Transfers

French national champion Sylvain Chavanel’s has extended his contract with Quick Step for two more seasons, the team announced Tuesday.

It's not taking long for riders and teams to make moves with new transfer limit bumped back to August 1.

Cadel Evans will return to BMC Racing alongside George Hincapie in 2012, the team announced Monday. Fresh off his Tour de France title, Evans extended his contract with the American squad through 2014, while Hincapie signed a one-year extension.

The Australian is reporting that veteran Australian Stuart O'Grady, now with the Leopard-Trek team, will join the new Australian GreenEdge squad for the 2012 season. The paper also is reporting that sprinter Robbie McEwen, currently with RadioShack, is set to join the team as well.

Cuesta, who will turn 42 in June, landed a deal over the weekend with the Spanish pro continental team Caja Rural that will keep him the peloton through the 2011 season.

The Luxembourg team announces it has hired three more young riders: two from Denmark and one from the Netherlands.

The "team without a name" continues to make headlines in the off-seaon by filtering its signings in dribs and drabs, but who can blame them when there's not a lot going on.

As expected, Australian Stuart O’Grady will join several of his former Saxo Bank teammates on the new Luxembourg pro team headed up by Frank and Andy Schleck.

As reported last month, the Australian will join the British squad for the 2011 season.

The yet-unnamed Luxembourg cycling team continues to add more firepower, announcing Friday the arrival of Danish rider Jakob Fulgsang and the German duo of Linus Gerdemann and Fabian Wegmann.

Team Sky snags classics hope Davide Appollonio and classics veteran Jeremy Hunt from Cervelo TestTeam

Shelley Evans, Amber Rais Pierce and Sinead Miller will join Mara Abbott on the team next year

Italian sprinter Daniele Bennati has signed a two-year deal with the Luxembourg Pro Cycling Project, the as-of-yet-unnamed team built around brothers Andy and Frank Schleck.

Lombardia will be Chechu Rubiera's last major race. In retiring, he says the state of Spanish cycling is 'sad and worrying' but he supports Contador.

The Shack hires a young Portugese time trial specialist and an Irish all rounder.

Germany's only ProTour team is stopping operations after it was unable to find a new sponsor

The U.S. criterium champ will bolster the sprint squad at Kelly Benefit Strategies

The Trek-Livestrong rider is one of three new riders for Team Sky announced Tuesday

The young Italian will join some of his current Cervelo TestTeam mates on the new team

Steven Cozza will switch from Garmin-Transitions to the NetApp team for 2011.

Reigning U.S. national champion and 2010 Giro Donne winner Mara Abbott has signed a deal to ride for Italy's Safi-Pasta Zara-Manhattan team.

Contract stability heading into 2012 Olympics was paramount for American phenom.

Just days off winning a stage and finishing second overall in the Vuelta a España, Ezequiel Mosquera wants to broaden his reach throughout Europe.

Four-time world track champ Alex Rasmussen wants to develop as a sprinter.

A Luxembourg newspaper is reporting that Olympic time trial champion Fabian Cancellara will follow the Schleck brothers to a new team backed by still unnamed sponsors.

The former U23 world champ is heading to HTC for 2011

Gerald Ciolek is hoping to regain his winning kick with a move to Quick Step

Geox adds four more new riders as the transfer season continues

A day after a stage win, Carlos Barredo inks a two-year deal with Rabobank

Svein Tuft will leave Garmin for 2011 and join the new, still-unnamed Australian team

Ignatas Konovalovas and Marcel Wyss are the latest riders from Cervélo TestTeam to secure contracts for next season

The new team confirms seven riders who will come from the Footon-Servetto squad and three new signings, including Cervelo TestTeam's Marcel Wyss.

The 2009 Paris-Nice winner signs a two-year deal with the Dutch team.

Jonathan Vaughters says the Norwegian strong man will complement the team's current top sprinter, Tyler Farrar.

Beñat Intxausti, the highly touted Basque rider, has penned a three-year deal to join Team Movistar, the team currently known as Caisse d'Epargne

The Cervelo TestTeam exodus begins as Xavier Tondo signs with the Spanish squad now known as Caisse d'Epargne. Thor Hushovd says he's talking to several teams.

