Saturday's Stage 7 start time: 11:45 CET (2:45 AM PDT);
Earliest live video: 14:35 CET (5:35 AM PDT);
Approximate finish: 17:17 CET (8:17 AM PDT).

VeloNation: Adriano Malori rides himself into pink as Ramunas Navardauskas cracks on tough, hilly course.

VeloNation: German sprinter carries Dunkerque form into the next French stage race.

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Tour of Chongming Island - May 9-11 (Stages & results),
Amgen Tour of California - May 13-20 (Stages),
Tour de France - June 30 - July 22 (Stages),
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VeloNation: Time bonuses see Australian seize final yellow from Italian Monia Baccaille.

CyclingNews: Spanish timeshare group Anfi is set to become the co-sponsor of Bjarne Riis’s Saxo Bank team later this year. In an interview with Danish business daily Borsen, Anfi CEO José Luis Trujillo said the goal of his company is to have a more visible presence in Scandinavia, and particularly in Denmark. Consequently, Anfi is set to boost the small deal it already has with the team.

VeloNation: ‘In 2013 I want to be an even better rider.’

BikeRadar verdict: 5 out of 5 stars. "Light, secure and well priced too."

road.cc: The first summit finish of this year's race… and Geraint Thomas gives us a name.

VeloNation: Crash ends campaign of Garmin Barracuda sprinter.

VeloNation: Norwegian lacking form, affected by fatigue.

CyclingNews: Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Barracuda) says he is expecting a difficult day’s racing as stage six of the 2012 Giro d'Italia delves deep into the Apennines, with the infamously steep Montelupone climb - 53 kilometres from the finish - the potential flashpoint.

Horner is all-in for Mount Baldy at the Amgen Tour of California.

VeloNews: “Basically, I’ve got one chance to win the Tour of California, and that’s Mount Baldy,” Horner said. “I need a Sierra [Road] climb, I need the Baldy climb,” he said of the steep ramps he used in 2011 to attack the favorites into submission. “Motivation is good — the form is almost where it was last year.”

PodiumCafe: America's Biggest and Best Stage Race* kicks off edition #7 this coming Sunday, with a rolling and rocking course up and down the Golden State's rugged landscape, enough to make the pack sprinter in each of us bleed from the ears.

VeloNation: Swiss rider speaks about return, team manager says he deserves second chance.

CyclingNews: In five days at the Giro d'Italia, Taylor Phinney (BMC) has had incidents in every road stage and the team time trial stage. Only during the inaugural individual time trial did he get through without touching the ground.

CyclingNews: Three-time Amgen Tour of California champion Levi Leipheimer will be joining his Omega Pharma-Quickstep team on the start line of the race which begins in his adopted hometown of Santa Rosa on Sunday, but has counted himself out of the fight for the overall classification.

VeloNation: ‘It doesn’t matter any more’; Texan accepts he could lose Tour titles.

CyclingNews: Jan Ullrich has taken another step back into public life, after years of “doubt, depression and physical problems.” The retired rider is currently serving a two-year ban stemming from his invovlement in the Operacion Puerto blood-doping scheme. Ullrich, 38, will write a weekly column for EurosportYahoo.

Peloton: What looks most likely to happen at this weekend’s two summit finishes in the south of Italy is for the race leadership to move from the broad shoulders of Lampre-ISD’s Adriano Malori to the much slimmer body of Katusha Team’s Spanish climber Joaquim “Purito” Rodriguez.

Marijn de Vries: "My feet are standing on the tiles of platform 4a. My bum rests on the bar alongside the glass wall surrounding the stairs leading to the platform. When I stood up a short while ago I noticed that my buttocks left quite a large amount of mud behind."

RedKitePrayer: "I don’t know why I drift away from cycling periodically. I love riding, and I love the bike as a tool and as an object. I love what it does for me, and I believe in it as a lifestyle. I’m just easily distracted."

BikeRadar: If climbing is daunting to a beginner, descending is at least its equal. The fifth video in our series on improving your road cycling technique looks at how you should position yourself on the bike when the road plummets.