All three of cycling's major disciplines are represented at the Olympics, making the Games a unique event from a cycling point of view: the only time that elite-level competition brings together the ...

Dual pivot caliper rim brakes are used on many modern road bicycles. The design is a combination of a "center-pull" and a "side pull" brake. One caliper arm has its pivot off of wheel center, the ...

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 ...

With this year's association with an Italian team, things have come full circle for Specialized. Although it's perhaps best known as a pioneer of production mountain bikes, Specialized started as a ...

Certain firms in Italy still excel at maintaining the highest standard of production quality and artful expression while creating industrial products. De Rosa Ugo & Figli/Biciclette Speciali is an ...

Belgian Tom Steels and Djamolidine Abdoujaparov of Uzbeikistan were disqualified from the Tour de France on a day of high drama which also saw German Erik Zabel stripped of victory after winning ...

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 ...

Mark Renshaw (Credit Agricole) went one better than his second place on Sunday evening in Glenelg at the Down Under classic take the first stage of the Tour Down Under and in doing so the overall lead ...

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 ...

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 ...

Movies: "I like a lot of different films, but Ronin is one of my favourites; I guess I'm a bit of a kid, I like things with guns and cars." Music: "I like rap, but not the stuff you see on MTV or hear ...