Silver City, New Mexico, woke up to crystal blue skies and a bit of a chill Saturday, as drivers poured over the scrubby high desert and through the mountains from Las Cruces, El Paso, Tucson and Albuquerque to gawk at the SRAM Tour of the Gila downtown criterium and its star riders.
Saxo's Rasmusen wins GP Herning
Duarte assumes lead at Asturias
Spilak takes stage at Romandie, Rogers keeps lead
2010 Giro d'Italia stage details
Results from the 2010 Rund um den Finanzplatz Eschborn-Frankfurt.
Fabian Wegmann (Milram) comes back from a broken collarbone to win the Rund um den Finanzplatz Eschborn-Frankfurt.
Results from the 2010 Spartanburg Downtown Criterium.
Jacob Keough (UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis) and Theresa Cliff-Ryan (Colavita-Baci) take the Spartanburg Downtown Criterium in South Carolina.
Van Dijk wins in Holland; Pooley in Switzerland
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Alison Powers (Vera Bradley Foundation) closed two-thirds of her gap to race leader Mara Abbott (Peanut Butter & Co.-Twenty12) on Friday, winning the 16.15-mile Tyrone time trial by a minute in a half over second-placed Errine Willock (Webcor) and 2:14 ahead of Abbott.
Houffalize is one of the classic venues on the World Cup circuit with some of the most enthusiastic and knowledgeable fans in the world. On tap for the weekend is XC and four-cross.
Jesse Sergent (Trek-Livestrong) shocked the star-studded field at the SRAM Tour of the Gila Friday, winning the 16.15-mile Tyrone time trial in 34:09, 14 seconds ahead of race leader Levi Leipheimer (Mellow Johnny's).
Increased anti-doping protocols planned for Amgen Tour
Singletrack.com Tech Editor Zack Vestal takes a look at two bars with big backsweep: Ritchey WCS Carbon 10D flat bar and Bontrager Race Lite Big Sweep flat 12 degree handlebar.
Intxausti new leader at Asturias
Porte wins Romandie TT, Rogers takes over lead
Ace sprinter Mark Cavendish admitted he let emotions get the best of him Thursday when he gave an Italian version of a two-finger salute as he crossed the line victorious in the second stage at the Tour de Romandie.
Michael Barry and Bradley Wiggins headline Team Sky as the British team makes its grand tour debut at the Giro d’Italia.
Readers weigh in on Cav's salute, Vino's return, Williams' suspension.
The proliferation of helmet, or "wearable," cameras has never been greater, and there is one to fit just about every budget. Singletrack.com takes a look at the GoPro Hero, Epic Wide, the V.I.O. 1.5 and the ContourHD.
Olympic champion Samuel Sánchez turns his attention to the Tour de France.
Armstrong and Hansen expecting child
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On Thursday the wind turned SRAM Tour of the Gila into a survival test for many women. Colavita-Baci's Carmen Small won in a two-woman breakaway with teammate Andrea Dvorak, and the team's Cath Cheatley won the sprint for third. Mara Abbott of Peanut Butter & Co. Twenty12 used her powerful team to maximum effect, retaining her overall lead.
With the Tour de France just nine weeks away, a windblown Lance Armstrong was candid about his condition at the SRAM Tour of the Gila. It’s not great, but it’s coming around, he said. “Yesterday I did not have a good day; I was off,” Armstrong told VeloNews. “Today I felt better.”
The GoPro Hero is moderately priced, easy to use, takes excellent-quality HD videos, and it (so far) is virtually indestructible.
For the least expensive option in the Singletrack.com helmet cam test, the Epic Wide works pretty damn good.
The ContourHD is light and sleek, making it easy to forget that you have a camera strapped to you noggin while riding.
This camera is the easiest to use out of all of the units we tested, but it's also the only one that has a camera connected to its business end via cable. That can be good or bad, depending on what you are looking for in video camera.
The Carmichael Training Systems International Classic in Colorado Springs will not only be the final Pro XCT event of 2010 and a UCI stage race, but it will host the Alison Dunlap Junior Mountain Bike Series race, the final race in GT Bicycle's Proving Ground Series and is the final cross-country qualification race for Nationals.
Levi Leipheimer doesn't often challenge for sprint finishes, but on a blustery day in New Mexico Thursday, the SRAM Tour of the Gila race leader saw an opportunity and jumped on it, and almost came away with a second consecutive stage win.
South Carolina's Team Global Bike hits Speedweek trying not only for wins but also to raise awareness for Global Bike, a volunteer organization that provides bikes to developing countries.
Sastre sees strong Giro support
Vicioso takes over at Vuelta a Asturias
Cavendish takes stage at Romandie, Sagan keeps jersey
U.S. Scene This Week: Speed Week, Gila top the calendar
CNN shines a light on Ray's Indoor Bike Park in Cleveland and finds the redevelopment of an old warehouse goes beyond bikes.
