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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.

Just a few days in advance of the Tour of Flanders, BMC Racing Team chief mechanic Ian Sherburne assembled a new race bike for team captain George Hincapie. Friday marked Hincapie’s first look at the new rig, the bike he hopes will take him across the Flanders finish line first.

Two-time world pursuit champion Taylor Phinney is Trek-Livestrong’s marquee rider.

Visiting the Bissell team camp in Santa Rosa, California, we had a chance to take a look at the team's new fleet of race bikes.

A look at Team Jelly Belly's new Focus team bikes

Fabian Cancellara added another victory to his palmarès Friday with the overall win at the inaugural Tour of Oman. He did so on his Specialized Tarmac SL3.

VeloNews' Robbie Stout takes a look at Kelly Benefit Strategies' 2010 team gear, from its new bikes to its new washing machine.

Reigning Olympic champion, Samuel Sanchez, showed up at this week's Volta ao Algarve with a special edition Orbea Orca.

Standing 6-foot-5, Wouter Mol is no small man. And he may be standing even taller after winning the 9th annual Tour of Qatar. Here we take a look at Mol's Batavus.

Eddy Merckx bicycles returned to the top echelon of cycling again with the sponsorship of the Belgian ProTour team of Belgian national champion Tom Boonen.

A look at Martijn Maaskant's Felt F1 at the Tour of Qatar.

Ben Delaney takes a look at Edvald Boasson Hagen's Pinarello Dogma 60.1 bike.

German sprinter Gerald Ciolek and his Milram squad are riding Focus bikes this season.

Reporting to us from southern California, Neal Rogers managed to snap a few photos of the sparkling BMC bikes of the eponymous ProTour team.

A look at George Hincapie's new BMC racemaster SLX01, set up for winter training in South Carolina.

Team RadioShack’s riders spent part of their Tucson training camp getting familiar with each other and with their new 2010 Trek Madone 6-Series bikes.

A gallery of the new RadioShack team bikes

A look at the official Team RadioShack Treks for 2010

Part way through the ’cross season, Amy Dombroski is switching to Primus Mootry and a new set of sponsors.

In the cutthroat pro peloton, Garmin-Slipstream rider Bradley Wiggins is the exception — a non-stop joker with outside interests in music, fashion, Mod-era scooters and when he’s not preparing for a race, a pint or two of beer. Take, for example, this exchange between the British rider and a TV reporter prior to the start of Thursday’s fourth stage of the Jayco Herald Sun Tour. (Background info: British Sky Broadcasting, the sponsor of the new-for-2010 British cycling team Sky, is the United Kingdom’s largest pay-TV provider.)

Kristin Armstrong won her second world time trial title on Wednesday. Casey Gibson took a closer look at the bike she used to get another rainbow jersey.