In a month, many Americans will be converging on Ground Zero to remember the thousands who died in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center 10 years ago on Sept. 11, 2001.
Some of them will be on bicycles. Several groups are riding their bikes to raise money for first responders on 9-11 or the veterans and their families of the ensuing wars. [The two firefighters at left are members of the Bay to Brooklyn Ride.]
In fact, at least three cross-country bicycle tours are already making their way to New York City. Others will either arrive or depart from Ground Zero.
Why ride bicycles to commemorate the tragedy? Long-distance bicycle tours get people's attention, and it's easy to start conversations with folks along the way. These rides also draw attention to a cause from the media.
Jorge Ostrovsky, 54, a firefighter from the Los Angeles area on the Ride for 9-11 …
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Santa Clara firefighters remember 9-11 with cross-country bike ride.
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With the Tour de France still fresh in their minds, if not their legs, some well-known American cyclists will be competing at the six-day Tour of Utah bike race this week.
Defending champion Levi Leipheimer (RadioShack) will be at the start for the Prologue in Park City on Tuesday, as will Tom Danielson (Garmin Cervelo), at 9th the highest placed finisher from the US at this year's Tour de France.
Others include Danielson's teammates Dave Zabriskie and Christian Vande Velde, as well as George Hincapie (BMC Racing).
One of the biggest absences will be Chris Horner (RadioShack), who crashed ….
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Runs Aug. 9-14 in the Salt Lake City area.
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In Air and Space Museum in Washington DC
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Here's an interesting connection to ponder the next time you remove your bicycle pedals to box up your bike for air travel:
Either you already know or you'll soon learn that while the pedal on the right side is threaded normally, the pedal on the left side is threaded in reverse with left-hand threads.
So turning the right-side pedal bolt in a counter-clockwise motion will loosen it, but doing the same on the left side will further tighten it.
This wasn't done to confuse and confound home bike mechanics …..
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One of five existing Wright Brothers bicycles is in the Air and Space Museum in Washington DC.
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It's only Friday morning, and the first big bicycle ride of the weekend is underway.
The 30th anniversary RSVP (Ride from Seattle to Vancouver and Party) left the University of Washington parking lot Friday morning for an overnight in Bellingham, before completing the bike trip in Vancouver on Saturday.
For the first time, an overflow ride — RSVP 2 — will take the same route, leaving and arriving a day later.
While it's too late to sign up for that popular ride [you'll need to check the Cascade Bicycle Club website right after New Year's], the relatively newer Ride the Hurricane is still taking registrations for Sunday.
Hurricane Ridge is described by Pez Cycling as one of the “crown jewels” of cycling in the Pacific Northwest ….
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Upcoming Hurricane Ridge bicycle ride in Olympic National Park.
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Update: Aug. 6, 2011 — The bicyclist has been identified at George Demendoza, 69, of Federal Way.
He's the third bicyclist to die on roads in King County in the past two weeks.
According to reports, the unidentified man was riding across the 200 block of Logan Avenue North near Renton Memorial Stadium when he was struck by a white SUV at 5 p.m. Thursday. Emergency responders report that he was unconscious when they arrived ….
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