If only I had signed up, maybe I could have been the winner of this Casual Agent touring bike from Vicious Cycles in New Paltz, New York.
Instead, the Adventure Cycling Association drew the name of Chuck Bailey, a longtime member and resident of Friday Harbor, up in the San Juan Islands in Washington state.
Well, you couldn't find a more deserving person, I guess. Chuck has been bicycle touring since the '80s …
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Vicious Cycles makes bike in New Paltz, New York.
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The inspiring young Credit Agricole cyclist who crashed and fell into a coma during a race in Europe last year will be riding, but not competing on, the route of the Amgen Tour of California this year.
Doctors initially didn't hold much hope for Saul Raisin, but the 25-year-old from Dalton, Georgia, enthusiastically attacked his rehabilitation regimen and is back on the bike.
In addition riding the Tour of California to improve his conditioning for his re-entry into pro cycling later this year, Raisin will be promoting his Raisin Hope Charity Ride coming up March 31 in his hometown. …
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No charges have been filed in the bicycling death of Rachel Giblin, but a story in Wednesday's Charlotte Observer raises some interesting questions — is this a case of unsafe bicycling or unsafe driving?
Rachel, 15, and her brother, Tommy, were riding a tandem bicycle in a paceline with their parents in September's Breakaway to the Beach MS 150 charity bike ride. The bike went down, Rachel was run over by a passing trailer pulled by a pickup truck, and she died soon afterward at the hospital.
Observer reporter Kirsten Valle examined the key question in the case — what made the bike fall — in a story headlined “Family pushed S.C. on cyclist's fatal spill.” …
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15-year-old who died Sept. 16 in MS 150 bike ride fatality.
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Do we need another example of a car culture and highway planners run amok? Yes? Jack Painter provides us with one.
Jack is a bicyclist from the St. Louis area who wrote to tell about what happening to his community while the Missouri Department of Transportation rebuilds I-64/US40.
As covered recently in Missouri Bicycle News (“St. Louis area freeway project may lead to serious problems on key bicycles routes”), the MoDOT is shunting traffic onto adjacent roads while it closes the interstate to perform the rebuild.
Local officials plan to repaint narrower lanes on the side roads to handle more traffic, thereby ruining their use as routes for commuting and recreational cyclists …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/02/07/missouri-interstate-highway-project-spells-end-to-bike-routes/
St. Louis to Norfolk.
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American cyclist Tyler Hamilton competed in his first professional bicycling race on Tuesday since being accused of blood doping in the fall of 2004 during the Vuelta a Espana.
Hamilton rode in the one-day French season opener, the Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise, as leader of the Russian Tinkoff Credit Systems cycling team. Teammate Mikhail Ignatiev finished second; Hamilton finished out of the top 15.
Hamilton lost his final appeal of the blood doping case last year …
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Lance Armstrong, who has spent a lot of time with his Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team in the Solvang training camp recently, reportedly is heading to Asia this fall.
A South Korean newspaper says the seven-time Tour de France winner will head to that country in September to promote a bicycle road race.
Apparently Armstrong …
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More than 8,000 Tour de France wannabes are expected to show up in Foix on July 16 to get a taste of what it's going to be like for the peloton to ride the 121 miles to Loudenvielle about a week later.
Here's a 3-minute trailer of a reconnaissance bike ride video by last year's top British finisher Bill Cotty, produced by UK-based Cyclefilm.
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