Team CSC
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The Tour of California is getting longer, as organizers announced Wednesday that they've tacked on another stage to make it 9 days of cycling from Feb. 14 to Feb. 22 in 2009.
The 2009 race, one of the first on the pro calendar, will visit 16 cities as it wends its way along 800 miles of California roadway. Eight of those host cities will be new to the race.
There's no prologue this year, as the cyclists start on Saturday, Feb. 14, with a road race that begins and ends in Sacramento. It ends in Escondido on Sunday, Feb. 22 …
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The Electra Bicycle Co. is recalling 9,500 Amsterdam bicycles because of a fall hazard.
The interior alignment tabs on the bicycle's distinctive chainguard can push against the chain and drop it. The Consumer Product Safety Commission reports four such incidents, one which resulted in minor injuries.
The Amsterdam bicycles, made in Taiwan for Electra Bicycle of Vista, California, were sold through dealers from January 2007 through June 2008 for between $400 and $850 …
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Electra Bicycle Company is recalling Amsterdam bikes. Details at Consumer Product Safety Commission.
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Lance Armstrong joined the 10,000 bicyclists rolling toward Ames on Tuesday in the third day of 2008 RAGBRAI.
It's the 7-time Tour de France winner's third visit to RAGBRAI. He joined up somewhere west of Boone and stopped there for awhile before heading to Ames, reported the Des Moines Register.
His appearance isn't causing the stir as in previous years, when some warned the week-long bike tour across Iowa was in danger of being renamed LAGBRAI. He will be joined by some 200 riders on Team Livestrong at RAGBRAI this year. …
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Team Garmin Chipotle
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It wasn't the final climb to the highest paved road in the Alps that decided Stage 16 and perhaps the Tour de France, it was the descent.
Christian Vande Velde, for instance, lost 35 seconds to the yellow jersey group going over the Cime de la Bonnette-Restefond, but a crash on the way down put him out of contention as he dropped to 6th place, 3:15 behind the yellow jersey.
Frenchman Cyril Dessel of AG2R won the four-man sprint going into Jausiers, after the eight men summiting the Cime de la Bonnette-Restefond split apart on the way down. The first one over, John-Lee Augustyn of Barloworld, actually tumbled off the road and his bike slid down the slope out of reach.
In the trailing yellow jersey group, 3rd overall Cadel Evans led the downhill charge that caused Denis Menchov — considered Evans biggest rival — to lose ground. …
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I had heard about bicycling the John Wayne Pioneer Trail and the Snoqualmie Tunnel ever since moving here in 2000, but I didn't have the right bike until this spring.
With a day to myself, I threw the knobbies on my Rockhopper mountain bike and drove up to the Cedar Falls (exit 32 on I-90) trailhead to find out about it for myself.
Briefly, it was a great bike ride, and I can't wait to return with my camping gear. I rode the first leg of about 22 miles to the next trailhead at Hyak on the other side of the 2.3-mile long Snoqualmie Tunnel, looked around, and returned. I was shooting photos with my Canon Elph, and made a spur-of-the-moment decision to try a video. It appears at left.
The John Wayne Pioneer Trail is the old Chicago-Milwaukee-St. Paul-Pacific Railroad — aka The Milwaukee Road — that rolls two-thirds of the way across Washington state. About 100 miles of it is a packed gravel rail-to-trail maintained as part of the Iron Horse State Park from Cedar Falls west of the Cascades to the Columbia River to the east …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/07/21/iron-horse-state-parks-john-wayne-pioneer-trail-in-washington/
Let's get this out of the way: I've never biked RAGBRAI, the grand-daddy of all across-state bicycle tours, and I'm not there this year.
But I like to check in with the biggest week-long bike tour in the US to learn about storms, excessively hot weather, or beer shortages that might be plaguing the 10,000-some bike riders.
That's easier than ever this year, as ride sponsor Des Moines Register is hosting a Twitter, blog and share photos page on its website, in addition to articles and photos taken by its own staff. The newspaper is the main sponsor and owner of the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, now in its 36th year …
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After sitting in second place by 1-second for the better part of a week, Frank Schleck (left) gained the margin he needed on the final climb to wrest the yellow jersey away from Cadel Evans at the Tour de France on Sunday.
Schleck had the help of two other CSC teammates — Carlos Sastre and Frank's brother Andy Schleck — on Stage 15's final climb. Team CSC helped drop all but the leaders before the final climb, then they kept up the pressure to the summit.
Meanwhile, a four-man breakaway that included American Danny Pate of Garmin-Chipotle was trudging up Prato Nevoso, a 7-mile climb at 6.9%. Simon Gerrans of Credit Agricole won that, with Pate finishing third.
American Christian Vande Velde finished in 10th place on the day, falling to 5th place overall but gaining 7 seconds on Evans …
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