
Next week I will talk about gluing tubulars to carbon rims, as I promised, but this week I want to address the huge influx of mail I got on flats on the Xilinx cyclocross course, sealant, and on tubeless ’cross tires. ...

Top sprinter Ivan Dominguez is joining the re-titled Jamis-Sutter Home team for 2010, adding some serious sprinter cred to a team already known for its speedmen. Dominguez, a native of Cuba and now a U.S. citizen, has ridden with Saturn, HealthNet, and Toyota-United...

Spanish rider Pedro Horrillo survived one of the most harrowing crashes in cycling history, but he’s still holding out hope that he can return to the professional peloton in 2010. ...

Katie Compton (Planet Bike) won her sixth career cyclocross World Cup this weekend in Nommay, France. Compton battled with World Champion Marianne Vos for most of the race, said Compton's husband and manager Mark Legg...

There is a new delay in Alejandro Valverde’s hearing before the Court of Arbitration for Sport. According to a statement released Monday by the world sports court, a scheduled November 16 hearing has been postponed due to requests by all parties involved in the case. ...

Former Paris-Roubaix champion Stuart O’Grady was taken to a Spanish hospital this weekend after he collapsed following a lap on the Valencia MotoGP race course on the back of a motorcycle piloted by 2007 MotoGP champion Casey Stoner. ...

The same storm that soaked the OBRA Cyclocross Championships Saturday in Salem hung around to turn Cross Crusade No. 7 at Portland International Raceway into another slip-and-slide battle against gravity...

There is a bear living in my backyard. Not just metaphorically, but a real, live BC bike race, eat the small dog, massive apple sauce poop pile, growling, stinky, large black type of bear out there...

USA Cycling has announced that it has received and is reviewing 12 applications for men's UCI Continental Team status for the 2010 season. The deadline for submitting a team inscription was October 31, 2009 and no other candidates will be accepted for the 2010 season...

Results from the Cycle-Smart International Day 1, UCI C2, VERGE NECCS #9, held in Northampton, Massachusetts, on Saturday. Check back soon for a complete race report and photos. Elite Men 1. Jeremy Powers Cannondale/cyclocrossworld.com in 0:55:18 2...

Saturday’s Blue Sky Velo Cup cyclocross race on the Xilinx campus in Longmont, Colorado, might already be a fading memory, but there’s a good chance that a few bikes (and riders for that matter) are still bearing the muddy scars. ...

José Ángel Gómez Marchante is hoping to rediscover his lost chispa or spark with a move to Andalucía-CajaSur for 2010. ...

It was a crash that could have ended a career for many riders, but not for Jens Voigt. The popular German suffered one of the season’s worst spills when he landed hard on his face while descending the Petit-Saint-Bernard climb in stage 16 at the Tour de France. ...

Reigning Olympic champion Samuel Sánchez bet everything in 2009 on being the best at the end of the season. The Spanish attacker came close to pulling off some major victories, with second overall at the Vuelta a España, fourth at the world championships and second at the Giro di Lombardia. ...








