When Tailwind Sports decided to pull the plug on its pro cycling team instead of finding a sponsor to replace Discovery Channel, the cyclists weren't the only ones left out in the cold.
Trek Bicycles had been the official bike for the Discovery team, and before that the US Postal Service team. The bike company that helped put Lance Armstrong in yellow seven times was suddenly left without a team.
So with Levi Leipheimer, Alberto Contador and other Disco teammates, as well as manager Johan Bruyneel, jumping over to Astana, I suppose it made sense for Trek to supply bicycles to the Kazahkstan-based team…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/12/17/trek-supplying-bicycles-for-team-astana/
Trek Bicycles is supplying the Kazakhstan-based Astana team with Madone 6.9 carbon fiber bicycles.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/12/17/astana-cyclists-will-ride-a-trek/
Ninety-three entries
What better company to host a contest for new bicycle designs than Specialized, developer of the Stumpjumper in 1981, the first mass-produced mountain bike.
Entries for the Innovate or Die Pedal-Powered Machine Contest closed Saturday, and 93 can be viewed online as YouTube videos. Results will be released on Jan. 15.
The contest was supposed to “inspire innovation and environmental change by highlighting the benefits of cycling in an unprecedented way.” The result has been a creative tour de force, with inventors submitting everything from recumbent tricycles (above) to bike-powered blenders, tennis-ball launchers and water filtration systems….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/12/16/innovate-or-die-bicycling-outside-the-envelope/
I'm always amazed at athletes who compete in endurance sports, especially those ultra events that involve sleep deprivation from hours and days in the activity.
UltraRob's Adventures blog tells about two cyclists — John “Blue Dog” Jurczynski and Mike “Mad Dog” Gallagher — who each set an indoor spinning record of 113 hours at a sports club in Laconia, New Hampshire, last night.
If confirmed officially, the effort will put the two in the pages of the next Guinness Book of World Records, barring the unlikely prospect that someone can beat 112 hours. Actually, the previous record of 111 hours, 11 minutes and 11 seconds had been set by George Hood last summer …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/12/15/pair-set-new-indoor-spinning-record/
It's snowing like crazy in the Northeast, ice covers the Midwest, and of course it's raining in the Northwest. So what better time to update what's happening with the 2008 Amgen Tour of California bike race.
Pro cyclists will be rolling down the ramp for the prologue in a little more that two months, but I see that Versus already has scheduled at least 15 hours of cable TV coverage for the race, which runs from Feb. 17-24.
That's great news for cycling fans, although some of the time slots aren't exactly prime time. It looks like the weekend schedule features live coverage, but the rest is late night rebroadcasts of the days events…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/12/14/tv-schedule-for-2008-tour-of-california/
2008 Amgen Tour of California runs from Feb. 17-24
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/12/14/king-of-the-mountain-jersey-for-tour-of-california/
Thanks to everyone who took up my link challenge to raise money for the flood victims along the route of the 200-mile Seattle-to-Portland bike ride.
I pledged to donate $5 for every blog that linked to a story I did about the Cascade Bicycle Club's flood relief drive for residents of Chehalis, Centralia and surrounding Lewis County. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/12/13/great-response-to-biking-bis-link-challenge-for-flood-relief/
Tracks for a new trolley line in Seattle, the South Lake Union Trolley, make for dangerous bicycling for cyclists, especially those on road or skinny-tire commuter bikes.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/12/13/crossing-the-slut-in-seattle/
A bicycle rides between the South Lake Union Trolley tracks, while others ride in an adjacent lane. Cyclists are asking that sharrows be painted on the lanes left of the tracks to warn motorists that they have to use those lanes now to ride safely.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/12/13/in-and-out-of-slut-tracks/
A downtown correspondent filed these pictures from the Taming the S.L.U.T. bicycle protest in Seattle earlier Wednesday evening.
An estimated 40 to 60 bicyclists showed up for the ride, with plenty of police on hand. The bicyclists say the city hasn't done enough, in fact has done very little, to ensure that the tracks for the new South Lake Union Trolley (SLUT) are safe for cyclists.
The tracks for the SLUT, which began operation earlier Wednesday, run along the curb lanes where bicyclists are supposed to ride under city regulation (as far right as possible). The gaps in the track catch bicycle tires, causing cyclists to fall to the ground or into traffic or parked cars. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/12/13/make-the-slut-safer-seattle-cyclists-protest/
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