“I got a whole lot of good stuff from the White House. I can’t describe how it felt. I know it felt good.”
Moses Mathis, aka The Bicycle Man, describing his reaction to receiving the President's Call to Action Award and a letter from President Bush. Mathis earned the honor by performing a minimum 4,000 hours of volunteer service …
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Howard at the HRlaughed blog tagged me to tell five things you probably don't know about me. I fear the consequences of ignoring such a request, but I'm having a little trouble picking which obscure facts to tell. Everything seems obscure.
Here are the first five that come to mind (chronologically):
1. I grew up in a suburb of Cincinnati in a house where my dad smoked constantly …
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This is like one of those fantasy matches: “What if Satchel Paige pitched against Ichiro,” or “What if Johnny Unitas' Baltimore Colts took on Peyton Manning's Indianapolis Colts?”
The Floyd Landis camp issued a press release Tuesday that their guy is going to get on his mountain bike and race in the Leadville Trail 100 Mountain Bike Race, scheduled Aug. 11, 2007, in Leadville, Colorado.
Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong had already agreed to ride in Leadville. This sets up a challenge between two Tour de France winners in a slightly different contest.
Who's missing? Three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond, of course. Wouldn't that be a wild contest? …
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This blog hasn't been updated for a few days because 
Mother Nature opened up a big can of whoop-ass on western Washington last week. She kicked my butt; and I'm one of the lucky ones.
A major windstorm struck Thursday night. Among the thousands of trees that fell was one trunk of a beautiful big leaf maple that was a home for birds and squirrels and provided welcome shade for my family in the summertime.
That's the view from my office window. The tree toppled across three back yards and crushed two fences. It missed two houses by 10 feet or less. When it gets sawed up and removed, its two standing brothers are going with it. They may be rotten too, and I can't risk endangering our neighbors.
I haven't had much time to deal with that tree, though. Until 5 p.m. Monday, my wife and I have been trying to keep the kids warm and occupied. …
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Neighbor's car, windstorm 06
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View from biking bis offices
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This is the storefront for one of the Wheelworks stores in Belmont, Mass. The company earned the Sam Braxton Bicycle Shop of the Year Award from the Adventure Cycling Association.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/12/14/wheelworks-wins-cycling-association-award/
Pennsylvanian Don Moul will celebrate his 90th birthday along the rail-to-trail bicycle path where he rides four or five times a week.
How are you going to stay fit when you're 90?
Moul has been an avid bicyclist since he retired in the 1980s. Currently he likes to ride his bicycle on a 15-mile route from York to Glen Rock along the Heritage Rail Trail County Park …
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If you like to witness cyclists struggling on mountain stages, you'll need to check in early with the 2007 Vuelta a Espana.
Instead of opening with a week for the sprinters, the three-week-long Tour of Spain — September 1-23 — boasts a mountaintop finish on the difficult Lagos de Covadonga on the fourth day.
In all, the Vuelta route announced today boasts seven mountain stages, four mountaintop finishes, and two time trials as it spins for 2,009 miles clockwise …
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Map for 2007 Vuelta a Espana
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Adventure Cycling Association Trail biking Rails to Trails Conservancy
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