Salsa Bicycles is recalling 8,600 faulty handlebar stems after receiving three reports that they broke or cracked under normal use.
The handlebar stems were sold as individual aftermarket items and installed on bicycles from November 2007 to December 2008.
Salsa requests that consumers stop using bikes equipped with the CroMoto S.U.L. handlebar stem and return the bikes to dealers for free inspection and replacement …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/28/salsa-recalls-handlebars-stems-bicycles/
Salsa Bicycles is recalling handlebar stems that can break. Details at Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/28/handlebar-stems-recalled/
When President Obama signed the federal Economic Recovery Package into law recently, it included funding that could be used on bicycle and pedestrian projects in every state.
AmericaBikes and the Safe Routes to School Partnership are two of the many advocacy groups that are recommending how local advocates can ensure that the federal money gets to local bicycling and pedestrian projects.
One of their targets is the so-called Transportation Enhancements, generally 3% of the highway funding allocation to states. This is a direct source of funding for most bike lanes, bike paths, sidewalks and other such facilities.
Nationwide, that's nearly $803 million …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/26/how-to-put-stimulus-money-to-work-for-bicyclists-and-pedestrians/
Phil Keoghan is getting real with an amazing bicycle tour this spring.
The host of “The Amazing Race” reality TV show is embarking from Los Angeles on March 28 for a cross-country bicycle tour to raise money and awareness for the Multiple Sclerosis Society.
The MS Society has chosen the bicycle as a successful form of fund-raising. The non-profit sponsors more than 100 one- to two-day charity bicycle rides around the US every year. Combined, the rides raise about $65 million annually.
Keoghan, who lives in New Zealand, says he'll ride about 100 miles a day …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/25/amazing-race-host-takes-cross-country-bike-tour-for-ms/
Phil Keoghan, host of the TV reality show The Amazing Race, will ride his bicycle cross-country to raise money for the Multiple Sclerosis Society beginning in May.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/25/phil-keoghan-rides-cross-country-for-ms/
While Dave Zabriskie was earning a second-place finish at the Amgen Tour of California last week, person or persons unknown were helping themselves to belongings in Zabriskie's Salt Lake City home.
The report comes a little more than a week after Lance Armstrong announced to world via Twitter that his time trial bicycle had been stolen after the prologue in Sacramento.
That one-of-a-kind bicycle was eventually recovered. Zabriskie announced his much-greater loss to Twitter as well:
“My house was broken into while at TOC. They took everything …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/24/latest-peloton-theft-victim-dave-zabriskie/
This scene from Twin Bridges, Montana, might have made an impression on bike travelers pedaling through on the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail over the years.
Those bicycle tourists certainly made an impression on the people of Twin Bridges, population 400.
In fact, those cyclists have made such a good impression that citizens of the town in southwestern Montana are creating a bicycle campground right on the shores of the Beaverhead River.
The only problem is that the folks in Twin Bridges don't tour by bicycle, so they need some help to determine what's needed at the campground.
Bill White of Twin Bridges recently contacted Adventure Cycling Association …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/24/suggestions-needed-for-twin-bridges-montana-bicycle-camp/
It seems that Lance Armstrong is competing in more races during his comeback year than he ever did during his earlier career.
The 7-time Tour de France winner announced that he's scheduled to ride in the 2009 Tour of Ireland from Aug. 19-23. That would make the eighth pro cycling race for Armstrong this year.
The race precedes the LiveStrong Global Cancer Summit which is scheduled for Aug. 24-26 in Dublin, Ireland …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/23/lance-armstrong-to-ride-in-tour-of-ireland-bike-race-televised/
Tour of Ireland rolls out from Aug. 19-23 in 2009. Lance Armstrong has announced his participation in the bicycle race.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/23/tour-of-ireland/
Levi Leipheimer showed 2 million cycling fans on the road this week that he had the speed and strength to survive wind, rain and snow to win his third Amgen Tour of California championship.
Finishing 1 second behind the winner in Sacramento's prologue last Saturday, Leipheimer took control of the yellow jersey on Monday and held onto it with the help of his Astana teammates all the way to Escondido on Sunday.
Another US cyclist, David Zabriskie on Garmin-Slipstream, finished in 2nd place and Michael Rogers of Team Columbia finished in 3rd. Lance Armstrong, who rode in support of teammate Leipheimer, finished in the top 10.
Leipheimer could have found his championship hopes threatened at Sunday's Stage 8. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/23/three-peat-for-levi-leipheimer-at-tour-of-californiafrank-schleck-wins-stage-8/
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