The March issue of Velo magazine, the Nations Issue, is unlike anything Velo has done before. From tip-to-tail, we profile the changing currents in global cycling, just in time for the London Olympic Games.

European correspondent Andrew Hood profiles Eritrean Daniel Teklehaimonot and with just six months until the Olympics. Editor Neal Rogers explores the potential U.S. road team — including cover athletes Evelyn Stevens and Taylor Phinney — and finds that both the men’s and women’s squads are wide open.

Former Velo editor-at-large John Wilcockson previews the London cycling events in “Britain Takes Center Stage.” The Olympic road race course, with its featured Box Hill climb, runs past Wilcockson’s childhood home, and the British ex-pat queries whether his home nation, with Mark Cavendish and Sir Chris Hoy at the helm, can repeat its historic eight-gold-medal haul in 2008.

Britain’s top billing in London is telling of the British Isles’ rise to the heights of the sport, but Britain’s big-dollar ascension isn’t the only move atop the international peloton. In “State of the Nations,” we rate the traditional powerhouses like France, Italy and Russia, which have lost ground over the past decade, while Australia has built on the legacy of Phil Anderson to become perhaps the next contender to assume a place atop cycling.

Globetrotter Gregg Bleakney profiles efforts by the UCI to globalize the sport from Colombia to China and back, tracing the rise of the McQuaid family over the last 30 years. Australian attorney Lloyd Freeburn provides the counterpoint to “Cycling Gone Global,” claiming that at the heart of the federation is a deeply flawed constitution that favors the European continent.

Velo tech editors explore your origins of the goodies hanging on your local shop wall. Their efforts to assemble a bike built entirely in the U.S. falls short, but with a little creativity, an all-Italian rig proves that while hard to find, a high-quality bike is still available “Prodotti Italiani.” In Training, coach Trevor Connor outlines a plan to have you primed for the national championships.

The Velo tech crew of Nick Legan, Caley Fretz and Lennard Zinn profiled over 80 bikes for the 2012 Buyer’s Guide, from dream road bikes to trail mountain bikes, including six “Horses for Courses” to help you choose the right steed for your upcoming event.

They also weighed in on the latest trends in the cycling industry — bottom bracket standards, electronic shifting, wide rims and aero clothing. Not all were given the thumbs up. Volagi’s Liscio, however, was dubbed “the bike of the future,” and held up as a fine example of where bikes are headed.

Seven of the sport’s architects are profiled in a special “Creators” section, featuring the men who first brought you aero bars, carbon fiber frames, 29er wheels and much more.

Also inside: Nick Legan has a chat with the founder/owner of Quality Bicycle Products, the largest bike and parts distributor in the cycling industry; Lennard Zinn visits the factory of the world’s toughest chain; and Caley Fretz gives a peak inside the job of a tech writer with his At The Back column, “Unattainable Perfection.”

Special Issue: Cycling’s Biggest Personalities

In this special issue we bring you a baker’s dozen of the most compelling personalities in cycling — and give you the opportunity to see how you stack up against their racing mentalities.

In establishing those we chose to profile in our Personalities Issue, we agreed that, more than results or name recognition, character was paramount. In the past year we’ve published cover stories on big personalities like Mark Cavendish, Jens Voigt and Fabian Cancellara, but there are countless others involved with the sport that merit attention.

Some were obvious choices to an American publication like ours, such as the always-smiling Chris Horner, the dark comic Mike Creed and the bass-thumpin’ Jeremy Powers. Other riders, such as Alexi Grewal and Willow Koerber Rockwell, weren’t included in the issue for recent racing results, but rather because their candid, outspoken nature makes them a story almost any time they have something to say.

And others, like Matthew Keenan, Brian Worthy, Ed Dailey and Andy Pruitt, aren’t racers at all, but they are colorful characters that have made a tangible impact on the bike-racing community.

To grace the cover, we unanimously chose Garmin-Cervélo’s Dave Zabriskie, professional cycling’s most eccentric and unpredictable character. He’s also the sport’s most enigmatic.

