Organizers of the 2010 Tour of California announced on Tuesday the 16 pro cycling teams that will compete in the 5th annual week-long race that rolls out from May 16 – 23.
All the usual suspects are here, including top US teams RadioShack, HTC-Columbia, Garmin-Transitions, and BMC Racing.
Because the California race organizers moved the event from February to May, many of the teams will be splitting their squads between the Tour of California and the three-week Giro d'Italia which runs at the same time.
RadioShack was not invited to the Giro, so its stars Lance Armstrong and defending champ Levi Leipheimer are expected to compete in California in May ….
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A 45-year-old British bicyclist and bar owner set off from Thailand last week in an attempt to smash the around-the-world bicycling record by shaving more than two months off the current best time.
Alan Bate proposes to accomplish the 18,000-mile journey in 99 days, eclipsing the fastest time of 165 days set by Julian Sayarer, 23, just last year.
The feat requires that Bate ride his bicycle an average 180 miles a day, compared to the 109 miles a day ridden by Sayarer last year.
The past couple of years have seen many attacks on the bicycling record to circumnavigate the globe — all by British bicyclists.
The standing Guinness World Record holder is still Scotland's Mark Beaumont …
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Attempting around the world bicycling record
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Bicycles will rule the road along a 2 1/2-mile stretch of Lake Washington Boulevard in Seattle just about every Sunday between May 2 and Sept. 26 this year.
Bicycle Sundays is back in 2010, which means all motorized traffic will be prohibited along the scenic lake-front road between Mount Baker Beach and Seward Park.
It's good to hear, but not at all surprisingly, that the Seattle Parks and Recreation Department is continuing the event that's been a Seattle tradition for some four decades. Seattle's new mayor, Michael McGinn, rides a bicycle.
Bicycle Sundays is Seattle's own version of ciclovia …
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A group dedicated to the preservation and continuance of New York City's bicycle culture is remembering the life and times of track racing in an exhibit entitled “Strong Backs, Weak Minds: The Saga of the Coney Island Velodrome.”
The exhibit put together by NY Bike Jumble features actual track bicycles from the period, as well as programs, tickets and photos, like the one at left autographed by a cyclist named Tom Duffin Jr.
The velodrome was the last commercial bike racing venue in New York City, opening in 1930. The 1/8th-mile track wooden track with 45-degree banked corners had seating for 10,000 people.
Says NY Bike Jumble founder and curator Harry Schwartzman ..
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Vintage photo of cyclist Tom Duffin Jr. is among photos in track cycling memorabilia that go on display from the NY Bike Jumble in April – June 2010.
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A doctor is studying whether regular exercise can slow the spread of Parkinson's disease in people after he observed a severely afflicted man who could not walk, but had the ability to ride a bicycle.
Dr. Bastiaan R. Bloem told the New York Times about a 58-year-old man he met who was suffering from an advanced case of the neurological disorder. He could not walk without falling down, but could ride a bicycle for as far as 6 miles as long as someone helped him on and off.
That brings to mind the story that appeared last year (“A tandem bike ride leads to a treatment for Parkinson's”) that riding the back of a tandem bicycle at a relatively high cadence of 80 to 90 rpms temporarily relieved the symptoms of Parkinson's disease in patients. (video at left)
The two observations are somewhat different, but they do point to a special relationship between bicycling and Parkinson's disease …
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I have a bad habit of riding the same old routes on my bicycle, so I'm always trying to keep things fresh by looking for new roads. Scenic is good; points of interest or historic landmarks are a bonus.
That's why I was happy to stumble across the recently published Historic and Scenic Corridors Project of King County. Although not a bicycling map book, it contains a treasure trove of new roads to explore by bicycle.
The first ride I set out on did not disappoint. The Issaquah-Fall City Road described in the booklet, also published online, put me on a 5-mile route that has changed little from the early days of settlement when it was used as a wagon road by farmers before the arrival of the railroad to the region.
Originally seen as only a trace on early maps, it was officially established in 1883 ….
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Congress voted today to enforce a mandatory recall of 200 million bicycles, effective April 1st.
The action, which covers all bicycles sold within the U.S. for the past 10 years, is being taken in cooperation with the automobile industry, the petroleum industry, and the National Manufacturers Association.
The surprise vote came as the 182 members of the Congressional Bicycle Caucus, headed by Rep. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, were out for a spin on the new bicycle lane down the center of Pennsylvania Avenue. They got the news during the dedication of the bike lane, christened the Tony Kornheiser Obstacle Course ….
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Or uphill, depending on where you're starting. More at King County Historic Corridors.
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