CyclingNews: The only rider to test positive in this year's Tour de France, Fränk Schleck, came away from his meeting with the Luxembourg Anti-Doping Agency (ALAD) with "a good feeling", according to Wort.lu.

InnerRing: There are some who say that because almost every overall contender in the Tour de France was doping it doesn’t make much difference to the result. Since everyone was doing it the results would have been the same if everyone had ridden clean.

BrowneEye: "To say that the cycling world has been turned upside down is an understatement. No longer can anyone preface an introduction to Lance Armstrong as “accused of doping.” Any introduction should now be “disgraced professional rider Lance Armstrong.”"

Cyclismas: "Yes, there are drug infringements in women’s cycling.  I know that, of course I do. Some high profile; from crooked coaches and their evil regimes, to repeat offenders that make me feel angry every time my team lines up against them.  Even World Champions have fallen foul of the clear rules and regulations."

Bicycling: Christophe Bassons spoke out against doping during Lance Armstrong’s first Tour de France victory—and the backlash cost him his cycling career.

VeloNews: Filippo Simeoni was one of the last witnesses to testify in the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency case against Lance Armstrong, but was one of the first to confess. In 2002, he told the truth in an Italian hearing in Bologna, when he admitted he worked with doping doctor Michele Ferrari when the fashion was to keep quiet. In fact, he paid for it.

VeloNews: While the bPost Bank Trofee was celebrating a new title sponsor and series format, effectively turning the eight race contest into a stage race awarded to the rider with the shortest cumulative time, another, more subtle rule change sparked controversy on Sunday.

CyclingNews: The organisers of the Chrono des Nations time trial have revealed that Tony Martin (Omega Pharma-Quickstep) and Taylor Phinney (BMC Racing Team) will clash in the 48.5km event on Sunday October 21 –the final race of the 2012 European season.

Races & Results.
Tour of Beijing - Oct 9-13 (Stages & Results),
Giro d'Italia - May 4-26 (Stages),
Tour of Tasmania - Oct 2-7 (Stages & Results),
Paris - Tours - Oct 7 (Results),
Giro di Lombardia -  Sept 29 (Results),
CyclingNews: More...

CyclingWeekly: Ian Boswell arrives from the USA in London today to 'meet and greet' with his new Sky team-mates this week. Along with Joe Dombrowski, Boswell is one of two Americans joining the team next year, both are 21-year-old neo-pros.

VeloNation: Kevin Pauwels just four seconds behind World champion and takes lead in bpost bank trofee.

Racy Language: In his book Racing Through the Dark, David Millar relates how he went to Como with his new roommate Bobby Julich to pick up the American's belongings and Millar found a treasure-trove of Motorola team gear. That apartment on Via Masai was originally shared by Armstrong, Andreu and Hincapie but when Lance moved to a villa outside Como, Julich moved in to the apartment.

CyclingNews: Michael Ashenden, the anti-doping expert and former member of the UCI's expert panel, has criticized Cycling Australia – the governing body of cycling in Australia, for a lack of action against doping.

ABC: Anderson was present when Armstrong offered a member of an opposing team a $50,000 bribe to help fix a series of three races which carried a $1 million bonus for any rider who won them all.

VeloNation: Four Corners program raises questions about Armstrong and UCI.

CyclingNews: Andy Schleck is focusing on his future and has said that cycling should do the same. Despite the recent USADA report about Lance Armstrong and revelations of organised doping, the Luxembourger told L'Equipe that he was confident the sport will be able to overcome the problems of the past and that the current anti-doping tests were an efficient deterrent against doping.

VeloNews: Cycling’s governing body set up a drug testing system that was designed to fail and allow Lance Armstrong and other riders to avoid detection, said the ex-boss of the World Anti-Doping Agency.

CyclingNews: "The Secret Race" - Tyler Hamilton's autobiography, written with Dan Coyle, about doping in cycling during his troubled professional career, has been nominated by the prestigious William Hill Sports Book of the Year, with many expecting the book to win the award in November.

Judy Freeman: "Thursday’s short track was a tough one, using a good deal of the XC course for the main climb. Luckily, the rains from the week before let up so the course was in good condition. I say that, because on the Monday before the race, the officials weren’t sure there was going to be a race at all."

BikeRadar verdict 3 out of 5 stars. "Quality and range are both reasonable, although a crank extractor would have been handy."

CyclingNews: Tim Herman, a member of Lance Armstrong’s legal counsel, has told the BBC that the former Tour de France winner could sit a lie detector test.

Phil Anderson: "There are, and there will remain forever, many who continue to believe in Lance Armstrong’s truth. I for one wanted to believe that he had returned to the top level of cycling post cancer, a miracle."

BikeSnobNYC: Aftermath - The Dawn of a New Error.

CyclingNews: Paul Willerton, a former professional cyclist who rode for the US alongside Lance Armstrong during two world championship road races, said he and a small group of athletes and cycling fans plan to show up at the Nike corporate headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon, on Tuesday morning to protest the company's continuing support for Armstrong.

CyclingNews: Dr Michele Ferrari has told Cyclingnews that he is studying the documents from the USADA doping investigation but refused to be drawn on if or how he will respond to the multiple accusations that he helped Lance Armstrong and other riders dope with EPO, Growth Hormones and blood transfusion techniques.

VeloNews: They hid. They lied. They used injections to bring their EPO-saturated blood back toward neutral. According to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency’s 200-page report condemning the U.S. Postal Service dynasty, Lance Armstrong and his cadre of support riders beat the international drug-testing system by manipulating it on every level, from simply hiding to injecting saline just before drug tests.

ABC: "The doctor started asking Lance a couple of banal questions, and then boom, have you ever used any performance enhancing drugs? Lance, hanging onto his IV, rattled off EPO, testosterone, cortisone, growth hormone and steroids. My eyes popped out of my head."

PodiumCafe: There can be no doubt now that Lance Armstrong used performance enhancing drugs for the majority of his career.

VeloNews: Could a spontaneous wave of doping admissions from riders and staff sweep across the peloton in the coming days and weeks?

Remember the Lance Armstrong "What am I on" commercial that he did for Nike in 2001? A parody of it has now appeared on YouTube.

VeloNation: Eyewear company said it must wait for a guilty verdict before changing its position.

Retail Price: $1,809.90
You Save: $10.00
from: Cambria Bicycle Outfitter