CyclingFans: The 2012 CrossVegas cyclo-cross is today, September 19.  Live streaming video: 8:00pm U.S. Pacific (05:00 CET).

CyclingNews: Tony Martin (Germany) took his second straight time trial world championship title, but it couldn't have been much closer. He visibly slowed in the final kilometers and beat Taylor Phinney (United States) by a mere 5.37 seconds.

CyclingNews: Ninth at two minutes and 30 seconds down on Tony Martin was not the result that Alberto Contador wanted to get at the UCI Time Trial World Championships on Wednesday, but the Spaniard put a brave face on it at the finish line.

VeloNation: No replacement for Olympic silver medallist sees Great Britain’s women reduced to five.

road.cc: Aero carbon clinchers from Mavic arrive for testing.

Races & Results.
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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Bicycling: Bura SL ready to compete on American roads.

BikeRadar: Canadian company Devinci is bolstering its mountain bike range with three new carbon bikes for 2013: the 145mm travel, 26in-wheeled Dixon Carbon, the 110mm travel Atlas Carbon 29er and the full-blown Wilson Carbon downhill racer that team rider Steve Smith just used to win the World Cup in Norway.

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.

CyclingNews: Euskaltel-Euskadi’s Víctor Cabedo has been killed in a training accident that occurred early on Wednesday afternoon in Almedijar, just a few kilometres from his home in Onda, in south-east Spain. According to initial reports, the 23-year-old was on a descent on a rough section of road when he was in a collision with a vehicle.

VeloNews: In April, Alex Howes made a spring classics debut worth remembering. He wants to revisit the front end of the race on Sunday in the Limburg hills of the Netherlands.

CyclingNews: Japanese riders competing at the second Tour of China have been drawn into a diplomatic row over an uninhabited group of islands in the East China Sea, with the UCI expressing a concern first and foremost for competitor safety.

BikeRadar verdict: 4 out of 5 stars. "Truly stunning handling from a deceptively aero wheelset."

road.cc: A light aluminium stem with added flair.

RedKitePrayer: The Alize was a pretty nice bike. If anything, it reminded me of Felt’s Z bike before its newest incarnation. There was plenty of stiffness to be responsive but not so much stiffness you wanted to take air out of the tires. The handling was very predictable.

SingleTrack: With only a single front chainring, the SRAM XX1 system has been hard for many riders who are neither cross-country racers nor gravity types to get their heads around.

SingleTrack: “650b bikes will most certainly replace 26” for everything except entry level,” was Jamis mountain bike product manager, Sal Crochia’s take.

RedKitePrayer: "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: The USADA said it will still be a while before it is ready to pass along its information to the UCI and the WADA.

CyclingNews: Qatar has been awarded the 2016 UCI Road World Championships, it was announced Wednesday. Cyclingnews first revealed in August that the bid was on track, with this year’s Worlds in Valkenburg named as the location for the Qatar announcement.  No dates have yet been announced.

VeloNation: American heartbroken, Belarusian elated, both motivated by result after defeat to Tony Martin.

CyclingNews: Bradley Wiggins supports professional women's cycling and is in fact ready to put his money into it. He would be willing to make a financial investment in a “full-on” elite women's team, he has said.

BikeRadar verdict: 5 out of 5 stars. "All the tools you could need in one simple box, with quality the order of the day."

BikeRadar: The miniscule Looxcie 2 certainly takes a different approach to many video cameras, concentrating on what people tend to do with footage instead of absolute image quality. Maximum resolution is a modest 480p but Looxcie has made it remarkably simple to share your view of the world – instantly.

CXMagazine: The new 2013 model of the Litespeed  CX ti bike, which is now available for purchase. It will be available in five sizes, small, medium, medium-large, large and extra large. The shape-specific tubing is 325 Titanium, cold-worked. This frame only comes as disc-compatible with either 140- or 160- rotars. It has a press-fit BB and an over-size head tube. It also has a replaceable hanger.The price tag? A hefty $2500 for the frame only.

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!