A reader asks why a suspended rider keeps showing up at local training races.
Colorado CycleFest is a weekend of festivities that include a ride with Dave Wiens and Susan DeMattei in support of the Colorado High School Cycling League.
This year, Cervelo TestTeam's Ted King is seeing the front of the 2010 Euro peloton, and he likes what he sees.
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1. Aaron Kemps, Fly V Australia 2. Hilton Clarke, OUCH-Bahati Foundation 3. Andrew Pinfold, UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis 4. Jay Thomson, Fly V Australia 5. Matthew Crane, UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis
Levi Leipheimer opened up his defense of his SRAM Tour of the Gila title the same way he took his first red jersey in the race a year - with a solo win on the mountain-top finish Mogollon stage.
Burke Swindlehurst headed back to the SRAM Tour of the Gila for the 16th time this week, but for the rider with the race's greatest number of stage wins (six) to his credit, Gila is a whole new beast this year.
Sagan takes over at Romandie
Basque sprinter Pablo Urtasun delivered victory his for Euskaltel-Euskadi team in Wednesday’s opener at the five-day Vuelta a Asturias in northern Spain.
Vino's win, bottles in Belgium and frequent flyer tips
Aaron Kemps (Fly V Australia) put his Australian national champion’s skinsuit on display Tuesday night, winning the third stop of USA Crits SpeedWeek in Beaufort, South Carolina.
Feelin' that spring sluggishness? Take a look at some reader-submitted inspiration in April's Phat Phat-Tire Photos.
On-and-off rain over the weekend in Port Angeles, Washington made for a slick, fast course at the ironically named Dry Hill venue for the first installment of the Pro Gravity Tour.
Lance Armstrong becomes part-owner of Honey Stinger, a Steamboat Springs, Colorado, based company that makes honey-based energy gels, bars and organic chews.
Former LPR rider Gabriele Bosisio was hit with a two-year suspension by the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) on Wednesday after testing positive for the banned blood-booster EPO last fall.
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On the day he started the SRAM Tour of the Gila, Lance Armstrong announced he has become a part-owner in the Honey Stinger. Based in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, the company makes honey-based energy gels, bars and organic chews.
Wind gusts of up to 65 mph could batter riders during this week's SRAM Tour of the Gila. Besides the high winds — which are expected from Wednesday's opening stage through Saturday — rank and file pro riders will have to contend with the strongest fields, for men and women, ever assembled for the 24-year-old New Mexican race.
Results, Tour de Romandie
HTC-Columbia's Marco Pinotti won the prologue of the Tour de Romandie in Porrentruy, Switzerland, on Tuesday.
There was so much new equipment introduced at Sea Otter that it will take a few columns here to do it justice.
Defending Tour de France champion Alberto Contador took to the treacherous cobbled roads of northern France on Tuesday, preparing for terrain he admits could dent his bid for a third yellow jersey this year.
FSA has introduced a whole range of 10-speed-compatible mountain bike cranks, both in double and triple configurations, to mesh with the new SRAM and Shimano drivetrains.
In a week that’s seen some ghosts of doping past step up and win big races after serving bans, yet another rider with a notorious past was back on the winner’s podium.
BMC fires Frei after doping admission
Britain's Chris Froome is among a trio of riders targeted by an environmental group ─ for throwing empty water bottles into the Belgian countryside during the recent edition of Flèche-Wallonne.
A word of warning: Don’t test ride Zipp’s 303 tubular wheels. If you do, you’ll be compelled to buy them.
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Cohutta 100 sees record number of racers descend on Ducktown, Tennessee, with two-time defending National Ultra Endurance Series champion Jeff Schalk taking the win.
Astana’s Alexandre Vinokourov fires back at his critics, asking, "In what other sport are you allowed to participate without the right to win?"
Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto) replaces Luis Leon Sanchez (Caisse d’Epargne) at the top of the UCI rankings.
For Singletrack.com columnist and pro XC racer Judy Freeman, the Sea Otter Classic is all about the bike — with some racing thrown into the Monterey mix.
Sylvain Chavanel will miss the Tour de France after crashing into another team's car during Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
"The sniper," Katusha's Alexandr Kolobnev, is taking aim at the Tour — and the worlds.
Our readers chime in on Alexander Vinokourov, the costs of flying with a bike and no-frills cycling.
Results from the 2010 Historic Roswell Criterium.
Team Type 1 Ken Hanson and Theresa Clif-Ryan (Colavita-Baci) rock the ninth annual Historic Roswell Criterium.
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2010 Athens Twilight Criterium results
Carmen Small (Colavita-Baci) and Luis Amaran (Jamis-Sutter Home) showed New Mexico cycling fans that olive oil and wine go hand in hand as they won the omnium competitions Saturday at the Roadrunner Classic in Albuquerque.