A bicycle club's plot to get people off their butts and onto their bike saddles next year became clear as the Cascade Bicycle Club announced its slate of rides and events for 2012.
To avoid a repeat of this year's online server meltdown at registration time, Cascade is instituting a lottery for RSVP and RSVP2 (Ride from Seattle to Vancouver and Party) and staggered registration for other rides.
That should make club members, as well as their employers, happy. People waited online 2 to 4 hours on registration day only to be kicked out of the system. Cascade says it doesn't want a repeat of that experience …
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Chance encounter with kangaroo nearly derails attempt
A recumbent cyclist from British Columbia is submitting paperwork soon to document his bid as the new Guinness around-the-world record-holder.
Bruce Gordon completed the bicycle trip on Sept. 23 in 153 days, 10 days faster than current record-holder Vin Cox of Great Britain.
If Guinness World Records accepts his submission, Bruce points out that he'll establish a number of firsts among the small group of globe-girdling record holders:
He'll be the first to break the record on a recumbent; the first to break the record going in a East-to-West direction; and, at 48 years old when he started, he'll …
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Bruce Gordon's around the world route
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Attempts around-the-world bicycling record on a recumbent. More at GlobeBent.org.
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A Vancouver, BC, man nearing the end of a globe-girdling bicycle tour to raise funds and awareness about mental illness lost his bicycle to an opportunistic thief on Thursday.
Michael Schratter had bicycled through 32 countries since August 2010, covering more than 22,000 miles, only to lose his bike in his home province of British Columbia.
“Maybe the person who took it doesn't realize it wasn't just abandoned. I suspect that person doesn't know it's a key piece of this journey to help people with mental illness …
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Around-the-world bicyclist Michael Scratter riding his stolen bicycle. Ride Don't Hide
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Bicycle tourist Michael Sprick (red jacket at left) doesn't know it, but he's getting widespread support from fellow bicyclists as he battles for his life in a Virginia hospital bed.
The 40-year-old was on a 10-week bicycling ramble down the East Coast on Oct. 8 when he was struck from behind by the driver of a bread truck that swerved off the road.
Today, Sprick is still in a coma and on life support at the Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital. A chance meeting earlier in his tour at a West Virginia bike store has brought together dozens of bicyclists who are lending support to him and his family through the ordeal.
They're offering help at the Friends of Michael P. Sprick page on Facebook.
“It's kind of like a community, when you travel …
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German cyclist Michael Sprick, center, with friends from Free Spirit Adventures in West Virginia.
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The 10-part cable TV documentary about a bicyclist who shared his tandem with disabled passengers on a cross-country bike trip is getting lots of recognition.
“Take a Seat: Sharing a Ride Across America” won top honors for Universal Sports Network at the CableFax Program Awards in the Best Show or Series – Sports category.
The half-hour series first aired on Universal Sports in April. It recorded the adventures and hardships of Britain's Dominic Gill as he paired up on a tandem with disabled people who undergo various hardships in their lives.
This past summer he set off to Egypt for a “Take a Seat” adventure. (See trailer)..
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Although the 2012 Tour de France includes a prologue and two individual time trials, the 10,000 cycling enthusiasts who take to the l'Etape du Tour will be challenged by two standard road routes.
The two bicycle rides will let citizen cyclists test themselves against the pros on actual routes from that year's Tour de France, albeit on different days.
Tour de France organizers historically chose the mountainous “queen stage” for each year's l'Etape. Last year, they broadened the participation base by announcing a second, less debilitating route.
Unfortunately, the Tour didn't produce route profiles ….
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