ProRoadCycling.com is a brand new road cycling community. Actually it is so new that it is still in beta, but users are accepted already now (www.proroadcycling.com). The cycling community aims to connect fans of professional road cycling teams, offering user profiles, team groups, and group discussions which kind of works like forums. Other interactive features are friendships, commenting, private... 

Yesterday the UCI announced the American racing calendar for 2012, the press release stated that both the USA Pro Cycling Challenge and the Tour of Elk Grove have been upgraded to 2.HC and 2.1. Both of these several day stage races will be going into their second year as classified events under the UCI. Together the two races form part of a six race professional calendar in the United States. The... 

The Union Cycliste International (UCI) published a list of teams that currently have a ProTour license for 2012, teams that are applying for a ProTour License through the UCI and finally a list of teams that have a Pro Continental Teams. A maximum of eighteen teams are allowed to be listed as a UCI ProTeam, according to the list of the UCI, only ten teams have 2012 WorldTour license so far. American... 

Slovenian cyclist, Janez Brajkovic will not ride with RadioShack Nissan Trek in 2012 after teams RadioShack and Leopard Trek merge at the beginning of the 2012 season. The 28 year old general classification rider will ride in Pro Team Astana colors in the 2012 and 2013 seasons. The Kazakhstan cycling team announced today that the contract has been signed. “He is a strong rider who will held an... 

Pat McQuaid is a former professional road cyclist from Ireland and is currently the President of the UCI. Pat McQuaid was a professional cyclist between 1966, when he started as junior, and 1982. Previous to his start as the President of the UCI Mr. McQuaid was the president of the Irish Cycling Federation from 1996-1999. In 2006 he was named the president of the UCI and has stayed in that position... 

The final grand tour of the 2011 cycling season, Vuelta a Espana, is finished. Many different riders had control of the overall lead at one point or another, but in the end Juan Jose Cobo (Geox TMC) pulled off his first ever grand tour win, at the age of 30. He won with a gap of 13 seconds ahead of Chris Froome (Sky Pro Cycling) and a 1:30 gap ahead of Bradley Wiggins (Sky Pro Cycling). As usual... 

The final day of the Vuelta a Espana that could give Chris Froome (Sky Pro Cycling) any chance of gaining time on Juan Jose Cobo (Geox TMC). Chris Froome and team Sky Pro Cycling did not push hard to gain time, did not set the pace and did not attack on the final category one climb. However that did not mean that all excitement was taken out of the stage. Carlos Barredo (Rabobank) and Carlos Sastre... 

The second day of the last two most important stage of the 2011 Vuelta a Espana is over and it was most certainly a large important stage that has changed many things including the overall race standings. After a three man breakaway was caught around 30 kilometers remaining, another general classification group former. Once again high placed overall riders were dropped by the group that was being... 

Today was the start of two days that most of all general classification riders said could be the deciding factor of who would win the race overall. By the finish line, the 13th stage of the Vuelta a Espana was most certainly a deciding factor. Large overall hopes were dropped and lost major time gap. Yet another breakaway succeeded for a stage win, but that was not as important as the general classification... 

Today was a quick reminder to the general classification riders and climbers that the climbing at the 2011 Vuelta a Espana was not over yet, and that there is still more to come. Today was a difficult and nervous for race leader Bradley Wiggins and his Sky Pro Cycling team. A breakaway started with 28 riders that had several riders within three minutes, thirty seconds of the overall race leader....