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Touring bicycle online photo gallery

You want pictures of touring bikes? Fully Loaded Touring Bikes has pictures of touring bikes —  nearly 100 of them.

Ron W's “tribute to the fully loaded touring bicycle” gallery shows the many makes and styles of touring bicycles out on the road and the different ways their owners load them up. …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/08/21/touring-bicycle-online-photo-gallery/

Touring bike in Austria

One of nearly 100 pictures of touring bikes pictured at Fully Loaded Touring Bike. This is a Koga WorldTraveller pictured in Austria.

Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/08/21/touring-bike-in-austria/

George Hincapie leads Tour of Benelux

With the ongoing controversies about drugs, drug labs and drug-enforcement czars, it's easy to forget that most cyclists are still cranking away out there on the blacktop.

One of those is American cyclist George Hincapie, who has taken the lead of the 8-day Tour of Benelux in Belgium and the Netherlands. The Discovery Channel cyclist did it by winning the 10-mile Stage 4 time trial on Sunday. …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/08/20/george-hincapie-leads-tour-of-benelux/

I suppose it's a rig now, not a bike

I'm testing out my newly acquired Yakima trailer the other day, and a guy on a singlespeed comes up alongside and shouts, “Nice rig!”

It didn't occur to me then, but I realized later that I've stepped up from riding a bike to piloting a rig.

I'm planning (probably not too carefully) a few days off for a bike tour in a couple of weeks, and my LeMond Tourmalet isn't really designed for carrying much gear. …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/08/19/i-suppose-its-a-rig-now-not-a-bike/

Bike with trailer

My “rig”; LeMond Tourmalet with Yakima trailer

Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/08/19/bike-with-trailer/

Phil Liggett skeptical about Floyd Landis case

OLN bicycling commentator Phil Liggett was interviewed about the Floyd Landis affair last weekend by Carlton Reid of UK-based BikeBiz, a bicycle industry newsletter. Reid posted the interview online at YouTube.com in his Cycling News & View series.

“I'm still very skeptical about the whole thing,” Liggett says. “The Laboratory (Châtenay-Malabry) is unscrupulous to say the least, because they shouldn't know the sample they're testing.” …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/08/18/phil-liggett-skeptical-about-floyd-landis-case/

Seattle's Bike-In

If you're looking for something to do on the last Saturday night (Aug. 26) of the month, roll on down to Seattle's Bike-In at Magnuson Park. Presented by the Cascade Bicycle Club and the Northwest Film Forum, the free event features bicycle-themed films on a big outdoor screen, live music and biking demos.

We're not talking “Breaking Away” or “Pee-wee's Big Adventure” here

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/08/18/seattles-bike-in/

Bicycle ambulances in developing countries

Bike police have been around for awhile; now fire departments are using bicycles to get their emergency medical technicians into crowded events.

The next innovation for the bicycle is its use as an ambulance.  Non-governmental organizations in developing countries are building trailers for bikes that can carry patients to medical clinics. …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/08/17/bicycle-ambulances-in-developing-countries/

Another bike ambulance

Another bike ambulance

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Ugandan bike ambulance

A trailer is fashioned into an ambulance in Uganda.

Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/08/17/ugandan-bike-ambulance/