Toyota-United riders took home $5,000 in prize money last week at the Tour of the Gila. All of that money is going to Fausto Esparza, who was paralyzed in a crash on the final stage of the race.

The team…

Cycling friends,

The report on injured Tecos-Trek rider, Fausto Esparza, is sobering to say the least. I’ve exchanged e-mails with the Tour of the Gila organizers and I’m told that Esparza underwent surgery on Sunday night but that he apparently…

Fausto Esparza Munoz, the Tecos-Trek rider seriously injured Sunday in a crash on the final stage of the Tour of the Gila, rode for Tecos last September in the inaugural Tour of Missouri.

In the Tour of Missouri, he was listed as Fausto Marcelino Esparza. 

According to…

What a cuppla days for the Astana cycling team.

Johan Bruyneel’s team is bound for the Giro d’Italia after the Giro organizer, RCS, reversed field and extended an invitation to the race.

And on Sunday, Andreas Kloden wrapped up the…

The organizers of the Giro d’Italia apparently have come to their senses and invited the best team in cycling — Astana — to the Giro, which starts next week.

Better late than never, I reckon.

The Associated Press reports that Astana’s…

Perhaps the most successful domestic team over the past three seasons will be losing its main sponsor after this season with Toyota leaving behind the Toyota-United cycling team.

The red, white and blue colors of T-U have been highly visible…

Ol’ 10 Speed has taken a few days to relax and ruminate after traipsing through Georgia last week for the sixth edition of the Tour de Georgia, and I keep coming back to what a fantastic event this was from…

Twas another big day for Slipstream-Chipotle, the new power of American cycling.

Slipstream set the fast time in the fourth two-team heat Thursday in the Team Time Trial at Road Atlanta, then waited for the big dogs of international cycling to take their…

I spoke with Slipstream-Chipotle director sportif Jonathan Vaughters before the team time trial stage of the Tour de Georgia today at Road Atlanta, and Vaughters said Slipstream’s Timmy Duggan should be released from the hospital by Saturday.

Duggan, 23, was involved…

That would be for moi, who just arrived in Savannah after an epic travel day to get here.

Ol’ 10 Speed drove from STL, 900-some miles, 13-some hours. Pretty much a straight shot. Put the PD team car on cruise…