Zabriskie is a time-trial specialist who prefers to ride a mountain bike. He’s a videogame aficionado who unabashedly loves Marvel Comics characters, embracing the stars-and-stripes Captain America designs his six national TT championships have inspired. He’s a borderline germophobe, avoids talking on cellphones, and spent the 2011 season subsisting on a diet free of animal products. He’s been with the same woman, Randi, since he was a teenager; they have two sons, Waylon and Bo. His own childhood wasn’t easy; he grew up a non-Mormon in Salt Lake City, his parents divorced when he was young, and his father died while he was in high school. During his awkward teenage years he wore rollerblades; these days he’s traded them in for those goofy-looking Vibram toe shoes. He’s also a rider who is notorious for frustrating journalists, his oddball replies often ranging from entertaining to frustrating, usually spoken in a tone that straddles the line between serious and surreal.

Because this issue is dedicated to the qualities that define these individuals, we developed a test for you, the reader, to determine your own cycling personality, based very loosely on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment. We shared our cycling personality test with the subjects of our feature stories, to see how it matched up with the stories we’d produced. They are not necessarily the winningest names in cycling, though they do include the top sprinter in women’s road racing and the first American to win a stage in all three grand tours. The results may surprise you.

Also inside: A surprise prosecution means there is much more at stake for WADA than just Alberto Contador’s fate; with 12 months to the Louisville world cyclocross championships, the time is now for U.S. riders and organizers; how to personalize your bike, and your training; and an angry letter to the editor from former Giro d’Italia boss Angelo Zomegnan.

Cycling’s Cast of Characters
The Enigma: Dave Zabriskie
The Guru: Andy Pruitt
The Tragic Hero: Thomas Voeckler
The Comedian: Mike Creed
The Regulator: Ed Dailey
The Soul Searcher: Willow Koerber Rockwell
The DJ: Jeremy Powers
The Renegade: Alexi Grewal
The Storyteller: Chris Horner
The Matron: Ina Teutenberg
Mr. Ubiquitous: Brian Worthy
The Next Phil Liggett: Matthew Keenan
The Deaner: Geoff Kabush

Phenomenal - Philippe Gilbert

What’s Inside the January 2011 issue of Velo Magazine

The 2011 season will be remembered as the year of Philippe Gilbert’s season-long dominance, a first-ever Australian Tour de France winner in Cadel Evans, and one of the greatest world championship downhill runs in recent memory. Teams collapsed and merged, Alberto Contador’s “tainted-beef defense” was finally tested, and a young man lost his life on the winding roads of Italy during the Giro d’Italia.

Velo’s 2011 Awards Issue takes a step behind the scenes of all these stories and more, honoring cycling’s most incredible men and women and the feats that set them apart.

The 33-page awards section is headed by an in-depth look at the incredible season of International Cyclist of the Year Philippe Gilbert, who won from March through September, in seven different countries, securing the UCI WorldTour ranking along the way.

Other riders honored include North American Cyclist of the Year Levi Leipheimer, international cyclocross racers of the year Zdenek Stybar and Katie Compton, and international mountain biker of the year Catherine Pendrel — all of whom were photographed wearing our special Velo Cyclist of the Year jersey.

Velo’s annual Awards Issue takes you inside the most dramatic days of racing this season, the best and worst in tech — our pick for tech innovation of the year will surprise many — and the year’s biggest disappointments.

RadioShack neopro Ben King ruminates on his unforgettable first season in the WorldTour, Kenda-5-Hour Energy’s Phil Gaimon waxes philosophic about “that guy” on the local group ride, and ace contributor Dan Wuori caps it all off with the sidesplitting Wuori awards.

Velo European correspondent Andrew Hood was a busy man in October, traveling straight from the world road championships, in Copenhagen, Denmark, to the inaugural Tour of Beijing — and he returned with compelling inside analysis from both.

