountain bike series makes a stop in Colorado May 15-16 at the Chalk Creek Stampede.
Charges dropped against journalists in Cofidis case
Singletrack.com's resident-wrench, Lennard Zinn, has a full mailbag this week: Readers want to know about SRAM XX and lubin' various things up.
Officials have adjusted results for the SRAM Tour of the Gila to restore Dave Zabriskie to the final overall podium, bumping Phil Zajicek back down to fourth, race director Jack Brennan told VeloNews on Tuesday.
Eric Barlevav of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis is the featured rider in the first of a series of cycling documentaries by Emmy-Award winner Brian Smallwood and his Pro Road Access Productions.
The impressive thing is that out of the bikes tested, the Yeti AS-R 5 Carbon gained the least weight in growing by an inch of travel from the four-inch rigs.
A reader asks about possible fork damage after a close encounter of the low clearance kind.
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Mountain Bike Test: The Yeti AS-R Carbon is a point-and-shoot bike with super crisp handling.
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American riders won five, including three golds. at the 2010 Pan American Road and Track Championships this weekend in Aguascalientes, Mexico. Ben King (Trek-Livestrong) won both the U23 men’s time trial and road race while Shelley Evans (Peanut Butter & Co. Twenty12) won the elite women’s road race.
Replay: Live coverage of stage 3 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia
Luis Amaran (Jamis-Sutter Home) and Alison Powers (Vera Bradley Foundation) have taken over the top of the National Racing Calendar standings following strong performance by both at the SRAM Tour of the Gila and Joe Martin Stage Race.
Jason Donald (OUCH-Bahati Foundation) and Kyle Wamsley (Bissell) left the Joe Martin Stage Race final day criterium with fractured clavicles after going down during Sunday's race.
Two days of Dutch carnage has ripped a hole into the GC at the 2010 Giro d’Italia and struck fear into any rider looking ahead to these same roads across Holland this summer for the Tour de France.
Just a day after nearly everything went right for Garmin-Transitions, capped by Tyler Farrar’s stage victory Sunday, nearly everything went wrong less than 24 hours later.
Thomas Lining's Phat Phat-Tire Photo "Sunset at Stony Creek" is the winner of the April reader-submitted photo contest.
Wouter Weylandt (Quick Step) wins stage 3; Alexander Vinokourov (Astana) leads the Giro.
2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 3 results
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Marian University (of Indianapolis, Indiana) emerged victorious in an ultra-close USA Cycling Collegiate National Championship, which was decided by the final event of the weekend — a team time trial held at the Trek Bicycles headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin.
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Results from the 2010 Four Days of Dunkirk.
Replay: Live coverage of stage 2 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia
As options in carbon clincher wheels continued to proliferate in the last few years, Zipp appeared to stay on the sidelines. No more.
Matt Crane (UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis) overcame a crash-marred final day at the Joe Martin Stage Race to edge teammate Karl Menzies for the win in the stage 4 criterium Sunday. Alexis Rhodes (Vera Bradley Foundation) attacked solo with three laps remaining and rode away from what remained of a decimated field for the victory in the women’s race.
Cadel Evans (BMC) is back in the pink jersey for the first time since he held it late in the 2002 Giro d’Italia. Evans was a relative newcomer to the road scene when he took the maglia rosa back then, only to lose it the next day in an infamous collapse in stage 17 to Folgaria. Racing the Giro for the first time since then, Evans says he’s now a different rider.
Garmin-Transitions scored a huge victory Sunday with Tyler Farrar’s victory in the second stage at the Giro d’Italia. Not only did Farrar prove yet again he’s a world-caliber sprinter, it also confirmed the team’s commitment to building a stronger team around the 25-year-old’s growing confidence.
2010 Giro d'Italia stage 2 photos
Switzerland's Martin Elmiger (AG2R) wins the 56th edition of the Four Days of Dunkirk.
2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 2 results
Cervélo TestTeam's Thor Hushovd fractured his collarbone out on a training ride in Italy on Sunday after colliding with a child.
Jonathan Cantwell (Fly V Australia) and Modesta Vzesniauskaite (Colavita-Baci) made it two in a row at the Joe Martin Stage Race Saturday. Cantwell, whose teammate Bernie Sulzberger took the stage 2 win, pulled off the bunch sprint ahead of Daniel Holloway (Bissell) and Aldo Ino Ilesic (Team Type 1).
Replay: Live coverage of stage 1 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia
Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Transitions) wins a very messy second stage of the Giro d'Italia as BMC's Cadel Evans takes the overall lead.