Bicycle City sounds like a mythical Valhalla where bicycling enthusiasts go when they pass away.
In reality, a group of environmentally friendly developers are creating a Bicycle City in the countryside south of Columbia, South Carolina, where cars will be verboten and residents will ride their bikes or walk to get around.
The community is the idea of Joe Mellett, a Internet marketer who sold Education.org to Monster.com about four years ago to get the seed money for the project. But the project is far past the idea phase. Mellett and his co-developers are presenting their plans to the Lexington County Council this week and hope to get started in the fall.
The Bicycle City group already has bought 150 acres near the town of Gaston …
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From the Bicycle City website.
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HTC Columbia
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Australia's Michael Rogers survived attacks from American contenders David Zabriskie and Levi Leipheimer to win the 2010 Amgen Tour of California on Sunday.
Ryder Hesjedal of Garmin Transitions won the final stage, driving to the front of a five-man breakaway ahead of George Hincapie.
While Rogers, Zabriskie and Leipheimer finished 1, 2, 3 for the overall championship, Chris Horner raised himself to 4th overall on the strength of his last minute attack with Hesjedal up to the breakaway group. Hesjedal captured 5th overall.
This is the first time in the Tour's history that a cyclist from outside the US has won the event …..
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HTC-Columbia leads the peloton through the streets of Modesto in 2010 Amgen Tour of California. Photo by Clare Noonan
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Italy's Ivan Basso surged up the steepest climb at this year's Giro d'Italia to win Stage 15 atop Monte Zolcolan on Sunday and leap-frog eight other cyclists into 3rd place.
Overall leader David Arroyo survived in the maglia rosa, although his days at the front appear numbered. Tuesday marks the beginning of the Giro's final hellish week highlighted by two high mountain stages and an individual time trial.
Basso, a 32-year-old Liquigas rider, slipped away from the leader's group along with Australia's Cadel Evans and Italy's Michele Scarponi. Basso and Evans dropped Scarponi, then paced each other for a few miles of the climb up Monte Zolcolan, an awesome 6-mile finish that rises 4,000 feet at an average 11% slope.
Along the way, the pair passed the final three members of a six-man breakaway that at one time had more than a 9-minute gap on the peloton.
With about 2 miles to go on the climb, Basso steadily began pulling away from Evans …..
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Ivan Basso, Liquigas
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Australian cyclist Michael Rogers goes into the final stage of the Amgen Tour of California on Sunday with a 9-second lead over his closest rival, David Zabriskie.
HTC-Columbia's Rogers beat Zabriskie by 5 seconds in Saturday's individual time trial in Los Angeles; three-time defending champion Levi Leipheimer finished 11 seconds behind Rogers and retained third place overall.
Germany's Tony Martin, also of HTC-Columbia won the 23-mile time trial, finishing ahead of Rogers by 22 seconds.
The podium ceremony for the top three finishers in the ITT was quite a scene …
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Favorite at Giro d'Italia
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The early favorites of the Giro d'Italia, such as Saturday's Stage 14 winner Vincenzo Nibali, started nibbling away at the huge leads gained by members of a breakaway earlier in the week.
Nibali and Ivan Basso (both of Liquigas), Cadel Evans (BMC), Michele Scarponi (Androni) all cut at least a minute-and-a-half off their deficits on the 127-mile race from Ferrara to Asolo. Alexandre Vinokourov (Astana) and Carlos Sastre (Cervelo) finished closely behind them.
All but Scarponi and Basso are back into the top 10, but they still have huge time gaps to make up …
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