Since American Christian Vande Velde of Slipstream-Chipotle claimed the maglia rosa in Stage 1 of the Giro d’Italia, it’s been all Italians in the country’s grand tour.

Well, all Italians and crashes …

Daniele Bennati won Stage 3, a 221km ride from Catania to…

American Christian Vande Velde is in the maglia rosa after his team, Slipstream-Chipotle, won the team time trial in impressive fashion Saturday in the opening stage of the Giro d’Italia. 

Vande Velde led the five surviving argyle-clad Slipstream-Chipotle riders across the finishing line…

With Americans prominent on Slipstream-Chipotle, CSC and Astana, Velonews.com previewed the Giro d’Italia and suggested that an American could end up in the maglia rosa Saturday after the Team Time Trial in the opening stage of the Giro d’Italia.

Velo…

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…

 The emergence of High Road’s Kanstantin Sivtsov and Slipstream-Chipotle’s Trent Lowe as the one-two finishers in the Tour de Georgia portends well to the future of cycling.

Both are 25 years old, and both will be in the Tour de…

BRASSTOWN BALD, GA. — In an epic battle on an epic mountain, Astana’s Levi Leipheimer tried again and again to drop Trent Lowe of Slipstream-Chipotle on Saturday in Stage 6 of the Tour de Georgia.

Try as he might, Leipheimer couldn’t shake…

 Riders with Missouri connections had a tough go of it in the inaugural Tour of Missouri last year.

– Dan Schmatz of St. Louis suffered a broken clavicle in the first few miles of Stage 2 after an unfortunate incident…

As a sponsor of the Tour de Georgia, the Bissell vacuum company had its logo on the final car in the Tour caravan, ostensibly to “sweep up” riders in the peloton who fell way behind.

But Friday, the Bissell logo was…

No mistake there folks. Ol’ 10 Speed actually “rode” Road Atlanta on Thursday at the Tour de Georgia.

Of course, I waited until virtually everyone was gone so as not to embarrass myself too bad on the auto-racing road course…

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…