CyclingFans: Wednesday's UCI Road Worlds Elite Men 45.7km Individual Time Trial  from Heerlen to Valkenburg gets underway at 1:32pm CET (7:32am U.S. Eastern) with the departure of the first rider.  Road Worlds live streaming video should get underway at around 2:00pm CET (8:00am U.S. Eastern).

VeloNews: Scores of protagonists are hoping one hour of pain will equal redemption. Wednesday’s elite men’s time trial world championship presents a chance for many of the favorites to erase a season of close calls, frustration and near misses.

VeloNews: CrossVegas brings cyclocross to the Nevada desert on Wednesday night.

CyclingNews: Evelyn Stevens (USA) silver over Linda Villumsen (New Zealand) on Cauberg.

VeloNews: Welsh rider Elinor Barker on Tuesday won gold in the women’s junior time trial the UCI Road World Championships here.

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BikeRadar: Connect Power Control is the name of Prologo's new patented grippy surface that the company is debuting on four high-end road saddles. Featuring dense bunches of short, suction-cup-like gel polyemer tubes, the CPC saddles are designed to keep the rider firmly in place.

BikeRadar: Felt unveiled their 2013 road and cyclocross range in California earlier this summer, and BikeRadar were there for the full scoop.

CyclingFans: Tuesday's UCI Road Worlds Elite Women 24.3km Individual Time Trial gets underway at 2:30pm CET (8:30am U.S. Eastern) with the departure of the first rider.  Road Worlds live streaming video should get underway at around 3:00pm CET (9:00am U.S. Eastern).

CyclingNews: Mancebo wins men's title, Competitive Cyclist top team.

RedKitePrayer: "In last week’s column, I began to trace my journey in cycling from the 1960s, first as a racer then a writer, in connection with the sport’s escalating problems with illicit drugs. This week, I’ll continue the story from where I broke off, at the 1998 Tour de France, when the French team Festina was thrown out for organized doping. What the Festina Affair revealed was the degree to which EPO had transformed cycling in the worst possible way."

CyclingNews: There won't be any further action on the USADA's anti-doping case against Lance Armstrong anytime soon. The USADA said it will still be a while before it is ready to pass along its information to the UCI and the WADA.

road.cc: Money raised from auction will be used to help seriously ill children.

InnerRing: Overall this is a very enjoyable book that’s actually better in this format than the original French paperback. It’s escapism and reminds me of Tim Krabbé’s rider because of the detail and the tight prose.

CyclingWeekly: The Italian national coach, Paolo Bettini likes what he sees in Valkenburg. His team has previewed the World Championships road race course for Sunday, when - even with a young team - anything is possible.

BikeRadar: A Dutch team have failed in their bid to set a new speed record at the World Human Powered Speed Challenge in Battle Mountain, Nevada last weekend, despite winning the event.

Rumsas' quiet Tuscan life is a far cry from that murky summer of 10 years ago, when images of French police handcuffing his wife Edita, her glum expression almost comically at odds with her multi-coloured jumper, delighted picture editors at newspapers across Europe.

BikeRadar: German outfit Storck didn't have a booth at this year's Interbike OutDoor Demo but, conveniently, we ran into principal Markus Storck, who gave us a preview of some of his company's upcoming new components.

Although not a huge company, Rolf Prima's 2013 line-up offers a good snapshot of current trends in the cycling world: 650b mountain wheels, 11spd-compatible hubs, wide-rim road wheels, carbon clincher road wheels and disc road wheels. One interesting offshoot: a road wheel built for disc and rim brakes.

VeloNews: The famous steeps of the Cauberg climb in the heart of the hilly Dutch country around Valkenburg set the stage for what should be wildly unpredictable racing this week at the UCI Road World Championships.

CyclingNews: Tejay van Garderen (BMC Racing) admitted that his excitement on the Cauberg may have cost BMC the chance of winning the Worlds team time trial in Valkenburg.

TwistedSpoke: Whoo-hoo! Can’t wait to get to Interbike tomorrow for the Specialized lap dance, the SRAM Pole dancing demos and the Pearl Izumi party girls. Bring it on, Vegas, raw sex, cheap and tawdry sport marketing strip show!

VeloNews: American Evelyn Stevens nearly won a second gold medal today at the UCI Road World Championships and afterward turned her eyes toward Saturday’s road race. With one gold already in hand from Sunday’s team time trial, the American was hoping for a second one in today’s individual test, but had to settle on silver.

RoadCycling: If you're waiting for a neat conclusion to the doping scandal you're out of luck.

VeloNation: Rider’s movement not compromised after triple vertebral fracture.

CyclingWeekly: Twelve months ago in Copenhagen Elinor Barker finished just 1.48 seconds away from a gold medal and the rainbow jersey in the junior women's time trial.

VeloNation: Garmin-Sharp and Astana confirmed as taking part.

PodiumCafe: Shows why serving pros normally produce such anodyne cliché-riddled anecdote-bloated biographies: with her bridges burnt Pendleton is able to be brutally open about both her personal circumstances and her time as one of the stars of Team GB.

RedKitePrayer: Pinarello Dogma, equipped with Campagnolo Super Record EPS.

road.cc: Wiggo's Tour-winning footwear, plus new color options.

BikeRadar: WD-40 have seen an opportunity to use its 50-plus years of experience developing lubricants and solvents to create new products specifically for cycling.