Lance Armstrong sits at the side of the road while he awaiting medical attention after crashing and breaking his collarbone. Video from Spanish TV
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/23/lance-armstrong-awaiting-medical-attention/
Lance Armstrong's comeback road took a crushing detour Monday when he crashed near the end of Stage 1 of the Vuelta a Castilla y León bike race.
Team Astana reports that Armstrong suffered a broken collarbone in the crash, which occurred about 12.5 miles from the finish in Baltanás, Spain. He went down in a pileup with other cyclists.
Video at a Spanish website shows Armstrong holding his arm as he enters an ambulance. The pileup happened on a narrow stretch with about a dozen cyclists.
The footage from the helicopter shows support crews checking on riders and replacing bikes on the road, then pans to a solitary figure wearing a yellow helmet sitting about 8 feet off the road with his back to the action.
Astana team director Johan Bruyneel wrote on Twitter that it was a “clean collarbone fracture without complications. Should be fast recovery. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/23/lance-armstrong-crashes-in-spain-breaks-collarbone/
Not since former President Bush crashed into some security guards in Scotland has there been so much coverage of a non-competitive bicycle accident.
This morning the news is Today show host Matt Lauer's “run-in” with a deer while riding on Long Island over the weekend. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/23/deer-wins-confrontation-with-bicycling-tv-celebrity/
A few years ago I wrote about Ferndale, Washington, bike-maker Kona's efforts to create a rugged bicycle for use in Africa for home healthcare workers.
The AfricaBike program was a three-way effort by Kona, Bicycling Magazine and Bristol-Myers Squibb to provide bicycles and medications to several countries in sub-Sahara Africa to provide AIDS/HIV treatment.
This past week I saw in a Seattle Times commuter bicycle review by Dan Nelson that those AfricaBikes (in 1-speed and 3-speed versions) are available in the United States and Canada as commuter bikes.
Checking around, I also learned that the Kona BikeTown project is still going strong and plans to send more bicycles to Africa this year. Since it was launched in 2005, some 3,000 all-steel bicycles have been delivered …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/22/africabikes-on-dirt-paths-in-africa-and-paved-streets-in-us/
Columbia-High Road's Mark Cavendish notched another win this season by outsprinting Germany's Heinrich Haussler in the Milan-San Remo spring classic on Saturday.
The Brit on the US-based cycling team already has five stage wins this year in addition to winning this 100th edition of the 184-mile race through Italy.
It marked the return to Euro cycling by Lance Armstrong, who last competed here in 2002. Armstrong finished in the second big group to cross the finish line, 8:19 behind Cavenish. His official placement was 125th …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/22/mark-cavendish-wins-milan-san-remo/
The bicycle suppliers and retailers who make up the nonprofit Bikes Belong Coalition have been busy doling out grants to reward grassroots organizations that are making life better for bicyclists.
Two rounds of grants have been handed out to 11 locally oriented bicycle advocacy groups recently. Not only is it cool to see that their good work is being supported, but it's interesting to see what's going on around the country for bicyclists.
Maybe some readers will get an idea for grant-worthy projects for their clubs.
The latest are 5 REI/Bicycle Friendly Community grants of $10,000 to $20,000 handed out in collaboration with Bikes Belong and the League of American Bicyclists. Earlier, Bikes Belong handed out $50,000 …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/21/handing-out-bicycle-advocacy-stimulus-money/
Logo for Bikes Belong, a group of bicycle suppiers and retailers.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/21/bikes-belong-coalition/
After receiving well-deserved criticism from a reader about the timeliness of my bicycle ride calendars, I got to work Wednesday to bring them up to date for 2009.
I started with the list of California recreational bike rides and discovered I had 104 listings to update. I checked on all the links and was able to update about 80% with dates for 2009. Many clubs and organizations haven't set dates for their late fall rides yet.
So the California Bike Ride Calendar for 2009 is pretty much up to date. Next comes an overhaul of the Idaho, Oregon and Washington bicycle calendars, in that order.
Updating those California bike ride lists always brings back pleasant memories from when I lived there in the '80s and '90s. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/19/find-104-recreational-bicycle-rides-in-california-here/
The Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition is hosting the Midnight Express bike ride in April… it's a 50-mile ride in the moonlight.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/19/midnight-express-poster/
P>The mountain bike race that lured Lance Armstrong back to professional bicycle racing is calling again.
Armstrong has registered for the Leadville 100, scheduled to roll out of the mountain town in Colorado on Aug. 15, about three weeks after the end of the Tour de France.
The Summit Daily News also reports that Floyd Landis may take a shot at the Leadville race this year as well.
The match-up between Armstrong and Landis had been one of the most bally-hooed in cycling in 2007 as both were out of the picture ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/18/armstrong-to-race-leadville-100-again-in-2009/
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