From the pages of Velo

On the 10th anniversary of the Italian's overdose, we look back at our 2004 cover story on the rocky journey from Tour de France champion to drug-addled death

There is no one like him in cycling; Taylor Phinney is a world-class bike racer, but is embarrassed if he misidentifies a man's fragrance

World cyclocross champ Zdenek Stybar struggles with fame, injury and the prospect of becoming a classics rider

Before he was a grand tour contender, Sky’s Chris Froome was a teenager in Kenya, riding under the tutelage of David Kinjah

Marcel Kittel has emerged as a sprinter to be reckoned with

After fading away from cycling with an eating disorder, Mara Abbott gets back to racing her bike

The listless ship that is professional cycling demands new leadership and we lay out the case for new energy

The ideas are decades old, but the time has finally come for electronic shifting, the 27.5-inch wheel size, and dropper posts

In an excerpt from our 2013 Personalities Issue, Richard Moore profiles Sir Chris Hoy, who announced his retirement on Thursday

A group of less than 15 volunteers have turned Paris-Roubaix from a regional black eye into a cultural icon for the French

Sometimes a rider dreams of a flashy, carbon race machine. Sometimes a rider dreams of something else entirely

An American world cyclocross championships might just be USA Cycling’s best-ever chance to grab international glory

We handicap the favorites for UCI Elite Cyclocross World Championships

Logan Owen is an eight-time U.S. ’cross champion and is barreling toward the podium in Louisville

How the largest city in Kentucky became the first American host of the elite world cyclocross championships

In our editor-voted top story of 2012, James Jung recounts his experience dealing with the death of a fellow local racer in Connecticut

Winning four classics in three weeks was more than victory for Tom Boonen — it was vindication

From the back of a press motorcycle, Chris Case sees the chaos and beauty of the Tour, and the flotilla that follows it

Columnist Dan Wuori asks for amnesty for vilifying dopers while pretending to understand the circumstances of their choices

The dominant Dutchwoman nearly swept our women's awards, an indicator of her merits as the world's top rider in 2012

Specialized' Prototype clinchers are our Tech Blunder of the Year; the Trek Domane is our Cursed Product Launch of the Year

Briton won every major objective on his 2012 calendar, including Tour yellow and Olympic gold

Peter Sagan is our Most Exciting Racer of the Year, while Moreno Moser is our International Rookie of the Year

Evelyn Stevens is Velo's North American Woman and International Women's Climber of the Year

Kristin Armstrong is our International Women's Time Trialist of the Year

The Specialized Roubaix is our Blessed Product Launch of the Year; SRAM XX1 is our Tech Innovation of the Year

Sky, Specialized-lululemon are our Best International Men's and Women's Teams; Edvald Boasson Hagen is our Best Support Rider

Tom Boonen is our International Classics Rider of the Year

Joaquim Rodríguez is our International Men's Climber of the Year

Giro d'Italia winner Ryder Hesjedal is our North American Man of the Year for 2012

Mark Cavendish is International Men's Sprinter of the Year, John Degenkolb is our International Breakthrough Rider of the Year

Matthew Beaudin reviews Velo's 2012 Story of the Year: USADA's takedown of Lance Armstrong

The Schleck Brothers are our Disappointment of the Year, while Shelley Olds had the Mechanical (Failure) of the Year

Stage 17 of the Vuelta is our Most Dramatic Day of Racing, while Alexander Vinokourov made our Comeback of the Year

Joe Dombrowski is our International U23 Rider of the Year, while Allan Peiper is our Best Team Director

Timmy Duggan's national championship win is our Ride of the Year, while Erica Allar is our Women's Crit Racer of the Year

Francisco Mancebo and Carmen Small are our Men's and Women's Stage Racers of the Year, Ken Hanson is Men's Crit Racer of the Year

The USA Pro Challenge is our Best Race of the year; Rory Sutherland's win atop Flagstaff Mountain is our Most Dramatic Day of Racing

Optum-Kelly Benefit Strategies is our Best Men's — and Women's — Domestic Team, while Jade Wilcoxson is our Breakthrough Rider of the Year

Georgia Gould is our North American MTB Woman of the Year

Aaron Gwin is our North American MTB Man of the Year

Nino Schurter and Julie Bresset are our International MTB man and woman of the Year

Jeremy Powers and Sven Nys are our North American and International CX Men of the Year

Katie Compton is our North American Cyclocross Woman of the Year

Traumatic brain injuries vary greatly in the nature of injury and recovery between individuals. However early treatment is always essential

After her crash and spinal cord injury, Tara Llanes ultimately had to give up on her previous life to embrace and build a new one

Despite his string of bad crashes and major recovery time, Craig Lewis says walking away from cycling would be a harder way to live

In our June 2012 issue, the Velo tech team headed to the lab to test 14 seatposts, with surprising results

Timmy Duggan faced down the odds and rode his way back from a horrifying 2008 crash to become the 2012 U.S. professional road champion

The stories of Tara Llanes, Timmy Duggan, Craig Lewis, Scott Nydam and Saul Raisin give new meaning to the term 'success'

The stories of Tara Llanes, Timmy Duggan, Craig Lewis, Scott Nydam and Saul Raisin give new meaning to the term 'success'

Marianne Vos and Bradley Wiggins both had superb 2012 seasons, but only one could take home our top award for 2012

The American giants face off in the wind tunnel and on the road

Matthew Beaudin hops in the Omega Pharma-Quick Step car at the Tour of Utah for a look inside a day with sport director Brian Holm

Practice riding lightly on your 'cross bike, developing a routine, and mastering the start to become faster and smoother

Brian Worth is everywhere in the cycling world that is worth being

The Velo tech crew reviews three cyclocross bikes ranging from entry-level to cutting-edge

If you can't break bank every season on a new ’cross bike, you can still make smart upgrades with these accessories

Boulder Center for Sports Medicine founder Andy Pruitt went from spurned university trainer to ground-breaking bike fitter

We put five deep-section carbon wheels to the test in the wind tunnel and out on the road

In the 2012 Buyer's Guide, Caley Fretz muses on the constant pursuit of engineering perfection

In the November 2012 issue of Velo, Mark Johnson makes the case for a truth and reconciliation commission to allow cycling to move forward

We remember Fiorenzo Magni (1920-2012), the Lion of Flanders and a renowned hardman

We put four 2012 aero road bikes to the test in the lab and on the pavement

The story of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, as told in the September 8, 2008 issue of VeloNews

In this archive from September 2011, we put four bikes of the ProTeams to the test in the lab and on the road

Four endurance bikes put to the test in the laboratory and on the cobbles of Belgium and France

In the debut of VeloLab, our tech team put four aero road bikes to the test. Get the results from the lab and the road

In our July 21, 2008 cover story, we look at George Hincapie, America’s most accomplished active racer and the international peloton’s nice guy

The cover story form the June 28, 1993 issue of VeloNews details Lance Armstrong's million-dollar attack on the Manayunk Wall

In an excerpt from the July 12, 1985 issue of Velo-News, Cheryl Lindstrom recounts the first CoreStates Professional Championship in Philadelphia

We visit the Velo archives for this interview with Andy Hampsten from the morning after his unbelievable ride over the Gavia in the 1988 Giro d'Italia

With the Exergy Tour kicking off in Boise, we go to the archives to revive the story of the last HP Women's Challenge, in 2003