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…

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…

High Road team owner Bob Stapleton chats outside the High Road motor home Thursday at Road Atlanta, the site of Stage 4 of the Tour de Georgia. Photo by Dave Luecking 

When T-Mobile withdrew its name as the title…

Tonight’s diary entry will be a short one. I have to rest up for the team time trial.

The special shifter on my Orbea Orca – the little invention that the mechanics did for me – turned out to be…

I asked him about UCI President Pat McQuaid saying Rock was good for the sport, but that he maybe shouldn’t have signed guys implicated in Puerto (Tyler Hamilton, Oscar Sevilla, Santiago Botero) and that he should have worked within the…

OK, that’s what Phil Liggett would say about the American riders in the Tour de Georgia (from which 10 Speed will supply content — aka write stories — for this blog. YAY!)

The TdG will feature the royalty of active American…

It happened in Italy, where Danilo Di Luca, the winner of the Giro d’Italia last year, was cleared by the Italian Olympic Committee.

Irregularities in an anti-doping sample from the Giro prompted the case, but further tests showed there wasn’t enough…

Yep, the team barred from the Tour de France sits atop of the UCI world rankings as the top team in cycling.

So much for Tour director Christian Prudhomme’s pronouncement after naming the teams invited to the Tour de France: ”These are, I…