This weekend brings the Bicycle Film Festival to Seattle, one of nearly 40 presentations in cities around the world for the 10th anniversary of the event.
Film showings are scheduled Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Western Bridge, 3412 4th Avenue, South in the South of Downtown area.
The first two nights of programs are followed by BFF After Parties at The Orient Express, 2963 4th Ave. South, on Friday and The Siren Tavern, 3403 4th Ave. South, on Saturday.
These films are all about all forms of bicycling. They are long and short, documentary and feature.
The festival opens Friday with the “Birth of Big Air,” the amazing story of how Mat Hoffman lives to soar through the air on his bicycle. It's preceded by the equally scary …
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Updated Oct. 8, 2010 with recommendations from Adventure Cycling Association and Bicycling magazine
Some uncharacteristically sunny weather on my bicycle rides in Western Washington has revealed splashes of fall color along the road.
It reminds me that the fall foliage season is underway across the US. I'm convinced that the best way to enjoy that is from a bicycle saddle.
Here are some places to check the progress of fall foliage in your area and resources for more than 60 locations touted for their colorful autumn leaves ….
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Less than a week after saying he failed a doping control test because he ate tainted beef, Alberto Contador needs to come up with another alibi to explain plasticizers in another sample.
A sample taken July 20 (the day before the Chenbuteral test) showed elevated levels of plasticizers in his urine, indicating the use of a plastic IV bag, according to …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/10/05/contador-has-some-more-explaining-to-do/
After 13 years at the helm of the Cascade Bicycle Club, executive director Chuck Ayers is leaving his position as head of the Seattle-based bicycle club.
The club's board of directors asked for Ayers's resignation as head of the 14,000-member bicycle club, considered the largest in the nation. He declined, and the board fired him.
Chris Weiss, chair of the board, was quoted at the Cascade blog:
“While we are grateful for these and other accomplishments during his tenure, the Board has made the decision that Chuck is no longer the right person to lead Cascade into its next phase of growth and opportunity.”…..
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Logo for Seattle-based Cascade Bicycle Club.
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Mount Diablo is an isolated peak that dominates the skyline San Francisco Bay Area.
Once a year, nearly 1,000 cyclists test themselves at the Mount Diablo Challenge to see who is the Bay Area's dominant hill climber.
This past Sunday, that honor fell to Jonathan Moskowitz, 23, who powered up the mountain in 46:40. That's an average speed of 13.9 mph on the 10.8-mile long climb that rises 3,249 feet.
The fastest woman was Susannah Breen, 29, who finished in 54:16 at a pace of 11.9 mph. [More results on the jump]
You might think that the race — next year it celebrates its 30th anniversary — is suited for the young, but that's not always the case ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/10/04/testing-the-bay-areas-strongest-cyclists-at-2010-mount-diablo-challenge/
29th year for the contest to the top of the Bay Area's Mount Diablo. Mount Diablo Challenge.
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Imagine a bicycle route that primarily uses rails-to-trails pathways through the historic countryside between two major European capital cities.
That's the Avenue Verte between London and Paris.
Right now, it is little more than a dream, according to a BBC reporter who rode his bicycle along the 250- to 290-mile route through southern England and northern France. Originally proposed for a big launch for the 2012 Olympics in London, the route suffers — at least in the UK — from funding cuts that make that an unlikely deadline.
Reporter Stephen Mulvey wrote at “The London-Paris cycle route that keeps getting you lost” ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/10/04/avenue-verte-a-traffic-free-london-to-paris-bicycle-ride/
The Avenue Verte is a traffic-free bicycle route between London and Paris. See map at Bikely.com
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The world's first platinum-level bicycle-friendly city likely achieved another first on Sunday — the world's longest line of bicycles.
Some 1,200 bicyclists registered in Davis, California, to create the longest line of bicycles, as judged by the Guinness Book of World Records. The Sacramento Bee reports that the parade of bicycles snaked around a two-mile route at the UC-Davis university campus.
The event was a fund-raiser by the local Odd Fellows Lodge to raise money for the local schools.
The longest-line-of-bicycles category is a new one for the Guinness book ….
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