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San Dimas, California – Showing that his preparation is right on track Ben Day rode the Glendora Mountain Road time trial with precision to take the win and fire the first bullet towards the overall general classification. The Glendora Mountain Road could not be described as flat and for the most part is a climb [...]

This is a list of the Team rosters for the 2010 Milan-SanRemo race.
HTC-Columbia: 1. Cavendish (GBR), 2. Albasini (SUI), 3. Eisel (AUT), 4. Goss (AUS), 5. Monfort (BEL), 6. Rogers (AUS), 7. Bak (DEN), 8. P. Velits (SVK)
Acqua e Sapone 11. Garzelli (ITA), 12. Paolini (ITA), 18. Miholjevic (CRO), [...]

The Sky Ride Etape Hibernia to attract thousands of cyclists to County Clare
Ireland is set to become home to an annual international cycling event organized by the world’s largest sports, entertainment and media company.
IMG today, in partnership with Sky, Fáilte Ireland, Shannon Development, the Shannon Region Conference and Sports Bureau, Clare County Council, announced details [...]

Saturday unfolded a balmy sixty degrees, shockingly sunny, and with just the mildest of breeze from some direction or another.  That’s what left a few of us worryingly overdressed for what was arguably the first road race of the new decade in Texas.
Aside from the technical glitch that 2010 might be more like the last [...]

It’s early in the year, but Texas weather is already so much hotter than, say, April in Chicago, or June in Minnesota (when winter officially ends there, by the way).  So shop rides are back in swing and I’m already getting thrashed or shelled — pick whichever verb you prefer.  Or schelacked.  Or pooped out [...]

Johan Bruynel giving one of his famous motivational speeches.
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Written by: VeloGuy
Okay we know, training indoors on the trainer sucks. 1 hour on the trainer feels like 4 hours on the rode. And no matter how hard you try to take your mind out of the non moving space you find yourself in, it just seems to get worse. Yes, you are stuck [...]

Written by: Spencer Canon
My first bike was a black Centurion Ironman with Shimano 105 and “Biopace” chainrings. I guess Shimano was so certain their egg-shaped chainrings would be successful that they went ahead and made them standard issue that year. It was a brave attempt that went the way of other bad ideas like Softride. [...]

It’s a shame how utter excitement is typically the best springboard for total humiliation. I really wanted that kid to hold them off for 7K and announce himself as the next Fabian Cancellara. But I guess next time you’re 200 meters from the finish line and a pack of the best sprinters in the world [...]

This video is of Gran Fondo San Diego co founder Rob Klingensmith. It was taken at the San Diego Colnago Gran Fondo. It was a very rainy, cold, and windy day. Truly epic.

May 9th, 2009
Written by: Josh Horowitz
“I would if I could’ is finished for you now. I would if I could has an ending for you now. From now on, ‘I would if I could’ is over for you and done and finished. You cut it loose you let it go completely and permanently. Your new [...]

Written by: Nate Loyal
When looking at new equipment for your bike do the gears ever come to mind? We have so many options out there from 11/23 to 12/27 cassettes or standard and compact cranksets. What do you go with? Not all of us live in flat land areas and [...]

By GINA KOLATA @ NY TIMES
Published: October 13, 2009
MY husband and I were riding our bikes not long ago, and when we were about a mile from home, we did our usual thing. We call it the sprint to the finish: ride as hard and as fast as we can until we reach our driveway, [...]

Go to any bike store today and it near impossible not to notice that there are more and more nutritional products taking up their shelf space. Whether in the form of pills, powders, or liquids they all claim some quick benefit to the aspiring amateur athlete. Trying to sort through [...]

Go to any bike store today and it near impossible not to notice that there are more and more nutritional products taking up their shelf space. Whether in the form of pills, powders, or liquids they all claim some quick benefit to the aspiring amateur athlete. Trying to sort through [...]

By Neil Leventhal
They said it couldn’t be done, but it looks like Camelbak may have accomplished what has long been considered impossible, “building a better mouse trap”. I have to admit that when I first received the Camelbak Podium bottle for review I was skeptical, but after the first ride I was hooked. [...]