“I survived six months in Afghanistan and a year in Iraq, many parachute jumps out of airplanes and other adventures and never broken a bone, and it takes a hit-and-run driver to send me to the hospital with a broken bone.”
Pat Rimron telling a Winston-Salem, North Carolina, TV station about his Friday bike ride that ended when he was struck by a hit & run driver. An Army Reservist, Rimron returned to his job as a teacher at Forsyth Country Day School seven months ago after two tours in the Middle East …..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/08/31/bike-quote-war-veteran-is-victim-of-hit-run-driver-at-home/
Hometown hero George Hincapie, probably the most-experienced US cyclist competing today, won the National Road Race Championship on Sunday in Greenville, South Carolina.
He last earned the red, white and blue jersey in 2006, also in Greenville.
The 36-year-old cyclist for Team Columbia was part of an eight-man break that formed late in the 100-mile bike race around Greenville.
The route included four ascents of Paris Mountain, a ridge north of town that Hincapie has inserted into his local training rides for years …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/08/31/george-hincapie-regains-us-cycling-pro-road-championship/
German cyclist Gerald Ciolek got some help from teams trying to put their sprinters across the finish line first as he won a mass sprint on Sunday as the Vuelta a Espana bike race entered Emmen, The Netherlands.
First it was Garmin Slipstream that drove the peloton to catch up to a five-man breakaway that survived for most of the 125-mile stage through The Netherlands. Then Team Columbia paced the peloton the final mile or so to the finish line.
But CyclingNews says that Columbia's Andre Greipel and Garmin's Tyler Farrar were surprised at the finish by the 22-year-old Ciolek on Team Milram as he powered past them, and a few other sprinters in the bunch, to win the stage. ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/08/30/ciolek-wins-stage-2-sprint-at-vuelta-a-espana/
Utah's Dave Zabriskie decisively won his fourth consecutive US individual time trial championship on Saturday in Greenville, South Carolina.
The time trial specialist for Garmin-Slipstream finished 44 seconds ahead of 2nd place finisher Tom Zirbel of Bissell cycling team. Zabriskie's time was 1:04 faster than what his tally on the same 20.7-mile course last year.
The US pro cycling championships continue Sunday with the road race. Current champion Tyler Hamilton will not be competing as he is suspended from professional cycling ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/08/30/dave-zabriskie-is-us-pro-time-trial-champion-again/
It's no surprise that Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara, left, would excel at the individual time trial to open the 2009 Vuelta a Espana on Saturday.
The Saxo Bank time trial specialist won a similar opening day at the Tour de France in July and ended up wearing the yellow jersey for nearly the first third of the three-week race.
The big surprise has to be Wenatchee, Washington's Tyler Farrar, who finished in third place. The Garmin Slipstream sprinter finished just 12 seconds out of first place …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/08/29/cancellara-wins-opening-vuelta-a-espana-stage-tyler-farrar-in-3rd/
A visit to the offices of Adventure Cycling Association is a highlight for bike travelers on the traditional TransAmerica route as they pass through Missoula, Montana.
Since 1982, Greg Siple, the co-founder of Bikecentennial which later became Adventure Cycling, has been taking portraits of them.
Here's the first one, at left. She's Laura Orton, a hospital dietician from Michigan who stopped by the office while on a bike vacation from Seattle.
Now, the Adventure Cycling has posted 76 of those portraits online in the National Bicycle Touring Portrait Collection. It's fun to browse through them and see what people have been riding and carrying over the years. One thing in common, they all have the self-satisfied expression of being on the ride of their lives …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/08/28/more-than-25-years-of-bike-traveler-portraits-posted-online/
The Adventure Cycling Association has been taking photos of the bike travelers who stop by for a visit since 1982. Here's the first one. As with all of them, it was taken by Greg Siple. More online at National Bicycle Touring Portain Collection.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/08/28/first-bike-traveler-portrait-in-gallery/
Fall is in the air up here in the Pacific Northwest. The days already are getting noticeably shorter and many school districts are opening their doors next week.
There are still plenty of good bicycling days left this year, however. I've just updated more than 60 charity and recreational bike rides on the West Coast states through the end of the year.
The bulk of the bike rides — 40 — are in California, where the break in the hot summer weather means more comfortable bicycling weather. More than 20 rides are scheduled in Washington state, mostly in September, before the winter rains set in. (This doesn't include the randonneur rides, which have a crowded fall schedule.)
One of the newest entries on Washington's September bike calendar is the 2nd annual “Pedaling the Muse” on Sept. 12. The amusing poster shows Vincent Van Gogh …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/08/27/dozens-of-west-coast-bike-rides-this-fall/
Lance Armstrong's Team RadioShack will head to Australia in January to make the Tour Down Under the first race for the new team.
The Tour Down Under rolls out Jan. 17-24, 2010, and is once again based in Adelaide. Armstrong's return to professional cycling at the bike race earlier this year boosted the attendance over previous years by about 50%.
Even a year after his announced return to cycling, Armstrong is still a big draw. His bike ride around Dublin after the close of his cancer summit there drew more than 1,000 bicyclists. Although he had hinted at a ride in Dublin's Phoenix Park earlier in the week, he gave the final details only hours before he set off. ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/08/26/2010-tour-down-under-first-bike-race-for-team-radioshackwho-will-be-on-the-team/
Karl Krueger will be the first person to go into the bicycling record books for riding his bike to hell and back.
While most of us have probably felt that way after a particularly ugly bike ride, 62-year-old Krueger is the first to ever finish the bike event called the “Hell & Back.”
All he had to do was ride his recumbent bicycle clear across South Dakota, turn around, and ride back. He finished the 824-mile endurance ride in just under 93 hours — 3 hours ahead of the cut off.
The Hell & Back is part of the Gut Check 212 endurance bike race across South Dakota, a fund raiser for Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA).
The Gut Check 212 solo ride follows Highway 212 …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/08/25/man-rides-his-bike-hell-says-it-was-fun/
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