Cycling luminaries gathered in at the Rossano Cathedral in Italy late last month to celebrate the life of Lino Gastaldello, the co-owner of the Wilier bike brand. Gastaldello died January 23rd after being hit by a car while on a bike ride. He was 71. Gianni Bugno, Damiano Cunego and Gilberto Simoni were among the mourners who overfilled the cathedral.
In what should be a great season for sprinting, with Mark Cavendish, Tyler Farrar and the resurgent Alessandro Petacchi among many, there’s one name that’s often overlooked: Theo Bos.
Francesco Chicchi won the fourth stage of the Tour of Qatar in a field sprint ahead of Heinrich Haussler (Cervélo) and JJ Haedo (Saxo Bank).
Milwaukee, Wis. - The Tour of America's Dairyland presented by Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board, an omnium bicycle race across 11 Southeastern Wisconsin cities, will include a Women's 3/4 category, in addition to the Pro Women 1/2 category, in this year's daily race schedule, promoter Midwest Cycling Series has announced.
The Regions Bank Race Weekend is back again on March 6-7, 2010 in Albany, Georgia, boasting more than $8,000 in prize money. Saturday, cyclists will race against the clock in an individual time trial and volley for position in the criterium later in the day, Saturday's events are in downtown Albany as part of the annual Mardi Gras Festival. Sunday events leave the urban streets for the country roads in the final event of the weekend on Sunday, a challenging 51 kilometer loop through Lee County.
Okay, so the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 was mostly a Wall Street bailout, but bicylists benefited, too, albeit in a very small way.
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A look at Martijn Maaskant's Felt F1 at the Tour of Qatar.
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Team Garmin-Transitions and Team HTC-Columbia are auctioning rides in a team mechanic's car during the Spring Classics to benefit the USA Cycling Development Foundation.
The riders on the Kenda-Felt MTB team will have their choice of several different Felt models including the Nine Team, Felt's flagship carbon fiber 29-inch hardtail.
Defending Amgen Tour of California champion Levi Leipheimer said the first two stages of this year's race offer "opportunities for the sprinters," although the second stage might just shed a few of the peloton’s non-climbers.
Three years after JJ Haedo made the jump from North American racing to Europe, his younger brother Sebastian Haedo has done the same. For 2010, they’re both on Saxo Bank. It’s the first time the Argentine brothers have raced on the same professional team.
A Trek-Livestrong team bike, stolen from Mellow Johnny's bike shop in Austin in November, is back home, minus its wheels, after being recovered in Mexico.
The notification date for Leadville Trail 100 applicants is slightly delayed, with hopefuls knowing if they are in the high-elevation race by Friday.
There are a lot of big names expected for the 101st edition of Milan-San Remo next month, but Riccardo Riccò isn’t among them.
The first stage of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California will mark the 50th anniversary of one of the oldest races in America when it starts in Nevada City on May 16.
Linus Gerdemann (Milram) took an early-season win in Tuesday’s mountainous Trofeo Inca at the Mallorca Challenge. The former Tour de France yellow jersey-wearer escaped over the day’s final hurdle at the Cat. 1 Puig Major in the 157.2km stage over the highest climbs on Mallorca to claim victory ahead of two fellow escapees.
In three days of racing in the winds at the Tour of Qatar, four men have broken their collarbones after crashing.
Biggest Ride contest offering a spring training trip to Southwest with Andreas Hestler.
The beefed-up BMC squad began its racing season in earnest at the Tour of Qatar this week
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Quick Step’s Tom Boonen sprinted to victory in the third stage of the Tour of Qatar on Tuesday, powering in ahead of Heinrich Haussler (Cervélo TestTeam) and Saxo Bank’s Baden Cooke
Óscar Freire (Rabobank) was back in the winner’s circle Monday for the first time in nine months with victory in the second day of the Mallorca Challenge.
Tejay Van Garderen made his professional debut in Sunday’s opening day of the Mallorca Challenge, safely finishing 69th in the main field proudly wearing the HTC-Columbia team colors
American sprinter Tyler Farrar came to the Tour of Qatar with a prototype Mavic wheelset.
Lennard Zinn takes a close look at four sets of carbon wheels.
A new national track series aims to rally the best of the best – tracks and racers – for a chance to be named ATRA’s National Champion. The American Track Racing Association (ATRA) National Championship Series includes 11 events across the country.
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2010 will see the epic event return to the Alberta Rockies as well as the addition of UCI sanctioning.
New collegiate time trial rules were in effect as the Southeast Collegiate Cycling Conference began its season with a race in sunny Gainesville, Florida, on Saturday and Sunday.
Southeast Collegiate Cycling Conference Gainesville, Florida, Feb 6-7, 2010
Ben Delaney takes a look at Edvald Boasson Hagen's Pinarello Dogma 60.1 bike.
Certain dates in cycling history have earned far greater importance than others — among them February 7, which saw an inauspicious debut and an untimely departure.
