Velonews has pictures of the new Giant Trance X, cyclocross bikes from Ridley and Scott and a new pedal from Look. Crank Brothers continues to expand beyond pedals with new threadless headsets, cranks and wheels.�

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The Indianapolis-based folks at Zipp have been very busy lately, and they are using the Eurobike exposition to introduce the fruits of their labor to the world.�

We talked a little bit about this one earlier in the week, but the new Sub-9 disc wheel is said to achieve negative drag when paired with Zipp’s new […]

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ESPN.com is reporting that a decision in the Floyd Landis doping case should come by the end of September. This is based upon information in a memo written by the chair of the arbitration panel, Patrice Brunet.

In the memo, Brunet informs the lawyers for both sides that the arbitrators will be holding the last of […]

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Here are a few new products from Day 1 of Interbike:

SRAM officially rolls out the new Red group
Felt introduces their 2008 line
Zipp rolls out some new equipment, including a disk claiming to have negative drag
Sampson Sports is showing off their latest iteration of a complete drivetrain group
Kuota has a new track bike as well as […]

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The Trek web site has been updated and now features all of their new models for 2008.

They are, of course, focusing on the new line of Madones. There are 13 bikes in the Madone line including 4 “Pro” models and 3 that are designed especially for women. There are 4 ranges of carbon that […]

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Vuelta Preview

Here’s a collection of various news stories related to the final Grand Tour of the year, the Vuelta de Espana:

Pez Cycling News has a great overview of the course and the stages
Looks like Michael Rasmussen won’t be able to find a sponsor in time to ride the Vuelta.�
12 Protour teams have agreed to a […]

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Several weeks ago, while out on a group ride, I had 3 flats within the space of less than 2 hours and 25 miles. I only had one tube on me, but was fortunate enough to be riding with some very generous people that not only shared tubes with me, but also helped me put […]

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The Eurobike trade show starts tomorrow. I won’t be there in person, but I’ll try to bring you all of the latest news and product introductions as they come out.

Some of the latest trends and innovations that are expected to dominate the show are:

The growth of the bicycle touring industry, especially among racing enthusiasts.
Bicycles […]

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Considering that the arbitration panel is probably taking weekends off, they’ve had 67 days to deliberate on the Floyd Landis issue.�

I previously said that the Supreme Court doesn’t usually take this long to make a decision. They do take this long, and longer in some cases. That said however, their case load is a bit […]

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Cyclingnews.com covers an interview that Greg Lemond granted to the Colorado Daily Camera, in which he made some drastic recommendations to clean up the sport of cycling.

Some of this has been proposed before: primarily, reworking the UCI, which has known for a long while that doping has been taking place, but only recently started doing […]

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