The Bicycle Film Festival rolls into Seattle this Friday and Saturday on its 39-city tour around the world.
More than 30 films can be viewed at the Henry Museum Auditorium on the UW Campus. Most are short releases, although nearly every program features a full-length bicycle film.
An after-party at the Flowers Bar and Restaurant runs from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.
The first feature film is “Where Are You Go”, the story of two brothers from Canada and their American friend who take on the Tour D'Afrique, the world's longest bicycle race and expedition. Shown in the trailer above, one rider tells the essence of his experience ….
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Hard work by Team Columbia and Garmin Slipstream didn't pay off at the Tour of Missouri on Wednesday as Norwegian Thor Hushovd survived at the front of a rolling finish into Rolla to take Stage 3.
Columbia's Mark Cavendish couldn't get through to the front of the mass sprint in Rolla. His finish position put him in a virtual tie with Hushovd for the overall race lead.
A three-man breakaway — including Garmin cyclists Michael Friedman and William Frischkorn and Matthew Wilson of Team Type 1 …
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See more photos at Garmin-Slipstream at flickr.com.
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The wait is over for US cyclist Tyler Farrar. The Garmin Slipstream speedster from Wenatchee, Washington, notched up his first ever Grand Tour stage victory on Wednesday at the Vuelta a Espana.
The win came in Caravaca de la Cruz at the end of the 120-mile Stage 11 of the tour of Spain.
Team Liquigas had controlled the charging peloton in the final kilometers, but attacks by Fabian Cancellara, then Oscar Freire, upset their plans.
Farrar rocketed to the front at the close, but no one could pass him.
After a total of five 2nds and 3rds earlier this year in the Giro d'Italia and Tour de France, Farrar must be relieved that he finally has a win in a Grand Tour ..
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Ernest H. Simpson will surely be missed, not just by his family and friends in his hometown, but by thousands of people in developing nations around the world who ride bicycles he collected and refurbished.
Known locally in Gettysburg as The Bicycle Man, Simpson passed away this summer at the age of 88. He leaves behind a tradition of salvaging discarded and unwanted bikes, fixing them up, and giving them away. We're talking more than 10,000 bicycles.
The Patriot News has a good article about Simpson, and tells how it all started one day when he was walking home from work in the early 1950s and saw a man throwing out a couple of bicycles …
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New Jersey-based charity collects and ships used bicycles to developing nations. Pedals for Progress also sets up bike repair shops in those nations using local residents.
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Chicago-based SRAM is recalling 24,000 10-speed bicycle chains with PowerLock connector links because the connector links are brittle and can crack, causing a fall hazard.
SRAM and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission recommend cyclists not ride bikes with these chains until the PowerLock connector links can be checked out at a local bike shop. SRAM is providing free replacements.
The SRAM chains were sold at specialty bicycle retailers nationwide from January through August this year. The PowerLock links were sold for $5 separately, or as part of 10-speed chains for between $35 to $85.
The chains also were installed on some Guru, Surly, Salsa, BMC, Serotta, Seven, and Ridley brand bikes…..
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Diagram of the SRAM 10-speed chains with PowerLock connector links. More information at US Consumer Product Safety Commission.
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Great Britain's Mark Cavendish keeps doing what he does best, winning bike races.
Team Columbia's sprinting sensation won Stage 2 of the 2009 Tour of Missouri in Cape Girardeau on Tuesday after a 112-mile bike race from Ste. Genevieve.
On a down note, defending champion Christian Vande Velde decided to abandon the Tour just as the stage was starting. The Illinois native and team leader for Garmin Slipstream had planned to finish the Tour despite breaking a bone in his right hand in that crash near the finish of Stage 1.
The pain of braking and shifting must have been too much …
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Rebecca O'Donnell completed her second cross-country bike trip this past weekend, logging 4,400 miles from San Francisco to Southwest Harbor, Maine, with her parents and brother.
She did her first Trans-America bike tour as a 3-year-old sitting in a trailer pulled by her mom or dad.
This time she did it as a 16-year-old with Type I diabetes, a serious condition that requires constant monitoring and regular injections through a catheter attached to an insulin pump.
I'm frequently amazed by the apparent difficulties that some people can overcome to enjoy bicycle travel. In this case, Rebecca had the support of her parents, Deb and Mike, and younger brother, James. At age 12, the cross-country bike tour was no small feat for her brother, either.
The bike tour, dubbed “Rebecca's Ride,” raised nearly $9,000 for diabetes research …..
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