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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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Poll closed! But send in your shots for February.

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 Bessèges.

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

Components Manufacturer Plays Establishing Sponsor Role for National Organization

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).

The Andorran-based Commencal is introducing its new PSR range of complete bikes into the U.S. featuring cross-country models with retail prices from $549 - $1195.

Italy's Giorgia Bronzini improved on her second place in stage 1 by winning the second stage and taking the overall lead of the Ladies Tour of Qatar on Thursday.

Jason Sumner visits the Vermarc clothing factory in Belgium - where Tom Boonen's clothing is made.

Following a breakthrough 2009 season, highlighted by a mountaintop stage victory in the Vuelta a España, it’s no surprise that Ryder Hesjedal is hungry for more.

USA Cycling's COO Sean Petty says that only time will tell whether the race radio ban is a good thing for American racing.

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Award recognizes Boulder Junior Cycling Team for achieving national and international results, placing riders into National Team programs and landing riders onto world championship rosters.

Lithuania’s Raissa Lelivyte won the opening stage of the second annual Ladies Tour of Qatar on Wednesday. The 20-year-old with the Italian Safi-Pasta Zara Manhattan team out sprinted a 30-woman pack at the end of the 104km stage from the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha to Al Khor Corniche.

After an impressive collection of results on 29-inch wheels in 2009, the Subaru-Gary Fisher mountain bike team will go "all 29, all the time" in 2010.

The Ladies Tour of Qatar

Results from the 2010 Ladies Tour of Qatar

Organizers of the Minnesota Bicycle Festival have announced that Nature Valley is increasing its commitment. After sponsoring the Nature Valley Grand Prix pro stage race for ten years, they will expand their involvement to sponsor the overall festival in 2010. The event, which still includes the Nature Valley Grand Prix, has been renamed the Nature Valley Bicycle Festival and will take place June 11-20, 2010.

The 2010 Redlands Bicycle Classic Organizing Committee is proud to announce another year of partnership with PossAbilities and looks forward to a spectacular four day event presented by the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians.

The Skil-Shimano cycling team has agreed to annul Fumiyuki Beppu's contract after the Japanese rider acknowledged that he had violated UCI rules in reaching a verbal agreement to join the Team RadioShack.

Tasmanian Belinda Goss added to an impressive list of victories when she collected her fourth straight points race gold medal at the Australian Track Cycling Championships at Adelaide's Super-Drome on Wednesday.

If approved, the new "mountain biking" Idaho license plate would create a revenue stream for the building, maintenance and expansion of trails.

While we've spent time looking at the deaths and injuries resulting from car/bike encounters, are we overstating the risk?

Tom Boonen is looking for a smoother ride following a 2009 season that spiked and dipped like the Dow Jones

A reader asks Singletrack.com's tech expert Lennard Zinn if there is a way to go from three to two chainrings simply and inexpensively.

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