Saturday's Tour of Algarve Stage 4 departs Vilamoura at 11:50am local (12:50pm CET, 6:50am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Tavira at around 4:26pm local (5:26pm CET, 11:26am U.S. Eastern).  Tour of Algarve live video streaming is expected to begin at around 3:00pm local (4:00pm CET, 10:00am U.S. Eastern) via RTP Portugal, with Eurosport coverage, if there is any, starting about 30 minutes later.

Live streaming video: 7:00pm local (8:00pm CET, 2:00pm U.S. Eastern).

Stage and lead for Australian as he escapes on the final climb after ground work put in by dominant Team Sky.

Long distance move by Vandenbergh impresses but doesn’t deliver victory.

Right now we’re all watching the early-season races and wondering what they can tell us about the big hitters to come—Milan-San Remo to start, which is exactly one month from today.

Australian riding well with new team.

"I’m looking for a interesting way to open this entry but it just isn’t flowing tonight. My brain this evening is a beloved chihuahua squashed in the driveway under the Dodge. An exploded gnat streaked up on a windscreen. A struggling bluebottle flickering in and out of life glued to a strip of paper dangling from some gas station ceiling in the desert."

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2011-2012 Cyclocross season action continues Saturday with Cauberg Cyclo-cross. The first Cauberg live stream is expected to start about 5-10 minutes before the Elite Men race begins. Elite Men: 3:15pm CET (9:15am U.S. Eastern).

The 2012 Tour du Haut Var is February 18-19.  Once again there will be live streaming video.

"I'm not sure what you're going to write about. I don't really have anything interesting to say or any stories to tell". This is how my four hour ride with Jeremy Hunt began just a short while ago while he was back in Melbourne for the off-season."

Belgian wins his second race of the season for his new team.

"Justin Loretz shows you how to identify and remove noises and creaks in your bike, a problem that nearly all of us will have encountered."

"The season really is wrapping up and though we’ve been on a slow down on the Rumors and Rumblings front, things are still coming down the pipeline."

"You might recognize at least one or two faces in this picture, more if you’re really good. That’s Eric Heiden, the guy sporting massive thighs and winner of five gold medals in speed skating in the 1980 Winter Olympic games in Lake Placid, NY, holding the bike at left. On the right in the suit is cofounder and manager of the team, Jim Ochowicz." Purchase the book "Team 7-Eleven" Here

Nine days after sustaining fracture...

Filippo Pozzato (Farnese Vini-Selle Italia) is determined to ride tomorrow's Trofeo Laigueglia in Italy, less than two weeks after sustaining a broken collarbone in a crash at the Tour of Qatar.

"Oh hell, I can’t keep a secret. I love this book. I absolutely love this book."

Anna Meares and Kaarle McCulloch of Australia set a new world record in the women's team sprint with a time of 32.828, in qualifying on Friday. It marked the first world record set at the new Olympic Velodrome in London.

Britain’s gold-medal hunt really begins this February weekend, when three-time Beijing Olympic champ Sir Chris Hoy, 35, opens his bid to be his country’s single selection for the match sprint. His competition? Fellow Brit Jason Kenny, 23, who just happens to be the current world champion.

American to begin season next Friday.

BikeRadar verdict: 3.5 out of 5 stars. "We love the extra support and light weight, but it's firm and pricey."

"One of the most boring things I can possibly conceive of is training inside looking at a wall. Marginally more mind numbing is watching other people train inside. The idea of riding and reviewing a turbo-training DVD didn’t hugely appeal to me, that’s why I split my time between SoCal and Spain."

Recently successful team bikes for the likes of us, new lights and bike polishing on the agenda this week...

This bamboo and carbon fiber fat bike was built by Drew Diller as a hobby project inspired by the folks at Boo and Bamboo Bike Studio.

"A friend posted on Twitter the other day, “Why do I have such a hard time caring about the early-season desert races?” and I replied, “Because those are training rides the UCI has sold ads for.” Which is pretty cynical, though essentially true."

VeloNews Analysis: Breeding one kind at the expense of another.

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Become Films was created by filmmaker-journalist Michael de Yoanna in 2011 to shoot footage for “Recovering,” a documentary about injured veterans returning home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

VeloNation: 100 year old sets first-ever hour record mark for his age group.

Robert Marchand writes his name in history in Aigle.

“I think the biggest thing is listening to the body more. Everyone can say that, everyone says that, ’sick is sick eh’, like the Belgians say that. And you can have people say ‘oh you need to rest more’ but athletes don’t learn that through listening to people, they learn it through being in a deep hole and finding their way out."  -  Amy Dombroski PodiumInsight

Pon Holdings, today, announced that they have acquired Cervélo Cycles after successfully concluding negotiations that began last December.

The GP Plouay sits on the World Tour calendar of top races. Held every year in August in the town of Plouay in the Brittany region of France, last year’s edition was won by Grega Bole. It is the sort of race the needs an introduction like this because many are not aware of it or its details. The other one day race in France on the World Tour is Paris-Roubaix and that needs no explanation.

"Pretty much every possible tabloid pun on Ben Swift’s surname has already been done to death, so we’ll waste no time in getting to the meat of the story. The twenty-four year old has had an almost perfect career progression to date. Starring as an amateur with a string of results in Italy, Ben Swift moved on to Barloworld and then rode the Giro with Katusha, before joining the Team Sky juggernaut in 2010. He took a fistful of big wins in 2011, but what about 2012?"

So just exactly do we quantify all the harassment of cyclists in 2011 in their “Operation Safecycle?”

"It's up there with Tim Krabbé's The Rider and Paul Fournel's Need For The Bike."

BikeRadar verdict: 3 out of 5 stars. "Great frameset for the price, but some component upgrades are required to get the most out of it."

Understated but extremely competent mid-sized saddlebag that's perfect for the British winter, although the bracket is mediocre.

"Some of us have done it and there’s a good chance you may have done too: driven into the garage forgetting that your roof rack is full of bikes. With spring around the corner – apparently the busiest time of year for bike rack accidents – we’ve decided to take a look at three products designed to warn drivers before disaster strikes."

Without a victory since he sealed the Vuelta a España in September 2010, Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas-Cannondale) is aware that he has an early opportunity to get back in the winning habit on stage five of the Tour of Oman on the slopes of Jabal Al Akhdhar.