InnerRing: It was a close contest for the men and women. Look at the faces of the victorious Omega Pharma-Quickstep team as the picture says plenty although maybe the €100,000 prize pot had something to do with it (the women got a more modest €30,000).

CyclingNews: Double British success on final day of racing, Tiernan Locke makes history.

CyclingNews: The favorites delivered in the women’s team time trial at the World Championships with Specialized-lulemon taking gold ahead of Orica-AIS and AA Drink - Leontien.NL Cycling.

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PodiumInsight: The Verge New England Cyclocross Series got underway today at the 13th annual Green Mountain Cyclocross Weekend with racers vying for series points in a total of ten categories. Under dramatic skies, Nicolas Bazin (Big-Mat Auber 93) and Crystal Anthony (cyclocrossworld.com) emerged victorious over strong Elite fields, making them the early season leaders of the series.

PodiumInsight: Executive Race Director John Meehan of the UCI Carousel Volkswagen Jingle Cross Rock presented by Scheels has announced that the top 15 elite women will be awarded the same prize money as the top 15 elite men over the course of the entire 3 day Jingle Cross weekend.

RedKitePrayer: "Armstrong raised due process concerns in a federal lawsuit, filed in the Western District of Texas. In his suit, Armstrong asserted that USADA lacked jurisdiction and that the entire arbitration process violated his constitutional due process rights."

Cauberg misunderstanding costly for Phinney and BMC.

CyclingNews: Trailing Omega Pharma-QuickStep by just nine seconds at the final time check of the road world championships elite men's team time trial, the BMC team was still working in harmony and steadily clawing back ground in the final 13km-long run-in to Valkenburg. But as the road pitched upwards on the final climb of the Cauberg, their efforts would become more dissonant and their hopes of gold were dashed.

CyclingNews: BMC and Orica-GreenEdge fill out podium.

SBS: Red hot Luke Davison of the Budget Forklifts team used his speed to win the Paradice Investment Goulburn to Sydney road race. Davison out kicked Scott Law (Illawarra cycling club) and National Road Series (NRS) rival Anthony Giacoppo (Genesys Wealth Advisers) at the end of the 170km classic.

Telegraph: Cyclists could get their own traffic lights under plans being considered by London transport ministers.

BikeRadar verdict: 3.5 out of 5 stars. "Climb-friendly gears don’t stop the Altamira being a punchy racer."

CyclingFans: Sunday's UCI Road Worlds Elite Men Team Time Trial gets underway at 1:30pm CET (7:30am U.S. Eastern) with the departure of the first team.  Road Worlds live streaming video should get underway at around 2:30pm CET (8:30am U.S. Eastern).

VeloNews: Earlier this month, the UCI requested a full account of the agency’s findings but has yet to receive them, according to president Pat McQuaid.

Farrar out of US team for world championships due to concussion.

VeloNation: Vuelta top ten finisher Talansky takes vacated place.

CyclingNews: UCI President Pat McQuaid hailed the trade team time trials at this year's road world championships a success but said that more would be done in order to grow both the men's and women's events. The women's event was won by German outfit Specialized - Lululemon, with Omega Pharma Quick Step claiming the men's race.

TwistedSpoke: After complaining that the United States Anti-Doping agency still hadn’t sent the UCI the evidence against Lance Armstrong, it now appears that the file was lost by the UCI.

VeloNation: Political row having an effect on sporting events.

CyclingNews: MTN-Qhubeka will become the first African team to obtain Pro Continental status in 2013 and the ambitious squad has designs on participating in the Tour de France within two years.

LonelyPlanet: There’s no better way to explore a place than by bike. In honour of our favourite two-wheeled travel companion, here are 10 trips around the world that should be on every cyclist’s wishlist.

road.cc: Italian brand offer more affordable road model along with trail and triathlon footwear.

TwistedSpoke: Mandatory reading for anyone who cares to know about what it took to win races in the 90′s. Well-written by Coyle, who wrote (in our opinion) the definitive Armstrong book Armstrong’s s War, the story is a fast and furious and fascinating read.

AP: WADA director general David Howman told The Associated Press on Thursday he’ll wait to see more details of the amnesty suggestion put forward last week by UCI President Pat McQuaid in the wake of doping cases involving Lance Armstrong and other riders.

Bill Strickland:  Bicycles are never not something. They are toys and exercise machines, and they are healers, and they are vehicles for transportation and vehicles for personal revolution (and evolution), and they are art, and they are the things of our dreams, but they are never trash. They live on and on.