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Garmin-Barracuda will become Garmin-Sharp as of the Tour de France. As teams are only allowed to have two sponsor names, the team will officially be known as Garmin-Sharp.

Team Garmin-Barracuda will be led by the Giro d’Italia winner Ryder Hesjedal in the Tour. Also in with a chance of riding for the General Classification are Christian Vande Velde and Tom Danielson, who will step forward if Hesjedal proves not to be at the same strength as he was in Italy.

My first taste of European bicycle racing came to me in the form of beautiful, color photos taken by Graham Watson and printed in the pages of Winning Magazine in America. I still recall one of the story headlines: The Master is an American, which recounted the story of the World Championship road race. For the life of me, I cannot remember the words, just the fact that Greg LeMond had won the World Championships. Further in the pages of that magazine, I caught my first glimpse of Lo Scorpione. It was an amazingly simple, yet spellbinding logo that I had never seen before. I knew instantly that it was Greg’s team’s clothing brand, and, as I went on to discover, was the same brand being worn by many other greats in the sport of professional cycling of the day. “Only the great teams had clothing emblazoned with the Scorpion” Less than three years later, I signed my very first contract to become a professional cyclist. Unfortunately, my team’s clothing brand, although Italian, did not bear the Scorpion logo. At first it did not matter; I was getting paid to do exactly what I came to Europe to do, and ...

I’m at the Castelli 24 hour criterium in Feltre, northern Italy, and can’t remember the last time I had this much fun on two wheels. Between 4pm and 7:30pm yesterday I was racing around a 1.8km circuit in front of huge crowds against the likes of Manuel Boaro, Alessandro Ballan, Paolo Bettini, Matteo Tosatto,  and various amateur riders, Italian industry insiders and local weekend warriors

Shot by photographer Jered Gruber only two seconds after Ryder crossed the finish line in Milano, and was crowned as the 2012 winner of the Giro d’Italia.