CyclingFans: Friday's Tour of Britain Stage 6 departs Welshpool at 10:30am BST (5:30am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Caerphilly at around 3:15pm BST (10:15am U.S. Eastern). Tour of Britain live streaming video should get underway at around 1:45pm BST (8:45am U.S. Eastern).

VeloNews: Since his retirement in 2008, Paolo Bettini has gone from back-to-back world champion to the director of Italy’s national team program. Bettini has faced adversity during his tenure, failing to place a rider on the worlds or Olympic road race podium, but a return to the site of his first elite world championships next week in the Netherlands sees “The Cricket” with his best chance yet to deliver a medal to the Italian federation with Vincenzo Nibali.

VeloNation: Leigh Howard takes back the gold jersey as Mark Cavendish left behind on the Staffordshire hills.

CyclingNews: Magner prevails in final stage for first pro victory.

PodiumCafe: The town of Brakel and its former inhabitant Broerie proudly present: The GP Impanis - Van Petegem, a brand new Belgian SSR. So why should you care? After all Belgium's got so many small races. Well, this is the last pro-race before the worlds, and several big names will race here.

CyclingWeekly: What does it take to ride in the 2012 Tour of Britain? Cameras followed IG-Sigma Sport and team manager Roger Hammond as they ready themselves for this year's British stage race.

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UCI Road World Championship -  Sept 16-23 (Races & Results),
Tour of Britain -  Sept 9-16 (Stages & Results),
Vuelta a España -  Aug 18 - Sept 9 (Stages & Results),
Tour of China -  Sept 7-13 (Stages & Results),
Mountain Bike Championships - Aug 31 - Sept 9 (Races),
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SingleTrack: Her striped jersey left a rainbow trail in her wake as Luna Pro team rider Catharine Pendrel rocketed past this season, off the front of the women’s races.

Bicycling: Five cleaning secrets from the experts.

Preview: Gung-ho attacks on Gun Hill in Tour of Britain Stage 5?

road.cc: IG-Sigma Sport's Daniel Lloyd takes a look at the Stoke-on-Trent stage.

SBS: World Road Champion Mark Cavendish shrugged off a miserable day in the saddle to win the 159km fourth stage of the Tour of Britain.

VeloNews: Taylor Phinney finished fourth — twice — at the London Olympics a little over a month ago. He joked afterward that he didn’t want to be the dreaded forgotten finisher. He’ll have a three chances to find the podium — and a good shot at the individual time trial title — at the UCI Road World Championships, which open Saturday in the Netherlands.

CyclingNews: Team seeks pledges for Right to Play, benefiting Rwandan children.

InnerRing: This Sunday sees a new event in the UCI World Championships, the team time trial. It’s new and relatively unknown and also quite different from the usual team time trials we might see in a stage race. Here’s a look at the race and a quick explainer of what is involved and why there’s no rainbow jersey.

VeloNation: New film planned on Tour de France winner.

SBS: Law enforcement officials in Germany and the United States are investigating the theft of a road bike and time trial bike owned by Olympic gold medalist Kristin Armstrong.

BikeRadar: This fall Ultralite Sports will begin selling two impressively light pedals based on a spring-loaded, sliding-barrel system.

BikeRadar: After years of promoting his highly touted aluminum-and-carbon Jet series of aero clinchers, Steve Hed has finally relented to marketplace pressures with his first all-carbon clincher – the Vanquish 6 SCT.

MountainBike: We put this fast, fun versatile bike to the ultimate long-term test.

VeloNation: Frenchman escapes a select group in the final kilometre to win race in Namur’s citadel.

SingleTrack: Lance Armstrong has put his lifetime ban on the shelf and will line up in this Saturday’s Alpine Odyssey, a mountain bike race he won in Crested Butte last year.

CyclingNews: London Olympic Games gold medalist Kristin Armstrong said Tuesday that both her winning time trial bike and her road bike disappeared somewhere in transit between Eurobike in Germany and her home in Boise, Idaho.

IrishPeloton: See if you can beat the Mastermind contestant who got a score of nine.

CyclingNews: World Anti-Doping Agency director-general David Howman has welcomed a new test for human growth hormone. The test was approved by WADA prior to the Olympic Games and was used to catch two athletes at the recent Paralympics. Speaking to Cyclingnews, Howman also commented on the Tyler Hamilton’s autobiography “The Secret Race” and explained the agency’s stance on the US Postal and Lance Armstrong case.

American rider seeking to sidestep ban by riding unsanctioned events.

CyclingTips: "Jean-Louis is the inventor of Osymetric and he was happy to explain them to me."

About: One of the best things about riding your bike is that you get a free pass to eat what you want, right? Well, sort of. You can definitely consume more calories, but the right eating plan will give you energy, help you feel better, fuel your body more efficiently and help you lose weight.

VeloNews: It’s become pretty apparent that Avid’s 13-year-old design, the BB7 road caliper, will be the brake of choice this year in the new disc-heavy cyclocross market. The BB7’s simplicity, reliability and ease of setup set it apart from lighter cable-actuated calipers and even some of the hydraulic options currently available.

road.cc: New polymer technology claimed to increase grip, control and power output.

Stella Yu: "Each saddle is created for a specific type of cycling and cyclist, with unique shapes and designs to fit every saddle need. Saddles for the recreational cyclist tend be broader, providing greater cushioned comfort in a traditional sense. Performance and competition saddles emphasize high-tech comfort; meaning materials and saddle construction are optimized for weight, aerodynamics and comfortable support over the long haul."

VeloNews: A certain Ferrari is leaving plenty of pollution in its wake. Italian Michele Ferrari, despite being banned by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency in Lance Armstrong’s doping case, is still operating and causing headaches.

PodiumInsight: “Bike racing meant something to me and that’s why I never attempted to cheat to do it because the minute I did that I would have ruined this dream that I was pursuing.”

Cyclismas: There are so many great people that follow the sport already, but it seems to me the key to growing the sport from this direction is getting these fans mobilized and together.  We tend to have cyber fans. They are awesome, and proud to be following the sport… scary I know.  The biggest fan I know is Sarah Connolly (@_Pigeons_ on Twitter).