12 years ago in Barcelona, Italian Fabio Casartelli won the last Olympic Gold Medal for amateur cyclists for Italy and today, perhaps the late gold medalist was smiling down on his countryman Paolo ...

The article will discuss the adjustment of the rear derailleur. Derailleur bicycles have several sprockets on the rear hub. By using different combinations, the rider will find low gears for going up ...

In the last few years Spanish bike maker Orbea has grown from a small regional manufacturer to a challenger on the world stage. Under the Euskaltel-Euskadi team Orbea bikes have been ridden to Tour ...

This article will discuss the mounting and gluing of tubular tires. The tubular tire is made from a tire casing that is then sewn around an inner tube. The stitching is covered with a strip of cloth ...

To get the low-down on Lance Armstrong's rig, we caught up with his mechanic Jean-Marc Vandenberghe as the team were preparing the day before Milan-San Remo. Jean-Marc is from Moorslede, in the heart ...

The Tour de France pays homage to fallen rider Andrei Kivilev. The Kazakhstani rider had made Saint-Etienne his home and died here in a crash in Paris-Nice in March, 2003. The second ITT of the Tour ...

Gerolsteiner team manager Hans-Michael Holczer is very happy that this year sees his team aboard Klein Quantum bikes. "The world's best frame," is how he describes the US-made ZR 9000 aluminium alloy ...

It's not every day that the best cycling team in the world comes to train on the roads around your hometown. But on the weekend of January 11 that is exactly what happened in Scottsdale, AZ. On Friday ...

A large French-based chain of sports stores, Décathlon isn't the sort of brand you immediately associate in the same company as Colnago and Look. But since the start of its association with the AG2r ...

Mapei is one of the teams favoured by the patronage of Ernesto Colnago, the bike builder whose history goes back to mechanicking and building bikes for Eddy Merckx. The carbon fibre C40 is one of the ...

The complete route of the 2003 Centenary Tour de France was announced on October 24 in Paris at the Palais des Congres. As was previously known, the route will (broadly speaking) follow the original ...