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ArchivePhoto by damian_hunt courtesy of Flickr Alberto Contador plans to appeal any suspension for doping, the Tour de France champion said Friday, adding that he feels like a “victim of the system.” According to…
More Mountain Biking Videos Willow Koeber has had quite a year. She racked up a Bronze medal at the World Championships in Mt. St. Anne Quebec, a second place finish in the World Cup race at Dalby Forest, a second place…
A prominent doctor responsible for anti-doping tests has responded to Sports Illustrated's January 24th article on Lance Armstrong. The article details tests Dr. Don Catlin performed in the 90s on urine samples from a cyclist an unidentified source says was Lance Armstrong. The article mentions…
Contador at the 2009 Tour de France. Courtesy of Flickr Cyclist Alberto Contador has been stripped of his 2010 Tour de France title and suspended from racing for one year due to evidence that…
Photo courtesy of Flickr. With his classic bring-it-on attitude, Lance says he's not afraid of an investigation into new blood doping claims against him, according to RoadCycling.com. Sports Illustrated recently…
Photo from richardmasoner on Flickr Cyclist Floyd Landis announced on Monday that he is retiring from pro cycling, roadcycling.com and the AP report. He said that the battle to fix the sport's drug-tainted image is “not my…
Photo by richardmasoner on Flickr As a federal grand jury continues to investigate doping allegations against Lance Armstrong, writers at Sports Illustrated are reporting new information about the seven-time Tour de France winner's alleged role in an organized doping operation that…
Photo courtesy of Flickr. Switzerland's Federal Tribune rejected Alejandro Valverde's appeal to overturn a CAS ruling suspending him from cycling worldwide until January 2012, VeloNews reports. The initial CAS ruling came when WADA and the UCI requested a global ban…
Tour de France superstars Andy Schleck and Fabian Cancellara are just two of the high profile members of Team Leopard-Trek, the new pro-cycling supersquad that entered the International Cycling Union rankings at No. 1.
Courtesy of Flickr The Portuguese Cycling Federation has banned national cyclist Pedro Lopes for 15 years for a second doping violation, according to Velonation.com. Lopes's failure to disclose his whereabouts to doping authorities on three occasions over…
Besides running a successful design firm, Damion Hickman also runs one of the biggest club teams in Southern Califorina, Team Velo Sport. The 700 members blanket the sport of cycling, with riders from numerous disciplines: mountain biking, time…
Martin Erzinger, 52, a Denver man who hit and seriously injured a cyclist with his car near Vail, has been sentenced to probation and community service, the Wall Street Journal reports. The sentencing followed approval of a plea deal criticized…
I recently got a chance to talk with superstar MTB rider Danny MacAskill about learning tricks on his lunch break and his recent film project Way Back Home. It’s his latest viral video, filmed from Edinburgh to the Isle…
Deep down, most of us know it's the riders legs not the bike. When British Doc Jeremy Groves upgraded his $50, 30-pound steel commuter clunker to a $1560, 21-pound carbon beauty, he didn't feel like he was riding that much faster. So, he set off on a test. Just published in…
If there's a limit to what the human body can endure, the late Jure Robic was the one drawing the line.
