The federal judge in the contract dispute between Trek Bicycle and Greg LeMond says both parties should think about an out-of-court settlement to avoid a messy trial on the lawsuits in the spring.
Central in the suit – countersuit are allegations that LeMond made against Lance Armstrong and the Texan's reaction to them. The judge this week said Armstrong would be subpoenaed to testify at the trial scheduled in March.
Lawyers for both LeMond and Trek said they're willing to meet for settlement talks …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/11/12/lemond-trek-lawsuits-roll-on-stormy-trial-on-tap/
It's a deadly mistake to design streets and roads with only cars in mind, especially as more commuters are turning to walking and bicycling.
That's no surprise to those of us on bikes. But it's always welcome to see groups like the Transportation for America and the Surface Transportation Policy Partnership reach that conclusion in their report issued this week.
In fact, the most dangerous cities for walking in the US are in the South — car-centric areas that have undergone rapid growth in recent decades. The worst cities in the US for walking, based on the report's pedestrian danger index, are the metro areas of Orlando, Tampa, Miami, Jacksonville and Memphis.
Four of those cities that lead the pedestrian danger list are in Florida, a state that always ranks near the top for the rate of bicycling fatalities as well…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/11/10/designing-roads-just-for-cars-is-deadly-for-bicyclists-and-walkers/
The five-member Harrison family is more than 2,000 miles into a 7,000-mile epic bike tour from Kentucky to Alaska by way of Florida and Texas.
Bill and Amarind and their three children — Cheyenne (6), Jasmine (4) and Robin (3) — are undertaking the bike tour on a quintuple bike that can be reconfigured to a quad, triplet or straight tandem by decoupling some sections.
That's the family at left soon after taking delivery of the quint bike. What you don't see is their racks and trailer loaded down with enough gear to sustain them all the way from their home in Mount Vernon, Kentucky, to their destination in Fairbanks, Alaska, sometime in 2010.
In fact, that two-wheel bike trailer carried so much stuff that it would scrape bottom on some bumpy roads until Bill made some adjustments ….
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Bill and Amarins Harrison pedal with their kids Cheyenne, Jasmine and Robin. More at www.pedouins.org.
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It's never too soon to start planning for a major bike ride next year.
Although cross-country bike travel isn't in the cards for me, I started checking into self-contained or fully supported coast-to-coast bike tours that are offered in 2010.
Here a a few that I stumbled across that are being offered by non-profits or as fund-raisers for charitable causes. The rides are targeted for everyone from college students to women over 50.
I'll update the 2010 Cross-country Bike Travel page for more rides as I come across them. ……
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/11/06/bakers-dozen-cross-country-bike-tours-offered-in-2010/
Bicyclists pose at the Continental Divide on their cross-country bike tour to raise money for the American Lung Association.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/11/06/big-ride-across-the-us-portrait/
Cadbury Canada brought together two of my favorite things — chocolate and bikes — in a promotion to do some good in Africa.
The chocolate maker is sending 5,000 bikes to central and southern Ghana where they'll give people access to schools, medical care and local markets.
Chocaholics participated in the bike donation by converting their Cadbury purchases into bicycle parts at The Bicycle Factory website. Consumers entered UPC codes from their chocolate purchases to “create” bicycle parts.
Each UPC equaled a bicycle part. It took 100 parts to build a bicycle …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/11/06/half-a-million-pieces-of-chocolate-equals-5000-bikes-for-africa/
Bike travelers on the Great Allegheny Passage pump about $40 million a year into the local economies and $7.5 million into wages along the 132-mile rail-to-trail from Cumberland, Maryland, to the outskirts of Pittsburgh.
Those are the not-so-surprising findings of the Great Allegheny Passage Economic Impact Study conducted in 2008 and 2009.
The report once again proves the “build-it-and-they-will-come” relationship between trails, bicyclists, and profitability to businesses in the vicinity, especially those that cater to bike travel.
Some of the major findings of the study:
— The $40 million was more than five times the impact of $7.26 million in 2001, when the Passage links had not yet been connected;
— On average, businesses attributed 25% of their sales to trail users …..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/11/05/rail-to-trail-bike-travel-provides-economic-stimulus/
Lance Armstrong will have some competition as the most popular kid in the peloton for Australia's Tour Down Under next January now that favorite son Cadel Evans, right, has committed to the bike race.
Evans had earlier been quoted that he was going to skip his nation's bike race because it didn't fit into his training schedule for the 2010 Tour de France, which he is hungry to win.
But having relocated to BMC Racing after dropping his five-year tenure with Silence-Lotto last week, Evans and BMC are said to be accepting a wild card to race in the Tour Down Under from January 17-24, 2010.
There's no doubt that Armstrong's return to Adelaide with his newly minted Team RadioShack …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/11/05/armstrong-and-evans-at-tour-down-under-in-january/
From 2009 Tour de France.
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