Pro Bike

A look at Omega Pharma's Canyon bikes

Nick Legan feasts his eyes (and lens) at the stage-2 team time trial of the 2011 Tour de France.

Philippe Gilbert's spare Canyon Aeroad CF is sexy enough to be anyone's main machine.

A look at Ivan Basso's Cannondale Super Six Evo, and Basso's adjustable-on-the-fly seatpost

U.S. pro time trial bikes used by Zabriskie, Phinney and Mumford in Greenville

Tom Zirbel's Jamis Xenith T2 time trial machine

Igor Anton’s Orbea Orca GDi2

Roman Kreuziger looks set to top his ninth-place finish at last year’s Giro, and he’ll do so riding a Specialized Tarmac SL3.

Nick Legan takes a look at the bikes used in the penultimate stage of the 2011 Amgen Tour of California.

Five hours of bike work for 30 minutes of racing? Must be TT time.

Svein Tuft's prototype time trial bike

For stage 6 of the 2011 Tour of California, Christian Vande Velde chose a 2010 bike.

Jesse Anthony’s Orbea Orca Silver

Bling's Rabobank Giant TCR Advanced SL

Alberto Contador proved he's the man to beat on Sunday's extraordinary moonscape climb up Mount Etna, the largest active volcano in Europe.

HTC-Highroad's Tejay Van Garderen hopes to ride his Specialized Venge to the top step of the podium at the Amgen Tour of California.

Bart de Clercq's stage-7-winning Canyon Ultimate CF SLX

A look at Giro leader Pieter Weening's Team Rabobank Giant

Caley Fretz takes a look at Francisco Ventoso's Pinarello Dogma, with Campy's electric parts

Johan Tschopp's BMC Impec

Caley Fretz got up close and personal with the Specialized Venges of Marco Pinotti and Mark Cavendish on stage 2.

Chris Sutton's Team Sky Pinarello and Johnny Clarke's UHC Boardman

Most of this year's Flanders peloton opted to ride straightforward race bikes, mostly using 25mm tubulars.

The VeloNews crew eyeballs Leopard-Trek's prototype Bontrager wheels before Tour of Flanders.

Fabian Cancellara prefers a bit more rake in his fork and is using a mechanical group instead of Shimano's Di2 Dura-Ace group.

Tech editor Nick Legan checks out Fabian Cancellara's Flanders bike.

Ted King's Cannondale

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Alessandro Petacchi's Wilier

A close look at the new Specialized Venge aero bike Cavendish and others will ride Saturday

Denis Menchov's Team Geox Fuji

El Pistolero’s Shiv

A look at Scott Zwizanski's prototype Boardman time trial bike

A quick look at the bikes used by the new team

The team's future is uncertain, but Pegasus Sports' 2011 race bikes are still interesting. Nick Legan takes a look.

Team Movistar will be rolling with Campagnolo's prototype electric drivetrain in 2011. Lennard Zinn takes a look.

A look at UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis' aero road bikes from time trial legend Chris Boardman.

Tyler Farrar has a new ride for 2011. Nick Legan takes a look.

World champ Thor Hushovd is on a new team, but a mostly familiar bike for 2011. Tech editor Nick Legan takes a look.

A close look at world cyclocross champion Zdenek Stybar's Ridley X-Night

Former world champion Niels Albert runs a Stevens carbon Team DA bike outfitted with a Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 group.

Todd Wells is riding the second prototype of what eventually will be a new carbon fiber Crux

Three years old and still lookin’ good!

VIDEO: Team mechanic Brian Dallas walks us through Jones' distinctive Focus Mares cyclocross bike.

Specialized will supply bikes, forks and helmets to the squad's men's and women's teams.

The French champion won aboard a carbon bike with Shimano Di2 electronic shifting, clinchers, an integrated seatpost and disk brake mounts (but no disks, yet).

A look at Team Sky's Pinarello Graal time trial bikes.

A look at the time trial bikes used by Contador, Evans and Basso.

A look at Levi Leipheimer's quiver of Trek Madone Series 6 Tour bikes

It was five years in development, but Cofidis' Look 695 was worth the wait.

A look at Carlos Sastre's new Cervélo R5.

Lennard Zinn takes a look at the 2011 Orbea Orca, as used by Samuel Sanchez at the Tour

As they rip around the roads of France this month, you could be forgiven for assuming that the Trek 6-Series Madones under RadioShack riders are the same as they’ve been riding since the start of the season.

HTC-Columbia is testing a new bike said to be as stiff and light as previous models, but more aerodynamic.

A close look at the fastest bikes in the peloton — those of Cavendish, Petacchi and Farrar

A look at Sylvain Chavanel's special Eddy Merckx bikes used for his day in the yellow jersey.

A look at the bike set-ups used for the stage 3 cobbles

Fabian Cancellara's prologue-winning Specialized Shiv

BMC introduces its newest frame at the Tour de France. The impec boasts in-house carbon weaving and highly tunable ride characteristics.

Specialized debuted its new Shiv 3 time trial bike last week at the Giro d'Italia. It got its U.S. debut Saturday at the Tour of California.

Tech gallery: Francesco Chicchi's race-winning Cannondale

A look at Garmin-Transitions' Ryder Hesjedal's Felt DA TT machine for the Amgen Tour of California

A look at the Manx Missile's Scott Addict

David Millar is set to ride a new bike from Felt in the Giro d’Italia prologue on Saturday.

VeloNews European correspondent Andrew Hood snaps some pix of Alexander Vinokourov's flashy new Specialized.

The riders of Team Sky are among a fortunate few whose bike sponsor attacked early in the season to equip them with brand new bikes for Paris-Roubaix

Milram is making the Mares cyclocross platform available to those riders that choose to use it for Roubaix.

Specialized is letting a new Roubaix bike be seen under Saxo Bank star Fabian Cancellara this week in Belgium.

A look at Paris-Roubaix bikes tested at Scheldeprijs this week by HTC-Columbia, Milram, Saxo Bank and Garmin-Transitions.

Before the midday start in Antwerp, we got a (very) quick look at his Felt F1. With only a few minutes to spare, team mechanic Andrea Bisogno set Farrar’s bike apart for a few photographs.

2010 Classics bike galleries

The heavy favorite for Sunday’s Tour of Flanders did everything right and his Eddy Merckx EMX-5 bicycle, free of mechanical problems, followed suit.

Fabian Cancellara was obviously the strongest man in the Tour of Flanders, and his Specialized Tarmac SL3 was equally up to the task, despite one small technical difficulty.

A couple of days before the Tour of Flanders, a few ProTour teams pulled into Kortrijk, Belgium to set up camp and begin preparing for the race.