After a stellar debut in 2010, the Beti Bike Bash, a women's only mountain bike race, is back for more next year. The 2011 race, presented by Stan's NoTubes, will be held near Morrison, Colorado on Sunday, June 12. I caught…
Mountain bike racer turned race director, Cimarron Chacon, put on the 2nd Annual 25 Hours of Frog Hollow this year. No doubt this was the 24-hour MTB event to race this fall. All the fun was happening off-road in Utah. I got a chance to…
Danny MacAskill, the phenomenal Scottish street trials biker, recently released a new video, “Way Back Home.” MacAskill came to fame last year with his first YouTube video, which has more than 21.5 million views to date. The new video is equally crazy and utilizes a more…
Contador in 2007. Photo Courtesy of Flickr The World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) and Tour de France champion Alberto Contador are still locked in a standoff after WADA investigated Cantador's claims that contaminated meat was responsible for a positive drug test…
Photo courtesy of Flickr U.S. investigators, led by FDA agent Jeff Novitzky, plan to speak with French officials this week for further investigation of doping allegations against Lance Armstrong, CBS News reports. The French agency, which has stored…
Photo courtesy of matt.herzog on flickr. A Connecticut driver who killed a 14-year old male cyclist in 2007 is now suing the boy's parents for allowing their son to ride without a helmet, Velo News reports. David Weaving was sentenced to…
Photo courtesy of Cape2Mecca Two South African Muslims, Nathim Cairncross and Imtiyaz Ahmad Haron, pedalled for nine months through 12 countries, arriving in Mecca in time for the annual Hajj pilgrimage, which began this week,…
Photo from Chiara Marra on Flickr A yellow jersey worn by Marco Pantani during his 1998 Tour de France win was stolen Thrusday, according the the Italian media and reported by…
The blogosphere lit up after news broke last week that a financial manager would not face felony charges after a hit-and-run on a cyclist in Colorado. Here's the latest with updates from involved parties and reactions…
Specialized Pro Rider Rebecca Rusch graced the stage among the boys last week for the premiere of Race Across the Sky, a documentary about the Leadville 100-mile mountain bike race. I got…
An Oklahoma woman will serve 24 years in prison for killing two cyclists in June, 2009, the Tulsa World reports. Tausha Borland's blood-alcohol concentration was over the legal limit when she struck three cyclists in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, then fled the scene of the accident.
Courtesy of ♻ on Flickr. Organizers of the 2011 Santos Tour Down Under in Adelaide, Australia next January claim that Armstrong's last international competition will be theirs, Reuters reports. During this year's Tour de France, Armstrong, who finished 23rd overall, claimed…
High-end cycling-apparel company Rapha is launching a free iPhone app that promises to make group rides a little easier to organize. The app, called Rendezvous, tracks not only the obvious stuff like mapping, terrain, etc., but also meeting points and the riders themselves. (See screen caps below.)…
Photo courtesy of Flickr Officials unveiled the 2011 Tour de France route on Oct. 19, and the cycling world can’t decide if the climb-heavy route is good or bad. Tour Director…
Hands up, or better yet sling a diaper and raise a glass (of milk) to Colorado resident Sari Anderson. This HoneyStinger/Trek rider recently raced the 24 hrs of Moab National Championship with Max Taam. The pair bagged the win…
Photo courtesy of Flickr. Focus Designs has unveiled the 2.0 version of their Self-Balancing Unicycle (SBU), Wired reports. Meanwhile, Segway users the world over rejoice at no longer being the least awesome travelers on the block. Essentially a one-wheeled Segway,…
Race Across The Sky 2010 from Citizen Pictures on Vimeo. Yes, Lance Armstrong dropped out of this year's race before it started. Still, the 2010 Leadville 100 MTB Race featured a slew of great competitors: Levi Leipheimer, Dave Wiens, Rebecca Rusch, and…
Ryan Sutter is best known as the guy who married Trista Rehn after courting The Bachelorette on the first season of ABC’s hit reality show. …
Last July, when I rode over four-hundred-and-fifty miles across the state of Iowa with one badass, my dad, Larry Erb, I hurt my knee on the sixth day. The sixth day. Twenty miles outside of Manchester, shooting pain started rippling through my knee with each pedal…
The 2011 Amgen Tour of California route was announced this morning, with seven communities hosting a stage start or finish for the first time, roadcycling.com reports. The sixth annual race will cover more than 800 miles in eight days, beginning…
Photo courtesy of Flickr. A urine sample taken from three-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador shows unusually high levels of plastic residue that may have come from plastic bags used in transfusions, CBC News reports. Last week, Contador…
Freeride mountain biking competition, Red Bull Rampage, took place in Utah just outside of Zion National Park on Oct. 1-3. For three days, mountain biking's top tricksters flew down a sandstone ridge, carefully picking whatever line they pleased between a start gate and…
