Update: Orphanage funded by charity bicycle rides still standing
That's horrific news coming out of the earthquake zone in Haiti. It always seems that the regions least capable of sustaining a natural disaster are the ones hardest hit.
Millions are waiting to hear from friends, relatives and coworkers in the area hit by the 7.0 earthquake. Meanwhile, a group that funds a Port-Au-Prince orphanage with charity bike rides (see 6-minute video at right) got good news Wednesday morning.
Both buildings of the H.I.S. Home for Children are still standing and being patrolled, although a security wall fell down, according to reports in the Herald News in suburban Chicago …
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Seattle Bike Supply is recalling 350 Redline Conquest Pro bicycles and frames because of a defective fork.
The Kent, Washington-based distributor is urging consumers to stop riding the bikes immediately as the fork legs can separate from the fork crown.
The recall involves all year 2010 Redline Conquest Pro Cyclocross bicycles and framesets. They were sold in pearl white/blue and have aluminum frames with carbon fiber forks and aluminum steerer tubes …
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2010 Redline Conquest Pro bicycles and frames recalled. See Consumer Product Safety Commission for more information.
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While last week's 5-year sentence of a Los Angeles doctor for a road rage attack that injured two cyclists got big headlines, rage on the road involving bicyclists isn't uncommon.
Sometimes bicycle riders are the target, sometimes they're the aggressors, and sometimes they're in the wrong place at the wrong time. It makes me wonder if there's a way to avoid road rage.
In Naperville, Illinois, a 67-year-old woman is charged with four felony counts of aggravated battery. Last July, witnesses told police she rammed a 17-year-old bicyclist on a BMX bike from behind ….
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The slogan on Vancouver, BC's BikeRescue.org website must have sounded almost too good to be true to someone trying to recover a stolen bicycle:
“Ripped. Rescued. Returned. Putting bikes back where they belong.”
The website claimed the project had returned 256 stolen bikes by finding obviously stolen bicycles for sale at low prices, buying them, then reuniting them with their owners.
Well, it was too good to be true.
The head of the organization, Gordon Sinclair Blackwell, 41, was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to 36 counts of possession of stolen property (bicycles). …
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Bike Rescue, based in North Vancouver, Canada, turns out to be a bike fencing operation. Owner pleads guilty to three dozen counts of possession of stolen property.
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Lance Armstrong returns to Australia for the Tour Down Under next week in better shape than in last year's comeback season and with his own cycling team — Team Radio Shack.
Still, he told the Sydney Morning Herald that he doesn't expect to be in contention to win the bike race that rolls out Jan. 17-24. Team Shack instead will be looking to take stage wins at TDU with sprinter Gert Steegmans of Belgium.
Which is just as well, because the rosters for this year's race reveals a host of cyclists that can take the overall honors.
First there's 29-year-old Aussie Allan Davis, above right, who wore the QuickStep jersey last year when he won three stages on his way to the Tour Down Under championship. He's returning this year as a member of the decimated Astana team, who lost many riders to Radio Shack. Oscar Pereiro also is appearing with the Astana team. …
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Sometimes a chance encounter made while traveling by bicycle can lead to a life-long undertaking.
Such is the case of Mike Church, 27, whose 10,000-mile bike tour across Europe and Asia with a small group of bicyclists has led to the founding and maintenance of a school in a part of Nepal that is far off the tourist track.
The Mikey Medium English School, named for Church, opened in 2008 with funds provided in lieu of wedding gifts to Church's marriage to Ali Sharp. Since then, Church's parents have helped their son raise funds for the project. Church grew up in Davidsonville, Maryland, and is now a graduate student in Montana.
Interviewed in the Annapolis Capital, Church said:
“It just goes to show you how surprisingly easy it is to make a difference. It's a wonderful thing. My parents and I have supplied the school, but it's not a heroic deed. In the grand scheme of things, it's a minor and painless exercise ……
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A chance encounter between traveling bicyclists in Nepal led to the founding a school. More at Grassroots Education Nepal.
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