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In China, where Hood also covered the 2008 Olympic Games, the story behind the race involved the UCI’s controversial foray into race promotion. Critics saw riders and teams blackmailed into racing a contrived event designed to stuff the pockets of the UCI in a country that has a long litany of human-rights abuses. The UCI viewed the race as a toehold into the world’s fastest growing market, with unforeseen opportunities to expand the sport, fuel bike sales, tap potential new sponsors and spawn a new generation of Chinese racers. After the dust settled, with Tony Martin winning HTC-Highroad’s swansong stage race, the Beijing tour turned out to be all that and more.

Also in the December issue is the story of how a misfit team of Americans dropped in on the 1985 Giro d’Italia, winning two stages and surprising everyone — including themselves. (Adapted from the new VeloPress book, “Team 7-Eleven: How an Unsung Band of American Cyclists Took on the World — and Won”). American cycling would never be the same.

Velo’s technical editors Nick Legan and Caley Fretz contributed two key seasonal articles. “How to Winterize Your Bike” provides tips on converting your bike for foul weather, whether it’s a road racer or a dedicated beater. And our Holiday Gift Guide features eight goodies for you or a loved one (or both).

Also in the issue: Sitting In with Alberto Contador, and Ryan Trebon’s return to center stage, both by Brian Holcombe; the popular Ask a Pro column, by Kenda-5-Hour Energy rider Phil Gaimon; and At the Back, by new, popular contributor Dan Wuori of Livestream Diaries fame.

Velo Magazine - November 2011 Cover

For Velo’s first-ever Hardman Issue, we couldn’t choose anyone but Leopard-Trek’s charismatic German Jens Voigt to grace our cover. The sport is filled with characters that are as tough as nails, but none exemplifies the true meaning of “hardman” as does Voigt. Velo reporter Brian Holcombe sat down with Voigt to explore what made him as hard as nails, and learn about Voigt’s favorite hardmen of the sport. The Velo editorial staff also selected our top-10 favorite hardmen of the modern era, including Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, Johan Museeuw and Sean Kelly. Find out which riders were chosen, and why.

Race features include on-the-ground coverage from the inaugural USA Pro Cycling Challenge, where Levi Leipheimer led an all-American podium; the Vuelta a España, where Juanjo Cobo overcame a pair of Sky teammates for the upset win of the year; and the Québec and Montréal GPs, where Philippe Gilbert sealed the top spot on the UCI’s World Tour Individual rankings.

Also inside — a 24-page guide to the 2011 Exergy U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclocross, featuring races in Wisconsin, Colorado, Kentucky and Oregon. The USGP Guide also presents the key riders (and rivalries) to watch this fall, and three cyclocross steeds for three very different needs.

And in gear coverage, Tech editors Nick Legan and Caley Fretz combed the aisles at the Eurobike and Interbike trade shows to present the hottest new gear for 2012.

From July 2 to July 24, the Tour de France captured the attention, and imagination, of cycling fans around the world. Along the way the race saw heartbreak, in the form of countless heavy crashes during the first week, as well as revelations, such as the stunning week in yellow Europcar’s Thomas Voeckler enjoyed en route to a fourth-place finish, as well as the stage win atop l’Alpe d’Huez, and best young rider’s jersey, won by Voeckler’s teammate Pierre Rolland.

American team Garmin-Cervélo had its best Tour yet, winning four stages, including the team time trial, and spending a week in yellow with Thor Hushovd, while the RadioShack squad saw three of its four potential GC leaders exit the race with injury before the race reached the Alps.

In the end, however, the biggest winner was BMC Racing’s Cadel Evans, who became Australia’s first Tour de France champion by riding a smart, aggressive and consistent race, punctuated by a demonstrative time trial performance in Grenoble to take the yellow jersey for just one day — the only day that matters — into Paris.

The Velo editorial staff was on the ground in France from beginning to end, and brings you inside the peloton, and even inside a Mavic neutral support vehicle, to capture all the winners and the losers, the mountains and the field sprints, the crashes and the drama, and the heroes and the personalities of the 98th Tour de France.

