The Cedar Lake Trail leads right into the new Minnesota Twins new Target Field in Minneapolis.
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Four years after her diagnosis for brain cancer, Anne Feeley is riding her bicycle across country to raise money and awareness for one of the most deadly forms of cancer.
She and her friend and trainer, Gundula Hennig, set off from San Francisco late last week on their 3,800-mile cross-country fund-raising ride called Brains on Bikes. They are currently in Northern California.
The 55-year-old is the first to admit that she's been lucky. Doctors told her she probably had about a year to live. She suffered the same type of cancer — glioblastoma multiforme tumor — that afflicted the late Senator Ted Kennedy.
She underwent radiation therapy and chemotherapy, and she began exercising to make herself stronger. It gave her some control over her situation and made her feel better both spiritually …
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Brain cancer survivor Anne Feeley will be joined by her trainer Gundula Hennig on a cross-country bike trip dubbed Brains on Bikes. She wants to raise awareness and funds for brain cancer research.
Photo from YouTube video “Brains on Bikes; Help Us Outsmart Brain Cancer”
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Hats off to Fabian Cancellara for winning the second Paris-Roubaix of his career on Sunday.
The Swiss time trial specialist escaped from his rivals on one of the 27 sections of cobblestones that interrupt the 160-mile bike route and led all the way to the finish.
That the Swiss cyclist is one of the few cyclists to win the race multiple times is a testament to the difficulty of the aptly named “Hell of the North.”
If the distance and uncertain weather along the course doesn't get you, the cobblestones surely will. …
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RadioShack team cyclist Chris Horner wins the Tour of the Basque Country in Spain in April 2010.
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Team RadioShack's first multi-stage tour win came at the hands of Oregon's Chris Horner on Saturday.
The 38-year-old blistered the 14-mile time trial course that marked the finale of the six-day Tour of Basque Country in Spain, taking the championship from Spain's Alejandro Valverde, who dropped to second place.
Basque Country is considered one of the more difficult multi-stage races in Europe because of the terrain. Horner put himself in a position to win early in the contest by hanging with the leaders in the first stage on Monday.
He stayed comfortably within reach of first place until Thursday's Stage 4. That's when he attacked on the final climb, only to be passed by stage winner Samuel Sanchez, Valverde and Gesink. But that move put him within 1 second of the overall race leader Valverde.
In his ride to victory in Orio on Saturday …
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The future must have been looking pretty bright for Jorge Alvarado on Thursday morning as he headed south on his bicycle for a solo training ride on Greenspot Road in California's eastern San Bernardino County.
The 27-year-old cyclist from Mexico had made it onto the roster of the Bahati Foundation cycling team in March. He recently had won the UCLA Road Race and finished 5th at the Redlands Classic pro/am crit.
On tap was this weekend's Dana Point Grand Prix and the upcoming SRAM Tour of the Gila at the end of April. There he'd get the chance to race against Dave Zabriskie, Danny Pate, Tom Danielson and other pros preparing for the Tour of California.
But this Thursday morning, Sheriff's investigators say a high school senior made the decision to pass a classmate's car at 70 mph. He lost control ….
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Cyclist for Bahati Foundation killed as youths race on a desolate southern California road.
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Civia and Consumer Product Safety Commission recall 800 Civia Hyland bicycles due to fork failure.
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The other night I stumbled across a quirky reality TV show on the History Channel that vintage bicycle collectors might enjoy.
The show is called American Pickers, and it follows the exploits of Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz as they rummage through old barns, attics and junk piles in search of treasures that they can resell for a profit.
Each has his specialty, and one of Wolfe's is vintage bicycles and motorbikes. Occasionally, they'll stumble across one of these gems in their travels around the country. In one episode he explains:
“My passion runs deep for bicycles because it was my first form of independence when I was a kid.”….
These guys don't sit at home buying this stuff off of eBay, they're cruising around backroads in their Antique Archeology van and stopping at homes where they dig into dirt, dust and debris for metal signs, ceramic jars and anything else they think can be sold. It's time-consuming, but it's a way to find the good deals …
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