Cycles de Oro Bike Shop in Greensboro will be hosting a new Park Tool School course, featuring 10 classroom hours of hands-on bicycle repair instruction…

There will be 4 classes on Tuesday & Thursday nights; July 21, 23, 28 & 30, each with a maximum of 10 students. Each attendee will receive:

• 10 hours of hands-on expert bicycle mechanics instruction in the actual Tech shop within cycles de ORO bike shop.
• Ability to analyze your very own bicycle and to confer with instructor.
• A personal copy of the Big Blue Book of Bicycle Repair (sugg retail $29.99).
• A one-time special discount on any bicycle tools from cycles de ORO.
• A completion-of-course Park Tool School certificate.

Click the image for the full size flyer/entry form, or click here to download the PDF. Space is limited, so first-come, first-serve! Reserve your spot now.

Cervelo is celebrating the first Tour de France appearance of their Cervelo Test Team with two limited edition models, the S3 and the R3SL.  The S3, shown above, is the exact same frame the team will ride in this year’s Tour.  It’s sub-1000g and uses an hourglass shaped headtube and aero shapes to help make it fast.  Quantities are extremely limited, so order now if you need this for your collection.

Hit ‘more’ to see the R3SL frame that Carlos Sastre will be riding…

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Take that, UCI.  Click ‘more’ for details…

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Bill Fulton got his wallet back after losing it behind school bleachers cheering on his High School team back in 1946.

Found by a school worker cleaning out debris during a renovation at Baker Middle School (Jeez, can you imagine standing nd cheering in 63-year-old bleachers? Yikes!), along with old homework, a 1964 talent show program and other papers and objects.

Fulton said the bicycle ID was needed because he delivered medicine for Rodamar Drug. Read the full story here.

Map My Ride and Versus TV have teamed up to send you to the Tour de France.

The “Le Tour Challenge” is a virtual competition in which you ride each day’s stage in the comfort of your own neighborhood, then submit your ride to MMR for an entry.  Prizes include bikes from Cervelo and Parlee (pics after the break), Jerseys and the grand prize Trek Travel trip to see the final stage of this year’s race in France.

Click ‘more’ to see how to enter…

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Light and Motion has released two new bike lights, one for racing and one for commuting.

The Seca 900 becomes the new top-of-the-line mountain bike light for them, pumping out a wicked bright 900 lumens and available with their normal 6-cell battery or the “Ultra” 9-cell version.  The Stella gets three new models, the 300 Dual and 150L and 150N.

Hit ‘more’ for the full press release and more photos…

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This photo was submitted by Balint Hamvas of May’s World Cup race in Houffalize Belgium. The racer is none other than Julien Absalon with the Orbea race team. He bested more than 180 riders in the  39.1 km course with a time of 1:51:34.

If you would like to submit your photos for our Pic Of The Day, please click here.

Yakima recently redesigned several of their bike racks, and just as they were about to send us their Holdup model, they decided to do some last minute design tweaks, so we received the Stickup to test and review in the meantime.

Before we delve into the specifics of this rack, let me say this: Yakima has a rack for anything and everything, and a dizzying array of bicycle racks.  The Holdup and Stickup are the two tray-mount hitch models, the others (of which there are plenty of options) use arms that slide under the top tubes and strap onto the frame.  For me, tray mounts are the way to go.  They’re simple, they are unlikely to scratch your frame and your bike stays put…no swaying, swinging or sliding.

The Stickup is the less expensive model of the two, and is compatible with both 1-1/4″ and 2″ hitches using a spacer sleeve.  It holds two bikes, it’s fairly lightweight and keeps them spaced well enough that you don’t have to worry about bumping seatposts and handlebars.

So, how did it do over a couple months of testing and several trips?  Hit ‘more’ to read the full review…

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Late last week we updated you with a few teams that had picked their 2009 Tour de France rosters; here. Since then the Columbia-Highroad team announced a new cosponsor and a 2009 Tour roster different from the one we found 3 days ago.

Team Columbia-Highroad is now team Columbia-HTC. The HTC Corporation, designers of mobil phones, has agreed to a three year commitment to the team. The new jerseys, featuring the green HTC logo added to the existing yellow design, will be unveilded July 3, 2009. 

As for the roster correction: 8 of the 9 riders confirmed are correct. The correction is that the new roster includes Bert Grabsch, world and German time trial champion, at the expense of 2008 Tour stage winner Marcus Burghardt. Bob Stapleton, Team Columbia-HTC owner, said, “We had so many guys who could have worked their way onto the team, it was a very difficult decision for the sporting management.”

From MailOnline: 61 year old Khiv Raj Gurjar has been practicing yoga since he was 13. Now he spends his mornings practicing extreme yoga on a 300 ft cliff near is home in Jodhpur, in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

“From my childhood I was passionate to do things which are extraordinary and look very dangerous,” says Khiv. “I tried magic, learned acrobatics, yoga, did cycling, played football. As I grew into my twenties I found combining yoga and cycling stunts would be something very unconventional, but also deeply challenging.”

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World Commute is a free social networking website designed to track the positive efforts of non-motorized commuters and promote the idea of “greater health” and a “healthier environment”. 

Once you create a profile you can enter how many miles you ride to work, for general errands, and any other commuting. Your results are then calculated into the total gas savings, money savings, and carbon offsets of World Commute members. As of this posting, the members of the site have collectively saved over 65,000 gallons of gas. 

You can also include rides for fun and exercise to add to the collective “health points” system.

Another little birdy told us that Cannondale will have a full range of 29er hardtail mountain bikes for 2010, which were presented at their recent sales meeting in Park City.  Here’s the deets from a fly on the wall:

• Three geared aluminum alloy models
• One fully rigid alloy model
• Two Carbon Fiber models

According to our spy, the geometry has been fully revised and the tubing is all new hydroformed shapes (versus normal round tubes on their ’09 models).

The current line tops out around $3,200 for the 29er “1″ (seems to be a popular naming scheme), so expect the aluminum models to follow suit unless they’re getting some major cost cuts from moving production overseas, and our guess is the carbon models will come in close to Four Large.