Kirchmann wins stage 2 at Joe Martin.

Leah Kirchmann out-kicked UnitedHealthcare speedster Coryn Rivera Friday to take stage 2 of the Joe Martin Stage Race in Arkansas, while overnight leader Lauren Stephens finished inside the top 10 to preserve her leader's jersey.

Shelley Olds returns to racing after rib injury.

Shelley Olds will return to racing at Omloop van Borsele on Saturday, following her recovery from a rib injury sustained at Ronde van Drenthe on March 14.

“From the first day that I knew I had a broken rib, I have focused on staying positive and moving forward,” Olds said. “As soon as I could start working, I did. The first days were difficult, but every day I saw progress and I felt better with each week that passed.”

Olds was forced to take time off the bike following the crash, which occurred on one of the cobbled sectors in Ronde van Drenthe and resulted in broken ribs for the American sprinter.

Shimano wraps up investigation of Flanders incidents.

Shimano has concluded its investigation of the two incidents in the Tour of Flanders involving their neutral service cars, and again apologized to the riders and teams involved. It said that the crash involving Trek Factory’s Jesse Sergent was the result of “a split-second error of judgment”.

In separate incidents, a neutral service car hit Sergent, who suffered a broken collarbone, and another Shimano car hit the FDJ team car in the same race, pushing it into FDJ rider Sebastien Chavanel.

2014-15 Races & Results.

Joe Martin Stage Race - Apr 23-26 (Stages & Results),

Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey - Apr 26-May 3 (History),

Giro d'Italia 2015 - May 9-31 (Stages),

Tour de France 2015 - July 4-26 (Stages),

Vuelta a España 2015 - Aug 22-Sept 13 (Stages),

UCI Road World Championship 2015 - Sept 20-27 (Stages),

Giro del Trentino - Apr 21-24 (Results),

La Flèche Wallonne - Apr 22 (Results),

Amstel Gold Race - Apr 19 (Results),

De Brabantse Pijl - Apr 15 (Results),

Paris Roubaix - Apr 12 (Results),

Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco - Apr 6-11 (Results),

Circuit Cycliste Sarthe - Apr 7-10 (Results),

Scheldeprijs - Apr 8 (Results),

Tour of Flanders - Apr 5 (Results).

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Giddy up! Back to Holland: Loren Rowney on her return to racing.

"Six weeks ago today I was lying in Hamburg hospital. I found myself repeatedly thinking: “What the hell just happened?” as I began to come to terms with with an injury far more painful than my broken elbow four years ago.

I fractured my collarbone in what has been described as “one of the most spectacular crashes of the season” by the cycling media.

A spectator reached his arm across the barriers as I sprinted past him. He hit my handlebars, and the next thing I knew, I was tumbling toward the ground. Crashes happen in cycling. We all know that.

My crash? It shouldn’t have happened."

Dwars door de Westhoek 2015.

The day after Omloop van Borsele the women’s peloton head south for the second class one race of the weekend, Dwars door de Westhoek.

Raced across the West Flanders countryside Dwars door de Westhoek marks the mid-point of the Lotto Cycling Cup competition currently lead by Sofie de Vuyst ahead of her Lensworld Zannata teammate, Kaat van der Meulen.

Start List: Omloop van Borsele 2015.

Omloop van Borsele is the first of back-to-back UCI 1.1 races this weekend.

Check out the start list packed with many of women’s cycling’s top riders. Want to know more about the race? We’ve got that covered to in the race preview.

2015 Tour of Croatia LIVE streaming.

Saturday's Stage 4 starts at 9:10am CET (3:10am U.S. Eastern).

Finish at around 3:58pm CET (9:58am U.S. Eastern).

Live video from 2:30pm CET (8:30am U.S. Eastern, 5:30am Pacific).

Tour de Yorkshire 2015 Live Dashboard ...

2015 Tour de Yorkshire LIVE video stream.

Friday's (May 1st) Stage 1 starts at -- BST (-- U.S. Eastern). Finish at around -- BST (-- U.S. Eastern).

Live video from -- BST (-- U.S. Eastern).

Brenes tops Colombians in uphill Joe Martin time trial.

Colombian riders nearly swept the podium during the opening time trial at the Joe Martin Stage Race in Arkansas on Wednesday until Jamis-Hagens Berman's Costa Rican climber Gregory Brenes set the fastest time with just two riders remaining.

