The ATC2K Waterproof Action camera displays at Consumer Electronic Show. By Oregon Scientific.
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Slowly but surely that movie based on Lance Armstrong's “It's Not About the Bike” is making its way onto the screen.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Sony's Columbia Pictures division is looking for a treatment that's more like the personal drama of “Raging Bull” than a bicycling story that would be reminiscent to the inspirational “Chariots of Fire.”
Producer Frank Marshall, currently filming another sequel to the “Bourne Identity” and in pre-production for sequels to “Indiana Jones” and “Jurassic Park,” maintains the Armstrong film won't be a puff piece. “This isn't going to be Lance the beauty queen” …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/01/13/the-future-of-that-lance-armstrong-movie/
A bike ride is usually associated with the Northwest Cherry Festival event, held every spring in Oregon.
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“I have a high threshold for pain.”
That's George Hood of Chicago explaining how he can ride a stationary bike hour after hour in his attempt to achieve a place in the Guinness Book of World Records by bicycling for 83 consecutive hours — nearly 3 1/2 days.
Hood must also have a high threshold for boredom. …
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How is Italian bicycle racer Ivan Basso trying to fill Lance Armstrong's shoes on the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team?
By signing a two-year contract with shoemaker Nike.
Basso, who finished second to the Armstrong in the Texan's last Tour de France in 2005, signed on to race with Armstrong's Discovery Channel team in November.
2006 started out as a good year for Basso, but turned sour. …
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Cannondale Bicycle recalled about 700 2007 model year bikes for front brake failures. See Consumer Product Safety Commission press release.
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When you attend most bicycling events, you're probably doing more than just improving your health. A nonprofit group usually gets a share of the event proceeds.
But there are hundreds of major bike rides sponsored by big health foundations throughout the US where the top goal is fund-raising, often through a system of pledges for participating bicyclists.
Many of the larger health-related nonprofits have a series of rides in different venues throughout the US. They include Multiple Sclerosis, Leukemia, Lung, Diabetes, and LiveStrong bike tours. Here, in no particular order, are some of them:
Bicycle ride series:
MS Bike Rides (National Multiple Sclerosis Society)
Marking its 28th year, the MS Bike Rides sponsor about 100 bike tours in 48 states …
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A brake problem with some 2007 model year bicycles prompted Cannondale Bicycle Corp. to recall about 700 bikes, according to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.
(Update: Cannondale asserts the number of bicycles “recalled” at 145. Although the number of bikes with the flaw was 700, the problem was caught before most of the bikes made it out the door, and the other affected bikes remained at the warehouse. Cannondale also told Bicycle Retailer and Industry News that the company or retailers have contacted all the customers.)
Apparently the front brake can fail; no injuries have been reported. The bikes sold for between $3,200 and $4,500 …
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That bike-mounted cell phone recharger that Motorola CEO Ed Zander announced a couple of days ago at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) isn't the first one to pedal down the road.
A Sweden-based company named Ikon Global Ltd. marketed a cell phone battery recharger named Pedal & Power up until a year or so ago, but has now apparently dropped off the face of the Internet.
The invention by Kieron Loy received write-ups in TreeHugger, Wireless Business and Technology, Engadget, and BikeBiz (back in September 2000) ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/01/10/an-earlier-bicycle-operated-cell-phone-charger/
In his continuing efforts to make the fight against cancer a leading election campaign issue in 2008, retired pro cyclist Lance Armstrong penned an opinion article that appeared Wednesday on the CNN website.
In it, he chastises politicians for cutting funding for cancer research. He also says political candidates ignored the nation's No. 2 killer as they tried to get voters to the polls last November.
Armstrong also is a main guest on a CNN one-hour special on the fight against cancer airing Saturday and Sunday.
In the op/ed piece, “Armstrong: Washington weakens fight against cancer,” the 7-time Tour de France winner writes:
“The political ads didn't tell voters that earlier in the year funding for cancer research was cut for the first time in 30 years…
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