Pro bikes

From perennial French underdog and Tour wildcard Cofidis: a Look 695 IPAC with Campagnolo Super Record and Fulcrum wheels. From the Russian Katusha Team: a Focus Izalco with SRAM Red and Vision wheels. And finally, from the home of former Tour de France champion Carlos Sastre and enduring GC threat Denis Menchov: a team Geox-TMC Fuji Altamira with Shimano Dura-Ace and DT-Swiss wheels.

Fast Families: Garmin-Cervélo’s Peter Stetina is a third-generation U.S. national champion, following in the footsteps of his father Dale, his uncle Wayne, and his grandfather, Roy. Plus: an excerpt from Davis Phinney’s new memoir, and a look at other pro cycling dynasties.

The Maglia Rosa

Also inside: The official 68-page guide to America’s big new event, the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, with detailed stage information and a team-by-team breakdown.

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Velo Magazine - August 2011

Refining a legacy that began nearly 40 years ago, Velo Magazine is the evolution of North America’s biggest and oldest bike racing magazine.

What began in 1972 as Northeast Bicycle Racing News became Cyclenews, then Velo-news and finally VeloNews.

Now, we present Velo Magazine.

For years we have had two distinct products — the website and the magazine — but they were both branded VeloNews. We know that you want news in real time online, and more in-depth analysis and great stories in print, and that is exactly what we have done. But the shared name of VeloNews — combined with many newspapers’ practice of putting identical content in print and online — has led many of our web readers to believe that our magazine was merely ‘the print version.’ This couldn’t be further from the truth. They are two completely different animals.

As digital media continues to speed up, with frantic news blurted out in 140 characters or less, the calm pace of a magazine has more importance than ever. Yes, we all have much more access to online cycling information these days — and that’s a good thing — but it’s nice to have a filter to extract the barrage of noise while adding insightful context.

For longtime VeloNews subscribers, Velo Magazine will be exciting but familiar. Velo is a bike racing magazine, pure and simple. But we continue to innovate and refine the print medium. Bike companies aren’t producing the same thing as they were in the 1970s, and neither are we.

With this first issue of Velo, available this month, we have completed a months-long redesign, refining many of our tried-and-true sections and adding in fun new elements.

A vastly expanded and heavily visual front-of-book section is immediately engaging for new and veteran cyclists alike. Our VeloLab test on pro bikes anchors the Tech & Training section. VeloLab compiles 200 hours of bike testing — both on the road and in the lab — to give you a broad contextual analysis, mixing quantifiable data with expert opinion. And we do the same thing with our feature stories, giving you the big picture of what it all means with broad analysis and the best photography in cycling.

All this is creatively presented by the best art director in the business, Mike Reisel. If you have picked up a copy of VeloNews recently, you have seen his innovative race illustrations, which break down key race moments better than any verbal description possibly could.

With more experience covering bikes and racing than any other magazine, our same core staff will continue to produce Velo Magazine. Editor at large John Wilcockson has covered the Tour de France for more than 40 years. Technical editor Nick Legan worked for years as a mechanic on teams like RadioShack, Garmin and CSC before bringing his journalism degree to bear at Velo. Managing editor Neal Rogers has wielded microphones, voice recorders, cameras and notepads at races around the world for a decade. If Neal doesn’t have a cell phone number for a rider, then that rider probably doesn’t have a cell phone. European correspondent Andrew Hood gets his bills in Spain, but lives on the narrow roads of Europe, traveling with the giant circus that is professional cycling. A few other trusted names you will continue to see in Velo Magazine include Lennard Zinn, Charles Pelkey, Brian Holcombe, Caley Fretz and Steve Frothingham.

We had a lot of fun creating Velo. When out at the races, we have a great time watching the competition and talking with the riders — not to mention seeing the world. And we of course love to get out on the bike ourselves whenever we can. We believe this first issue of Velo captures all of that passion, and we are confident that our combined experience has distilled the best of cycling into a great magazine for you to enjoy.