Brenes covered the 4.3km uphill time trial in 8:36 to break the stranglehold that Orgullo Antioqueno had on the race, placing Robinson Chaplaud in second and Christian Montoya in third.

Brenes beat the Colombian riders by one second and seven seconds, respectively. Orgullo Antioqueno's Juan David Montoya finished fourth, followed by Stephen Bassett of Jamis-Hagens Berman.

Richie Porte seals Giro del Trentino overall win.

Paolo Tiralongo won the final stage of the 2015 Giro del Trentino from a three-man break on Friday. The Astana rider finished ahead of David Arroyo and Fabio Duarte (Colombia) in the 161.5km stage from Malè to Cles.

Richie Porte (Team Sky) finished safely in the main field to claim the overall title ahead of Mikel Landa and Sky teammate Leopold König.

Gilbert to start Liège with van Garderen protected by BMC.

"When everything is right, you don't see so much of the work they are doing," Gilbert said. "But now you really appreciate the help and the support you get.

“Every hard day it is getting better because we work well together. I know I will not be on my best on Sunday because I don't think it is possible. But at least I will be at the start and then we will see."

Sport Director Valerio Piva said van Garderen will enjoy protected status in his first appearance in Liège since 2012.

"I feel good, I feel prepared and motivated," van Garderen said. "It was a bit of a blow to see so many crashes on Wednesday from a lot of our stronger guys, especially Philippe.

Hidden motors for road bikes exist — here’s how they work.

The basic vivax Assist package costs in the vicinity of AUD $4,300 and comes with a battery pack, a saddle bag for housing the battery, a charger, a seatpost for housing an electronic control unit, the motor itself and the adapters necessary to connect the motor to the crankshaft of the bike.

The motor, which measures 22cm in length, is fed into the seat tube and connects with the crankshaft via an interlocking gear — the gear on the bottom of the motor locks in to a gear ring which is placed over the crankshaft.

Preview: Liege could close spring classics season in dramatic fashion.

The 2015 spring classics season wraps up Sunday with what should be a dramatic exclamation point on a campaign full of aging warhorses and emerging stars.

Alexander Kristoff and John Degenkolb emerged as major forces in the northern cobbles, with huge wins at Flanders and Roubaix, respectively, while world champion Michal Kwiatkowski scored a major coup at the Amstel Gold Race. All are young, talented, and poised to become the riders of reference across the spring classics.

Some aging veterans still had something to say, with Luca Paolini taking a win at Gent-Wevelgem and Alejandro Valverde at Flèche Wallonne, to prove that experience and guile still have a place in the peloton.

Will Dan Martin reign again in Liège?

Belgium’s Liège Bastogne Liège is one of the five “Monuments” on the calendar, a title given to the oldest and most prestigious one-day Classics – and the ones every cyclist aspires to win.

Sean Kelly, the Irish legend and two-time winner in Liège, describes it as the hardest race to win. Its steep hills and constantly changing terrain make it a truly demanding and intense experience.

Kelly’s Irish compatriot Dan Martin, who competes this year for Cannondale Garmin, has an impressive record in the race. In 2013 he topped the podium and a year later was in a winning position only to crash 200 meters from the finish line.

Japanese Firms Claims to Have Design First Viable 3D Bike.

Japanese firm, Triple Bottom Line, claims to have designed the world’s first viable 3D printed road bike.

Called the DFM01 Ouisa, several aspects of the bike’s titanium main frame were created using a technology called, selective laser sintering (SLS), wherein a laser is used to form a metal structure from powdered material.

“As you can see DFM01 consists of  several parts,” says Triple Bottom Line’s Satoshi Yanagisawa. “The head, seat cluster (we called junction) and entire bottom section (bottom bracket, chainstay, and lower seatstay bracket) are made from SLS titanium. Other parts (top, bottom tube and both seatstays) are market available conventional carbon tube.”

2015 Liege Bastogne Liege LIVE.

Sunday's Liege Bastogne Liege departs Liege at 10:15am CET (4:15am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Ans at around 4:49pm CET (10:49am U.S. Eastern). 

Live streaming video should get underway at around *1:50pm CET (*7:50am U.S. Eastern). *Rai Sport 1 coverage starts at this time but Eurosport is not scheduled to start until 2:15pm CET (8:15am U.S. Eastern, 5:15am Pacific).

