10 Speed receives e-mails from some of the online bike retailers and was intrigued by one shop’s advertizement for HUDZ, a totally unnecessary product but one that can splash a little color on your road ride.

HUDZ is the brandname for multi-color…

Neal Rogers of Velonews has a lengthy Q&A interview online with 2006 Tour de France champ Floyd Landis. It’s long and you need to set aside a lot of time to read the whole thing.

The interview deals with everything from…

Maybe this is a good omen for the professional cycling season — High Road Sports, the former druggy team turned anti-doping crusaders, took the first win of the Pro Tour season Sunday in Adelaide, Australia.

German Andre Greipel of High Road (formerly T-Mobile)…

The 2008 Pro Tour cycling season officially begins today with the Tour Down Under in Australia.

The Melbourne Herald Sun calls 2006 winner Simon Gerrans of Credit Agricole “the man to beat” down under. Gerrans was the only Australian beside second-place finisher…

Don’t look now but Italian ladies’ man Mario Cipollini might be back in the professional peloton after a three-year absence. According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, Cipo has signed a deal to join Rock Racing,…

The day after implicating four cyclists and scores of other athletes, a German television station said sorry about everything.

The German version of PBS — ARD — now says it shouldn’t have named names and shouldn’t have implicated cyclists and…

The Tour of Missouri bid farewell to the Discovery Channel Cycling Team last year, and it looks as if the Tour of Mo. will welcome the core of Discovery back this fall — in the form of the Astana Cycling Team.

The Tour…

Ten (10) Pro Tour teams, led by Astana of Johan Bruyneel and by CSC, and noted anti-doping American team Slipstream-Chipotle will be among the 18 teams competing next month in the Tour of California.

Joining Astana and CSC from the Pro Tour will…

This headline — Bike Parking Lot, With Attendant, Is Planned for Midtown — caught 10 Speed’s eye. It’s from the New York Times, and it made me think about bicycle commuting and parking in St. Louis.

There has been an effort to…

On the heels of the Italian Olympic Committee naming previously cleared Alberto Contador and Alejandro Valverde as cyclists it wants to investigate for possible doping, Germany’s version of PBS, the public television station ARD, has named Michael Rasmussen and Denis…