Levi Leipheimer won his second cycling championship of the year on Friday by winning Spain's five-day Vuelta a Castilla y Leon bicycle race.
The win follows on the heels of his third straight Tour of California championship in February.
The Montana-born member of Team Astana was joined on the podium by teammate Alberto Contador in 2nd place and Garmin-Slipstream's David Zabriskie in 3rd place (Zabriskie placed 2nd to Leipheimer in the Tour of California.) …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/27/leipheimer-contador-zabriskie-1-2-3-in-spain/
The driver of a truck that sideswiped and killed Chattanooga bike framebuilder and cycling advocate David Meek earlier this month may avoid prosecution.
A grand jury decided not to return an indictment against the truck driver, and police earlier did not cite him — not even for a possible violation of the state's 3-foot passing law. The grand jury based its decision on crash investigator's conclusion, reported in the Chattanoogan newspaper:
“… the truck driver 'could have seen the bike, but it is not likely that he should have seen the bike.' “
What kind of tortured logic is this?
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/27/no-charges-in-death-of-bicycle-framebuilder-in-chattanooga/
One thousand pre-orders are needed for Tennessee to issue this “3-feet” license plate.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/27/proposed-license-plate-for-tennessee/
Lance Armstrong posted a 2-minute video at the LiveStrong.com website following his surgery for a broken collarbone.
It looks like Armstrong is sitting in his kitchen with a stack of CDs on a table and a blender containing a mystery concoction in the background.
In the video post, put up Thursday afternoon, he thanks his doctors and supporters and shows an X-ray of his collarbone with the metal strip and 12 screws holding it in place.
Armstrong said he's unsure about his recovery …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/27/armstrong-unsure-about-recovery-timetable/
Have you recorded your bicycle serial number? Me neither, but I plan to today after reading how Colorado Springs police solved a string of bike thefts.
Detectives conducting a routine record search of sales from county pawn shops recently stumbled across the serial number of a bicycle that had been reported stolen.
Tracking that sale led to the arrest of the seller and four accomplices. It helped solve a year-long bicycle theft spree that had netted more than 60 bicycles from Colorado Springs and Colorado College.
A detective told the Colorado Springs Gazette that the theft ring might been discovered earlier if the victims had records of their serial numbers that they could turn over to police …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/26/serial-number-busts-up-bicycle-theft-ring/
The US Bicycling Hall of Fame will relocate from its current home in New Jersey to either Davis, California, or Greensboro, North Carolina.
The towns are the top finalists from among 11 that sought to house the bicycling foundation's headquarters after more than 20 years in Somerset, New Jersey.
The Hall displays bicycles, jerseys, photos, trophies and other memorabilia of more than 100 years of US cycling history. It also celebrates the sport of cycling by inducting Hall of Famers every year and coordinating annual bike races.
Its home in Somerset is demolished to make way for a redevelopment project …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/25/u-s-bicycling-hall-of-fame-narrows-search-to-two-cities/
Lance Armstrong underwent surgery to repair his right collarbone on Wednesday morning in Austin, and first reports say “all went well.”
Armstrong said Tuesday night through his spokesman that it wasn't a clean fracture and there were “multiple pieces” that his doctor, Austin surgeon Doug Elenz, will attach to a plate placed on top of the clavicle.
A note posted on Team Astana's Twitter website shortly after 3 p.m. ET said: “Lance is done with surgery. All went well.” Armstrong's spokesman said surgeons repaired the break with a 4-5-inch metal plate and 12 screws.
Armstrong broke his right collarbone when he fell in a pileup …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/25/armstrong-gets-surgery-to-repair-broken-collarbone/
Three-time Tour of California winner Levi Leipheimer is leading the 5-stage Vuelta a Castilla y León bike race in Spain after the third stage on Wednesday.
The US rider took the leader's jersey on Tuesday after winning the 17.5-mile individual time trial around Palencia.
Trailing Leipheimer by 16 seconds is his Astana teammate and team captain Alberto Contador …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/25/leipheimer-leading-bike-race-that-armstrong-abandoned/
Pan American bicycle tourist Sam Hagler just happened to have his camera running when he was attacked by a swarm of Africanized bees in Argentina recently.
The result is his gripping video posted on YouTube of him pedaling for his life.
Anyone on a long bicycle tour is bound to ride into some misfortune, but Sam had enough bad luck in that one day to last his entire 10,000-mile ride from Paraguay to Arizona.
The former Peace Corps volunteer supports the protection of endangered forests and is raising money through his Ride for the Trees to help fund two non-profits working to save the San Rafael Reserve in Paraguay.
But that bike tour nearly came to an abrupt end in northern Argentina in late January when he stopped at a bridge to take a break and look through the gear on his trailer to find a hammock. That's when a swarm of Africanized bees attacked …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/24/cyclo-tourist-pushing-on-in-spite-of-killer-bees-and-thieves/
Samuel Hagler pedals past a logging truck. He's touring South America trying to raise money to save trees in the San Rafael Reserve in Paraguay. See more at his Ride for the Trees website.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/24/samuel-hagler/
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