USA Cycling will award its first national titles of the year this weekend as the 2009 USA Cycling BMX National Championships take place Saturday at Metroplex BMX in suburban Dallas.
All totaled, USA Cycling will crown 52 national champions in elite and amateur categories in both standard 20†and cruiser class divisions.
Lance Armstrong was only trying to help Alberto Contador when he said last week that the Spanish rider “still has a lot to learn.â€
“I didn’t mean it as a criticism per se,†Armstrong said Friday in a news conference ahead of the Milan-San Remo, his first race in Europe following 3 1/2 years of retirement.
Last week, Contador lost 3 minutes and the yellow jersey on the penultimate day of the Paris-Nice. Contador said he ran out of energy, forgetting to …Â Details
Bicycling has come a long way since you pedaled the old neighborhood on your Sting Ray with the sissy bar and purple banana seat.
Just as you eventually graduated to a 10-speed, road bikes have evolved significantly, and then there’s the highly popular category of mountain biking, which combines the pleasures (and pain) of road trips with the yee-haw attitude of wilderness adventure.
Whether you choose a mountain bike or a road bike, isn’t it time for you to venture outside of the neighborhood and … Details
Lance Armstrong will likely take it easy in Saturday’s Milan-San Remo classic, while Italian favorites Alessandro Petacchi and Daniele Bennati will face challenges from Tom Boonen and Thor Hushovd.
The race will be Armstrong’s first in Europe since winning his seventh consecutive Tour de France in 2005. After 3 1/2 years of retirement, Armstrong returned at the start of this season, finishing 29th in the Tour Down Under in Australia and seventh in the Tour of California.
Before retiring, Armstrong raced the Milan-San Remo six times and never won.
This year’s race—the 100th anniversary edition—measures 185 miles, making it the longest of the single-day classics… Details