The four cycling championships - track, road race, mountain-biking and BMX - will be staged together for the first time, with a new BMX track being built in Glasgow to supplement the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome and the Cathkin Braes Mountain Bike Trails.
"It suited me because I raced mountain bikes for seven years.
Most present-day bicycles fit into six main categories: utility, touring, racing, mountain, hybrid, and BMX.
Triathlons, endurance races, mountain climbs, sky dives, Antarctic treks -- the risk list goes on.
Bicycles come in many different forms: racing, mountain, touring, hybrid, track, utility, cruiser, fixed-wheel, dirt-jumper, porteur, BMX.
Landis, who started his career racing mountain bikes, was heralded as a gritty rider with a superhuman ability to endure.
While Evans cites Colorado as the start of his international racing career — he competed in Vail at a world championship event in 1994, when he was racing mountain bikes — the Schlecks are making their first trip to the state.
He plans to make those residents "our conduits or disciples" and post group pictures in building common areas of races, mountain climbs and other athletic feats organized by La Palestra.
Sagan, whose teammate Ted King said has "the best bike skills in the peloton," was able save another near-crash during the Tour de France prologue in Liège by putting his feet down; in the 2003 Tour, Lance Armstrong, who occasionally raced mountain bikes during his career, cut across a field to avoid a spill.
Now he was racing mountain bikes and playing competitive tennis.
