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Nov. 26, 2009McEwen eyes TDU in January
Multi-stage winning sprinter Robbie McEwen will spearhead the Katusha team in Australia's Tour Down Under in January, organizers said on Thursday. McEwen is a triple winner of the Tour de France's green jersey sprinters classification and has won 12 stages at both the Tour de ...
Nov. 25, 2009Pereiro Astana-bound?
Oscar Pereiro says he’ll be racing with Astana in 2010, but there’s no official word yet. The Spanish rider has been mulling offers from Xacobeo-Galicia and Quick Step, but he told a local radio station that he’s penned a one-year deal to ride with the Kazakh-backed ...
Nov. 25, 2009UCI registers 17 ProTour teams
The UCI ProTour council has registered 17 ProTour teams for 2010, including Astana, but that does not mean the road is completely clear for the team to keep its current status in the coming season. The UCI treats licensing and registration as two separate steps in a team’s ...
Nov. 25, 2009The Mailbag - Swimming, pure sport, money and more
Do you want to contribute to Mailbag, a regular feature of VeloNews.com? Here's how: Keep it short. And remember that we reserve the right to edit for grammar, length and clarity. Include your full name, hometown and state or ...
Nov. 25, 2009Tech Updates: Northwave, Campagnolo and more
The fall trade show season is now just a distant memory, and 2010 cycling gear is already hitting the shelves. It’s never too early to start thinking about new toys for the coming cycling season, so we’ve got a roundup of a few tech items that caught our collective attention ...
Nov. 25, 2009iamTedKing: A jet-lagged rant from a traveling pro
What's that you say? You've just finished up your team meetings in Switzerland, and you're now flying from Basel back home to the United States, and you have a brief layover in Frankfurt, Germany, yet very unseasonably windy weather caused your first flight to land well after ...
Nov. 25, 2009Pro XCT tour is back for 2010
From Singletrack.com The Pro Mountain Bike Cross Country Tour is back for its second year with six races in 2010. The Pro XCT will feature six UCI-sanctioned events in California, Alabama, Wisconsin and Colorado. In 2009, Jeremy ...
Nov. 24, 2009Zubeldia: ‘RadioShack best place for me’
Haimar Zubeldia says switching to RadioShack and leaving behind compatriot Alberto Contador at Astana is what’s best for him right now. The veteran Basque all-rounder, who twice finished fifth in the Tour de France, was among 26 riders revealed Monday for Team RadioShack ...
Nov. 24, 2009Astana hits another ProTour bump
The Astana cycling team may have hit another hurdle in its efforts to re-secure its ProTour license after the UCI gave the team 24 hours to produce a formal bank guarantee before it will approve the team’s renewal. The team’s license is effective through the 2010 season, ...
Nov. 24, 2009Someone swiped a Trek-Livestrong team bike from the Mellow Johnny's store over the weekend.
Someone made off with a Team Trek-Livestrong time trial bike this weekend, swiping it from Lance Armstrong’s Mellow Johnny’s bike shop in Austin. The Trek Equinox TTX SSL, which was used by team member Ryan Baumann during the 2009 season, was being stored in the future ...
Nov. 24, 2009Technical Q&A with Lennard Zinn - Of drivetrains, tires and pressure
Dear readers, I know that I promised to describe how to eliminate front brake shudder on a cyclocross bike in today’s column, but I only just got the parts today that I think will definitively eliminate it, and I didn’t have a chance to install them today, much ...
Nov. 23, 2009Mailbag: Saving track events and proper pressure
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