Lee Anne Barry, an activist and educator on brain injury issues, was killed on a cross-country bicycle ride in October 2007. Founder of The Big Ride.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/23/cyclist-killed-near-conclusion-of-cross-country-ride/
When two life-long friends finished their cross-country bicycle tour last month, they could look back and honestly say they had left their mark on the route behind them.
Steve Cash and Ben Kelchlin didn't leave behind graffiti or trail blazes, though. They planted trees.
The pair planted 103 trees on their meandering 5,391-mile bike tour from Eastport, Maine, to Neah Bay, Washington. They planted trees in parks, elementary schools, and the yards of strangers who showed them kindness on the road…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/22/cross-country-bicycle-tour-helps-to-green-america/
Steve Cash and Ben Kelchlin planted more than 100 trees on the bike tour across the US in 2007.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/22/planting-tree/
Mosquitoes carry malaria. Nearly 1 million people die in Africa every year of the disease.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/22/skeeter/
Using a wobbly bicycle, peasant farmer Kalifan Keita is traveling from village to village around Mali to test children for malaria and distribute drugs to those who are sick.
Irin News, a UN publication, says Keita is a volunteer in one of 18 communities that are part of a pilot project being run by the non-governmental organisation [NGO] Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a malaria-endemic region of Mali.
“He is achieving in Mali what the government and decades of Western aid have largely failed to do …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/21/fighting-malaria-from-a-bicycle/
The Edinburgh (Scotland) News writes about a bicyclist who won a lawsuit from the local bus company after the judge said he didn't fake his fall.
George Johnston, 63, claimed that he was hit by the bus in 2004 while bicycling home through Oxgangs. The bus driver disagreed calling the fall staged and “a comedy …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/21/the-falling-scotsman/
The Lance Armstrong Foundation has filed a trademark infringement suit against a Tulsa man who sells BarkStrong and PurrStrong dog and cat collars.
The collars are too similar to the bright yellow LiveStrong bracelets, the foundation says. The cancer support group founded by bicyclist Lance Armstrong has sold 65 million of the bracelets at $1 each.
Chris Ohman, founder of Animal Charity Collar Group Inc., defends himself in the Tulsa World newspaper, saying the collars aren't bright yellow like the LiveStrong bracelets and they glow in the dark, something that the LiveStrong bracelets don't do…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/21/livestrong-trademark-battle-going-to-the-dogs/
Being distracted with other stuff, I completely missed the DVD release of the cycling flick “The Flying Scotsman” in mid-September.
Earlier this week I stumbled across it after taking a stroll to my local video rental store, snatched it up, watched it immediately, and thoroughly enjoyed it.
The movie is based on Graeme Obree's autobiography, “Flying Scotsman; Cycling to Triumph through My Darkest Hours.” Obree set the one-hour bicycling record, twice, in the early 1990s in spite of battling officials at the Union Cycliste Internationale and the demons inside his head…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/20/the-flying-scotsman-cycling-flick-at-your-local-video-store/
Piece by piece, the proposed 3,000-mile East Coast Greenway bike trail is coming together.
The latest section to be designated for the Maine to Florida bicycle route is about 11 miles of the Bronx River Trail (about half is complete) between White Plains and the Bronx. The unfinished portions are in the planning stages.
When complete, the East Coast Greenway will stretch from Calais, Maine, to Key West, Florida, with the ultimate goal of being off-road and traffic-free. About 21 percent of the trail is open to public use…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/19/another-link-added-to-the-east-coast-greenway-bike-trail/
Ever since kids arrived on the scene in this household, fall has been the time of year when my head starts feeling congested and before I know it I'm suffering from a cold.
But considering myself a hard-core cyclist, I ride my bike through my illness. Then, more often than not, the cold turns into bronchitis or a sinus infection and that's the end of my fall bicycling for a couple of weeks.
I've run across some recommendations lately at UltraRob's Adventures blog and from trainer Chris Carmichael about how to prevent and control those colds and at least keep them from turning into something worse…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/19/prevent-those-common-colds-from-interfering-with-bicycling/
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