CyclingFans: Tuesday's Tour de Romandie Prologue (3.34km) at Lausanne is scheduled to begin at 2:50pm CET (8:50am U.S. Eastern) with the departure of the first rider.  Full Start Order and Times to come.  Tour de Romandie live streaming video should get underway at around 4:05pm CET (10:05am U.S. Eastern).

OK, Tom Boonent wins the first part of the cycling season. It’s time for some Swiss stage racing! The 6 day Tour de Romandie starts tomorrow (Tuesday).

Clara Hughes: "I was a rotten teenager and didn’t listen to my Mom very much.  Through the many years of tug-of-wars I usually won, there was one thing my Mom would not budge with.  She always made me finish what I started."

CyclingNews: Andre Greipel (Lotto-Belisol) raced to victory at stage two of the 2012 Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey 2012 in the south western city of Antalya, overcoming high temperatures and a host of world class riders.

CyclingNews: Powers also wins final stage along with Wingert.

CyclingIQ: Mini-skirt wearing dancing girls certainly had the 121 riders in good spirits prior to the rolling 197.7km stage, but the party really got underway at 10:05 local time, when the race left the neutral zone.

Liège - Bastogne - Liège - April 22 (Results),
Tour of Turkey - April 22-29 (Stages & results),
Tour de Romandie - April 24-29 (Stages),
Giro del Trentino - April 17-20 (Stages & results),
La Flèche Wallonne - April 18 (Results),
La Flèche Wallonne Féminine - April 18 (Results),
Giro d'Italia - May 5-27 (Stages),
Amgen Tour of California - May 13-20 (Stages),
Tour de France - June 30 - July 22 (Stages),
2012 Olympic Games - July 28 - August 12 (Races),
Vuelta a España - August 18 - September 9 (Stages),
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VeloNation: Argos-Shimano and Cofidis join two Spanish Wildcards in the year's third Grand Tour.

VeloNews: "It has been a while since last time I wrote, too long to go over all the details, but I have good news: that light at the end of the tunnel I previously mentioned, well I have finally found it. It wasn’t easy, and it certainly wasn’t without it’s own hurdles, but all that is in the past now and I am more excited about, and focused on, what is yet to come."

If you’re using Mavic, Bontrager, Campagnolo, Fulcrum or newer Zipp wheels, there’s a good chance that they’ve got Alpina spokes and/or nipples in them. If you’ve got a BMW, Husqvarna or KTM motorcycle with spoked wheels or maybe a set of Borranis, they’re also Alpina’s. How is it that such a prominent Italian company remains virtually unknown?

Tour De José: Some pieces of kit are really, really bad. Giorgia Bronzini either had that time of the month or a really, really bad designer.

CyclingFans: Tuesday's Tour of Turkey Stage 3 departs Antalya at 10:30am CET or 4:30am U.S. Eastern and is expected at the finish at Elmali at around 3:11pm CET or 9:11am U.S. Eastern. Tour of Turkey live streaming video should get underway at around 2:00pm CET or 8:00am U.S. Eastern.

road.cc: Interviu magazine says masseur gave sworn statement saying he saw rider injected with insulin at Tour de France.

Peloton: Belgium's Tom Boonen emerged as the king of the spring classics, which ended Sunday, with victory in Ghent-Wevelgem, the Tour of Flanders and a record-equalling fourth win at Paris-Roubaix. Two weeks after Boonen's blistering start to the season, however, Kazakh team Astana stole a share of the spotlight when Maxim Iglinskiy claimed an unlikely victory at the prestigious Liege-Bastogne-Liege.

VeloNation: Tom Boonen still leads after his storming cobbles campaign as the season moves into next phase.

CyclingNews: Bradley McGee didn't call Team Saxo Bank's Spring Classics campaign a disaster, but he expressed much disapppointment over the team's recent performances. The blow to the team's morale of losing Alberto Contador to a doping ban was followed by the loss of Nick Nuyens with a fractured hip, and the Danish team was unable to accomplish anything in the big races.

CycleSport: Maxim Iglinskiy won Liège-Bastogne-Liège in a tense and absorbing finale, nullifying Vincenzo Nibali’s bold solo attack.

TwistedSpoke: The human memory is a strange and mysterious thing. Most of life’s experiences and observations pass through our mind with nothing more than a fleeting blip of conscious recognition. Every now and then, life throws something at us that seems to imbed in our memory like dinosaur footprints in Jurassic mud.

CyclingNews: Alexandre Vinokourov showed up at the start of stage 2 in the Presidential Tour of Turkey in Alanya with a large smile, as did Valentin Iglinskiy because of the win of his elder brother Maxim at Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

BikeHugger: "In the future world of electronic shifting, I pray for complete inter-compatibility between road and mtb shift systems. Also, I want to be able to easily change the system presets so that a 10sp system can be configured for 9sp or 11sp without much more than a chain swap."

RedKitePrayer: The Sea Otter Classic has more different types of racing in one place than any other event I’ve ever attended—nay, any event I’ve ever heard of. Early on, it was a mountain bike event. Then it added a couple of road events. Today, it’s much, much more. It’s easier to define what it doesn’t have than all that it does.

BikeSnobNYC: This Just In - You're On Your Own For a Week!

CyclingNews: At first glance, the most striking difference between the 2011 and 2012 editions of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge is the length of the stages. Last year's race totaled 509 miles over seven days whereas the 2012 route covers 680 miles - a whopping increase of 25 miles per stage.

InnerRing: You probably haven’t heard of Jean-Maurice Ooghe. But the man in the striped shirt above is responsible for the TV images of the Tour de France and several other races, including the Tour of California.

CyclingNews: Megan Guarnier, the TIBCO-To the Top team leader currently ranked number one on USA Cycling's National Race Calendar standings, just may be one of the best US women cyclists you've barely heard of.

VeloNation: Dutch sprinter wants to look forward, not back.

TwistedSpoke: Is there a power meter that measures cycling data like this? Andy Schleck wants long time-mentor Kim Andersen at the Tour de France despite team manager Johan Bruyneel’s decision to hand the keys of the team car over to his man Alain Gallopin.

BikeHugger: Spy shots of new Dura Ace 9000-series are wafting over from Japan. This is the new crank, a departure from the 130mm bcd 5-arm that has been traditional for Shimano’s top racing crank for decades.

BikeRadar: On the heels of their RT8 TT hydraulic rim brake for time trial bikes, Magura this week released a converter for standard road bikes. Without a finalized name yet, it mounts to the steerer tube and is designed to be used with the company’s RT8 hydraulic rim calipers.

Cyclismas: Within the first 300 words of Daniel Friebe’s biography of Eddy Merckx the words ‘different’ or ‘difference’ appear four times. Over the next few pages one or other word keeps reappearing. Is it that Friebe simply has a limited vocabulary and no thesaurus? No. The choice of words is quite deliberate.