Posted: Sat, Sep 13th
Tour of Missouri: Cav tops again, Vande Velde holds leadTeam Columbia and Garmin-Chipotle continued to pound one another — and the rest of the field — at the Tour of Missouri, with Mark Cavendish taking stage 6 in a sprint and Christian Vande Velde retaining the jersey after his Garmin teammates patrolled the front on an ...
Posted: Fri, Sep 12th
Boy Van Poppel, 20, outsprints the field in Missouri's capital cityCall it situational amnesia, call it intense athletic focus, call it an innate (perhaps genetic) animal instinct for winning bicycle races.
Just don't expect a lot of details when you ask Rabobank's 20-year-old Boy Van Poppel how he won Friday's fifth stage of the Tour of ...
Posted: Sun, Aug 31st
Hamilton edges Caldwell to claim pro road crownTyler Hamilton (Rock Racing) scored one of the biggest wins of his long career — and the biggest since returning from a two-year doping suspension — on Sunday at the U.S. professional road race championships in Greenville, South Carolina.
The 37-year-old Hamilton ...
Posted: Sat, Aug 30th
Zabriskie repeats as U.S. pro time trial champOn the eve of the USPRO Road Race Championships, Garmin-Chipotle showed it intended to dominate the championship weekend in Greenville, South Carolina, taking four of the top five spots in the time trial, led by David Zabriskie.
Only Bissell’s Tom Zirbel kept Garmin from ...
Posted: Thu, Aug 28th
Cervelo, others, sponsor new pro road teamCanadian bike maker Cervélo will own and sponsor a new European pro road team next season, tentatively titled the Cervélo TestTeam, although the company may announce a title sponsor in the next few weeks.
The company's future with Team CSC-Saxo Bank, which it has supplied ...
Posted: Mon, Aug 18th
Boulder cyclists hope their planned bike park is a model for other communities.Even in one of the most bike-crazy communities in the country, this is something special.
The city council in Boulder, Colorado, has approved spending $700,000 next year to develop a 40-acre bike park that will include a cyclocross course, a mountain bike terrain park and a ...
Posted: Fri, Aug 15th
Toyota-United releases ridersToyota-United team riders are free to seek new teams, and — though the team's owners continue to search for a new title sponsor for 2009 — the team is unlikely to continue next year with anything resembling its current lineup. ...
Posted: Sun, Aug 10th
Wiens and Armstrong shatter Leadville recordDave Wiens pulled away from Lance Armstrong in the final ten miles of Saturday's Leadville Trail 100 in Colorado, winning the race for the sixth time, in record time.
"The guy that I raced today was not the guy who won the Tours," the modest Wiens said at the finish.
Posted: Thu, Aug 7th
Lance Armstrong predicts top-five finish at Leadville 100Lance Armstrong on Wednesday downplayed his chances of winning the Leadville 100 mountain bike race this weekend, saying a top-five or "on a good day, top-three" finish is more likely.
"I'm not in it to win it, as they say," Armstrong told reporters in a conference call from ...
Posted: Tue, Aug 5th
Dave Wiens says he "couldn't be better prepared" for the 2008 Leadville 100At the Leadville 100 last year, when Floyd Landis attacked on an early climb, then-four-time defending Leadville champ Dave Wiens matched the acceleration pedal stroke for pedal stroke.
"For about 8 seconds," Wiens said with a laugh this week. "I realized I could stay with ...
Posted: Mon, Aug 4th
Lance Armstrong is riding a tricked out 23-pound full suspension Trek at next week's Leadville 100.Lance Armstrong is preparing diligently for the Leadville 100 mountain bike race in Colorado, training in nearby Aspen to acclimatize to the altitude.
As of Monday, Armstrong had ridden parts of the 100-mile Leadville course two or three times and was doing daily road and ...
Posted: Thu, Jul 24th
Live Coverage - Stage 18 Tour de France, 200804:29 AM: Tune in Thursday morning at 6:15 a.m. ETfor live coverage of stage 18
