The name of the game was “fast” in Folsom today as the 140 men competing in the 2016 Amgen Tour of California raced the clock in their individual time trial event, with Australian Rohan Dennis (BMC Racing Team) recording the fastest time. Eighteen women’s teams in the Amgen Breakaway from Heart Disease™ Women’s Race Empowered …

Tour de Big Bear, Southern California’s favorite riding experience, is raising the bar yet again with a new event category to reach and attract cycling’s very best.  Saturday, August 6, 2016, in Big Bear Lake, California professional riders, racing community, ultra-endurance and elite athletes from all across the country will experience hors categorie (beyond category!) …

After a long day in the breakaway as the peloton cruised from Lodi to South Lake Tahoe, Cannondale Pro Cycling Team’s Toms Skujiņš (LAT) led a group of three out ahead of the leaders, up the mountains where elevations approached 8,600 feet at the apex, and over the finish line at Heavenly Mountain Resort. “It …

World Champion Peter Sagan (SVK) of Tinkoff has claimed his 15th all-time Amgen Tour of California stage win after a long and hilly ride northward on one of the most scenic and iconic stretches of California roadway, Highway 1, through Monterey County. “It was hard, but good,” said Sagan, when asked about today’s stage. “I’m very happy for my other teammates, and …

Stage 3 of the Amgen Tour of California finished on the epic 10 kilometer climb of Gibraltar in beautiful Santa Barbara that overlooks the Santa Barbara Harbor. Below is a gallery from the race to the top that had Nielson Powless (Axeon – Hagens Berman) off the front with Phil Gaimon and the Cannondale Team …

I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all. Despite the common misconception, Los Angeles is not a …