For cycling enthusiasts, March Madness continues with Italy's Milan – San Remo bicycle race on Saturday.
Considered the opening day of the Spring Classics series, the one-day race will be streamed live on Universalsports.com beginning at 10 a.m. (ET), following by replays and highlights. The race will be broadcast on Universal Sports cable at 3 p.m. (ET), with repeats at 8 p.m. Saturday and 1 a.m. Sunday.
Americans cycling at the 185-mile slog include sprinter Tyler Farrar (Garmin) and George Hincapie, Brent Bookwalter and Jeffrey Louder (BMC Racing).
Lance Armstrong was scheduled to lead the Team RadioShack contingent…
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Editor's note: Every spring a whole new crop of bicycling fans are champing at the bit to take their first bicycle tour. While most have already read the standard “Top 10 tips” of bicycle touring somewhere, here's my personal suggestions gleaned from hard-learned lessons.
This is a reprint of a post buried in the bowels of my blog from several years ago. Most pointers are still true today:
1. Keep clean, especially your most tender parts. Cycling shorts are a heated petri dish for bacteria. Even if you're camping at a spot without showers, find a water spigot or head into a restroom to give yourself a good cleaning down below. A small pimple or rash can become an infection to rival anything found in the trenches of World War I. We talked to a couple who had to stop their tour the previous year because of such an infection ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/03/17/10-tips-for-bicycle-touring-from-lessons-learned-the-hard-way/
When I first started riding a bicycle as an adult back in the late 1970s in Maryland, one of the first things I did was to buy a guidebook of bicycle rides in the region that encompassed Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Looking back, I think I primarily needed that book because I really didn't know what made a good or bad bicycle route. That sounds funny now, but I didn't have a sixth sense about finding good roads for bicycling.
There's been such a guidebook of bike rides available for western Washington for a few years now. It's written by ardent local bicyclist and author Bill Thorness. He shares his wisdom gleaned from 20 years of bicycling in “Biking Puget Sound: 50 rides from Olympia to the San Juans.”
Although I'm long past needing to know what makes a good bike route, I'll have to admit that my ride choices tend to get stale. …..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/03/16/bill-thorness-shares-50-great-bike-rides-around-the-puget-sound/
Willie Weir is a name I've associated with bicycle travel for many years, especially through his writings for Adventure Cyclist magazine.
When I moved to western Washington a few years ago, I was happily surprised to learn that the author, lecturer and winner of gold and bronze Lowell Thomas Awards for travel writing had his roots right here in Seattle.
I had about a thousand questions to ask him when we finally met at the Seattle Bicycle Expo this past weekend, but I boiled it down to two: What's your favorite place for bicycle touring, and where would you ride your bike if you only had a week? …..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/03/15/willie-weirs-favorite-place-for-bike-travel/
The route of my 1984 cross-country bicycle tour is still pretty much imprinted on my brain.
So when Google announced it had created bike directions for Google maps, I was interested to see how its suggested route compared with the route I took 25-some years ago.
The result is at right. It's quite different than our actual route, below.
Google's route from Yorktown, Virginia, to Oceanside, California, is shorter than our meandering route. It bypasses some steep climbs and makes use of rail-to-trails that probably still carried freight trains when we traveled that way on our bikes. …..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/03/15/our-1984-transamerican-bicycle-trip-googleized/
Lance Armstrong knows all the details of the epic l'Alpe d'Huez and the Tourmalet climbs in France. Now he can say he knows about the howling winds at the Cape Argus too.
Armstrong finished in 9th place among the elite cyclists riding at the Cape Argus Cycle Tour in South Africa.
The 7-time Tour de France winner traveled to South Africa immediately after the Vuelta de Murcia in Spain to ride to raise funds for a South African charity.
The Cape Argus is a massive charity bike ride that boasted some 35,000 participants this year. It has an elite cyclist element, however ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/03/15/windy-south-african-bike-race-for-lance-armstrong/
It could have been deja vu all over again for Alberto Contador at the Paris-Nice bike race on Sunday.
The Caisse d'Epargne team was attacking Contador's precarious position as overall leader in the final stage of the week-long race, just as it had in the penultimate stage in 2009.
But instead of succumbing to the pressure and losing the yellow jersey to final champion Luis Leon Sanchez last year, Contador survived the attacks to win his second Paris-Nice championship. His first win came in 2007 …..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/03/14/contador-slugs-it-out-with-valverde-and-sanchez-in-paris-nice-finale/
The World Champion artistic cyclists from Germany were among the featured attractions at the 21st annual Seattle Bicycle Expo, but the new digs for the show at the spacious Smith Cove Cruise Terminal was definitely a huge drawing card.
It seems that whenever the Cascade Bicycle Club moves its expo to larger quarters, the number of exhibitors and visitors fill the space to capacity.
That appeared to be the case on Saturday, as the same interest in bicycling that drew record numbers to the Chilly Hilly bike ride two weeks ago, also prompted bicycling enthusiasts of all stripes — racers, tourers, commuters, recreational riders …..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/03/14/bicycling-enthusiasts-flock-to-seattle-bike-expo/
Long ago but in not so far away Idaho, Joe Kurmaskie got the nickname Metal Cowboy from a blind rancher.
Since then he's traveled near and far by bicycle, reporting his adventures through a series of humorous books, lectures and magazine articles.
His latest book is “Mud, Sweat and Gears.” It tells the story of how he involved his wife and three kids in a trans-Canada bike tour…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/03/14/more-family-bike-travel-adventures-with-the-metal-cowboy/
As someone who is challenged by a track stand at a stoplight or a bunny hop over a stick in the road, I was astounded by the wonderful performances of the artistic bicyclists from Germany at Saturday's Seattle Bicycle Expo.
If synchronized swimming can be an Olympic sport, so should this. In fact, artistic cycling is a popular UCI-licensed sport in Germany and elsewhere in Europe.
The Cascade Bicycle Club brought the reigning World Champion in single artistic women, Corrina Hein, to Seattle for the expo, along with leading men's pair competitors Stefan Musu and Lukas Matla.
The UCI competitions …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/03/14/balance-grace-and-skill-on-a-bicycle-artistic-cycling/
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