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Six races sprinkled throughout the United States will comprise the 2010 Nature Valley Pro Ride, the qualifying events for amateurs to earn a trip to compete against the country’s top men and women professional bicycle racers at the Nature Valley Grand Prix.

An already impressive prize list for this year’s third annual Glencoe Grand Prix presented by AT&T is being bolstered by the addition of a heap of cash primes.

Round 1 of ASA Entertainment’s Big Air BMX Triples played out last night before an enthusiastic Orange County crowd and measured up to everyone’s expectations.

Team Type 1 remained on pace Thursday morning to finish the Race Across America (RAAM) a little after midnight Eastern Daylight Time.

The second stop of the ASA Action Sports World Tour (ASA ASWT) had as many thrills and spills and unexpected twists and turns as a NASCAR race when the first Skateboard Vert and Big Air BMX Triples contests of the season took place tonight at Target Center in Minneapolis. Twenty-two athletes took to the ramps – 10 skateboarders and 12 bikers – to start paving their way toward this year’s Action Sports World Championships. For two men the trip has begun; Pierre Luc Gagnon (Montreal, Canada) and …

Basque races merge, Trek designers get new studio, Thomas Dekker out of Etoile de Besseges, Katusha has new website, Basso makes European re-debut and more…

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Floyd returns & Lance welcomes him back, Schumacher should probably look for a job outside of cycling and Christian Vande Velde will likely be ready for cold Alps crossings. All that and more today… 

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Here are some highlights from USA Cycling’s latest update:

The number of licensed competitive cyclists, clubs and events has continued to grow.
2009 licenses are on sale
USA Cycling members now get a 10% discount from Wheeltags, Mattie O Artworks, Hampton Inns, 53×11 Coffee and USA Cycling branded XP apparel
The US now has 16 professional racing teams with either UCI Continental, Pro Continental or Pro Tour classifications
There is a new professional cross country mountain bike series. The USA Cycling Pro Mountain Bike Cross Country Tour presented by Sho-Air (ProXCT) will consist of seven …

From Gazzetta dello Sport:
The Milan Bicycle Festival will run from November 26 to 30 and will celebrate the pride of cycling through music, film and art.
The Festival will include musical evenings, art exhibitions, street events, bike polo, urban races and cyclocross races. The festival will culminate with a dance party to be held in a large parking garage that will also feature a ring for indoor cycling.
Born eight years ago out of the Anthology Film Archive in New York, the Bicycle Film Festival is an expression of an international community …

This is the first year that I’ve really been following six day racing, and I finally decided to find out a little behind the history of this unique sub set of our sport.
Six day racing goes back all the way to 1878, when a professional named David Stanton sought a bet that he could ride 1,000 miles in six successive days, riding 18 hours a day. A gentleman named Mr. Davis put up £100 and the stake was held by the Sporting Life newspaper. Stanton started at 6am on 25 …