DiNotte Lighting Lithium-Ion batteries used with bicycle lights are recalled due to possibility of overheating and burn hazard. Details at the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
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Long rider from Kingfisher, Oklahoma.
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Some of you might remember my encounter with “long rider” Mark Ryan last month as I was bicycling along the John Wayne Pioneer Trail in the Cascades.
The Associated Press tracked him down and now his story is spreading across the country. The article says that he reached his destination but is stuck in Wyoming after a truck he bought to get home broke down.
When I ran into Mark in early October, he was nearing the end of his 2,000-mile ride from Kingfisher, Oklahoma, to Ferndale, Washington, to visit a friend. He had set out on June 2, and he had ridden Mister Doodles the entire way. His mule, Festus, carried the supplies. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/11/17/update-on-mark-festus-and-mister-doodles/
As the “trail angel” on Afton Mountain in Virginia's stretch of the TransAmerica Bicycle Route, June “Cookie Lady” Curry is used to visitors.
But she was totally unprepared when 25 members of the Richmond Area Bicycle Association showed up on Sunday to hand over donations they'd collected to help pay back for all the help she's given to traveling bicyclists over the years.
Champe Burnley, who helped direct the fund-raising effort by RABA, said:
“I think June was expecting me to stop by alone and was surprised, to say the least, when nearly 25 people showed up to celebrate the occasion. … It was a bit chilly this morning, but the warmth of the crowd quickly took the chill out of the air. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/11/17/richmond-bike-club-pays-back-virginias-cookie-lady/
Here's the scene at June Curry's house in Afton, Virginia, on Nov. 16 when members of the Richmond Area Bicycle Association handed over donations they had collected. They showed their appreciation for her more than 30 years of support for bicyclists on the Trans America Route. Photo supplied by club member Champe Burnley.
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“Right now, I'm always working.”
— Sam Markovich, owner of Peloton Cyclery in St. Charles, Missouri, talking about the unfortunate result of bicycle lovers who open a shop.
Markovich tells a St. Louis area newspaper that he used to log 4,000 miles a year on his bicycle. Now his bicycling is pretty much limited to a Monday night group ride around St. Charles County …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/11/16/quote-sad-lament-of-bicycle-shop-owner/
A short-lived attempt to ban nudity in public parks in Seattle raised the issue of the legality of public nudity here.
The city has a tradition of painted bicyclists taking to the streets for the Summer Solstice Parade in the Fremont neighborhood, right, and for World Naked Bike Rides.
Those traditions are safe.
The city doesn't have a law regulating nudity, and Washington state law says that public nudity is not illegal unless it is an affront to someone else or causes alarm …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/11/15/the-bare-truth-about-naked-bicycling-in-seattle/
Sad news from Georgia this morning. Citing tough economic conditions and a need to plan for the future, organizers of the 2009 Tour de Georgia bicycle race say they'll cancel the race in 2009 but return in 2010.
In an announcement posted on the Tour de Georgia website, race chairman Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle says:
“We have … decided to skip one year so that the Tour de Georgia can once and for all be ahead of the game in the planning process. This is a decision I feel is wise and one that will strengthen the Tour de Georgia for years to come.”
Board member Phil Jacobs told the Savannah Morning News, “The rise in the cost of gas and the current “tough” economic picture hurt us.”
Meanwhile, a “Lance Armstrong bump” from his possible participation in the race vanished when he announced he would be competing in the European spring classics that are scheduled at about the same time as the Tour de Georgia's slot …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/11/14/tour-de-georgia-canceled-for-2009/
The 2008 Tour of Missouri and the Garmin-Chipotle pro cycling team will be featured on NBC Sports on Saturday.
The Nov. 15 episode of Jeep World of Adventure Sports begins its so-called “green initiative” to raise awareness of global environmental issues.
One segment is a behind-the-scenes look at Team Garmin during the Tour of Missouri that rolled out Sept. 8-14.
This should be interesting to cycling fans as Garmin's Christian Vande Velde, above, won the championship this year …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/11/13/nbc-airs-2008-tour-of-missouri-show-on-saturday/
The owner of the Pedaling History Bicycle Museum in Buffalo says he's selling his 400-bicycle collection and shutting down by the end of the year.
Carl F. Burgwardt, 77, says he's tired of waiting to find out whether he can move his collection to the new museum district planned for the city's Erie Canal Harbor project.
A development company says it's interested in launching a museum district in the harbor area, but hasn't chosen the specific museums that would be located there …
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