Rabobank’s sports director Erik Dekker made a large mistake during the opening individual time trial at the first year Tour of Beijing. Dekker pulled up alongside Rabobank’s team leader, Lars Boom during his time trial ride today. This incident is illegal in the sport of professional cycling and in the end costed Lars Boom twenty seconds. Dekker pulled the team car alongside Boom during... 

Garmin Cervelo cyclist Matt Wilson has been forced to withdraw from the first year Tour of Beijing, which begins tomorrow. The Australian crashed reportedly suffered a crash during a Garmin Cervelo training ride in China today and broke his hand. Reports state that Wilson’s bike went over an spot of oil on the road, causing him to crash. The 34 year old was part of an eight man team line up... 

After a week of rumors that American based squad Team RadioShack and the newly created Luxembourg based team Leopard Trek will merge together during the 2012 season, it has now been report that Leopard Trek will leave the professional cycling peloton after the 2011 season. The report is gaining more ideas that could make it clear. The French sports daily newspaper, L’Equipe reported this morning... 

American squad HTC Highroad is just eight weeks (or two months) away from their schedule termination from professional men’s cycling, but the American squad is still dominating all over the world with both stage and overall victories. The team pulled off an amazing performance today when two of their riders rode themselves into the top ten general classification at the USA Pro Cycling Challenge... 

Former National Junior World Track Champion and National U23 road champion, Simon Clarke has signed with GreenEdge Cycling the team wrote on the website. The young Australian is one of the new Australian future hopes for a professional cyclist career and will join the Australian based team in their first season ever. The 25 year old is the latest signing that the team has announced on their website. Simon... 

HTC Highroad lost their British sprinter Mark Cavendish on the fourth stage of the Vuelta a Espana. Known as the “Manx Missile” exited the 2011 Vuelta a Espana on an extremely sweating day before the Sierra Nevada climb at the end of the day. Over the past several days Cavendish has struggled with the heat and lost more time every stage. The Vuelta a Espana race radio announced approximately... 

Chris Sutton put team Sky Pro Cycling back on top of the team winnings after winning his first ever Gran Tour stage in Vuelta a Espana. After a disappointing team time yesterday, the team shot back up showing tremendous form when their Australian Chris Sutton pulled off an sprint win after climbing an eight percent gradient before the sprint came. When Chris Sutton saw a Omega Pharma Lotto make... 

The Kazak rider Alexandre Vinokourov who had to leave his final Tour de France early with a broken femur bone, announced earlier in the week that if all goes to plan over the next several months that he will return to racing in October for the final race of what he says is his final season before he retires. Vinokourov wrote on team Pro Team Astana‘s website that he will plan to race the Giro... 

BMC Racing‘s rookie, Taylor Phinney recognizes what is ahead of him at the Vuelta a Espana that starts tomorrow. The 21 year old racer knows that the upcoming three weeks of his life will be a living hell and will defiantly not be an easy month. Taylor Phinney is a little more than half way done with his 2011 rookie season. Although this year is the first year of him being a professional, the... 

Saxo Bank Sungard officials confirmed to press today that Alberto Contador will race a Danish criterium in the hometown of Saxo Bank Sungard boss, Bjarne Riis on August 12th. However people are asking what he will do after the Danish crit if anything. Officials told press that the Danish crit was the only confirmed race remaining on the Spaniards race program. After the Tour de France ended, Contador...