Travellers preparing for bicycle tours of Europe are discovering that the airlines are jacking up the prices to carry bikes.
The International Bicycle Fund reports that, beginning in 2007, most airlines began charging for bicycles carried on trans-Atlantic flights to the tune of $80 to $160 each way. Before this year, ibike reported that airlines generally allowed bicycles to fly free, in lieu of a piece of baggage.
Why is this happening? Ibike suggests collusion among the airlines to pump up earnings. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/26/airlines-gouging-bicyclists-flying-abroad/
From thecolorblue at flickr.com
Unpacking a bike at the airport in Amsterdam.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/26/unpacking-bike-at-the-airport/
UPDATE: March 29, 2007 — Deadline to register extended to 5 p.m. CST Friday.
Lance Armstrong is taking a 100-member strong bicycling team with him to this year's Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa (RAGBRAI) and he's looking for volunteers.
There are about 40 slots still open for cyclists who raise a minimum $1,000 for the Lance Armstrong Foundation and who register no later than midnight (Central Time) on Tuesday, March 27. Go to the LiveStrong RAGBRAI website for details.
The 7-time Tour de France winner showed up with a small cadre of cyclists to last year's bike ride across Iowa (photo) for a just a couple of days, and pledged to return this year for the entire week-long ride. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/25/lance-armstrong-seeks-team-members-for-ragbrai/
Have you ever been out on one of those perfect bike rides when everything seemed right and you kept pedaling and pedaling and suddenly discovered you were either way far from home or just plain lost?
Then you can identify with Laurie, the heroine in the French Canadian movie “2 Seconds.”
Laurie is an accomplished downhill racer who loses her sponsor after spending too much time (hmmm, about 2 seconds) behind the starting gate when it opens. Fired, she returns to Montreal to live in her brother's apartment and get a job as a bike messenger. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/25/2-seconds-how-quickly-your-life-can-change/
Downhill racers turns bike messenger
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/24/2-seconds-cover/
Too often, motorists are sentenced to probation when they're judged guilty in bicycle fatality cases. What happens to them?
In two cases reported this week in Indiana and New York, the drivers in two hit-and-run bicyclist deaths are being dragged back into court for violating terms of their probation.
After being too lenient the first time around, maybe the judges can dole out some meaningful justice in these cases given a second chance. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/24/what-happens-to-motorists-who-get-probation-in-bike-fatality-cases/
A Salt Lake City bicycle concern has closed one of its locations that was proclaimed as the oldest bike shop in the western United States.
Guthrie Bicycle closed its downtown location at East 200th South in January. Housed in a three-story building erected in 1890, a sign in the window said Guthrie's was opened in 1904.
Kiril Kundurazieff's Cycling Dude blog lists old bike shops, and the shop closure in Salt Lake City would make Jones Bicycles (established 1910) in Long Beach, California, the oldest in the West. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/23/oldest-bike-shop-in-west-closes-store/
I was scanning the “bikes for sale” ads on Craigslist when I ran across this item:
“Boy's bike wanted — please read — it's also missing”
It turns out a boy in the Hillside area near Fort Lewis, south of Tacoma, Washington, had his bicycle, left, stolen over the weekend. One of his parents placed an ad on Craigslist, saying that the boy was willing to trade his Yu-Gi-Oh! card collection for a replacement bike.
If you have kids, especially boys, you can probably appreciate how much they treasure game cards like Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokemon. To be willing to trade them for a bike is a big sacrifice. This kid must be a bike fanatic in the making. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/23/boys-bike-stolen-will-trade-yu-gi-oh-cards-for-new-ride/
Says he'll trade his Yu-Gi-Oh! cards for a bicycle to replace one that was stolen. See the ad for contact information.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/23/boys-bike-stolen/
There's going to be another French-speaking bicycle race this summer, and it's happening in North America.
The Montreal-Boston Cycling Tour runs from Aug. 5 to 12, beginning with four stages in Quebec, followed by one stage in Vermont, two stages in New Hampshire and the final stage in Massachusetts for the finish in Boston.
This makes four stage races in the US and Canada this summer that are sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale, which means the top professional teams can send riders to compete. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/22/parlez-vous-montreal-boston-cycling-tour/
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