Those who like to ride and/or carry their bicycles up and over muddy hills or along grassy tracks are probably rejoicing to hear that the UCI World Cyclocross Championships are coming to Louisville, Kentucky, in 2013.
Historically popular in Belgium, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic, cyclocross has been gaining popularity around the world, especially in the US. The interest will probably grow here, as 2013 will be the first time that the World cyclocross championships have come to the US.
In fact, it's the first time the Worlds have been held outside Europe in 50 years.
If you want to see what World championship cyclocross is all about, check out Universal Sports Cyclocross online this weekend.
The website is offering free live coverage of the elite men's and women's races from Tabor, Czech Republic, beginning at noon (ET) on Sunday, Jan. 31. Other webcasts are on demand
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/29/world-cyclocross-championships-come-to-us-in-2013/
Bicycle advocates in state legislatures are once again promoting bills that require motorists to give bicyclists 3 feet of clearance when passing.
Currently, 14 states require a 3-foot gap for bicycle riders. They are Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah and Wisconsin.
This year, lawmakers in Maryland, Missouri, Ohio, South Dakota and Virginia are considering 3-foot laws. At least two other states, Iowa an Washington, have 3-foot passing laws in committee from last year.
Here are some details about the laws so you can follow along at home ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/29/more-states-consider-3-foot-bicycle-passing-laws-in-2010/
The same day that President Obama announced his jobs programs in the State of the Union address, an Indianapolis-based bicycle components maker announced it would expand and create jobs by 2013.
Zipp Speed Weaponry, which makes wheels, aero bars and other components for road, cyclocross and triathlete bicycling events, will expand its customer service and manufacturing division in Indianapolis, adding 105 jobs.
Currently the firm, which became a subsidiary of SRAM in 2007, employs 130 people. Hiring begins in June, according to the Indianapolis Business Journal.
This $12.5 million investment is good news. Zipp is expanding and keeping its jobs in the US, not farming out to India or China. ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/28/zipp-expansion-small-bright-light-in-bike-industry/
Brett Tracy travels the western US by bicycle and uses his artist's trained eye to document the end of the industrial age.
While the end of the industrial age might not be an accepted fact, Brett sees evidence everywhere that humans are coming to the end of their industrial phase. He imagines that a more ecologically aware human-scale era will replace it.
His website is “The Illuminated Thread: a journey by bicycle into the murky unknown of the deindustrial age.” It's full of pictures, videos, audio and journal postings of his travels.
Brett is about to set out on a bike tour from Los Angeles to Houston. Along the way, he's planning to stop at desert water projects, failed alternative energy projects, utopian settlements, mines, dumps and aircraft storage yards. ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/27/traveling-by-bicycle-to-document-the-end-of-industrial-age/
Brett Tracy pauses to grab a bite on his bike in Wyoming. Illuminated Thread.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/27/catching-a-bite-in-wyoming/
A closed shipyard in San Francisco. Illuminated Thread
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/27/abandoned-shipyard/
Stephen Allen is pedaling across the Pacific Northwest on the last leg of his around the world bicycle tour to raise money and awareness about living with epilepsy.
Allen left Telluride, Colorado, some 14 months ago and headed east on his Seize the World bike travels. Since departing, he saw 22 countries and sustained 3 1/2 seizures.
He flew into Seattle from Japan in December, and now he's pedaling his bike across Idaho after passing through eastern Oregon. He continues to give talks, like the one last week in Boise for the Epilepsy Foundation of Idaho, and use his laptop to update his website, SeizetheWorld.com.
Allen undertook the world bike tour to show that people with epilepsy can realize their dreams. He keeps his epilespy in check with medications. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/26/cyclist-fulfills-world-bike-touring-dream-in-spite-of-epilepsy/
More than 2,000 south Florida cyclists gathered in Key Biscayne on Sunday morning for a memorial ride to honor hit-and-run victim Christophe LeCanne.
It was an amazing outpouring of support to demonstrate to elected officials and the motoring public that bike riders are tired of second-class citizenship on the road.
LeCanne, 44, was struck by an allegedly drunken motorist as he rode his bike in the bicycle lane on the Rickenbacher Causeway a week ago Sunday.
He lay bleeding to death in the road for over 15 minutes because the closest fire-rescue station was closed due to a reduction in hours …..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/25/thousands-join-bike-ride-to-remember-florida-hit-run-victim/
The text-messaging motorist who struck and killed his former high school teacher told the court: “This was not intentional. It was an accident. I'm so sorry.”
Clark County (Vancouver, Washington) Superior Court Judge Roger Bennett didn't buy it.
“I've heard the term 'accident' used quite a bit today. But this was no accident.”
He then sentenced Antonio Cellestine, 18, to five years in prison after he pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and felony hit and run ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/24/5-year-sentence-in-washington-bicyclists-death/
I don't know how many ochre-colored leaders' jerseys were prepared for the Tour Down Under, but one would have been sufficient this year.
Andre Greipel donned the leader's jersey after the first stage on Tuesday and retained it through the week to win the 2010 Tour Down Under championship on Sunday.
Team Sky's Chris Sutton won the final stage, a 56-mile criterium around Adelaide. It was the only stage won by an Australian on his home soil this week.
US-based Team HTC Columbia certainly deserves a huge credit for Greipel's repeat of his 2008 Tour Down Under championship. Columbia controlled the peloton all week
Lance Armstrong, who arrived to great fanfare with the new RadioShack cycling team, finished in 25th place overall ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/24/greipel-wins-tour-down-under-australias-sutton-wins-finale/
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