Bike World News

Gourmet chocolate. Designer watches. Cuckoo clocks. And now composite bicycle frames. Robots are building carbon fiber frames from BMC’s Grenchen HQ in the Swiss canton of Solothurn.

Backed by the resources that its parent company Easton-Bell can deliver, Giro is taking aim at the big three in cycling shoes—Shimano, Specialized and Sidi.

Former rider Laurent Fignon, 50, two-time winner of the Tour de France (1983, 1984), died Tuesday from cancer.

Hushovd, Norwegian Road Race Champion, nine-time Tour de France stage winner and 2009 green jersey holder, will ride for Team Garmin-Cervélo in 2011.

The UCI (International Cycling Union) and WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) present a united front on the biological passport program and the fight against doping

In today’s cycling news, Patrick Lefevre talks Ricco, more about the missing Landis bike, Fröhlinger to Skil-Shimano and more….

WADA director general David Howman thinks a U.S. probe into cheating in professional cycling could take years to complete, and says WADA is helping investigators indirectly

In today’s cycling news, Alberto Contador not opposed to Rasmussen as a lieutenant, BBox-Bouyges Telecom to extend through 2011, Geox backs Footon-Servetto & more

Tour de France champion Alberto Contador wants to compete in two of cycling’s three major races in 2011, and says winning all three in one year is “not impossible.”

“It was obvious to me that Lepiheimer was manipulating his blood,” said the former Gerolsteiner manager.