CyclingFans: 2013 GP Le Samyn LIVE February 27, Belgium. Race starts at 11:50am CET(5:50am U.S. Eastern). Finish at around 4:54pm CET(10:54am U.S. Eastern). Live video from *2:50pm CET(*8:50am U.S. Eastern).

CyclingFans: Wednesday's Tour de Langkawi Stage 7 departs Kuantan at 10:00am local (3:00am CET, 9:00pm U.S. Eastern Tuesday) and is expected at the finish at Dungun at around 1:28pm local (6:28am CET, 12:28am U.S. Eastern).  Tour de Langkawi live streaming is being provided (intermittently?) during each stage.

InnerRing: Paris-Nice leaves the French capital for the Mediterranean coast and its sunshine. Along the way there’s a variety of terrain including the high mountains. A mini Tour de France in March. A fine race it its own right, the daily battles also give us a clue to the form of riders ahead of the classics.

Peloton: The 2013 classics season is taking shape with ASO’s announcement of the teams selected for Paris-Roubaix, Flech Wallonne and Liege-Bastogne-Liege.

CyclingNews: Tom Leezer took a solo victory into the town of Kuantan after an aggressive and wet day of racing on the longest stage at Tour de Langkawi.

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Le Tour de Langkawi - Feb 21-Mar 2 (Stages & Results),
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad - Feb 23 (Results),
UCI Track World Championships - Feb 20-24 (Races & Results),
Giro d'Italia - May 4-26 (Stages),
Tour of California - May 12-19 (Stages),
Tour de France - June 29-July 21 (Stages),
Vuelta a España - Aug 24-Sept 15 (Stages),

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CyclingNews: UnitedHealthcare rider left on roadside with destroyed bike.

VeloNews: Mark Cavendish will spearhead Omega Pharma-QuickStep's assault on the Three Days of West Flanders - Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen - from Friday, March 1, to Sunday, March 3.

VeloNews: A lot has changed in Ryder Hesjedal’s life since winning last year’s Giro d’Italia, but one thing he’s not changing is how he got there.

VeloNews: Marcel Kittel heads towards Paris-Nice with greater confidence this year since Argos-Shimano races in the first division. Over the winter, largely thanks to Kittel and John Degenkolb’s results, the team received a ticket to all the UCI WorldTour races.

303Cycling: Timmy Duggan, US PRO National Champion and Saxo-Tinkoff rider, spoke during a fundraiser for the CU Cycling Team.

SBS: The race was won by Red Bull rider Marcelo Gutiérrez ahead of two-time champion Filip Polc.

Cyclismas: It'd the Tour of Langwaki and Chinese unknown Wang Meiyin had just discovered that he was better than all the rest during the undulating stage three to Cameron Highlands.

CyclingNews: Recent history states that the rider who wins the atop Genting Highlands will win the overall at Le Tour de Langakwi and Julián Arredondo is the next rider charged to maintain this tradition.

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CyclingNews: Lance Armstrong's legal team will reportedly claim that not only has there been enough information regarding doping practices within US Postal that the whistleblower suit should have been filed earlier, but that the US Government had or should have had knowledge of the violations.

VeloNews: These are tough times for many in U.S. domestic road racing and Frank Andreu is feeling the pinch.

VeloNews: Pate is a bit of a legend in Colorado Springs, where he makes his off-season home. He shows up at the Saturday group ride and vanishes off the front of a 50-man group, a lucky one or two in his jet wash. Club riders talk about it for hours, often awestruck.

CyclingNews: Teams with the same paying agent or sponsor not allowed to compete in same race.

VeloNation: Son Nicolas wants to ride race; ‘people back at home can have an idea of how big cycling is’.

PodiumCafe: While the Primal-MapMyRIDE p/b BH Bikes women’s cycling team officially disbanded at the end of the 2012 season, the riders are continuing on as a self-supported team this season.

VeloNews: Cadel Evans (BMC Racing) is back racing after one of his longest breaks since he began racing. The Tour of Oman and next week’s Tirreno-Adriatico will, he hopes, act as a stepping stone towards another Tour de France win. If not, there is always Tejay Van Garderen.

PodiumCafe: Astana began as a national project, created as a vehicle for the ambitions of Alexander Vinokourov and Andrey Kashechkin. But over the years, the team has morphed, replacing its homegrown talent with big name foreign riders. 

road.cc: Canadian company develops new carbon layup and tube profiles to create their lightest ever frame.

BikeRadar verdict: 4.5 out of 5 stars. "Light, comfortable, and efficient with an updated last and materials."

BikeMag: Every year, QBP (bicycle and components distributor, Quality Bicycle Products) rolls out the red carpet and invites retailers and industry folks to brave the icy climes of Minneapolis and get the low-down on a wide range of new products.

BikeRadar: Fizik saddles made of alligator, stingray and ostrich have helped raise more than US$1,300/£856 for the World Bicycle Relief charity.

CyclingNews: Blanco sprinter: "I have to stop."

CyclingNews: Miguel Indurain is the latest multiple Tour de France winner to be associated with a doping scandal. Highly respected Italian anti-doping expert Sandro Donati claims to have evidence that Indurain and his Banesto team worked with Dr. Francesco Conconi in the nineties.

CyclingNews: Russian team lifts temporary suspension it placed on Spanish rider after he failed to appear in court lasy week.

InnerRing: There’s a rule where if a rider falls or suffers a mechanical in the last three kilometers of a stage then they do not lose time on the overall classification. It’s worth explaining in its own right as it’s used many times a year and will come up in a race soon.

CyclingNews: $15,000 on the line for next weekend's US Pro XCT opener.

road.cc: Pair were taking part in 55th anniversary show of Findon Skid Kids near Adelaide.

BikeRadar: The miles of trudging through crowded aisles each day, the never-ending din, the bad and expensive food, the stinging of fluorescent lighting, the hordes of people hunting for swag, all the germs... I hate it all.

BikeMag: From raw wire to finished product at Wheelsmith's factory.

BikeRadar verdict: 4 out of 5 stars. "Classy ride from the lightweight chassis, though the average wheels dull overall quality."

BikeRadar verdict: 3.5 out of 5 stars. "Impressively smooth and eager pedaller, but more long-travel XC bike than proper gravity bomber."

BikeRadar verdict: 4.5 out of 5 stars. "Solid construction, easy installation, good price."

BikeRadar: Back in the 1990s there were two companies that raised the bar on titanium bicycle frames and while both Litespeed and Merlin hit rough patches it looks like each has found its way back.

CyclingNews: A rare public appearance with Vaughters and Tygart.

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