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Poster for Tour de Ed fund-raiser bike ride

Tour de Ed raises money for the Chico Cyclists Care Fund, to held Butte County bicyclists who are injured while bicycling. See Chico Velo.

 

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2008 Tour of Missouri route

Host cities for the 2008 Tour of Missouri. More at “Tour of Missouri announces host cities; adds another stage”

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Tour of Missouri announces host cities; adds another day

A dozen cities will host starts or finishes at the second annual Tour of Missouri that rolls our for 7 days in 2008 from Sept. 8 through Sept. 14.

The 623-mile pro bicycle race begins on Monday in St. Joseph with a 90-mile stage race to Kansas City. It ends Sunday at the Gateway Arch in St. Louis with a circuit race.

Once again the racers will pedal the hills around Branson for the individual time trial, but they won't visit one of last year's cities — Columbia — at all…

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American River bike ride is a roll on the wild side

When I rented a bike in Sacramento for a ride along the American River up to Folsom Lake, I took my camera to shoot signs of bicycling.

I got that, but I also got pictures of wildlife out in the brush or perched in the bare trees. Other animals crossed the bike trail just ahead of me and disappeared into the brush before I could point and click.

The Jedediah Smith Memorial Trail passes through a rich wildlife corridor for some 32 miles between Sacramento and Lake Folsom along the American River Parkway…

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LiveStrong to partner health and fitness website

The Lance Armstrong Foundation is lending its LiveStrong brand to a new, for-profit social-networking website that will launch later this year.

The Internet venture is being put together by former MySpace.com chairman Richard Rosenblatt and his company Demand Media.

The Austin American-Statesman says both will benefit from the deal. Demand Media will get all the advertising revenue from the website ….

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Big sentence in bike rider's death still bothersome

Usually it's the light sentences, or lack of charges in bicyclist fatalities that make me angry. But here's a case where an Arizona woman received almost the maximum sentence, and it still makes my blood run cold.

The judge in Tucson gave Melissa Arrington, 27, a 10-1/2-year prison sentence after hearing a jailhouse phone conversation between Arrington and a male friend in which they joked about how she should get a medal and parade.

Arrington was convicted of negligent homicide and two counts of aggravated driving under the influence stemming from the December 2006 death of Paul L'Ecuyer…

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Raptors in a tree

Pair of raptors — hawks, kestrels, kites? — perched in a tree along the American River's Jedediah Smith Memorial Trail in January 2008.

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Turkey vulture

A turkey vulture soaking up warm rays on a sunny day in January 2008 overlooking the American River.

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Black-tail deer along American River, California

Deer watching me watching them on Jedediah Smith Memorial Trail in January 2008.

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Cyclists spots deer feeding

Taken along American River's Jedediah Smith Memorial Trail in January 2008. The black-tail deer are in high grass, looking for tender shoots.

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