Race route looks good for Belgium’s latest Tour hope With the number of individual time trial kilometres reduced to just 41 in the 2011 Tour de France, the course looks to favour the climbers even more than last year. This […]

Vuelta a España winner has recovered from Australia trip and looking forward to Lombardia Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas-Doimo) will start tomorrow’s Giro del Lombardia as one of the riders to beat. His best finish in the race to date was his […]

Dutch team settled for next year, when it will maintain Professional Continental status Skil-Shimano have signed Martin Reimer, who currently rides for the Cervélo TestTeam, whose signature completes the team’s roster. The 23-year-old German turned professional with the Swiss-registered team […]

Riders to wear helmet stickers instead to register discontent The riders’ protest, which was to delay the start of tomorrow’s Giro di Lombardia by 10 minutes, has been called off, according to tuttobiciweb.it. Instead the riders will wear stickers on […]

French sprinter returns to the team where his career began Sébastien Chavanel will join the Europcar team on a one-year contract, which sees him return to the team where his career began. The 29-year-old sprinter, who is the younger brother […]

Dutch bank considering a further four years after existing deal expires in 2012 With many teams still negotiating sponsorship contracts for 2011, Rabobank may be about to agree a deal to sponsor its eponymous team to the end of 2016, […]

Arrivederci to one of the best names in cycling The Giro di Lombardia this Saturday will mark the last race in the long career of Quick Step rider Marco Velo. The 36-year-old will be hanging up his wheels after having […]

World champion’s perfect season continues with fifth straight victory Zdenek Stybar (Telenet-Fidea) won the Kermiscross in the village of Ardooie, just outside Roeselare in West Flanders. The World champion won a three-up sprint over Belgian champion Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet) and […]

Luca Guercilena, Torsten Schmidt and Lars Michaelsen join Fränk and Andy Schleck’s as yet unnamed team With most of its roster of riders signed up for next season the Luxembourg Pro Cycling Project, the team built around brothers Fränk and […]

US company will continue to provide bikes to Kazakh team even after departure of Tour champion The Astana team has announced that Specialized Bicycles will continue to provide the bikes to the team in 2011, even though Tour de France […]