The city of Stuttgart’s request for an injuction to bar Paolo Bettini from racing in the World Championships road race on Sunday has been rejected, so he will be lining up to defend his rainbow jersey.
T-Mobile is revamping their team for 2008, adding 10 new riders, the most notable of which is George Hicnapie and […]

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Las Vegas, NV - September 27, 2007 - The fans have spoken and Joe Yule, a graphic designer and avid cyclist from Redondo Beach, California, has been selected as the winner of the “Get in the Slipstream” contest, sponsored by Slipstream Sports LLC and its chief venture, the Slipstream/ Chipotle Professional Cycling Team. The first-of-its-kind […]

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Yesterday was Day 2 on the show floor at Interbike 2007.
Fixed Gear Gallery returns with a boatload of pictures:

A visit to the Phil Wood booth
A utility bike from Sycip
New track bikes in aluminum and carbon fiber from Pinarello
Dedicated track and fixed road bikes from Masi, some at very attractive prices
Cruisers, commuters and a revamped Madison […]

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Reports are starting to come in from the show floor.
We start off today with a good number of pictures from the Fixed Gear Gallery. They are, of course, focused on the fixed/singlespeed/commuter world. Some of products they highlighted were:

Cool weather gear from Gator
Teschner and Colnago all carbon track frames
Fixed bikes from Kind, Felt, SE, KHS, […]

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After allegations that current World Champ Paolo Bettini supplied Patrick Sinkewitz, and his refusal to sign the “Commitment for a New Cycling” agreement, Germany is trying to bar him from riding in the World Championships road race on Saturday. Signing the agreement is voluntary; Bettini is said to have signed a version which stated that he […]

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Fabian Cancellera is having a good couple of years.
2006 saw him winning Paris-Roubaix over the previously dominant Tom Boonen and winning the Worlds Time Trial competition later in the year.
He won the prologue and Stage 3 of this year’s Tour de France and held on to the yellow jersey for 8 days.
Now he overcomes pressure, […]

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The competition kicked off with U23 and Women’s time trials.

World U23 Cyclocross champ Lars Boom of the Netherlands came out on top in the U23 time trial, besting Mikhail Ignatiev of Russia by 8 seconds. Jerome Coppel of France came in third. The only American, Tejay Van Gardern, came in 38th. 

Boom says that he is not […]

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Yesterday was Day 2 of the Outdoor Demo.

The weather was said to be very non-Las Vegas like and agreeable, though some, like Matt Pacocha at VeloNews mentioned that getting out to Bootleg Canyon took an unusually long time.

This report from CyclingNews focuses on cyclocross gear:

A new titanium cyclocross machine from Litespeed that comes in at […]

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Do you have some sea salt on hand? Okay, pop a grain into your hand.

Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, we can report that there is talk of a country-spanning Tour of America being planned for 2008. This web site has preliminary information about the race. The race is said to have […]

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The Road Cycling World Championships kick off tomorrow in Stuttgart, Germany with U23 and Women’s Time Trials.
The Elite Men will have their time trial on Thursday.
Road races will start on Friday. The course for the circuit race is 19.1km long with several challenging climbs.  The Women will do 7 laps, the U23 riders will […]

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