Danish rider hoping to develop rhythm with Garmin-Barracuda sprinter.

Local favorite Javier Ramírez (Andalucia) scored the biggest win of his career, winning the first road stage of the Ruta del Sol from Zahara de los Atunes to Benalmádena. The 33-year-old beat breakaway companions Luis Ángel Maté (Cofidis) and William Routley (Spidertech) taking third. Oscar Friere (Katusha) led home the peloton.

Doesn’t rule out charging to see race in the future.

Belgian climber credits Lance Armstrong’s former mechanic as well as a winter of hard work.

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With the Tour de Langkawi boasting one of its strongest line-ups in recent years one might be forgiven in glossing over some of the so-called smaller teams, but the MTN-Qhubeka team posses some of the most exciting talents in the race, and have been dubbed the first ‘truly African team’ by their team manager.

How do I put into words something I cannot quite grasp? Something big. Something encompassing walking on the tallest and the most majestic mountain range on Earth? My work is finally done. Months of preparation will be put to work starting March 3 in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Track cycling could be set for an Olympic boost when a host of world records are expected to fall at London’s new state of the art velodrome.

Union Jack, Lion of Flanders, Alpe d'Huez, pretty pink and more available.

Yep, it's a prototype and nope, you can't have one...at least, not yet. Salsa is toying with the idea of a dual suspension fat bike. Judging from the response the bike received at Frostbike, they should go ahead. Photo: Nick Legan.

"The opening day of the Fisher Expo, the annual trade show hosted by UK distributor Fisher Outdoor Leisure, gave us a first look at an all-new new bike brand - Eastway."

One of cyclo-cross's most important series, the Gazet van Antwerpen Trofee, just ended it's 25th year with the finale in Oostmalle this weekend, and despite the newspaper dropping from title sponsor to secondary backer, the Trofee will continue in the next season with a new title supporter soon to be announced. In addition to a new name, the rules of the series will undergo sweeping changes.

The Absa Cape Epic will once again take 1 200 riders through some of the Western Cape's most unspoilt territory. The race, which takes place from 25 March to 1 April, will kick-off with a prologue at Meerendal Wine Estate in Durbanville and finish eight days and 781km later at the prestigious Lourensford Wine Estate in Somerset West.

Heather Logan-Sprenger talks Pro Cycling, Pro Hockey, PhD and Exergy TWENTY12.

Fränk Schleck continued his 2012 racing season finishing 59th in the prologue at the Tour of Andalucia, on Sunday. The RadioShack-Nissan-Trek rider is using the race to gauge and improve his form ahead of the main objectives in his season.

“I believe that our industry is losing the war against the Chain Reactions, the Wiggles, the Amazons."  -  Steve Flagg BicycleRetailer

Underground time trials aren't as rare as you might think… but few can be as tough as Liverpool's Ten Minutes of Hell.

It’s almost over. The Arabian Odyssey is to come to an end. One of the single most intense experiences of my life is about to be abruptly interrupted by a 3am wake up call and a drive to Muscat airport for a 5.55am flight to Doha. Then onto Sri Lanka for a stopover, on the way to Malaysia for the ten-day Tour de Langkawi. It’s non-stop, this pro cycling thingy...

Steve Cummings, you’ve just had a career change. Brit may be surprised to learn he’s now a super domestique climber.

Euskaltel team manager Miguel Madariaga has admitted that the squad needs a substantial injection of funds in order to keep competing at the top level of the sport. One of the founders of the team back in 1993, Madariaga says that the search for sponsors has been widened beyond their Basque Country base and confirmed that any new sponsorship deal could lead to non-Basque riders joining the team.

After Rocky Mountain’s simple bikes.com, Naked Bikes has perhaps the second best URL in the industry: timetogetnaked.com. Even better than that are the bikes builder Sam Whittingham has brought to the show over the past few years, winning oohs, aaahs and the coveted People’s Choice award in ’08, ’09 and ’11.

"Gabe Konrad was publishing a little “zine” about classic bikes called Aeoleus Butterfly. I sent him a check, and received a delightful photocopied newsletter. On 16 pages, it featured articles reprinted from old magazines, and other articles written by fellow collectors of old bicycles. (The name of the magazine came from a turn-of-the-century bicycle pedal.)"

The Daily Distraction.

"In the winter after my first racing season, I faced a decision: replace my old bike, invest in a set of race wheels, or hire a coach. Each promised to make me go faster, and two appealed to my materialistic side."

By making the new SRAM Red available initially in the aftermarket form, SRAM has dramatically reduced the cost for the early adopter. They only need to buy the components, not an entire new bike. It's further evidence of SRAM's consumer-first strategy, which is why goodwill for the brand has reached lofty heights.

The Olympic road race, Seoul – the year is 1988 and it’s the first big East/West Olympic showdown since the Montreal Games 12 years before. East German Olaf Ludwig restored Eastern honor in Seoul, with West Germans Bernd Grone and Christian Henn taking the other two medals; legendary Soviet sprinter Djamolidine Abdoujaparov took fifth. But in fourth place was an ex-skier who’d only been riding a bike for four years, who says he couldn’t ride GC, couldn’t time trial and in his own words, was ‘built like a wrestler’ – Bob Mionske.

It's been 15 years but Alexander Vinokourov still remembers the first and last time he raced the Tour de Langkawi in 1997, as a member of the Kazakh national team. This week, the leader of the Astana squad is back in Kuala Lumpur to start his final season in the pro-ranks.

Why you'll never find the only bike you'll ever need.

The internals will have bearings to keep twists super smooth. Aiding the smoothness will be an external, separate locking collar that holds it onto the handlebar without putting pressure on the body of the shifter. Both are pretty big upgrades over the original Gripshift twisters and half pipes.

The pedal is an important link between you and your road bike. Of the three contact points – saddle, bar and pedals – the latter is by far the most dynamic. After all, the power that you’re working so hard to generate is all going through the pedals to the crank and ultimately propelling the bike. So getting the right pedal is crucial.

Dan Craven gets to go home to Namibia for rides along the arrow-straight roads through the savannah. And the off season for Namibia’s only pro cyclist is, if anything, more hectic than racing.

Just like good wine, your expensive cyclocross tubulars require a little care and proper storage.  “Ridden hard and put away wet” should never be how you describe your equipment at season end.  Here are a few tips to help you summer-ize your cyclocross tubulars.

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