Around the world tour by Pat and Cat Patterson at WorldRiders2. In the camel market.
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A 49-year-old New York state man has been indicted on second degree murder counts in two slayings associated with the bike path rapist case.
Buffalo police arrested Altemio Sanchez last week after receiving a tip and DNA samples from a glass he used in a restaurant.
The case gets its name from the series of 11 rapes, and two killings, that occurred on bike paths in the Buffalo, Amherst and Hamburg as far back as 1981. The case went cold …
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What's one activity that is growing among Americans 45 years and older, while it declines among the population as a whole? Bicycle riding.
The finding is in a report entitled “Global Aging and Sports: The Impact of Aging of the World's Population on the World of Sports.” It was prepared by The Consilience Group, LLC, for SBRnet, a Princeton, New Jersey-based sports marketing research firm.
I'm a little surprised in the findings that bicycling has declined among the population as a whole since the early 1990s. However, the National Bicycle Dealers Association reports that the peak participation year for cycling was 1992 with 54.6 million participants. The most recent estimates available are for 2002, when 41.4 million Americans took to their bicycles. Sales figures, however, show steady growth. …
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Wildflower Century sponsored by the Chico Velo Cycling club.
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When Tom Stevens stepped off the Alameda Ferry in Oakland to begin his around the world bicycle ride in 1884, there were a couple of things he didn't have to worry about — cars and trucks.
Of course, that meant he had to do without roads, too.
National Public Radio ran an interview this weekend with Thomas Pauly, a University of Delaware faculty member who wrote a forward to a re-release of Stevens' travelogue — “Around the World on a Bicycle.”
In that interview, I was struck by some of the connections between Stevens' ride of 120 years ago and our rides today. …
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Illustration from Thomas Stevens' Around the World on a Bicycle
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View from Cape Horn location on the Central Pacific Railroad in the Sierra Nevada, California. The Society of California Pioneers.
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Stevens, who started his ride in 1884, was also the first TransAmerica bicyclist.
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What makes someone a Trail Angel? In Gillian Hoggard's case, it's providing free lodging to cross-country bicycle tourists who have made it to Ordway, Colorado.
The Adventure Cycling Association named Gillian as the recipient of the 2006 June Curry Trail Angel Award. In its fourth year, the award goes to an individual or group that makes bicyclists' journeys easier by their acts of goodwill.
Word of mouth on the TransAmerica Bicycle Route has identified Gillian's home at the end of a gravel driveway on the north side of Ordway as a welcome respite while passing through the often hot, dry eastern Colorado plains (that picture was taken enroute to Ordway in 1984) …
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In the irony of ironies, Spanish cyclist Oscar Pereiro is being questioned by French anti-doping authorities for two failed drug tests during the Tour de France.
The number 2 finisher in last year's Tour, Pereiro, left, had been all but annointed with the yellow jersey as 2006 Tour de France winner Floyd Landis fights accusations that he doped during the Tour. If Landis loses the fight, he loses the Tour title.
If Pereiro can't satisfactorily respond to the doping accusations, the title might go to — bear with me while I look this up — No. 3 finisher Andreas Kloden (Germany) of T-Mobile. But the French newspaper Le Monde says six other unidentified cyclists are being challenged.
As we go down the GC, we don't get to a Frenchman until AG2R's Cyril Dresser in No. 7. That might sound a little fishy, but Le Monde reported that some of the cyclists being challenged were Frenchmen. ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/01/19/pereiro-joins-landis-under-tour-de-france-doping-scrutiny/
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