Cervélo TestTeam will not ride into the 2011 season, but team officials confirmed that Cervélo will become the new bike sponsor for Garmin-Transitions. The women’s team will continue next season

The Dutch champ will move from Milram to Quick Step for 2011

Lampre and the Ukranian-backed ISD have reached an accord to join forces going into next season that should give the united budgets a stronger presence in the international peloton.

After weeks of speculation that Rabobank's Denis Menchov was poised to join the Russian-sponsored Katusha team, the two-time winner of the Vuelta a España has signed with Spain's team Geox.

Italy's Liquigas team has signed deals with 14 riders, including breakout star Peter Sagan, to solidify its base going into the future.

Denis Menchov will headline Rabobank's team at the Vuelta a Espana, but it will likely be his last grand tour in Rabo colors

Riccardo Riccò, who just days ago said he was going to join Quick Step, has penned a deal with Dutch team Vacansoleil.

Cycling’s version of musical chairs is hitting a new fever pitch this week as yet another big name is set to change teams.

Germany's Olympic points silver medalist Roger Kluge is switching to Dutch outfit Skil-Shimano after a season with Milram, he said Monday.

The 2008 Tour de France champ still plans to ride the Vuelta for Cervélo.

Riccardo Riccò, the controversial Italian who tested positive for CERA-EPO during the 2008 Tour de France, has penned a deal to join Quick Step.

Dani Moreno has penned a deal to join the Russian-backed Katusha team for two seasons.

Riis fills out his new team by signing some of Contador's key support men

One of cycling’s longest running teams will have wings in the future thanks to the backing of one of Spain’s biggest companies.

Italian shoemaker Geox confirming its commitment to back the Footon-Servetto team in 2011 and French sponsor Bouygues Telecom continuing its backing for at least one more season.

Just as Euskaltel-Euskadi was fortifying its lineup for 2011, the team announced that it will be losing one of its promising young riders.

Igor Antón, Romain Sicard and Egoi Martínez have signed deals that will keep them in those distinctive orange jerseys.

Mark Renshaw re-ups with HTC-Columbia, while Matti Breschel leaves Saxo Bank to join Rabobank

André Greipel has confirmed that he will join Omega-Lotto for the 2011 season.

Fresh off winning the Vuelta a Burgos, Samuel Sánchez has penned a two-year extension that will keep him in an Euskaltel-Euskadi jersey through 2012.

Luís León Sánchez says he’ll wait to see if Caisse d’Epargne can find a new sponsor before abandoning ship.

Former world time trial champion Bert Grabsch will ride for two more years with HTC-Columbia, the team announced Friday.

Alberto Contador said he’s raising the bar with his move to Saxo Bank-Sungard in 2011, with the likely participation in two grand tours next season.

Bernhard Eisel will stay with High Road Sports (HTC-Columbia) through 2012

Now that the Schleck brothers and Alberto Contador have announced their plans for 2011, it's worth asking where key support riders will land.

Saxo Bank-Sungard boosts its GC strength for 2011 as Alberto Contador signs two-year deal after Schleck brothers leave to ride for new Luxembourg-based team.

Michele Scarponi's arrival at Lampre may see Damiano Cunego leave for Footon-Servetto.

Three-time Tour champ Alberto Contador may be the icing on Bjarne Riis' sponsorship cake.

A list of confirmed ProTour transfers, contract extensions and retirements from the 2010-2011 transfer season.

Brothers Andy and Frank Schleck have confirmed that they will be leaving Saxo Bank to join a new team based in Luxembourg.

The Battenkill winner will step up from the Holowesko Partners development team to the big show.

Less well-known than some of his contemporaries, 22-year-old Cole House will get his chance to shine, as a stagiaire for the BMC team.

Contract talks between Alberto Contador and the Astana team appear to have stalled Wednesday

Kelly Benefit Strategies announces Jacob Erker as performance manager and Bob Gregorio as team mechanic for the 2010 racing season. The two additions bring experience and knowledge to the team's well-rounded roster.