Civia Cycles is recalling 800 bicycle forks because of reports that they can crack or break.
The Bloomington, Minnesota-based importer issued the recall with the Consumer Product Safety Commission after receiving three reports of the forks cracking or breaking.
The carbon fiber forks were installed on Hyland bicycles made in Taiwan that sold for $1,675 to $3,000 between April 2008 …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/09/civia-cycles-recalls-forks-on-hyland-brand-bikes/
Collector and dealer Mike Wolfe helps carry an antique “safety bicycle” down from an attic in an episode of American Pickers, shown weekly on the History Channel. Some episodes are streamed at the History Channel online.
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An anti-government uprising in his home country of Nepal convinced Pushkar Shah to ride his bicycle around the world to spread the message of peace.
Now, Shah plans to scale the slopes of Mount Everest to plant the flags of the 150 countries he visited on his 11-year journey.
Shah ended his 135,000-mile world tour ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/08/around-the-world-bicyclist-aims-to-climb-mt-everest/
A round-up of some spring cycling news:
Tyler Farrar
Wenatchee, Washington's Tyler Farrar claimed his second victory of the year at the Grote Scheldeprijs in Belgium on Wednesday.
The 122-mile bike race from Antwerp to Schoten is a flat route that pretty much designed for a sprint finish. Farrar became the first American ever to win the race, and beat the likes of Australia's Robbie McEwen (Team Katusha), Germany's Robert Forster (Team Milram), and New Zealand's Greg Henderson (Sky pro cycling).
In the video above, you can see Farrar just blasting past Belgium's Tom Boonen …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/08/horner-2nd-in-basque-farrar-wins-sprint-flu-beats-armstrong/
Nepal's Pushkar Shah poses in Beirut. He's traveled all over the world in the past 11 years.
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Pasadena is no longer the starting city for Stage 6 of the 2010 Tour of California.
California's state road department (Caltrans) notified the organizers about winter damage to the Angeles Crest Highway (Route 2) above La Cañada Flintridge that created potential safety hazards to racers and spectators who will line the route.
The Tour is searching for a city to …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/08/pasadena-is-out-as-start-for-stage-6-of-tour-of-california/
For the bicycle touring crowd, this is as close as it gets to something like a release party for Apple's iPad.
More than 200 bicyclists showed up on Tuesday night for the unveiling of the Sierra Cascade Bicycle Route, the newest map set produced by the Adventure Cycling Association.
The 2,400-mile bicycle route connects Canada and Mexico via paved roads roughly along the corridor of the Pacific Crest. The 5-map set will be available at the end of April.
The bicycle route marks Adventure Cycling's achievement of creating more than 40,000 miles of bicycle routes …..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/07/new-sierra-cascades-bicycle-route-unveiled-in-seattle/
Three cities in the Pacific Northwest landed among the top five of Bicycling Magazine's list of Top 50 Bike-Friendly cities, but Minneapolis took the Number 1 spot.
In spite of winter conditions that many wouldn't consider conducive to bicycling, Minneapolis got the nod because of its active bicycle culture and the doubling of bike commuters in just a 3-year-period.
Rounding out the Top 5 are Portland, Oregon (#2), Boulder, Colorado (#3), Seattle (#4, at left) and Eugene, Oregon (#5).
The region also ranked high among cities under 100,000 population. The top 5 are Davis, California (#1), Corvallis, Oregon (#2), Bellingham, Washington (#3) …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/06/bicycling-magazine-names-top-50-cities-for-riding-a-bicycle/
Toronto police pulled four large transport trucks into a community center parking lot on Monday and began unloading 1,000 bicycles that will be fixed up and distributed to youth in the area.
But that's not even half of the stolen-bike haul made by police who in 2008 began investigating Igor Kenk, dubbed the most prolific bicycle thief in Canada's history.
In all, police confiscated 2,200 to 2,900 bicycles that Kenk had squirreled away around the city. About 1,000 of those bikes were returned to their owners.
Among those showing up at the center for the unloading — Igor Kenk …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/06/does-toronto-bike-giveaway-end-bike-theft-saga/
Relesased by Pop Sandbox on May 1.
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