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What’s Inside the July 2011 issue of VeloNews

He may appear a bit boastful when he says “no one can drop me but Contador,” however, Radioshack’s elder statesman Chris Horner certainly backed up those words with his victory at the Amgen Tour of California. VeloNews managing editor Neal Rogers gives you the inside story behind the biggest race on American soil, including a race breakdown, interviews, awesome photography, and more.

In keeping with our recent bike tests, in the July issue we reach out to our female readers with our first-ever women’s road bike test. Rider/writer Rebecca Heaton and her crew put four women’s bikes and several pieces of hi-tech women’s apparel through the paces.

Photojournalist Gregg Bleakney files from the Giro d’Italia with an amazing behind-the-scenes pictorial of Italy’s grand tour.

In an eight-page special mountain bike section, Singletrack.com editor Jamie Bate takes an in-depth look at the evolution of the sport of mountain biking with a focus on the wild popularity of endurance races around the country.

Tech editor Nick Legan reviews some of the hottest aero gear for your time trial rig, and Ainsele MacEachran shares some secrets on how to get to the front in your next crit race.

Fabian Cancellara entered the cobbled classics as the undisputed favorite. He was widely expected to win both the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix. He did neither. Neal Rogers explores what went wrong in Marked Man.

Following up on the popular success of the first bike test issue in April, the VN Bike Lab returns with four endurance bikes tested head to head. For this review, we lab tested bikes for torsional stiffness and vibration damping, and then we took them to Europe to ride and race in the cyclosportifs of the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix. We then ranked the bikes in eight categories.

The endurance bikes tested were all spec’ed with Shimano Ultegra and cost between $3,000 and $3,700. The bikes: Bianchi Infinito, Cannondale Synapse Carbon 3, Lapierre Sensium 300 and the Specialized Roubaix Expert.

Meanwhile, back in the United States, we take a look this year’s battle at a quintessential American event, the Redlands Bicycle Classic.

Lennard Zinn tests four lightweight wheelsets, and national champion Ben King writes a column about who inspires him to keep working hard.

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What’s inside the May issue

On the cover: Alberto Contador has overcome many things over the span of his short career, including a brain aneurysm and an intrasquad fight for leadership with Lance Armstrong during the 2009 Tour de France. And just as he overcame those, along the path to winning five straight grand tours, Contador also appears poised to overcome a doping infraction for clenbuterol. On February 15 the Spanish cycling federation cleared Contador of any anti-doping violation; the following day he was racing in Portugal, and within a few weeks he’d won the overall at the Vuelta a Murcia. VeloNews European correspondent Andrew Hood was there, and reports on how Contador manages to overcome any and all obstacles in his path.

Grand tour season begins May 7 in Torino, Italy, with a team time trial at the Giro d’Italia. We take a look at the course, the favorites, and the race’s passionate director, Angelo Zomegnan, who feels compelled to “make the Giro spectacular, every single day.”

VeloNews reporter Brian Holcombe and photographer Brad Kaminski were in Italy to cover Tirreno-Adriatico, a mid-March stage race run by Giro organizer RCS. They returned with stunning photography and an analysis of the race, which serves two purposes — to prepare the strongmen for the spring classics, and prepare stage racers for their GC ambitions.

With several domestic teams such as UnitedHealthcare, SpiderTech and Team Type 1 focusing on European racing, and last year’s dominant V Australia team revamped, the 2011 domestic racing circuit is a wide-open, season-long road trip. In a nine-page season preview, we rank the top teams, riders and races to watch on local roads.

This year’s Amgen Tour of California has not one, but three stages that offer definitive changes on the general classification. Back is the Solvang time trial that Levi Leipheimer has won three times, all leading to overall victories. Added are summit finishes in San Jose, atop Summit Road, and at Mount Baldy in the San Bernardino Mountains. VeloNews editor at large John Wilcockson analyzes these stages and compares the new summit finishes to a pair of Tour de France climbs, Puy de Dome and l’Alpe d’Huez.

