Bike World News

A dramatic mountain top finish in the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah’s second stage ended with Levi Leipheimer standing atop the podium in the AT&T Leaders Jersey

In today’s bicycle racing news, squad announcements from the Tour of California, injury updates for Kohler and Hushovd, MTB victory for Sven Nys and more…

Team RadioShack’s Levi Leipheimer secured his overall win in the 24th SRAM Tour of the Gila (New Mexico, USA) on Sunday. He accomplished this with only Lance Armstrong and Jason McCartney as his support team throughout the 5-day race.

Amidst Australian dignitaries, shapely flight attendants and a packed ballroom of invitation-only guests, sponsors and media (and perhaps taking a hint from Rock Racing), the Fly V Australia professional cycling team was unveiled Friday night at the posh Montage hotel in Beverly Hills.

Following a monstrous effort on yesterday’s “queen stage” at the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah which comfortably preserved his overall lead, Rock Racing’s Francisco Mancebo sealed the victory after Sunday’s fifth and final stage.

Today, Chris writes about supporting a rider in the break as well as the riders in the peloton with just one team car.

Here some old and new news from the weekend. We’ll be back later in the day with more news.

In today’s entry, Chris provides a visual view of the Stage 4 time trial at the Tour of Utah.

In Chris’ latest report from the 2009 Tour of Utah, he writes about what a “day off” for a mechanic is like during a stage race.

Darren Lill claimed victory for Team Type 1 Thursday on one of the most difficult days of the event billed as “America’s Toughest Stage Race.”