Here are the latest and final election results. Trust me. There will be no charges of mudslinging or requests for recounts.
I'm talking about the results from the Bicycle Travel Award contest hosted by Adventure Cycling Association, the nonprofit that has developed 38,000 miles of bike routes criss-crossing the US.
The folks named below were nominated by some of you. The individuals were chosen for making the on-the-road lives of bike travelers easier and their work in furthering the enjoyment of bicycle touring.
The June Curry Trail Angel Award goes to Bill and Nancy Nix of Knox, North Dakota …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/11/04/adventure-cycling-names-bicycle-travel-award-winners/
We all know that Twitter is a great resource for social networking, and it's the one place where you'll always be able to find out what Lance Armstrong is up to on a daily, in not hourly, basis.
But I never have been so entertained — and wasted so much time — on Twitter as this morning with suggestions from the Twitteratis of the best bike movies never made.
Here's just a few of my favorites from this morning. They can be found at Twitter.com #bikemovies:
Citizen Chain
Astana Potter and the Prisoner of Kazakhstan
The Year of Spinning Dangerously …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/11/04/twitters-list-of-best-bike-movies-never-made/
Imagine rolling along on your bike for a leisurely country ride and suddenly being thrust into the finish line of a major bike race.
That's the stunt set up by Frenchman Remi Gallard in this video at left. It looks like something Alan Funt might have done for Candid Camera; others compare Gallard's work to Johnny Knoxville.
In any case, these cyclists seem to take the interruption pretty good-naturedly. I mean, how can you not laugh at a guy running alongside you in his underwear? …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/11/04/french-video-catches-cyclists-off-guard/
This has to be one of the most difficult one-day organized bike tours for weekend warrior bicyclists in 2010.
The l’Étape du Tour departs from Pau, France, on July 18 and follows the same route the pros will take later in the week over two mountain passes with a finish atop the Col du Tourmalet.
Presesented for the 18th year by Tour de France organizers, the ride allows the rest of the bicycling population to endure the gut-wrenching climbs and dizzying heights that the pros experience.
This year's ride is the same as Stage 17, a 108-mile jaunt the pro cyclists will tackle on July 22; one of six mountain stages of the 2010 Tour de France…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/11/03/challenging-bike-ride-for-tour-de-france-fans-in-2010/
Here's the route for recreational bicyclists on July 18, 2010. It's the same route that the pros will take on Stage 17 on July 22, 2010.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/11/03/the-2010-etape-du-tour/
The scales of justice tipped in favor of bicyclists in a Los Angeles County courtroom on Monday.
A jury convicted an LA-area emergency room doctor with a handful of felony counts for slamming on his brakes in front of a pair of cyclists on a hilly road in 2008. His actions sent one bicyclist into the rear window of the doctor's car and another one sprawling to an adjacent sidewalk. Both suffered serious injuries.
The judge ordered Dr. Christopher Thompson held without bail until sentencing.
The doctor was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon, reckless driving causing specified bodily injury, battery with serious bodily injury and mayhem. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/11/03/jury-convicts-la-doctor-in-road-rage-vs-cyclists-case/
My son gained two strong opinions at college about combination U-locks for bicycles: They're great when they work, but a real pain when they malfunction.
When he went off to college for the first time this fall, he took a brand-new Kryptonite combination U-lock with him. He didn't want to risk losing his bike, and he'd heard — from me — that cable locks are easily compromised.
His first problem arose when he was riding across campus and his U-lock fell to the ground off the handlebar. A button that opens the lock broke off and disappeared into the grass.
While a replacement was in the mail, he and his friend used a MasterLock combination U-lock to attach their bikes to a rack at a nearby mall on a Friday. When they returned, the button that releases the lock jammed, and they could not get it open …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/11/02/u-lock-101-liberating-bicycles-from-jammed-bike-locks/
The Velib bike-sharing program in Paris has caught the attention of many urban transportation planners in the US. Let's hope they don't lose their nerve when they learn about the wanton and wholesale destruction of that Parisian bicycle fleet.
Nearly 8,000 of the Velib bikes, costing $3,500 apiece, have been stolen. Another 8,000 have been damaged to such an extent that they're unusable. That's 80% of the original 20,000 bikes the French put on the streets.
Still, according to a New York Times article, the bike-sharing program is considered a success as 50,000 to 150,000 trips are logged on the bikes everyday. This as 1,500 bikes are repaired a day, some in a workshop that floats up and down the Seine.
Without the commitment of the JCDecaux outdoor advertising agency and the Paris city government …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/11/02/all-is-not-rosy-in-bike-sharing-paradise/
A former church pastor from Washington will be heading to prison soon to serve his sentence stemming from the 2003 death of a college coed who was riding with a friend along the roadside.
Randall Foos maintained in court that he didn't see the bicyclist, Sara Casey, because the sun was in his eyes. The prosecution maintained Foos had been diagnosed with three eye diseases that hampered his eyesight in the year before the crash.
The Tacoma News Tribune quoted the victim's mother:
“Our goal all along has been to raise awareness that people with severe medical impairments need to be held accountable when they choose to drive and put others at risk ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/11/02/pastor-headed-to-prison-for-2003-bicyclist-fatality/
“I don't think it's a possibility next year, or ever, for that matter. … I can't foresee what the politics in cycling will possibly lead to but the organisations in control are not working well together. There are people caught in the crossfire and I happen to be one of them, so I don't know if the opportunity will come up again. I would like to. But it's very sensitive.
“I would need a team to invite me and they would have to be willing to take the risk that they wouldn't be used as some sort of… The UCI and Tour de France don't get on well at the moment and they like to use whatever they can, whatever pawns are in the middle, to try to make a point. Most teams are afraid of giving them any reason to make them the pawn.”
— Floyd Landis, the disgraced 2006 Tour de France champion discussing his chances of returning to race the Tour de France …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/11/01/bike-quote-floyd-landiss-chances-of-returning-to-tour-de-france/
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