Floyd Landis has begun filing appeals with the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the last stage in his attempt to regain the 2006 Tour de France championship and overturn a 2-year ban from pro cycling.
The 90-page “brief,” as reported at CNN, states that Landis is committed to removing dope from the sport of cycling.
“However, to wrongly strip a champion of his victory due to a flawed test is much worse than to have an athlete cheat his way to victory ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/11/21/last-stage-for-floyd-landis/
The San Jose Mercury News recently ran the story about a guy who rode his bicycle cross-country more than 40 years before the first bicyclist took to the Bikecentennial route.
Charlie Klotz was a 20-year-old working in a pharmacy in Hollister, California, when he took off on his bicycle for a cross-country tour to New York City in 1935.
He pedaled between 100 and 130 miles a day, covering the 3,100 miles in 30 days. He still has the Speed King bicycle that he rode …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/11/20/charlie-klotzs-1935-transamerica-bicycle-tour/
Charlie Klotz rode his bicycle from Hollister to New York City in 1935. More at Mercury News video.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/11/20/charlie-klotz/
A bicycle relay is slowly making its way cross-country to draw attention to the connections between fuel dependency, war and global climate instability.
Called the Peace Transit, the ride started in Louisville, Kentucky, on Nov. 3 with cyclists carrying a baton, a petition and a rock to cyclists in Bardstown. Passed along five more times, the items arrived in Nashville, Tennessee, on Saturday.
No single person is making this tour. This is a very effective way to get hundreds, if not thousands, of people involved in publicizing the problems of being too dependent on oil. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/11/19/peace-transit-tour-relays-message-by-bicycle/
A cyclist hold the peace baton for the Peace Transit Tour in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
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Here it is not even Thanksgiving, and organizers of 53 “across-state” bicycle tours already have dates and routes for week-long bicycle tours in 2008.
It's never too early to start planning for next summer's bicycling adventure. If you're interested in putting your seat in the saddle for one of these RAGBRAI-like bike rides, check my list at 2008 Across State Bicycle Tours.
Listed are the standbys like BRAG, RAGBRAI, GRABAAWR, Ride the Rockies, but new ones like Indiana's RAINSTORM (this acronym is really a reach). Here are 28 states with updated bike rides and links to those pages …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/11/18/summer-week-long-bike-rides-schedule/
A 31-year-old Hermosillo cyclist set a record in the 25th annual El Tour de Tucson on Saturday.
Carlos Hernandez bicycled the 109-mile course in 4:10:51, finishing just ahead of Michael Grabinger, 30, of Flagstaff and David Solomon, 27, also of Hermosillo.
While the bike ride is a race for the leaders, it's simply a pleasant recreational bike ride most of the nearly 10,000 cyclists who participate in the fund-raiser for local charities. There are also bike routes of 80, 66 and 35 miles this year …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/11/17/record-posted-in-2007-el-tour-de-tucson-bike-race/
Available at El Tour de Tucson bike ride website.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/11/17/official-el-tour-de-tucson-bike-poster/
Photo by Julia Schmitt
Calendar picture from Great Ohio Bicycle Ride.
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It's always nice when a favored contraption gets a little respect.
In its list of 101 gadgets that changed the world, IOL Technology credits the bicycle as a useful gadget for becoming a widespread form of transportation and a vehicle toward the emancipation of women.
Justifying its claim, the magazine explains:
“First devised as a gentleman's play thing in the 1820s, the push-powered hobby-horse quickly evolved to become the most classless form of transport, trundling by the millions along highways and byways all over the world. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/11/17/bicycle-is-one-of-101-gadgets-that-changed-the-world/
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