Remember back in April when Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard ordered all his city's bureaucrats to set a good example by riding their bicycles to work the first Monday of every month?
Apparently that plan has paid off, to a point, according to published reports. No, the city's 9 million residents aren't choking the streets with bicycle traffic. But, his order has sparked a nationwide discussion on bike commuting in the capital city, and thousands ride their bikes around town on Sunday when the city streets have been closed to vehicular traffic.
Just as importantly, the World Bank is giving Mexico City a $100,000 grant to design a bicycle master plan, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. The city wants to create 186 miles of bike lanes and install bike racks at train and bus stations. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/07/02/mexico-citys-bike-plan-getting-results/
The Battle of North Valley's Hills bike ride in Virginia is reducing its sign-up fees as 50 more bicyclists are needed to register for the inaugural bicycling event over the next two weeks.
Organizers for the fund-raising ride for One Step Closer, a Strasburg-based group that modifies homes for special needs families, admit they got a late start and missed the deadlines for notices and advertising in most cycling publications. If they don't get 30 more registered riders by Friday and a total of 50 by July 13, they'll lose access to some of the rest stops and entertainment for the ride.
The bicycling event is based out of Strasburg in the Shenandoah Valley and runs July 27 – 29 …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/07/01/bicycle-riders-needed-for-virginia-charity-event/
The Adventure Cycling Association is once again asking touring bicyclists to nominate deserving folks for its four annual bicycle travel awards.
There's an award for the person who does the most to help touring bicyclists, the most helpful bike shop, the person who has contributed to the overall success of bicycle touring, and the most prominent Adventure Cycling volunteer.
If someone comes to mind, go to the awards program at Adventure Cycling Association.
They didn't have these awards when my friend and I rode our bicycles cross-country in 1984, but I was thinking who I would nominate from 23 years ago:
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/07/01/giving-credit-where-credit-is-due/
Following up on Thursday's post about US cyclists picked for 2007 Tour de France team rosters, Team CSC has chosen David Zabriskie and Christian Vande Velde.
Pending further changes, six US cyclists will race in the 2007 Tour de France.
Team CSC did not pick Bobby Julich for this year's Tour; T-Mobile chose neither Aaron Olson or Canadian Michael Barry.
Zabriskie is the US time trial champion and finished 5th overall in the week-long Dauphine Libere earlier this month, surviving the many climbs of that bike race. A teammate, Fabian Cancellara, is the world time trial champ. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/29/zabriskie-and-vande-velde-picked-for-tour-de-france-rosters/
OK. There's no Lance and no Landis, but we still have Levi for this year's Tour de France bicycle race.
Even so, broadcast media watcher MediaDailyNews says the Versus cable network is in for a “rough ride” with this year's Tour de France broadcast ratings, what with no clear American favorite and the doping scandals that are ripping apart cycling.
Versus has scheduled 17 hours of daily Tour de France coverage from the July 7th prologue in London to the July 29th finish in Paris. The usual suspects will be behind the microphones: Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen are returning as the main commentators, and Bob “Tour Day France” Roll and Al Trautwig will host the extended prime-time replay. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/29/dont-bet-against-versus-for-tour-de-france-viewership/
Are you looking for the end-of-season challenge to test your bicycling fitness? If you live in the Pacific Northwest, you might consider the High Pass Challenge presented by the Cascade Bicycle Club.
Offered by the Seattle-based bicycle club for the first time in 2007, the Challenge is a 120-mile, one-day bike ride that features 7,500 feet of elevation gain.
Cyclists will begin in Packwood, Washington, between 7 and 8 a.m. on Sept. 23, and climb Independence Pass, pedal past Spirit Lake and arrive at the Windy Ridge Viewpoint of the Mount St. Helens blast zone in the national monument. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/29/new-pacific-nw-bike-ride-high-pass-challenge/
New Cascade Bicycle Club ride starts in Packwood, Washington. Here's the link.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/29/high-pass-challenge-bike-ride/
Pro cycling teams are announcing their rosters for the 2007 Tour de France as the race starts in London in a little more than a week.
The US-based Discovery Channel pro cycling team is sending a squad led by California's Levi Leipheimer, winner of the Tour of California in February. He'll be joined by US road champion George Hincapie.
The rest of Discovery's international cast is comprised of Alberto Contador, Vladimir Gusev, Egoi Martinez, Benjamin Noval, Sergio Paulinho, Yaroslav Popovych and Tomas Vaitkus…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/28/us-cyclists-on-2007-tour-de-france-team-rosters/
If there's one thing that Kentucky is known for among cross-country bicyclists, it's the dogs.
When my friend and I rode through there on our TransAmerica bike tour back in 1984, I remember pedaling some rural areas where the baying hounds would telegraph our passage right on down the road.
Barking isn't the problem, however. It's the chasing and biting.
Kentucky's bicycle and pedestrian coordinator, Tiffani Jackson, wants to learn more about this problem. Adventure Cycling Association notes in a recent edition of “Bike Bits” that she wants cyclists to contact her about about cyclist-dog encounters “so I can start to show people how big of a problem dogs are here in the state.” …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/27/tell-kentucky-official-your-dog-attack-stories/
Not what you want to see on your bucolic pedal through rural America
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/27/dog/
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