Amgen Tour of California fans can now begin staking claim to their favorite roadside vantage points for this year's bike race.
Organizers on Wednesday published the detailed stage maps and course profiles for the eight stages of this year's race, rolling out of Santa Rosa on May 13 and ending in Los Angeles on May 20.
The details are full of surprises, such as a visit to towering Mt. Diablo in Danville on the Stage 3 ….
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The so-called Queen Stage of the Amgen Tour of California is Stage 7, on Saturday, May 19. It takes in three King of the Mountain summits between Ontario and Mt. Baldy.
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Must admit that I'm burned out on Bicycling magazine's monthly barrage of top 10 product lists or 10 ways to get faster, fitter, finer in 30 days.
But here's one that caught my attention: 10 of Bicycling magazine's favorite multi-day tours.
You could make the argument that any such bike tour you're fortunate enough to take would be a favorite. Here's their lineup:
(Shameless self-promotion alert: By the way, all of these, and many, many more, are listed at my state by state list of Across-State and Multi-Day Bicycle Tours.)
1. Bike Florida Forgotten Coast Tour ….
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My annual goal is to ride my bicycle 4,000 miles. Last year I made it, partly because a bicycling buddy inspired me with this quest for 10,000 miles.
Russell Rogers had a full-time job, fixed up his house in Sequim for resale, and relocated to Pennsylvania last year. In spite of that, he still put 10,000 miles on his bikes in 2011.
How did he do it? He shared some tips in his blog, The Flying Abalone Bicycle Club, and in conversations with me.
“I think I can summarize it like this, physically speaking it isn't that hard. ….
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Pauses with his bike “Bubba” at Lake Keechelus on John Wayne Pioneer Trail in Washington.
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One design of railbikes attaches bicycles to propel the frame along the rails. This one is from RailBikes.com.
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Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador has been stripped of his 2010 Tour de France and Giro d'Italia titles and banned from competing in any races until August.
The Switzerland-based Court for Arbitration of Sport handed down the two-year ban against Contador for doping with clenbuterol during 2010.
The court didn't believe Contador's claim that, during the latter stages of the 2010 …
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Recently, I discovered the world of railroad velocipedes — bicycles that ride the rails.
What led me there was a TV reality show, “American Pickers.” One of the buyers is Mike Wolfe, a bicycle enthusiast who occasionally dredges up vintage bikes; I guess that's what originally drew my interest.
Recently, he dragged a vintage railroad handcar out of a building. It was a 100-year-old one-person machine used to inspect the railroad tracks.
It occurred to me that this might be a cool way to travel on some abandoned railways that hadn't been converted to rail-to-trail bike paths. ….
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Posing on railbikes in Pellston, Michigan, around the turn of the last century. Photo from AntiqueBicycles.org.
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A railroad handcar designed to be used by one person. Photo by Harvey Henkelmann.
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