In our award-winning Tech section, Lennard Zinn tests four brands’ aluminum handlebars against their carbon-fiber counterparts. The results may surprise you. And Caley Fretz rounded up eight pairs of riding glasses from different manufacturers and put them through their paces.

VeloNews 2011 Ultimate Ride Guide

To help make it happen VeloNews presents The Ultimate Ride Guide, on newsstands March 22. The Ultimate Ride Guide takes you inside the best rides on the planet, from the almost outrageously luxurious catered trips to more humble yet thoroughly breathtaking rides like a self-guided trip along the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina and Virginia.

The Guide spans across world-class riding at home and abroad, with special sections focusing on Italy, France, Switzerland and Spain, as well as U.S. events like Levi Leipheimer’s King Ridge Gran Fondo, and Ryder Hesjedal’s Maui Cycling Camp.

Most of the rides detailed are organized events, where, at the very least, the course is set out for you and some level of structure is provided. If you are considering traveling to Europe, there are countless options, from do-it-yourself shoestring trips to fully guided tours where you won’t have to sweat a single detail. Whichever route you prefer, the VeloNews editorial staff tells you where to go, how to prepare and what to expect for your next ultimate ride.

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How much faster is one aero road bike than another? How much do they vary in torsional stiffness  – and how does that affect the ride quality? And which bike do we like best? These are but a few of the questions answered in the April issue.

In our first-ever bike test, the VN Bike Lab pits four bikes against each other in the lab, in the wind tunnel and on the road. Technical editor Nick Legan leads the charge, with third-party labs offering their expertise and facilities.

As luck would have it, Garmin-Cervélo’s Cameron Meyer won the Tour Down Under on the Cervélo S3 – one of the bikes we were testing – as we were composing this issue. Anthony Tan brings you the inside story of the Australian season opener.

Not so long ago in the European peloton, English was not spoken. Now it’s everywhere. John Wilcockson traces the people and the forces behind the wave of prominent American, English and Aussie riders and teams.

Plus, we whet your appetite for the spring classics with a deep photographic sampling of the book “The Spring Classics,” which highlights the grit, the beauty and the magic of the world’s most challenging one-day races.

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Our award-winning aero wheel test, shown here, will be followed up by bike tests of the same caliber in coming issues.

VeloNews.com and VeloNews the magazine are different animals, with completely separate stories and material. Some magazines and newspapers put all their printed content online. We don’t. We put news and quick reviews on our site, and run our in-depth analysis and comparative product tests in the magazine.

This year, we’ve begun a completely new kind of bicycle testing in the magazine that combines third-party laboratory analysis with long-term ride testing by a group of experts.

Most of you are familiar with the great work our technical editor Nick Legan does online. As a former ProTour mechanic, Nick handily answers all manner of technical and insider questions in his weekly Ask Nick column — but this barely scratches the surface of the in-depth work he’s doing for the magazine.

Nick is spearheading the bicycle testing for the magazine where we examine four bikes of a similar category. For the next issue, each bike has been ridden 30-40 hours, plus measured for various traits by two separate specialty facilities. Which bikes and facilities, you say? Great bikes, and top-notch facilities … which you’ll see soon.

While this four-up exhaustive exam of complete bicycles is new for VeloNews, in-depth tests are nothing new for the magazine. Quick tests on individual products have their place (and that place would be online, we believe), but most bike riders want more information, especially that which compares similar products.

Our test riders aren't informed of the lab results during the test period. Afterwards, it's surprising how well subjective impressions and lab data match up.

