Lance Armstrong's bicycle, a Trek Madone 6.9, shortly after it arrived in Australia from the U.S. Shot by Lance Armstrong and posted on TwitPic.
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Check out this partial tentative roster for a bicycle race:
Lance Armstrong, George Hincapie, Tyler Hamilton, Floyd Landis, Levi Leipheimer, Christian Vande Velde.
It might read like the Farewell Tour for the Postal Service/Discovery revival team, but it's actually some of the cyclists who will probably ride (although on different teams) in the 2009 Tour of California bicycle race.
The Tour of California announced Thursday the nine pro continental and continental teams that will join the eight previously announced Pro Tour teams at the race, which runs Feb. 14 through Feb. 22..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/01/22/2009-tour-of-california-announces-17-teams/
Imagine living in a place where you're not breaking the law by rolling through an intersection without coming to a complete halt at a stop sign.
Residents in Idaho don't have to imagine it. They live in a state where lawmakers decriminalized stop sign-running 27 years ago. Now legislators in Montana will consider passing a similar law, and bike advocates in Oregon are seeking a similar law.
Bill Schneider at New West magazine reports that Robin Hamilton (D-Missoula) has proposed such a law. Schneider lays out the language here …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/01/22/montana-might-allow-bicycle-riders-to-slide-through-stop-signs/
Lance Armstrong seems to test himself with a new challenge everyday at the Tour Down Under. On Thursday's Stage 3, it was joining a fast 14-man breakaway for 50 miles that blew apart the overall race standings.
That breakaway didn't survive to the finish at Victor Harbor, however, where the Rabobank team delivered sprinter Graeme Brown across the line ahead of Wednesday's winner, Allan Davis.
Once again, Team Columbia's George Hincapie finished in 5th place for the second day in a row. Defending Tour champion Andre Greipel of Columbia, who won Stage 1, dropped out of the race after breaking his collarbone in a crash …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/01/22/graeme-brown-wins-stage-3-armstrong-in-long-breakaway/
Last week's announcement that Denver would create a citywide bike-sharing program is the latest in a global transportation trend that's just catching on in the U.S.
More than 30 bike-share programs were launched globally last year, according to the Bike-Sharing blog. That's a 50% increase in one year.
The first bike-share program in the US was launched last year. That distinction goes to Washington DC, left, with its SmartBike DC program — 120 bikes at 10 stations — operated by Clear Channel advertising.
Denver is following up with a plan to make available 500 bicycles at 30 to 40 bike stations beginning in the summer. The program is being launched with a $1 million grant from Denver 2008 Convention Host Committee.
The bikes, which can be rented for a nominal fee, will be stationed around the business and university districts. The program will be called Denver B-cycle Citywide Bike Sharing Program…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/01/21/bike-sharing-explosion-denver-miami-beach-san-francisco-philadelphia-twin-cities-montreal-in-2009/
Lance Armstrong may just have been testing his legs, but no one in the Tour Down Under peloton was going to see how far up the road he could get.
The 7-time Tour de France winner attacked with Australian Under-23 champion Jack Bobridge about 25 miles from the finish of Stage 2 in Stirling. They got away for about a minute before they were reeled back in.
What remained in the 90-mile stage was a series of attacks and attempts to control the sprint before QuickStep catapulted sprinter Allan Davis, above, across the finish line on Wednesday in Australia …
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Quick Step sprinter wins Stage 2 at 2009 Tour Down Under.
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King County touts bicycle commuting as a great way to reduce stress, increase health, and help the environment. It has been forced by economic conditions, however, to suspend an incentive program for its own bike commuting workers downtown.
County employees who work outside of downtown Seattle can continue to earn the $20 Commuter Bonus Plus voucher for any month in which they bike bike, carpool or walk to work more than half their work days or half of their commute miles.
The county announced at its employee transportation website that the King County Council has postponed extending those $20 vouchers to employees who walk or ride their bikes to work in downtown Seattle. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/01/21/king-county-holds-off-subsidy-for-its-bike-commuting-downtown-employees/
Picking up where he left off last year, defending Tour Down Under champion Andre Greipel won Stage 1 of this year's edition in a hard-fought sprint.
Greipel's Columbia teammates drove the pace at the end of the 89-mile stage. Unlike Sunday's results in the Classic, however, Greipel held off his challengers at the finish line.
Comeback cyclist Lance Armstrong finished in the pack, in 120th place, but only 11 seconds down. Earlier he had said his main goal was to not get dropped on the day's two King of the Mountains climbs. He survived unscathed …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/01/20/defending-tour-down-under-champ-andre-greipel-wins-stage-1/
Team Columbia… Winner of 2008 Tour Down Under
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