Óscar Freire wins the sprint to take the Trofeo Cala Millor.
This week's racing brings the Mallorca Challenge, the Tour Mediterranéen and the Tour of Qatar.
Graham Watson's gallery from Stage 2 of the 2010 Tour of Qatar.
Geert Steurs (Topsport) wins Stage 2 of the Tour of Qatar.
Team Yeti Beti will host the Beti Bike Bash on June 12. The event outside of Denver will offer women several races for all ages and abilities.
Robbie McEwen's back in the winner's circle after taking Sunday's Trofeo Palma, the kickoff to the five-day Mallorca Challenge in Spain.
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Samuel Dumoulin overcomes relegation in Stage 4 to take the overall at the Etoile de Bessèges.
Sven Nys wins round seven of the Superprestige cyclocross series
Editor in chief Ben Delaney's snaps from Stage 1 of the 2010 Tour of Qatar.
German sprinter Gerald Ciolek and his Milram squad are riding Focus bikes this season.
It was a day of firsts for the Trek-Livestrong team at Stage 1 of the Tour of Qatar.
It was a day of firsts for Trek-Livestrong at the 2010 Tour of Qatar,
Sven Nys wins the seventh round of the Superprestige cyclocross series in Zonhoven.
Geert Steurs wins Stage 2 and Wouter Mol takes the lead at the 2010 Tour of Qatar.
Team Sky wins Stage 1 at the 2010 Tour of Qatar.
Team Sky's eight-man squad flew to victory in the opening team trial at the Tour of Qatar. Sky posted a time of 9:41 on the windswept 8.2km course.
Former Paris-Roubaix winner and Italian national coach Franco Ballerini has died from injuries suffered in a rally car accident on Sunday.
VeloNews.com will be following neo-pro rider Kirk Carlsen throughout the season as the 22-year-old rider races and trains around the world.
Luís León Sánchez, who pipped compatriot and friend Alberto Contador to win last year’s Paris-Nice, won’t be back to defend his title in 2010. The Caisse d’Epargne rider said he doesn’t want the pressure of riding Paris-Nice as defending champion and instead will race in Tirreno-Adriatico and avoid a showdown with Contador in the Race to the Sun.
French rider Arnaud Molmy pulled the double Saturday, winning the fourth stage at the l’Etoile de Bessèges and moving into the overall lead in what proved to be a controversial finale.
Boonen confident for Tour of Qatar: Qatar plus Tour of Oman will be good training for the classics, the Belgian sprinter says
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Samuel Dumoulin (Cofidis) notched a victory in Friday’s third stage at the l’Etoile de Bessèges. Dumoulin out-kicked Borut Bozic (Vacansoleil) to end his two-day winning streak at the five-day French race. Bozic, winner of the opening two stages, came through second and retained the overall lead.
Seventeen pro continental-registered teams will enjoy “wild card” status this, opening the door for the teams to get invites to ProTour events. Sixteen teams were confirmed Friday, with BMC already assured its “wild card” status ahead of its debut at the Tour Down Under last month.
The record cold blasting Spain hasn’t kept 2008 Tour de France champion Carlos Sastre from training hard.
Organizers of the US Cup Triple Crown All Mountain Series say top-tier riders are committed to the first event in Southern California's Bonelli Park on March 13-14.
After her teammates spent much of the day chasing down breaks and keeping her in position, Cervélo TestTeam’s Kirsten Wild won the stage 3 sprint finish and thereby the overall title at the second Ladies Tour of Qatar.
To raise money for waging a European World Cup campaign and hopeful Olympic berth, six-time national endurance mountain bike champ Pua Sawicki will raffle her Team Mata Carriage C-Force fifth-wheel toy hauler and Ford F-250.
Luxembourg's Franck Schleck said Friday he wanted to continue to race in the same team as his 2009 Tour de France runner-up brother Andy despite doubts over the future of their Saxo Bank team.
Our readers weigh in on doping cases, the risks on the road and the Trek lawsuit.
If the classics are known for the cobbles and the bergs, the Tour of Qatar is known for the wind. The six-day men’s race is dead flat, yet the field can often be shattered by ferocious desert crosswinds. The preceding three-day Ladies Tour of Qatar has already had a taste of the sideways forces, with stage 2 shortened for conditions Thursday.
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A recently broken leg won't keep Versus commentator Bob Roll from the Tour de France this summer, and likely won't prevent him from helping the cable network cover Paris-Nice, which starts March 7.
On Feb. 21 Trips for Kids will host its 12th annual "Brews, Bikes and Bucks" raffle event in Marin County, California.
Attorney Jamie DiBoise planned to call some noted Armstrong critics to testify at the trial, which had been scheduled to start less than four weeks from now in a Minnesota federal court.. And in October DiBoise took a three-hour deposition from Armstrong’s ex-wife, asking whether she had ever seen Armstrong use doping products (a question she declined to answer on her lawyer’s advice).