Last year we did an award-winning test on aero wheels for the September issue, where we hired the talented folks at the A2 Wind Tunnel in North Carolina and Microbac Labratories to assess six pairs of wheels for stiffness and aerodynamics. Lennard Zinn performed his inertia test on the front and rear wheels to measure how quickly they accelerate. And then we put six riders on every set without knowledge of the lab data. The end result was an insightful eight-page feature, which won Best Technical Article in the annual awards of MIN, a media industry publication. Here’s what MIN had to say about it:

“From subjective experiences to independent lab tests to highly accessible graphs, this piece was an education in aerodynamics that also demonstrated the correlation between measurable results and the human response to different technologies.”

Recently in the magazine, we’ve done similar tests on handlebar and stem combinations, climbing wheels and cranks.

For the bicycle tests, Nick and Caley Fretz serve as the primary ride testers, logging dozens of hours. Nick and Caley are using their own pedals and saddles, but the bikes are otherwise tested as sold. Similarly, the bikes have been tested in the labs as sold. Lennard and I add our two cents, and our art director Mike Reisel coalesces all the data and feedback into easy-to-digest graphics.

In a magazine test on climbing wheels, we ranked six sets by their aerodynamics, inertia, weight and stiffness.

As useful as lab measurements and rider opinion can be, perhaps the most helpful element of these group tests is context. As evidenced by this piece on wheel interia, Lennard can generate plenty of measurements and math. What’s more useful is Lennard simply telling you what it all means — this wheel accelerates faster than that one. Similarly, context makes a rider’s opinion more valuable. Reading that a guy finds a bike to be “too stiff” isn’t too helpful; knowing that he weighs 120 pounds and prefers titanium bikes gives these statements context.

Our bike tests will present plenty of relevant lab measurements, expert opinion and context. We’re excited to roll out the first edition in the April issue, available on newsstands March 1.

In the meantime, you can check out our carbon clincher wheel test in the current issue. For that test, we sent six guys screaming down a steep mountain road to investigate new brake-track resins. Only one rider was left shaken up by the side of the road …

VeloNews March 2011 Cover

Who do you think will win Paris-Roubaix this year? Is Andy Schleck guaranteed the top spot at the Tour de France with Alberto Contador sidelined? VeloNews walks you through the full season ahead, listing our podium picks for every major race plus highlighting the riders and the factors that will shape the year ahead.

Plus: we test six carbon clinchers on steep mountain roads, reveal the power output needed to ride at the world-class level, and take you inside the complete meltdown of Australia’s greatest team that never was.

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VeloNews Magazine - January 2011

We look back at the 2010 season, including the best crashes, the worst doping excuses and the best photography. The VeloNews Holiday Gift Guide rounds out the issue.

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Don’t know the name Ben King? Get with the program. RadioShack signed the hot young talent for 2011. In the December issue, Brian Holcombe recounts King’s amazing year, culminating with his remarkable solo win at the national championships. (One detail: After hours off the front, King grabbed a beer handed to him on the climb and, thinking his day was over, took a few swigs. Instead, the under-23 road and criterium champ powered on to win the pro national title over the likes of George Hincapie, Chris Horner and the rest of the elite field.) One day later, King’s Trek-Livestrong teammate Taylor Phinney defeated Levi Leipheimer for the national time trial title by the slimmest of margins.

Thor Hushovd was nowhere to be seen in the key moves of the world championship road race — until he blasted first across the line. VeloNews breaks down exactly how he did it.

Calling all aging cyclists! In the training section, Ned Overend, Joe Friel and Andy Pruitt explain how to keep your fitness level up as the decades roll past. Their solutions will surprise you.

Now is the time for clubs to buy custom clothing (delivery takes 4-12 weeks). VeloNews presents a comprehensive selection of your options, with pricing, minimum orders, manufacturing location and other key information listed along with the recommendations of the VeloNews club team.

Leaving Las Vegas. Or, um, returning. We packed the December issue with seven pages of the coolest bikes and gear we found at Interbike. We also titled the piece “Leaving Las Vegas” as the show announced its move to Anaheim for 2011. Then, after the issue printed, Interbike announced it would stay in Vegas after all. Regardless, the tech section is choc-full of gear you gotta see!

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