View from biking bis offices
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This is the storefront for one of the Wheelworks stores in Belmont, Mass. The company earned the Sam Braxton Bicycle Shop of the Year Award from the Adventure Cycling Association.
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Pennsylvanian Don Moul will celebrate his 90th birthday along the rail-to-trail bicycle path where he rides four or five times a week.
How are you going to stay fit when you're 90?
Moul has been an avid bicyclist since he retired in the 1980s. Currently he likes to ride his bicycle on a 15-mile route from York to Glen Rock along the Heritage Rail Trail County Park …
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If you like to witness cyclists struggling on mountain stages, you'll need to check in early with the 2007 Vuelta a Espana.
Instead of opening with a week for the sprinters, the three-week-long Tour of Spain — September 1-23 — boasts a mountaintop finish on the difficult Lagos de Covadonga on the fourth day.
In all, the Vuelta route announced today boasts seven mountain stages, four mountaintop finishes, and two time trials as it spins for 2,009 miles clockwise …
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Map for 2007 Vuelta a Espana
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Vuelta a Espana website
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Floyd Landis is saying he'll quit the sport of bicycling if a review of his doping case by US authorities leads to a long suspension.
Doesn't it seem a little early to be making those kinds of threats? Landis has been working up a defense to the doping charges and trying to raise doubts about the veracity of the lab tests. His case will be heard before the US Anti-Doping Agency early next year. He hasn't lost yet.
If the charges are upheld, the authorities might be all too willing to test his threat …
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If you're looking to take your interest in bicycling to a professional level, here are some advocacy jobs I've stumbled across recently. The positions in Burlington, Vermont, Napa County, California, and Washington DC all require an interest in cycling, as well as experience in other administrative duties….
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Here's another weapon for your arsenal in posting a fast result in a time trial or finishing that last hill on your century bicycle ride.
The jelly bean.
The Jelly Belly Co. is in the endurance sports business now with its Sport Beans product. Basically, we're talking your standard jelly beans here packed with carbohydrates …
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I was looking for something to read me off to sleep the other night and pulled “Travels with Charley” by John Steinbeck off the shelf.
Within a minute of cracking the cover, I was pulled back 25 years to the first time I read the book and found a voice that explained my desire to make a cross-country bicycle trip.
“When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age ….
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