The Cat pounces in the Ruta once again as the break is caught late; Valverde holds his overall lead.

Uruguayan takes over race lead from Olheiser.

Alejandro Valverde has notched two stage races and two big wins in his comeback from his two-year ban.

Euskaltel-Euskadi management admit that they will likely be forced to sign non-Basque riders who pack a lot of UCI points if they hope to remain among the elite ranks of the international peloton.

CyclingNews: Races & Results.
Women's Tour of New Zealand (Stages & results),
Vuelta a Andalucia (Stages & results),
Rutas de América (Stages & results),
Le Tour de Langkawi (Stages),
Volta ao Algarve (Stages & results),
Tour du Haut Var (Stages & results),
Amgen Tour of California (Stages ),
More...

In which we clear up a few of the misunderstood elements of your cycling shorts.

A top half finish at Haut Var last weekend served notice that he is on his way back, but Saur-Sojasun's Brice Feillu will not be ready to tackle Paris-Nice at the start of next month according to his team.

Competitive Cyclist's first-year pro Mike Olheiser got his rookie season underway with an impressive solo win Tuesday at the first stage of the Rutas de Americas, a UCI 2.2 race in Uruguay.

Francisco “Paco” Mancebo is quietly preparing for second successful season with the US-based Competitive Cyclist team, formerly named Realcyclist.com, with a focus toward bettering his 2011 NRC results.

"If America has a bike it is the Trek Madone. The only race most American’s care about has been dominated by this bike since 1999."

Pinarello FP Uno BikeRadar verdict: 3.5 out of 5 stars. "Heavyweight compared with the competition, but well priced and fine handling."

Treat yourself—and your bike—to some cowhide, and watch your investment get better with time.

Pearl Izumi Select Attack bib shorts BikeRadar verdict: 4 out of 5 stars. "Stretchy, lightweight, well tailored fit at a reasonable price." Purchase the Pearl Izumi Attack 3Qtr Bib Tight (Large, Black/Black) Here

While others have kicked off their season campaigns in Australia, the Middle East or Europe, two noted Tour de France riders have chosen somewhere decidedly different. One of those names is Tom Danielson, who 10 editions ago, came to his first Tour de Langkawi and took the cycling world by storm.

Olympic champion beats US champion and World champion to stake an early claim to a place at London 2012.

With the last of the UCI-sanctioned cyclo-cross races taking place this past weekend, the UCI announced today the final cyclo-cross rankings of the 2011-2012 season. Kevin Pauwels (Sunweb-Revor) topped the elite men's rankings for the first time in his career while Daphny van den Brand (AA Drink – Leontien.nl Cycling Team) concluded her career as the highest-ranked rider in the women's standings.

Team also competing in the Sud-Ardèche, where Iljo Keisse will start his road season.

“If you were Belgian, you would have already been in the Pro Tour for three years…” That was the harsh verdict the Lotto team laid down on New Zealand’s Clinton Avery, explaining why, despite his five years of European results, and a very successful stagiaire period with Radio Shack, he could not get a pro contract. The new Champion System Pro Cycling Team, which snatched him up for 2012, might have very well saved one of the great talents in the sport.

Farnese Vini-Selle Italia Classics captain planning to complete both races; aiming for full fitness by Tirreno-Adriatico.

American rider to take a more ambitious approach in 2012 season.

Sevilla tested positive for hydroxyethyl starch during the Vuelta a Colombia in August 2010 but was not formally sanctioned by the Spanish Cycling Federation (RFEC) until September of last year. When the RFEC then decided to hand Sevilla a six-month suspension, the UCI announced its intention to appeal the matter to CAS.

Paying tribute to the young bucks and lions of old...

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

Bikes Belong, the League of American Bicyclists, and Alliance for Biking & Walking, hope to become one organization.

“The classics? We clearly hope Andy will be there as best he can, but the only true objective of his season is the Tour. And that will be the case for his older brother too, even if I’ve read that certain people already see Fränk as leader at the Giro."

"A cyclist who was a hero in America and Europe. A guy who headed up a cycling dynasty. Deals and doping and death. Steel frames. Woolen jereys. Petrol engines. Speed. Passion. Excitement. What's the attraction in Bobby Walthour's story?"

The Daily Distraction.

The Mounty: A Smartphone Mount For Just About Anything.

Taylor Phinney will finally make his long-awaited debut in the classics this weekend in Belgium, having been sidelined in 2011 due to the spring season due to a knee injury and then concussion from a training incident.

"The coverage of cycling from France Télévisions and in 2012 there will be 120 hours of race coverage. Hopefully this time without staff ramming riders off the road."

"Imagine this for a moment. You're driving home from a long interstate business trip, it's 1:30am and you can barely keep your eyes open. You have 3hrs left to travel so you decide to pull into a motel for the night. The following morning you make your way home and are notified that drug testers were waiting at the front door of you home and you forgot to notify them. The next day there are front page headlines in the paper stating "JOE SMITH MISSES DRUG TEST"."

License Commission will weight up whether squad should lose ProTeam licence.

Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme has said that there were no winners in the Alberto Contador clenbuterol case, which saw the Spaniard stripped of his 2010 Tour de France title and suspended for two years after the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld a joint appeal from WADA and the UCI on the matter earlier this month.

There is a lot of talk in cycling circles about a breakaway league and a new head of the UCI.  It is this writer’s opinion that the answer to professional cycling’s current troubles is bored American billionaire, Mark Cuban.

The 24-year-old Norwegian, who races for Team Sky, has shown he is on good early season form after winning stage 2 of the Tour of Algarve last week.

"For our last official race at GVA Trofee’s Sluitingsprijs in Oostmalle,  I showed up with relatively fresh legs but fought hard to keep the motivation high for this final push."

"Northampton, Massachusetts is a quintessential New England town of 28,000 and the home to Smith College. The riding there, I assert to this day, is truly world-class. You can do five-hour flat rides. You can do a never ending day of short, punchy hills for your own stateside edition of Liege-Bastogne-Liege. You can do long climbs that ascend 2000 feet or more followed, of course, by screaming descents. All the while rolling through lush deciduous forest with only the odd car to pass."

The Gear Movement / Epic Pro cycling team won the 13th annual 24 hours in the Old Pueblo this past weekend in Arizona. The team overcame world-class competition from the Kona factory racing team to set a record breaking 23 laps in the four-man open category.

Helmets, handlebars, shoe covers, tubes, bike bags, gloves and jerseys...