Tour of Turkey 2015 Live Dashboard.

TUR 2015 Eurosport Broadcast Schedule (CET*)

Stage 1, Sun 26/04/2015, 11:15-14:00,

Stage 2, Mon 27/04/2015, 12:30-14:00,

Stage 3, Tue 28/04/2015, 14:00-15:30,

Stage 4, Wed 29/04/2015, 14:00-15:30,

Stage 5, Thu 30/04/2015, 12:30-14:00,

Stage 6, Fri 01/05/2015, 14:00-15:30,

Stage 7, Sat 02/05/2015, 11:15-12:45, 

Stage 8, Sun 03/05/2015, 10:00-12:00.

Daily Distractions.

Video: Interview with Dennis Vanendert.

Aru considers legal action after Henderson accuses Astana rider of cheating.

Fabio Aru is considering legal action against Lotto Soudal rider Greg Henderson after he accused the Astana rider of being caught up in a UCI Biological Passport case.

The Italian, who is set to ride the Giro d’Italia next month, pulled out of the Giro del Trentino citing illness for his non-participation in the four-day Italian stage race.

Kristoff signs new contract with Katusha.

Alexander Kristoff and Katusha will continue their relationship past 2015. The winner of the Ronde van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders) on April 5 and much more re-signed with the Russian WorldTeam Friday.

Katusha announced the news via a press release. Kristoff has emerged as one of the top sprinters and one-day riders in the peloton.

In addition to Flanders this month, Kristoff won three stages and the overall of the Three Days of De Panne and Scheldeprijs. The results backed up 2014, when the 27-year-old made a significant step forward by winning Milano-Sanremo and two stages in the Tour de France.

“It is unbelievable how the team was going the last months. They all worked so hard for me. The teammates trust me and I trust them,” Kristoff said.

Crane recovers, cheers from afar for Jamis-Hagens Berman teammates.

Ian Crane wasn't able to make it to the Joe Martin Stage Race on Thursday to defend his 2014 overall title, but his Jamis-Hagens Berman team picked up where he left off when Gregory Brenes withstood a Colombian onslaught to win this year's opening time trial and take the race lead.

Following along from his home in the Pacific Northwest, Crane, who continues to recover from a harrowing, life-threatening crash last August at the USA Pro Challenge, experienced conflicting emotions as the results began to pour in over social media.

L’Eroica California!

Nate King has raced professionally around the world but he’d never ridden on classic steel, strapped on some toeclips and got those downtube shifters moving on a machine from the past.

Eroica California was the perfect place to do it and it’s where Nate rediscovered just how beautiful riding can be.

SRAM Wireless groupset: What to expect.

When we received an invitation to a SRAM product launch in California a few weeks ago, we thought the day had finally arrived that the new SRAM wireless groupset, possibly the worst kept secret in cycling, was finally going to be unveiled to the public.

Instead SRAM announced its new single ring 1x Road groupset which, although quite possibly a game-changer in the long term, was not what much of the cycling world had been waiting for.

Despite having already chalked up victory courtesy of Domenico Pozzovivo at the Giro del Trentino, SRAM still isn’t giving an exact date for the unveiling of the groupset, although UCI regualtions state that prototype equipment used in races, as SRAM Wireless was at the Tour Down Under in January, must be available on the market within nine months.

Unsurpassed, by Godfrey Barlow.

The story of Tommy Godwin who throughout 1939 rode a total of 75,065 miles (120,805 kilometers) and then continued on riding into 1940 until he'd racked up 100,000 miles (160,934 kilometers) in 500 days

With multiple different attempts to beat Godwin's record ongoing or planned, it's worth knowing the story of the man who put the Year record on the map and left behind a story up there with the best rival record the Hour can throw at it.

Five-a-side: This week's new bike gear.

Is it a road bike? A 29er? A (shudder) gravel grinder? No one knows, but the Trek 920 is clearly built for the rough, and with front and rear racks as standard it’s meant for load-lugging.

Braking comes courtesy of TRP’s rather excellent Hylex hydraulic brakes, and shifting via bar-ends that will warm the cockles of bearded touring types everywhere. It’s geared properly too, with 42/28 cranks and a 36t big sprocket on the cassette.

Ask a Mechanic: Finding measurements for hub bearings.