PEZ: "The first road race is won and done at the World Championships and our man Ed Hood was there rubbing shoulders with the best to get the lowdown on the circuit and the expert's favorites for Sunday."

VeloNation: 2011 winner emulates Nicole Cooke as race finishes in bunch sprint.

VeloNation: Release fee and high salary reduce list of contenders.

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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BikeRadar verdict: 4.5 out of 5 stars. "A fantastic piece of kit – as long as you've got the disposable income to buy one."

CyclingTips: "Big Mig was in the house today signing posters for the fans at the Pinarello display. Elsewhere, Cipollini was keeping the ladies happy and I spent a lot of time at the Shimano and Campagnolo booths to learn about their new offerings for 2013."

Bicycling: Valkenburg course suits punchy Slovak, but is he too tired?

VeloNews: After a season of surpassing expectations, Tejay van Garderen lines up Sunday as an outsider for the rainbow jersey in the elite men’s road race.

road.cc: Dr Eufamiano Fuentes among six accused of crime relating to blood doping ring broken up in 2006.

CyclingNews: The rules for calculating team results and rankings in the UCI Downhill World Cup may be changing for 2013. Presently, equal points are used for men's and women's placings, both of which count toward team results and rankings. The possibility of reducing the scale of the women's points has upset female downhillers, who met and protested at the final UCI Downhill World Cup in Hafjell, Norway, last weekend.

VeloNews: Spy has launched several new cycling designs in the past year. The latest are the Daft and the Cutter. The Daft's oversized design is intended for use by mostly time-trialists.

Peloton: "My Vitus was comparable with bikes ridden by American pros on the 7-Eleven, Levi’s-Look and Schwinn-Icy Hot teams. In other words, it was state of the art 25 years ago."

Katie Compton (Trek) is well-represented at Interbike 2012 in photos, posters and now signature products in the form of the carbon fiber KFC One ′cross handlebar by long-time sponsor Thomson.

Electronics giant Pioneer are set to release their new crank based power meter and head unit in the second quarter (April-June) of 2013. Dubbed the SGY-PM900 Pedaling Monitor Sensor and SGX-CA900 Athlete Cyclocomputer, its main selling point looks to be the ability to measure left/right pedal force, both in magnitude and direction.

VeloNation: McQuaid: ‘We need to concentrate on the sport today and not so much the past’

InnerRing: It’s that time of year when the UCI publishes its accounts for the past year after they get approved by the UCI’s annual congress. Now we can see what happened during 2011 and if accounting is boring, money is often isn’t.

VeloNation: Lawyers unable to find way out.

InnerRing: With race radios banned for the worlds, the Dutch will use telecoms and roadside matrix display boards to give unique tactical advice to their riders.

road.cc: Crash and the helmet-mounted sensors app sends your location to the emergency services.

road.cc: Iconic frame comes back carbon fibre + confusingly named range-topper, Mash single speed crosser.

VeloNews: Five-time Tour de France winner Miguel Indurain called the dark clouds over professional cycling “sad” on Thursday, and said he wasn’t sure what should happen to Lance Armstrong’s seven Tour titles.

CyclingNews: Paul Kimmage has received a subpoena from the Swiss district court that will hear the defamation proceedings instigated against him by current UCI president Pat McQuaid, his predecessor Hein Verbruggen and the UCI itself.