Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa experienced an epiphany moments after he narrowly missed being right hooked by a taxicab and fell to the ground, breaking his elbow.
Bicycling in LA can really suck.
Mayor of LA since 2005, Villaraigosa already knew that his city needed to support bicycling as a way to reduce traffic congestion and improve air quality. He learned more about that by attending the climate conference in Copenhagen last December ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/07/28/la-mayor-gains-insight-about-bicycling-from-near-miss/
As I was wheeled down the hospital hallway to O.R. for prostate surgery a few years ago, I tried to carry on a conversation with the orderly about RAGBRAI, the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa.
He'd been there with some friends and said it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Just before nodding out, I remember thinking, “If I ever get through this…”
Well, I got through it, but I haven't made it to RAGBRAI. Not yet. I give props to the 10,000 to 15,000 bicyclists who made plans to do the ride and are now on the road across the Hawkeye State for the 38th anniversary of the mass bike ride ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/07/27/ragbrai-cyclists-rolling-across-iowa-this-week/
Here are some numbers that might be remembered as the books close on the 2010 Tour de France:
3 — The number of career Tour de France championships won by Alberto Contador
0 — The number of stage wins by Alberto Contador in the 2010 Tour de France
28 — The number on the jerseys worn by Lance Armstrong's RadioShack team at the start of the final TdF stage and on the podium in Paris. Represents 28 million people living with cancer worldwide. The high commissioners of cycling threatened to disqualify them for this egregious breach of protocol. ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/07/26/2010-tour-de-france-by-the-numbers/
28 million who suffer from cancer worldwide
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/07/26/number-of-radio-shack-jerseys/
You might find it inspirational to learn that an 88-year-old man won three gold medals at the Connecticut Senior Games earlier this year.
But the back story for cycling enthusiast Bob Sawyer is so much more amazing than that.
A year earlier, the Bedford, Massachusetts, man had been hospitalized with lymphoma, complicated by pneumonia and the inability to eat because he could not swallow. His doctors had discovered the lymphoma on a CT-scan after he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage.
So there he was in the hospital, wasting away. Everyone, including himself, had started to give up hope …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/07/26/an-88-year-old-mans-inspirational-return-to-bicycling/
Miscellaneous gold medal
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/07/26/gold-medal/
College students in a charity bicycling group that supports affordable housing on cross-country bicycle tours are mourning the loss of one of their fellow riders.
Paige Hicks of Chesterfield, Missouri, was struck and killed by a truck in South Dakota on Tuesday. She was a student at Brown University.
She was on her second cross-country bicycle ride for Bike & Build. The group organizes college students to raise money for affordable housing projects and help build houses at different locations as they ride their bikes coast-to-coast.
Hicks was riding the Providence, Rhode Island, to Seattle route this summer ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/07/25/bike-build-bicyclist-mourned-this-weekend/
No one can beat Mark Cavendish if he can see the finish line from the front of the peloton.
He proved that again on Sunday when he won the final stage of the 2010 Tour de France in Paris.
The HTC-Columbia sprinter passed Alesandro Petacchi and Thor Hushovd on the Champs-Elysees, marking his 5th stage win at this year's Tour. It was his 15th career win at the Tour.
Decked out like a yellow canary, Alberto Contador finished comfortably in the pack to retain his lead and win his second consecutive Tour de France championship, the third of his career …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/07/25/cavendish-wins-in-paris-contador-takes-3rd-tour-de-france/
Paige Hicks of Brown University was struck and killed by a truck in South Dakota.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/07/25/bike-build-cyclist/
For just a moment on the road from Bordeaux to Paullac, it looked as if Andy Schleck was riding himself back into the lead in his battle with Alberto Contador for 2010 Tour de France championship.
Schleck attacked hard in the early part of the 32-mile individual time trial course, gaining 6 seconds on Contador at the first time check and coming with 2 seconds of regaining the yellow jersey.
That was as close as Schleck was going to get, however. Either Contador increased his tempo or Schleck began running out of gas, but Schleck started slipping back.
At the finish, the defending champion had beat his younger rival by 32 seconds ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/07/24/schleck-battles-in-itt-but-comes-up-short-to-contador/
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