The BMX bike company founded by one of the sports' prinicipal competitors is recalling 11,000 bikes because of faulty fork welds.
The Carlsbad, California-based MirraCo LLC bicycle company, founded by X-Games gold medal winner Dave Mirra, is making the recall in conjuction with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Consumers should stop riding the bicycles immediately and take them to a MirraCo dealer for inspection and possible fork replacement. The bikes in question were sold between November 2006 and January 2007. …
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Chinese manufacturer is recalling 11,000 bicycles because of improper welds on bicycle forks.
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Two possible rail-to-trail projects are on the drawing boards in Washington state — one in scenic northeastern Washington and another in the traffic-choked Seattle suburbs.
One could be a nationwide draw to bicycle tourists who could pick up the trail near Republic and follow the Kettle River 28 miles north to the Canadian border. The other could serve as a north-south bike commuter path from Renton to the Snohomish county line, 33 miles away.
Kettle Falls railroad
The proposed rail-trail in eastern Washington's Ferry County would be the first in the West to connect to Canada's rail-to-trail network …
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I guess we won't have Jan Ullrich to kick around anymore. He announced his retirement as a professional cyclist on Monday.
The German cyclist won the Tour de France in 1997 at the young age of 23, but forever seemed destined to ride in the shadow of Lance Armstrong after that.
There was always something — a sore knee, a bad day in the rain, drunk driving arrests, partying on ecstacy, and generally being blamed for falling too far out of shape in the winter …
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See more Chilly Hilly 2007 pictures here
The Chilly Hilly bike ride lived up to its name again this year, providing the same old hills and the same old chilly, wet weather.
How hilly? The Cascade Bicycle Club organizers say there's 2,675 feet of climbing. How chilly? 40 degrees when I left the house this morning (you can calculate the wind chill with the drizzle, wind, and fast downhills).
That didn't deter me or thousands of other recreational cyclists from the Pacific Northwest, however, who took the early morning ferries across Puget Sound to the 33-mile ride around Bainbridge Island …
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Down, then up at Chilly Hill 2007.
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Hundreds of bicycles parked on the floor of the Bainbridge-Seattle ferry for the ride home.
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Chilly Hilly cyclists wait for the ferry at the dock in Winslow on Bainbridge Island.
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Even the flats along the shoreline have their own difficulties as riders are whipped by a stiff wind from offshore.
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Cyclists bunch up as they climb from the shoreline at 2007 Chilly Hilly.
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