VeloNation: Long time on the sidelines may be nearing an end.

CyclingNews: New world champion to skip Piemonte.

Races & Results.
UCI Road World Championship -  Sept 16-23 (Races & Results),
Giro di Lombardia -  Sept 29 (Preview),
Milano-Torino -  Sept 26 (Start List),
Giro del Piemonte -  Sept 27 (Start List),
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CyclingNews: The official presentation of the route of the 2013 Giro d'Italia will be held on Sunday but details of the three-week race have emerged in the Italian press.

VeloNation: No Philippe Gilbert but many of Sunday’s animators as the race returns after five-year absence.

VeloNews: Michael Sayers, the only American sports director at the top level of the sport, has announced his departure from BMC Racing at the end of 2012.

PodiumInsight: Reigning USA cyclocross champion Jeremy Powers (Rapha-Focus) started off his cross season with back-to-back decisive victories at CrossVegas and the first day of USGP Planet Bike Cup. Not only did he power away from a stacked field but he did it at C1 races.

Alex Grant: "Fall is probably my favorite time of year. Maybe it is because I grew up in Vermont where the foliage was amazing, the weather was nice, and the bugs had gone away for the year. There's something about riding in the woods in with the leaves changing and falling on the trail that is oddly soothing. Then there's the smell of fall. Even if it's just decomposing leaves and vegetation, it seems like it clears your head and lungs out."

BikeRadar: Jagwire brought a trio of handy new tools to this year's Interbike show, so you can spend less time working on your bike and more time riding it.

BikeRadar: "We previewed Reynolds' new Aero wheel range at Eurobike, with designer Paul Lew explaining some of the properties of the Aero 58, 72 and 90 clincher rims."

InnerRing: Recently the appearance UCI President Pat McQuaid at a race has coincided with boos from the crowd. Perhaps it could be said the Dutch fans last Sunday were slightly annoyed at a Belgian victory and taunted Gilbert. But this can’t explain the noise when McQuaid appeared at the Olympics.

Pro cycling and doping. Tipping point tipped?

TwistedSpoke: Does it feel like the dam has finally broken? We have UCI president McQuaid embarrassed and exposed, former UCI head Hein Verbruggen outed as bombastic, vindictive and uninformed, Lance Armstrong, the most powerful pro cyclist of the dark doping years, stripped of his seven Tour de France titles in a no-contest.

CyclingNews: Paolo Bettini has his defended the performance of the Italian team at the world championships and insisted that he is ready to develop a four-year project to help Italian's cycling improve in road races and time trials.

VeloNews: In cycling, there is a perennial battle between tradition and innovation, the old ways and the new ways, training by feel and geeking out over power data, obsessing about dieting and focusing on balanced, wholesome nutrition. Tim Johnson (Cannondale-Cyclocrossworld.com) is working hard in 2012 to find his way from the old to the new — and it’s working.

VeloNation: Physiologist gives confirmation of huge VO2 max; power comparable to young Hushovd and Boasson Hagen.

BikeRadar: If you want to go faster on your road bike, spend some time getting aero, says Jeff Jones, editor of BikeRadar and 2009 British Masters time trial champion. By that we mean adjusting your position, clothing and equipment to reduce your drag so that you get the most out of the power you’re putting in.

IG Pro Cycling Index: World Championships deliver a shake up.

CyclingNews: A big mover was the American Taylor Phinney. The BMC rider climbed 31 places to 54th after his second place in the Worlds time trial. This is another great achievement for the young rider who wore the Pink Jersey at the Giro d’Italia this year and has pain of finishing in fourth place in the Olympic road race and time trial.

PodiumInsight: Following the launch of the International professional cyclocross season in Las Vegas, the top athletes in the sport are preparing to compete at the 2nd Annual Gateway Cross Cup, Wednesday, September 26th at Heman Park in University City, Missouri.

BikeRadar: With more than 750 brands exhibiting for a record 25,000 attendees, Interbike had a fair amount of remarkable stuff this year - both good and bad.

RedKitePrayer: "I was often in the minority when David and VN colleague Charles Pelkey were in the car, talking about our suspicions on which riders were or weren’t doping. I liked to give riders the benefit of the doubt, but I always listened to their arguments, and their views inevitably influenced what I’d write—especially after the disastrous “Festina Affair” Tour of 1998."

CyclingNews: Following questions from the French Minister for Sport, Valérie Fourneyron, on why it has not yet upheld the USADA decision to strip Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles, the UCI responded to L'Equipe, saying it cannot do so until it has reviewed the dossier.

VeloNation: Disappointment turns to pride as 23-year-old German sprinter reflects on achievement.

Bicycle Retailer: Specialized is recalling about 12,000 Globe bike models because the fork can break. The company has received four reports of the forks breaking, resulting in facial, head and shoulder injuries.

CyclingNews: Women's cycling teams all over the world, from amateur to the top level professional teams, have struggled for survival by trying to emulate the same system that men's teams use with ample success, but a group in the UK is capitalizing on social media to create a fan-funded women's team to try and reverse that trend.

BikeRadar: Polar debuted a new RC3 GPS watch at this year's Interbike show. The device is designed to serve the diverse needs of multisport athletes looking for a single solution for cycling, running and even swimming.

BikeRadar verdict: 4.5 out of 5 stars. "Matching a highly adjustable aluminum aero system with the advantages of a professional fit."

RBAction: New helmets, Sidi shoes and an underwater trainer?

CTReview: One of the more agreeable trends of the last couple of years has been the re-release of previously discontinued saddle designs. A number of models that, until very recently, were only to be found after scouring eBay or rooting through dusty boxes at some bike boot sale may now be bought brand new and at a price that reflects, not scarcity, but the reality of modern-day bike manufacturing.

road.cc: British rider says governing body shirks responsibility for doping issues, fans raise fighting fund for Irish journalist being sued for defamation.