Omer Kem, from Salem, Oregon, is a member of the Priority Health Cycling Team.
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Member of BMC cycling team hails from Multikeo, Washington
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The Bicycle Film Festival is expanding to 16 cities in 2007, starting with showing in New York City from May 16-20.
The festival celebrates all kinds of bikes through film, art and music. Films are usually presented by independent producers. Last year's films included “B.I.K.E.,” a film about New York's Black Label Bicycle Club, and “Something to Aim At,” the tragic story of bicycle racer Tom Simpson written and narrated by Phil Liggett.
In addition to New York, the Bike Film Festival is scheduled to visit Los Angeles, London, Paris, Chicago, Minneapolis, Toronto, Portland, San Francisco, Vienna, London, Milan, Rome, Barcelona, Tokyo, and Sydney. …
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Bicycle Film Festival coming to 16 cities in 2007
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An hour-long documentary of Jane Tomlinson's cross-country bicycle tour last year is available for viewing online at the website of documentary filmmaker Martyn Hollingworth.
Tomlinson, a terminal cancer patient since 2000, undertook the 4,000-mile journey from San Francisco to New York last year to raise money for cancer research and support groups in her native UK. She also sought to prove that people with terminal cancer can go on living.
Accompanied by a small entourage that included her husband, friends, supporters and the filmmaker who variously rode with her or in a support van, Tomlinson suffered from the heat, the climb over the Rocky Mountains, the headwinds in Kansas and the barking hounds in Kentucky. …
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Two cyclists from the Pacific Northwest — Doug Ollerenshaw, left, of Portland and Tom Peterson, right, of North Bend, Washington — are among the 115-some racers at this week's Tour de Georgia.
Ollerenshaw, a member of the Health Net pro cycling team, gained the distinction of jumping on the right breakaway and finishing in 2nd place, 29 seconds behind the winner, Daniele Contrini.
Peterson, a member of the much talked about Team Slipstream, is currently ranked in 3rd place in the competition for Best Young Rider at the Tour de Georgia. He won that distinction at the 2006 Tour of California. …
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Tom Peterson is a North Bend, Washington, native who rides for Team Slipstream.
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Doug Ollerenshaw, Portland cyclist, rides for Health Net Pro Cycling Team. Picture from Health Net bio.
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You can't blame some of these cyclists from the continental teams for attacking early and getting a little glory in Stage 1 of the Tour de Georgia before the big boys from Discovery Channel, Team CSC, Prodir-Saunier, QuickStep and Predictor-Lotto took over.
But a funny thing happened on the way to Macon; riders from Navigators, Health Net, Tinkoff and BMC put together a little five-man breakaway that gained an 8-minute gap on the peloton at one point and propelled three of its members to win, place and show.
Italian cyclist Daniele Contrini from the new Tinkoff Credit Systems team won the stage, followed by Portland resident Doug Ollerenshaw for Health Net and Australian Ben Day for Navigators Insurance. …
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Need a lift? An actual bicycle lift in the city of Trondheim, Norway, has provided cyclists with a little boost to the top of a steep hill in the historical part of town since the mid-1990s.
The owner of the bicycle lift, Design Management AS, says it's the only one in the world. Nearly a quarter-million people have used the lift since testing began in 1993, and the rate has increased to 20,000 to 30,000 a year.
About half of the passengers are college students who attend University of Trondheim at the top of the 425-foot-long hill, and 41% of the users say they ride a bicycle more often because of the lift. — Video and
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