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Team Hotel San José heads into the 2010 season with a solid roster of riders and some promising newcomers who are ready to build on the success the team enjoyed in 2009.

USA Cycling’s development efforts are paying with strong showings in BMX, road, cyclocross and track racing.

Lance Armstrong has been quite the traveling man lately.

Several European news sources are reporting this morning that Radio Shack will be the “major American sponsor” expected to be announced by Lance Armstrong later today for his 2010 cycling team.

This would be the ultimate collector’s item for a ravenous Lance Armstrong fan

Here are the answers to last week’s April Fools contest. Unfortunately, we did not receive any completely correct guesses. Lest some of you complain, you had to correctly guess the true news items and not be fooled by the false ones.
Here are the answers

With the growing popularity of bicycle commuting, bike thefts are on the upswing. Bike friendly communities such as Austin, Portland and Madison have a dramatic increase in thefts in their downtown areas. Police advise bicycle users to lock their bikes on to a bike rack, use a …

Okay, here’s the deal. Some of this news is true and some is not. Anyone who can correctly separate the wheat from the chaff and send me the numbers of the true news items to aprilfools@bikeworldnews.com will be entered into a drawing for some cool cycling prizes.
The contest will run through April 7th. I’ll do a drawing from all of the correct entries on the 8th and contact the winner about getting their prizes to them.
Here’s the news (sort of):

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The first race on the 2009 USA Cycling Mountain Bike National Ultra-Endurance Calendar was held in Terlingua, Texas.  Bryan Fawley And Rebecca Rusch won in the pro men’s and women’s marathon race, with the leader board for each group as follows:
Men:
Place Name Time License Bib Team
1 Bryan Fawley 4:8:5.00 198394 18 Park Place Lexus
2 John Cody 4:14:41.00 7243 28 Solar Eclipse
3 Sean Sindt 4:17:4.00 235943 27 Austin Flyers/Bicycle Sport Shop
4 Rick Wetherald 4:17:50.00 188971 30 Solar Eclipse
5 David Hanes 4:19:39.01 252465 10 Ride Away Bicycles
Women:
Place Name Time License Bib Team
1 Rebecca Rusch 4:45:25.00 299 Specialized/Red Bull
2 Alice Pennington 5:7:26.00 150685 252 S&M/Desalvo Custom Cycles
3 Claire McKenna 5:15:21.00 280868 256 Team …

Coming again from California, here’s the news: The Maillot d’Oro could become the Maillot d’Rouge, it could be the year of the Schlecks, Paris-Nice could be ideal for Contador, and more…

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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 …