Courtesy of murphy-R on Flickr. On the last rest day of July's Tour de France, Alberto Contador tested positive for small quantities of a banned substance, the New York Times reports. Although the 27-year-old Spaniard insists that…
If you want fresh news from the mountain bike races, where do you go? Mountain biker Shanon Bofeli hopes you'll chose MTBracenews.com, a website he created with photo galleries, featured articles and interviews…
Alternative, ecologically-friendly transportation is getting a lot of lip service this days, but we rarely see these ideas come to fruition. Next in the line of dreamers? The Shweeb transportation system, a pedal-powered recumbent bicycle capsule that hangs from a…
Ultracyclist Jure Robic died on Friday after being struck by a car while he was cycling on a forest road near his home in Jesenice, Slovenia. Emergency medical personnel rushed to the scene, but Robic could not be revived,…
Most people know me as the woman who has won three consecutive World Ironman Championships, and maybe for breaking the world record twice. But there was a time, pre-triathlon, when I lived and worked in the Himalayan paradise that is Nepal, which helped shape me into the person…
Photo from TimothyJ on flickr Ben King pulled off an amazing win at the USA Cycling Professional Road Race Championship on Sunday, becoming the first person under the age of 23 to win the event, all while holding…
Saturday, September 11 was one of the most painful days of my life. On that day, I competed in the Tahoe Sierra 100, a 100-mile endurance mountain bike race in the wilderness northwest of Lake Tahoe. Suffering with me were my husband and our…
Photo courtesy of Flickr Currently the points leader in the Tour of Spain, Mark Cavendish won today's 18th stage of the Tour, his third stage victory in the race, the BBC reports. The day came down to a…
The head of France's anti-doping agency said he would do anything to help Jeff Novitzky's federal investigation of Lance Armstrong, the AP reports. Pierre Bordry said that if Novitzky asked, Bordry would give the Food…
Time to give it up for Allison Mann. This girl has had a big year. Along with going Pro early last year, earning well deserved podium spots at the Bonelli Triple Crown, Fontana and Mellow Johnny's Pro XCT, and US Mountain…
During aggro gravity sports like downhilll mountain biking and skiing, keeping your focus is important. Sometimes that focus can overtake your consideration for others on the hill. I can't lie. I've had problems straight-lining past yardsales on my skis and bouncing by pulledover mountain bikers—only realizing later I should have…
Two-time Tour de France runner-up, Andy Schleck, was sent home from the Tour of Spain for breaking team rules, the BBC reports.
[Courtesy of Flickr] If you're reading this, you like bikes and, ostensibly, the notion of riding them every day. Cool. This is just an inaugural post (whoopty-doo!), but before we get started, there's a caveat: I'm the guy around here who…
The outdoor sports world seems filled lately with so many ultrafill-in-the-blank races that my normal, hours of activity a day, schedule is makingme feel lazy. And itlooks like yet another grueling mountain bike endurance race will be croppingup on the radar. Pierre’sHole, a 50/100 mile race held…
I ended up getting out of the office for a few days to get a taste of Canadian singletrack at the TransRockies…
Courtesy of Ramón Peco on Flickr. When the 75th Vuelta a España begins on August 28, it will be one marked by absence. Alberto Contador, the 2008 winner of the Vuelta and 2010 Tour de France winner, and Alejandro Valverde,…
TypePad has a feature where it remembers titles of posts much like your address operates. So I typed in Pro Specialized rider…
There's been a recent spate of cyclists changing teams, the Telegraph reports. Most notably Carlos Sastre, the Spanish rider who won the 2008 Tour de France, has left Cervelo for Geox for next season. Italian rider Riccardo Ricco has left Ceramica Flaminia after signing a…
Courtesy of Arlyn Asch on Flickr. Levi Leipheimer finished first at Leadville Trail 100 on Saturday with a new record time of six hours, 16 minutes, 37 seconds, the Associated Press reports. The Team Radio…
I talked to Adam Craig after the final stage of the TR3 ended in Etherington, Alberta. The TR3 is a three-day stage race that shares the same course as the full-blown TransRockies up…
Alan Bate, an English endurance cyclist, set a new world record for circumnavigation of the globe last week, reports The Adventure Blog. The 45-year-old covered 18,001.1 miles (28970 kilometers) in 114 days returning to his starting…
Courtesy of Arlyn Asch on Flickr. Mark Higgins, a spokesman for the cyclist, announced this morning that Armstrong will not be competing in this year's Leadville Trail 100, ESPN reports. According to Higgins, Armstrong will…
Is it ever too late to become an elite athlete? Sure. But Leander, Texas, native Liz Hatch, 30, has extended the admissions deadline. She got her first bike at age 24—an escape, she says, from a troubled relationship and the cigarettes-and-cocktails lifestyle of Miami, where she was living. Six years later, she's a key domestique on the Belgian powerho
Courtesy of kla4067 on Flickr. This morning Lance Armstrong joined Colorado Governor Bill Ritter at the state capital to announce that the inaugural Quiznos Pro Challenge will take place next August, the Associated Press reports.
