CyclingNews: Organizers of the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah revealed on Tuesday that this year's event, scheduled for August 7-12, will increase the overall distance from 409 miles to 550 miles of racing over six days. New and refreshed courses along the Wasatch Front will provide 37,500 vertical feet of climbing, including a new road race on the final day in Park City via the summit of Empire Pass.

VeloNation: Three out of four so far for Slovakian champion as wet weather continues.

CyclingNews: Argentinean earns first leader's jersey.

CyclingNews: Francisco Mancebo (Competitive Cyclist Racing Team) got off to a good start Tuesday in his bid to repeat his 2011 Tour de Beauce victory by winning this year's opening stage. But – unlike a year ago, when a group of 20 gained 20 minutes – the stage did little to separate the top general classification rivals, who all finished in the same time after a chaotic final five kilometres marked by a dangerous breakaway and two crashes.

Critérium du Dauphiné - June 3-10 (Races & results),
Trans Germany - June 6-9 (Races & results),
Tour de Suisse - June 9-17 (Stages & results),
Air Force Cycling Classic - June 9-10 (Stages & results),
Tour de France - June 30 - July 22 (Stages),
2012 Olympic Games - July 28 - August 12 (Races),
Vuelta a España - August 18 - September 9 (Stages),
More...

TwistedSpoke: The Limar Ultralight is for riders who love Italy, hate bugs and obsess about weight.

CyclingNewsAsia: Fall riding in Taiwan is amazing. The weather is warm and dry in the day and cools in the evening. This draws out a lot of cyclists. Winter, on the other hand, is a lonely affair. Long days are met with low (for Taiwan) temperatures, and long lone rides are often done in the rain. The time alone may be unpleasant, but you're taught to handle a bike on slippery roads. It toughens you up.

road.cc: Premium race pedals with good float, weight and feel but some upkeep issues.

BikeRumor: Syntace has finally unveiled their mountain bike wheels. In development for quite some time, the new MX wheels come with rims of 25, 30, 35 or 40mm outside widths. All four are offered in 26″, and the 30mm and 35mm widths will be offered in 26″, 27.5/650B and 29er. The 30mm even has a 24″ offering.

BikeRadar: Your holiday's booked and you've chosen your bag or box. Now you need to pack your bike in it in a way that guarantees it comes off the plane in the same state it went on...

CyclingFans: Tuesday's Tour de Suisse Stage 4 departs Aarberg at 12:27pm CET (6:27am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Trimbach/Olten at around 5:15pm CET (11:15am U.S. Eastern).  Tour de Suisse live streaming video should get underway at around 3:45pm CET (9:45am U.S. Eastern).

TwistedSpoke: Is Andy hosed and hopeless? Depending on who you read, there’s still time left or there’s no time left to build form for the Tour de France. Glass half full, glass half empty kind of thing. Form is the great cycling mystery and while there are roadmaps, human physiology is an enduring mysterious.

CyclingFans: The 2012 Vuelta a Colombia runs from June 12-24.  There should be limited live streaming video, probably just for the finish of each stage.

InnerRing: To define this the video is sent as a stream over the internet to your computer or other device. Unlike a file that you download, the data are sent in a stream so you can watch things as they happen, for example a live broadcast. The technology is relatively simple.

VeloNation: Young rider shows talent in Baby Giro.

PEZ: 'A person, especially a child, of unusual or marvellous talents' is one dictionary definition of a 'prodigy' - a term often applied to Taylor Phinney. Even in the knowledge that his father, Davis was one of the best cyclists the USA ever produced, and mother Connie was an Olympic road race champion, it's wholly appropriate in the case of the 21 year-old from Boulder, Colorado.

VeloNews: Peter Sagan made it look easy Tuesday to win a rainy, challenging stage at the Tour de Suisse for his third victory in four days. The win was good for young Sagan’s 11th on the 2012 season, moving him within one of André Greipel (Lotto-Belisol) for the most so far this year among the elite pros.

Lennard Zinn: "There is no question that if a rider climbs at constant speed, it doesn’t matter where the weight is located on the bike. Extra mass could be concentrated on the pedals, at the rims, in the frame, or in the hubs, and as long as the bike’s total weight is the same and it has otherwise the same characteristics, it will create the same resistance to the rider’s efforts."

RedKitePrayer: Following Team Sky’s collective domination of the climbing stages at the Critérium du Dauphiné this past weekend, comparisons are being made with great teams of the past: the Molteni armada of Eddy Merckx, the La Vie Claire crew of Bernard Hinault and Greg LeMond, and the infamous Train Bleu of Lance Armstrong.

CyclingIQ: Having ditched the Super Bowl to enter into a five-year partner deal with football team Manchester United, General Motors looks set to spread the reach of its number one brand, Chevrolet, into sporting areas with wider global appeal. Could cycling be the next beneficiary?

BikeRadar verdict: 4.5 out of 5 stars. "Super fast but with good comfort levels on offer too."

StickyBottle: The recent exclusion of Matt Brammeier from the three-man Irish cycling team for the road race at the London Olympics has provoked much debate.

VeloNews: Johan Bruyneel has clarified the controversial decision to leave popular veteran Chris Horner off RadioShack-Nissan’s Tour de France team, saying that when Horner passed on a start at the Tour de Suisse, he also torpedoed his own chances to race the Tour.

VeloNews: Hours after learning that his RadioShack-Nissan team had not included him on its list of riders pre-selected for the Tour de France due to a back injury, American veteran Chris Horner told VeloNews that his back is no longer hurting him, and that he would have been ready to race come the Tour’s June 30 start in Liège, Belgium.

Cyclismas: "Greetings, my name is Isambard Kingdom Bruyneel and I am the outright manager and leader of the RadioShack-Nissan Trek pro cycling team. I also created the Clifton suspension bridge. I think Cyclismas is very lucky to have me writing a blog for them because I won the Tour de France nine times."

CyclingIQ: Last week a mate and I were talking about how the time gaps of breakaways are calculated in World Tour races. The more we thought about it, we came to the realization that we had no clue of how this is done. In this day and age you'd expect that race officials would calculate the time gaps of breakaways using satellite telemetry or some other high-tech solution.

SinglrTrack: The first thing you’ll notice when looking at the event page for the Wilmington Whiteface 100 is that all distances are in kilometers and meters instead of miles and feet. This appears to be an oddity in a country where 99.9% of race distances and elevations are reported in English units, but being part of the 0.1% is what makes the Wilmington Whiteface a unique event.

RedKitePrayer: For those of you who haven’t had a chance to visit Santa Rosa, Calif., and do Levi Leipheimer’s King Ridge Gran Fondo, you’ve missed out on what is easily the best cycling event I’ve ever entered, let alone completed. The real powers-that-be behind the event are the guys from Bike Monkey. Without them, the veritable army of volunteers that makes the event happen would all be out riding their bikes or watching American Idol. Which begs the question, how did they get to be so good at it?

VeloNation: Boonen confirmed as missing this year’s race.

CyclingNews: It's ironic that 39 years after rolling to the line at the very first Harlem Skyscraper Cycling Classic, American cycling legend John Eustice is now in charge of the very same event.

road.cc: Southampton ride commemorates cyclist who died last month, Cardiff City Council bans riders from parks due to nudity.