Peloton: Tony Martin, who recently was part of the Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team World TTT Championship team and also repeated as World TT Champion, now turns his focus to Tour of Beijing as his next objective. He is the defending champion, having been the top rider in the inaugural stage race in 2011.

VeloNews: Emma Pooley is preparing to pull the brakes on her cycling career to focus on her Ph.D. studies. The top British cyclist stopped short of announcing her break last month, but the wind appears to be gone from her sails.

TwistedSpoke: Craig Lewis of Champion Systems will ride this year’s Tour of Beijing with his Chinese teammates Pengda Jioa, Biao Liu, Kun Jiang and Chinese national road race champion Gang Xu. Beijing ticket punched — enjoy the Great Wall, stay away from the clenbuterol-laced Kung Pao chicken.

CyclingNews: Darren Lapthorne (Drapac Professional Cycling) has backed up the form that saw him take out the Launceston - New Norfolk Classic on Sunday by winning the 122km second stage of the Tour of Tasmania.

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CyclingNews: BMC Racing Team has announced the signing of talented young American rider Larry Warbasse and renewed Yannick Eijssen's contract as it continues to rejuvenate its roster for the 2013 season.

SoCalCycling: " I may have found my holy grail of saddles – the Specialized Romin Expert."

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: The Est Vaud District Court has found in favor of the UCI in its defamation proceedings against Floyd Landis. The verdict was handed down on September 26 and the written judgement released by the UCI on Wednesday.

VeloNation: Argos Shimano seeks to step up a level, Lotto Belisol registration slightly delayed.

VeloNews: After abandoning his first race in four months under miserable conditions, Andy Schleck said Tuesday that the Tour of Beijing would be the next stop in his preparation for a comeback in 2013.

VeloNation: Former Giro winner states Italian cycling is in the doldrums.

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PEZ: All trade show’d out? Wait, there’s another, a special one in Padova, Italy called Bici Expo. Pez spent a day there uncovering the real, true meaning of Made in Italy… or thereabouts.

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.

InnerRing: The UCI won its case against Floyd Landis but as victories go, this is a weak one. Floyd is now forbidden to state that the UCI, Hein Verbruggen and Pat McQuaid are no different to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

Pave': "Here’s this week’s rankings. I know this is the first week we’re showing them, but it’s week four of the season. I will add the previous three weeks at some point this week/weekend."

InnerRing: Tom Boonen won the Flandrien prize for Belgian cyclist of the year, collecting the prize from the Belgian Prime Minister. The annual award has been split in recent times give an international winner and a domestic one. Bradley Wiggins scooped the worldwide award.

VeloNews: Tejay van Garderen might still be able to walk down the street in the United States unrecognized by most people, but when he’s hanging out in a hotel lobby in the Netherlands, fans are quick to identify him.

BicycleRetailer: Some Costco outlets are offering a "limited amount" of Cannondale bikes, according to a letter that the bike company's Dave Manchester sent to U.S. retailers on Tuesday.

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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.