Bike World News

In today’s bicycle racing news, Lance Armstrong says that owning a team adds pressure, Saxo Bank poo-poos “mechanical doping”, Valverde pledges to come back and win and more….

Mark Cavendish FINALLY recorded his first win of the season, taking Stage 2 of the Tour of Catalonia (Vuelta a Catalunya).

South Africa’s Robert Hunter won the first stage of the Tour of Murcia in south-eastern Spain on Wednesday, with seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong finishing in the leading pack.

Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre – Farnese Vini) took the finish sprint ahead of Enrico Rossi (Ceramica Flaminia) and Jacopo Guarnieri (Liquigas – Doimo) to create the second all Italian podium in three days.

Gert Steegmans and Tomas Vaitkus will race in the opening weekend’s races of the Belgian cycling season. Their participation was questionable after crashes in the third and first stages of last week’s Tour of Algarve.

Radio Shack is one of the 25 teams expected to participate in the event. The team also received an invitation to Tirreno-Adriatico, a race often seen as preparation for Milan-San Remo.

In today’s cycling news, speculations about Eddy Merckx and cancer, cycling mourns to loss of Franco Ballerini, news updates and results from Mallorca:

In today’s cycling news, new Australian Pro Tour team in the works, Radio Shack announces pre-selection for Tour de France, Pro Tour may come to India and more.

Final team rosters have been announced for the 2010 Santos Tour Down Under. Allan Davis returns to defend his title on his new Astana team, but many eyes will also be on the Pro Tour debut of Lance Armstrong’s Radio Shack Cycling Team as well as British powerhouse Team Sky.

Trek unveiled the 2010 Madones that will be ridden by Team Radio Shack next year. With the team’s training camp underway in Tucson, AZ, Lance and the boys may be riding these bikes already.