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Without slipping into a full-on tribute to the eternal awesomeness of the classics, let me just briefly tick off a little of what makes them so great, and what it means about the riders who contest them, in the hopes that we can crown a Best Classician of the Aughts.

First, the Aughts are coming to a close, and rather than pausing to contemplate the frightening speed at which time slips away, we here at the Podium Cafe will celebrate with a dazzling array of lists.

The Focus Izalco Chrono, complete with Zipp 808 clinchers, a 3T cockpit and a SRAM Red groupset, retails at $8,300. There is something intrinsically alluring about German engineering.

Italian sprinter Alessandro Petacchi is confident Lampre's manager Giuseppe Saronni will resolve the team's ProTour licence problem.

Looking at various news reports regarding next year's racing for the boys in green, it looks like some polemica might be hitting the Leaky Gas bus.

Yes, it is still Wednesday here in California. Time zones, bah humbug! Ita TMs a short Sesh this week, as the news trickles slowly in the offy.

Twenty years ago, on November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall opened, and for the first time in decades, citizens of East Germany were able to enter West Berlin legally and easily.

Team RadioShack general manager Johan Bruyneel has reflected on a manic season at Astana, the experiened Belgian not mincing his words on a number of topics, including the Kazakh squad and his former star rider, Alberto Contador The man who guided Lance Armstrong, and more recently, Contador, to their Tour de France wins, opened up to Belgian ...

Cycling Australia has announced its now accepting votes for the Scody 2009 People's Choice Cyclist of the Year award.

Olaf Pollack expects to know this week whether counter-analysis of anti-doping samples has confirmed evidence of manipulation.

Team NetApp today announced a 14-man roster for their 2010 debut in the professional peloton.

Davide de la Fuente is poised to join Astana for 2010. Spanish head-banger Davide de la Fuente is close to penning a deal that will put him in an Astana jersey in 2010.

Kazakh cycling team Astana leader Alberto Contador of Spain, left, rides in a training session with teammate, Lance Armstrong of the U.S. on Monday in Sion, Switzerland, on a rest day of the 2009 Tour de France cycling race.

MILAN: Philippe Gilbert of Belgium has won the Tour of Lombardy one-day cycling race after beating Samuel Sanchez of Spain in a sprint finish.

Germany's retired former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich consulted Eufemiano Fuentes, the Spanish doctor at the centre of the Puerto drugs affair, 24 times between 2003-6. By Telegraph staff Published: 11:23AM BST 17 Oct 2009 Allegations: Jan Ullrich consulted doctor multiple times The report, in German newspaper Der Spiegel, was based on a ...

RadioShack Granted ProTour License Here we go... USA adds third top tier UCI registered team to the national roster... America has another top tier team according to the International Cycling Union which granted Team RadioShack a ProTour license for the next four years.

Photograph: Ian Langsdon/EPA In a development that could have implications for Team Sky and Bradley Wiggins , the future of the Tour de France winner Alberto Contador's Astana team has reportedly been secured with a new threea 'year sponsorship.

Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli - Just In Spanish Victory in Monteveglio - Francisco Ventoso takes the first home win for the Carmiooro/A-Style squad Alexandre Vinokourov led over the 8th and final climb of the Zappolino with 7 kilometers to go and was joined on the descent by Rabobank's Paul Martens but the duo's slim margin was closed in the final 3 ...

Just In Battle of the Young Guns for bragging rights in Bologna Robert Gesink won the sprint of three for the victory at the top of San Luca.

Canyon Bicycles Continues Young Heroes Program German manufacturer of high-end bikes supports young racing cyclists.