VeloNews: Exasperated. That was the tone of the Union Cycliste Internationale and its president Pat McQuaid in their emergency flare dubbed a press release concerning the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency’s transfer of its Lance Armstrong file to the sport’s governing body late last week.

VeloNation: British sprinter finds late-season form to give himself a belated birthday present.

CyclingNews: Fresh off his overall victory and stage win in the Eurometropole Tour (Circuit Franco-Belge), Jürgen Roelandts could have been a favourite to win today's Binche-Tournai-Binche. Instead, he crashed out of the race, ending his season the same way he started it in the Tour Down Under - "in the hospital" - he reported via Twitter.

CyclingNews: Ben Dyball takes first leader's jersey.

VeloNation: Andersen believes he’ll bounce back and will be a future Tour de France winner.

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Tour of Tasmania - Oct 2-7 (Stages & Results),
Giro d'Italia - May 4-26 (Stages),
Giro del Piemonte -  Sept 27 (Results),
Giro di Lombardia -  Sept 29 (Results),
Tour de Wallonie Picarde -  Sept 27-30 (Stages & Results),
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VeloNation: Extensive renovation begins on famous 1600 metre Wallers to Hélesmes sector.

CyclingNews: Mark Cavendish’s former team boss, Bob Stapleton, has stated that the 2011 world champion should move to Omega Pharma-Quick Step, and in doing so, call time on his career at Team Sky.

BikeRadar: An in-depth view at the shoes and appealing mid-range and entry-level wheels that will be hitting stores soon.

CXMagazine: If you have any doubt that Specialized has fully embraced cyclocross, the giant Zdenek Stybar photo and new 2013 carbon S-Works Crux cyclcoross frame display that dominated the company’s Interbike 2o12 booth would convince you otherwise.

CyclingNews: Erica Allar capped off her stellar season in the US criterium circuit by winning the USA CRITS series finale, the Tour of Vail, to secure the overall victory in the nine-race series and the team overall for her RideClean/PatentIt.com squad.

RedKitePrayer: In the time I’ve been penning these personal thoughts about cycling’s problems with doping, starting with the 1960s, I’ve become more conscious of how the cycle of revelations and reactions keeps on repeating itself. And how true breakthroughs in the fight against doping only happen when there’s a combination of scientific advancement and unscripted events.

VeloNews: On September 14, RadioShack-Nissan announced that it had signed Stijn Devolder to a two-year contract. Ordinarily, a two-time Ronde van Vlaanderen winner would be a marquee signing for any team, but Devolder, a native of Kortrijk in the heart of Flemish classics country, doesn’t see his name in lights too often anymore.

VeloNews: Italy’s top stage racer Vincenzo Nibali will decide between the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France, and likely will not ride both next year.

BikeWorldNews: With three elite teams across the country, Felt will be a major presence at USGP Series and other major U.S. ’cross events.

Brian Co: "Southern California. A mixture of all things different. Some good and some just plain weird. The thing about this place is that quite a few people who live in the areas of Los Angeles, Orange Country or San Diego were from someplace else. As a result the residents have the luxury and ability to reinvent Southern California as anything they want it to be. This is the wild west of the sport. Anything goes."

CyclingNews: "Wiggins suggested he wanted to ride and I contacted him but the financial picture was just too much for us. He was also a little tired after a long season,"

BikeRadar: Training software Kinomap first came to our attention at Interbike, when we found it attached to Wahoo Fitness' KICKR power trainer. At last week's Cycle Show we got the chance to delve deeper into how it actually works.

VeloNews: The geometry determines the leverage ratio of cantilever brakes and to set them up to achieve the best balance of power and ease of use. It takes knowing what you are doing to set them up to actually achieve a high leverage ratio.

VeloNews: Searching for a way to earn a living in the demolished post-World War II Italian economy, Martino Schiavon decided to start a company building bicycle saddles, as he already had some pre-war experience making them. Today, Shiavon’s sons are responsible for the most unique design in the saddle market.

Bicycling: There’s more to this all-American picnic staple than ridges and ranch seasoning. Thanks to better-for-you ingredients (think beans, veggies, even chocolate), plus more protein, fiber, whole grains, and healthy fats, off-the-bike snacking has gotten less greasy.

VeloNews: Scott Mercier - "The dethroning of the king, Lance Armstrong, by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has given many hope that real change is possible for the sport of cycling. But the sport’s governing body, the UCI, led by the hapless Pat McQuaid and Hein Verbruggen, seems intent on continuing the charade."

CyclingNews: USADA chief Travis Tygart has publicly praised former US Postal Service rider Scott Mercer for refusing to take doping products during his career.

VeloNation: After three years of domination by Philippe Gilbert in the competition, Tom Boonen has this year been named the Flandrien of the year.

VeloNation: 2008 Olympic champion makes trip on back of runner-up slot in Il Lombardia.

VeloNation: US team adds considerable international experience as it expands programme for next year.

BicycleRetailer: Spy was started in 1994 by a group of former Oakley-sponsored athletes, and issued its IPO in 2004. Since then. Spy has seen five quarters of consecutive growth. In the first six months of this year, sales revenue grew 13 percent to $17.6 million.

BikeRadar: A competitor in this year’s World Cycle Racing Grand Tour has written an e-book about his experiences. Sean Conway’s ‘World Cycling Stripped Bare’ attempts to reveal the secrets that will allow anyone to cycle the planet.

USCyclingReport: For those in search of an iconic, Old West city with cowboys who close off town square, set up a massive stage for a free concert, put in a New Belgium Brewing Beer Garden, line an entire street with more than 65 enthusiastic bike industry vendors and welcome everyone with genuine frontier charm, hospitality and some of the greatest mountain biking in America, then Prescott, Arizona is the place to be the weekend of April 26-28, 2013.

MBAction: It’s been nearly 10 years since a new GripShift model has been released. Now the “twist shift” system that gave SRAM their start as a company has been re-engineered from the ground up.

MBAction: If you're curious about the range of SRAM's new XX1 group, or think that it's just a fad for the Enduro crowd, think again. The XX1 group took down every medal at the 2012 Olympics in London this year.

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