One of the loneliest movies I ever attended was “Stop Making Sense”, which featured a concert by the Talking Heads, led by David Byrne. My future wife and I were the only people watching that particular screen at a Cineplex in Modesto, California, that evening in 1984.
Today, David Byrne is still a musician and artist in Manhattan and is known for riding his bicycle everywhere; and I'm still showing up at the least popular movie at the local cineplex.
In writing about his current project of turning a building into a musical instrument, The Village Voice reports that Byrne recently fell while cycling and broke a couple of ribs …
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Rides a bicycle all over Manhattan. He's also an amazing musician. Image from Wikipedia
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After the first stage of the Giro d'Italia three weeks ago, I wrote an article, “Who is this Christian Vande Velde?” when he had won the pink leader's jersey in the opening team time trial.
Just last night I received an e-mail from Jim Freibert, the former race director for Chicago's West Suburban Wheelmen and track announcer for Northbrook Velodrome. He's a long-time friend of the Vande Velde family and was able to fill in the huge gaps in my story. He agreed to let me run the e-mail on the blog:
“Having ridden with the previous generations of Vande Veldes who were founders, mentors, and sponsors of Chicago's West Suburban Wheelemen – I know most of the old Midwestern bike racers from the '60's, '70's, and '80's knew Christian's grandfather, Al, and great uncles Babe Vande Velde, and Henry Van Leuven as regulars at Northbrook velodrome, and other races, especially in Illinois and Wisconsin.
This weekend, Al lost a long, hard fought battle with cancer. …
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Riding in the pink jersey at Stage 2 of the Giro d'Italia 2008. From Slipstream Chipotle website.
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The Seattle to Portland bike ride always reminds me of a tub of warm beer.
STP was my first big bike ride after moving to the Pacific Northwest 8 years ago. I had done plenty of centuries, but never 200 miles in a single day.
I had trained hard, but stayed at the half-way point too long and finished the ride around dusk. When I arrived at my motel room in Portland, I discovered that my TransAmerica bike ride buddy had room service set up a six-pack of Corona on ice in the room for me.
Unfortunately, he must have thought I would arrive much earlier in the day because the six room-temperature beers were sitting in a bowl of room-temperature water that I can only assume had been ice at one time. I drank a couple anyway…
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A motorist plowed into a group of bicycle riders in Matamoros, Mexico, on Sunday, killing one and injuring 10 to 14 others. They were part of an organized bike tour, escorted by police, from the border town to a local beach.
The Metro Noticias online newspaper reported 1 dead and 10 to 12 injured in Monday morning's edition; KRGV said that friends of the victims reported 5 dead this morning, although I couldn't find that death toll verified anywhere.
An image taken by someone at the scene shows the car slamming into the cyclists. (You can see a copy of the photo that appeared in the Metro Noticias on the jump, but be warned it's a graphic image of a horrific crash )…
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Photo of tragedy in Metamoros, Mexico, across the border from Brownsville, Texas. A man drove into the group of cyclists being escorted by police. Photo from MetroNoticias.com.
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Most bike ride events have a logo and a T-shirt. Why should the World Naked Bike Ride be any different?
The World Naked Bike Rides are scheduled in cities in the US and Canada in June, July and August to protest oil dependency and the car culture by a show of nakedness on two wheels.
It may seem like bare irony that organizers are selling about 100 T-shirts to raise money to pay expenses. But they say participants may want to wear those T-shirts 40 or 50 years from now when they're sitting in a rocking chair reminiscing about the olden days …
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Vancouver's World Naked Bike Ride is one of the largest
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After protecting a slim margin in the pink jersey for the past six stages, Alberto Contador won the Giro d'Italia on Sunday with a comfortable lead of one minute and 57 seconds.
Early on it was reported that perhaps the last-minute addition of Astana to the Giro's peloton had put the team off their game; Contador was on a beach vacation with his girlfriend when he got the phone call the week before the race.
In spite of their slow start, Contador and his team finished strong in the last week in the mountains. The Spaniard gained the overall lead in the mountains on Stage 15 last Sunday, and held onto to it throughout the week, for the past couple of stages with only a four-second margin …
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