Erik Weihenmayer is best known as the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 2001. Since then, the 41-year old has climbed the Seven Summits, carried the Olympic torch, graced the…
The Colorado Trail race is happening right now and thanks to Tucson resident, Scott Morris, we can all become blue-dot junkies. Scott is the owner of Topofusion and Trackleaders. His GPS software lets you know where you're going, and where you've been, showing your progress on a map…
If you can't beat him, sign him. Team Saxo Bank directer Bjarne Riis announced today that he has signed Tour de France champion Alberto Contador to a two-year deal. Saxo Bank's Andy Schleck, of course, finished second to Contador in both the 2009 and 2010 Tours…
It’s been over a month since I’ve been under the tutelage ofpro downhill bike racers. Still,not a day of riding has passed without me crashing and flying through dirt athigh speed. I have put every piece of armor to use, and I was evendeveloping perma-cramps from braking…
Lance Armstrong's lawyers say the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency is cutting deals with cyclists, like reducing bans from competition, if they testify or provide evidence that Armstrong doped, the AP reports. The…
No. 1WEEK ONE IS ALL ABOUT GREENDuring the Tour’s flatter stages (1–7), the race’s sprinters—including last year’s sprint champion, Thor Hushovd of Norway, perennial favorite Mark Cavendish of Britain, and U.S. upstart Tyler Farrar—will battle for a big lead in the green-jersey competition. Racers earn points toward the…
Three-time Tour de France winner, Alberto Contador, decided to leave the team that saw him through two of his Tour wins, roadcycling.com reports. To add insult to injury, Team Astana…
The bike trail stretching out in front of us looks innocentenough; just smooth dirt flanked by wildflowers in hues of purple, red, andyellow, bobbing in the breeze. ButI know better. I’ve been down thistrail before. I’m standing at the top of Lithium, a downhill specifictrail off Teton…
There's been a lot of talk in the mountain biking about MC SpandX's new video, Get Dirty. His last video, Performance, got viral in a nasty way as soon as it was released. So this time, I thought I'd…
Alberto Contador won the 2010 Tour de France on Sunday and stepped up on the podium to claim his prize. For more videos, including a look back at this year’s race, check out Versus. –Joe Spring…
Alberto won his third Tour de France on Sunday as the race concluded with the traditional run-in to Paris. In a surprise to no one, Mark Cavendish won on the Champs Elysees for the second year in a row—the first rider to do so—giving him five stage wins this year…
What was supposed to be a coronation run for Alberto Contador in Stage 19 turned into the fight of his Tour de France career. Andy Schleck, widely expected to lose minutes to Contador in today’s 32-mile time trial, turned in one of the best TT rides of his career today.
On Tuesday morning, British Olympian James Cracknell was hit by a truck in Arizona during his attempt to bike, swim, run and row across America, the…
Mark Cavendish was the winner in a day that featured the sprinters of the Tour de France. Alberto Contador and Andy Schleck took it relatively easy today, saving up for tomorrow's big push.