Here's a picture of the May 4, 2007, tornado that devastated Greensburg, Kansas, a town about 50 miles south of the TransAmerica bike trail.
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American cyclist Chris Horner of the Predictor Lotto team got to wear the yellow leader's jersey going into the the final stage — an individual time trial — of the Tour of Romandie on Sunday.
Horner, 35, finished 7th in the 12.6-mile time trial around Lausanne, on Sunday, dropping to a 5th place finish overall. …
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Chris Horner is an American on the Predictor-Lotto team.
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Lance Armstrong, the world's most famous cancer survivor, will help kick off a cancer fund-raiser bicycle ride — Tour of Courage — in Vancouver, British Columbia, on September 21-23.
The seven-time Tour de France champion's visit to Canada comes about a week before he arrives in Portland to attend the LiveStrong Challenge on September 29-30.
Armstrong, who appears in the Discovery Channel's special broadcast “Living with Cancer” at 8 p.m. (ET) later this evening (Sunday), is busy with cancer fund-raisers and awareness events throughout the summer. In addition to events in Calgary, Philadelphia and Austin, he's bicycling in RAGBRAI to help draw attention to cancer as an election issue. ….
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What is it about Copenhagen and Amsterdam that puts between 33% and 40% of its commuters on bicycles everyday?
It goes beyond the fact that the terrain is mostly flat. Nancy Keates tells about some of what they're doing in an article, “Building a Better Bike Lane,” that appeared in Friday's Wall Street Journal. Among them:
— Amsterdam has built five new bicycle parking garages, and one is in the works for 10,000 bikes at the main train station. …
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One of 82 bicycling pictures that Brian W. took in a 73-minute period in a square in Amsterdam last year. See all at his Amsterdam Bicycles website.
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Not all college students are heading off to summer jobs or fooling around at the beach this summer.
For instance, more than two dozen students for the University of Illinois are cycling 4,000 miles cross-country this summer to raise money and awareness for the fight against cancer. And a Purdue University sophomore plans to ride cross-country with the American Lung Association to raise money for asthma research.
They're just an example of college students who are joining cross-country bike rides this summer to raise money for charity….
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Logo for Illini 4000, the University of Illinois students who are riding cross-country in the summer of 2007 to raise money for the American Cancer Society.
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You'll be able see the Graeme Obree story on the big screen beginning Friday if you live in Seattle, Boston, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Toronto or Washington DC.
Those are the “selected cities” where theaters will show “The Flying Scotsman,” a movie about the Scot who twice broke the bicycling world record for distance covered in an hour.
Here in the Seattle area, theaters showing the movie this weekend are AMC Pacific Place 11, Renton Village 8 and Lakewood Town Center 12; Regal Bella Botega 11, South Sound Cinema 10, Alderwood 7 Cinemas, and South Hill Mall 6; Landmark Metro Cinemas; Bellevue Galleria Stadium 11; and Galaxy Tacoma 6. …
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Cycling movie about world record holder Graeme Obree, opening May 4.
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