Brasstown Bald Buster Century…
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Going into the last of nine climbs of the stage, the Discovery Channel pro cycling team — they'd already taken stages on Thursday and Friday — had Levi Leipheimer and Tom Danielson in a lead breakaway at the Paris-Nice bicycle race.
But they were unable to muster a stage victory or help teammate Alberto Contador make up 6 seconds to take the overall lead in the week-long race that ends Sunday.
A hard charging Spaniard, Luis León Sánchez of Caisse d'Epargne won the 120-mile stage in Cannes and Italian Davide Rebellin (Gerolsteiner) finished in a trailing group with Contador to maintain his General Classification lead ….
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Discovery Channel cyclist Yaroslav Popovych won Friday's stage of the Paris-Nice bicycle race by attacking the survivors of a breakaway on the final climb of the day.
The 27-year-old Urkainian, once named the best young rider at the Tour de France, scored the second victory in as many days for Discovery. However, he gained only 14 seconds in the overall standings, which remained pretty much unchanged.
Only two hilly stages remain in the week-long Race to the Sun, which ends Sunday, and Discovery must be considering the chances of two cyclists — Alberto Contador and Levi Leipheimer — who sit near the top of the standings …
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Bicycle touring and its economic impact showed up on congressional radar screens this week during the 2007 National Bike Summit in Washington DC.
Slightly more than one-quarter (27%) of the US population participates in bicycling, contributing $132 billion to the US economy, according to a recent study by the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA).
BikePortland blogger Jonathan Maus, who provided excellent coverage of the 2007 National Bike Summit, reported that four representatives of bicycling and outdoor groups updated two members of the House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit on bicycle tourism and impacts on the economy …
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Put your dog to work. Dog Powered Scooter
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Discovery Channel cyclist Alberto Contador won a mad-scramble uphill finish for Stage 4 of Paris-Nice bike race in Mende on Thursday, as second-place finisher Davide Rebellin of Italy took the overall leader's jersey.
The 104-mile stage from Maurs to Mende — the first hilly stage of the tour — shook up the general classification, which doesn't include Tour of California winner Levi Leipheimer or any other Americans in the top 10.
The Discovery team's efforts to chase down a three-man breakaway put Spanish teammate Contador in a position to attack on the 10% gradient in the final 2 miles, bettering his overall standing from 33rd at the beginning of the day to 2nd place overall after the finish ….
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This won't be the year that the lights go out on the Tour de Georgia, although the seven-day bicycle race is still short of cash and without a marquee corporate sponsor.
Organizers of the April 16-22 bike race, entering its fifth year, announced Wednesday that the 667-mile race will go ahead as planned and will depend on funding from several smaller entities to help make ends meet.
As the Georgia Ford Dealers Association dropped out as the title sponsor after last year's race, race chairman Craig Lesser said last month that the race was $800,000 short and may be cancelled or scaled down if the money weren't raised …
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An admittedly obese Pennsylvania woman and her husband are undergoing an extreme weight reduction program one pedalstroke at a time.
The couple are about 1,000 miles into their planned counterclockwise 16,000-mile bicycle tour around the United States. So far, they've lost a combined 130 pounds.
Morton and Priscilla Houliston are getting a lot of attention as they make their way up the East Coast from Key West. Their blog at LittleChanges.com reports numerous interviews with TV stations, which sometimes results in donations of food or a place to spend the night. They've inspired people to start exercising again …
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They've lost a combined 130 pounds since setting out from Key West on Jan 1.
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Police in White Plains, New York, found an easy way to arrest bike thieves — Set out an unlocked $500 bicycle at a city intersection and just stand back and wait.
And the police didn't have to wait long, as they arrested three suspects in an hour. Maybe a sting like this could work in other cities where cops don't have time to investigate bicycle thefts; they could just stand there and watch them happen.
Ten minutes after setting up the sting, a 23-year-old came along, walked off with the bike, and passed it off to an 18-year-old. …
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