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Franco Pellizotti, winner of the King of the Mountain Polka Dot jersey in the 2009 Tour de France, tackled the hills atop this custom painted…

Fair warning, this is copy/paste of a Press Release, but it’s interesting enough to pass along: PRESS RELEASE: In recent wind tunnel testing, Speedplay, Inc.…

Campagnolo, amidst swirling rumors that they are for sale / have been sold to Hello Kitty’s parent company  (which, BTW, we hear are patently untrue), announced…

Bike Europe is reporting strong rumors that Campagnolo has sold to a Japanese company, but rest assured Shimano has denied any involvement with the rumored…

Sometimes the info the manufacturer sends is just so elegant it’d be a crime to rewrite it.  Here, straight from Fisher’s brand manager is the…

Ever wonder what it takes to deliver the kind of power Mark Cavendish generates into the pedals without tweaking the frame into oblivion?  Well, this…

Look Cycles, which signed an official pedal sponsorship agreement with 2009 Tour de France winner Alberto Contador this year, provided him with these custom painted…

Alberto Contador lambasted Lance Armstrong during a press conference after returning to his hometown of Pinto (near Madrid), saying that the tense relationship between the…

Joshua Hammer is a freelance foreign correspondent for the NY Times and is based in Berlin. He and Mark Simon, also from the NY Times,…

After a several year hiatus, Pinarello is resurrecting the Dogma name with a totally new for 2010 racing road bike: the Pinarello Dogma 60.1.  It…

The Ride 2 Recovery is an event designed to bring veterans, celebrities, athletes, and hundreds/thousands of participants together to help injured heroes return to a…

Lance may be getting a little more attention than he wants from this bike, the Trek Madone he rode in the final stage of the…

Here are the good bits, summarized for your water-cooler gossiping pleasure: Cancellara accused Contador of drafting the motorbikes during Thursday’s final Individual Time Trial when…

Thanks to Denny @ Manitou for the heads up on this.

Graham Watson’s photos from the final Stage 21 of the 2009 Tour de France are up on his site.  Click on the pics above to…

The final stage started easy enough, with the riders cruising casually up to the Champs-Élysées in Paris. The first attack came just minutes after the…

Graham Watson’s photos from today’s Stage 20 are up, and he’s got a contest going.  Pick the 2nd place finisher in tomorrow’s final Stage (21)…

Today’s penultimate 144km Stage 20 of the 2009 Tour de France ended the last of the Tour’s real race days on the toughest climb of…

Graham Watson has his gallery from today’s Stage 19 up and running.  This one shows the finish with Mark Cavendish grabbing his fifth stage win…

Cavendish surprised many by hanging with the climbers to take the stage win and put himself back into the running (barely) for the Green Jersey…

Yep, you, too, can enter the Tour de France!  Just follow these six easy steps, as published on eHow.com (and drastically summarized by us): Race…

Lance Armstrong announced his new team sponsor for 2010: Radio Shack.  The official blurb reads as: RadioShack Corporation is proud to announce a partnership with…

The custom Trek Time Trial bike that Lance Armstrong rode in today’s Stage 18 individual TT was painted LiveStrong yellow with some cool drawings. Hit…

Rain threatened the later riders in the 18th stage of the 2009 Tour de France, a 40.5km Individual Time Trial in Annecy, France, but kept…

The Schleck brothers Andy and Frank rode brilliantly to move themselves into 2nd and 3rd overall, respectively, but Contador hugged their wheel the whole day…