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Alberto Contador cycles past fans on a mountaintop in 2008 Giro d'Italia.
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Challengers attacked Giro d'Italia leader Alberto Contador through the mountains on Saturday. But at the end of the day the Spanish rider for Astana retained his 4-second lead in the three-week race that ends Sunday.
Italian rival Riccardo Riccò and Contador matched each other over the Passo Gavia, Passo del Mortirolo and the Aprica. Neither one gave up a second to the other, although Ricco sprinted in to finish just ahead of Contador.
The lead group attacked each other on the second climb of the day, the Mortirolo, with its average 7.9% gradient. But amazing climber Emanuele Sella attacked at the beginning of the smaller third climb, the Aprica, no one could match him …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/05/31/contador-still-leads-giro-sella-wins-3rd-mountain-stage/
Seattle bicycle riders will be taking to the streets on Monday to call attention to inadequate signs and bike lanes in door zones.
Seattle Likes Bikes is asking interested cyclists to meet at 6 p.m. Monday at Westlake Center, follow their route, and finish up at the College Inn Pub near University of Washington.
The first half of the route loops around the South Lake Union Trolley (S.L.U.T.) tracks and the signed route along 9th Avenue North that the city has suggested as an alternate. The second half of the ride heads up Eastlake along the proposed route of the streetcar expansion.
As you may remember, the original S.L.U.T. ride last fall called attention to the streetcar tracks that were laid out where bicyclists ride, causing some serious accidents when narrow tires got caught in the tracks….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/05/30/biking-the-rails-s-l-u-t-bike-ride-in-seattle-on-monday/
Alberto Contador held onto the slimmest of leads — by just 4 seconds — as the Giro d'Italia routed the peloton over three major climbs on Friday, including a mountaintop finish.
The winner of last year's Tour de France faded as challengers attacked on the final climb, and at one point he had lost his overall lead “on the road.” But Contador had one last push left for Monte Pora and it gave him the margin he needed to survive.
As the peloton heads over Mortirolo and the legendary Gavia for Saturday's penultimate stage, Ricardo Ricco (Saunier Duval) sits just 4 seconds behind and defending champion Danilo Di Luca sits in third place, 21 seconds behind …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/05/30/contador-retains-pink-jersey-in-giro-just-barely/
The Tour de Georgia that ended last month added an estimated $38.6 million to the state's economy — a 40% increase over last year.
That's a healthy bump, but why the big jump? It is surprising, especially considering that spectatorship was down to about 400,000 this year, a 20% drop from the previous year's 515,000.
Methodology of data gathering might have something to do with it. So does inflation, the price of gasoline, and an increase in the number of foreign visitors lured by the weak dollar. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/05/30/tour-de-georgias-economic-impact-sees-growth/
There's a big idea afloat to put 1 million new and returning bicyclists on the road next summer.
One Million Bicycles is a bike rally scheduled for August 9, 2009, in 300 cities across all 50 states. The participants — cyclists like you and me — will call for doubling expenditures for bicycling on the national and state levels and give away 1 million new or used bicycles to new or returning riders.
Portland's Joe “Metal Cowboy” Kurmaskie is driving this effort with the support of Congressman Earl Blumenauer and bike organizations and shops across the country.
Kurmaskie mentioned the nationwide celebration at his talk at the Seattle Bike Expo in March and launched it a couple of weeks ago when OneMillionBicycles.org went online.
Where will those 1 million bicycles come from? Kurmaskie suggests we merely choose one from the collections in our garages. As he says in the YouTube video, a bicycle is not necessary for the structural integrity of a garage …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/05/29/one-million-bicycles-its-woodstock-on-two-wheels/
(Portland, OR) The cycling equivalent of Woodstock is coming… but instead of joining rock fans on a muddy farm, one million cyclists and supporters of clean, oil independent transportation will gather for celebrations and purpose filled action in 50 states for upwards of 300 rallies. More remarkable, all of these unified, localized events will roll …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/05/29/one-million-bikes/
Cycling veteran Jens Voigt, left, beat Paolo Bettini (and the rest of the peloton) at his own game on Thursday at the Giro d'Italia on a course that will be used for the 2009 World Championships.
Current world champion Bettini attacked early in the race and drove about a dozen riders in a breakaway on the 91-mile Stage 18 from Mendrisio to Varese.
But it was Team CSC's Voigt, 36, who made a solo attack from the breakaway with about 24 miles left. His move tore apart the group, as different bunches in 3's and 4's tried to catch up. Among those unsuccessful chasers, Bettini. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/05/29/solo-win-for-voigt-at-giro-contador-still-leads/
Jens Voigt, veteran German cyclist on Team CSC
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/05/29/jens-voigt/
The sudden controversy concerning UK's Mark Cavendish, left, at the Giro d'Italia doesn't involve tainted urine samples or blood doping allegations.
The issue is whether or not Cavendish let High Road teammate and lead-out man Andre Greipel win the Stage 17 sprint to the finish line in Locarno on Wednesday.
Cavendish has two stage wins of his won at the Giro, and observers noted that he sat on Greipel's wheel through the sprint and never accelerated to win the stage. It would have been his third stage win at the Giro; no Briton has ever won three stages of a major cycling race, laments the Guardian newspaper …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/05/29/high-roads-cavendish-did-he-or-didnt-he/
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